BattlemechPotemkin [he/him]

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Cake day: August 19th, 2020

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  • BattlemechPotemkin [he/him]toaskchapo*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    When I talk with socdems I like to talk about Denmark and the coffee trade. Denmark makes more money from Ethiopian coffee than Ethiopia does. The market is built to keep the beans cheap until they are roasted, so farmers are paid scraps. Eventually capitalists realized it was more efficient to do roasting in Ethiopia, so they started building facilities in Ethiopia. Every industrial roaster in Ethiopia is Danish-owned.



  • Genemod stuff and mechanoid content is cool, but I am more interested in how modders will expand on it. Dead Calm is my favorite thing so far, no social fighting, no violent breaks.

    Kids in RimWorld seem like a good addition overall. It's cool to have multiple generations in a base. I'm still surprised they went through with it though.










  • I had socialist sympathies before Gamergate, but fell hard for the anti-sjw bait. I got addicted to being angry and starting slipping down the alt-right pipeline. Gamergate started to stall out so I tried focusing on school and fun stuff. When I came back to KotakuInAction I noticed how many fucking Nazis there were.

    Lindsay Ellis got me started on Breadtube. Three Arrows, InnuendoStudios and Contrapoints helped me grow out of some chud opinions I retained. I started radicalizing when I saw how dirty the Democrats did Bernie in 2016. Podcasts helped even more. Citations Needed helped me to wade through bullshit and SRSLY Wrong to start thinking about how things could be instead.

    Every time I think I am radical some new experience seems to push it further along. The latest big bump was working for a state unemployment agency. So much suffering is avoidable, so much of it is by design. I'm getting better about handling anger addiction, but at least it's about important things and not stupid video game shit.