this is just the internet these days, people just go out in search of people to yell at so they can feel something

This sort of thing is a generational trauma.

yeah, 100%. my dad had an extremely abusive upbringing, like his (adoptive) mother forced him to sleep in the dog house and hit him with whips and crazy shit, so he can’t even perceive that the way he treated me was abusive (even though i have a fucking scar from where he threw a knife at me for literally no reason) because what he did to me doesn’t even register to him as abuse because he loves me.

i’ll look into the book, but fwiw, i’ve had many years of therapy, and i’ve near enough made peace with the idea of not having him in my life. i really struggle to communicate with him, his denials register to me as gaslighting which is really triggering, so it’s hard for me to help him. he also doesn’t read books at all, probably because of undiagnosed dyslexia

that’s boring. and tbh i don’t even want revenge, literally all i want is for him to acknowledge that he hurt me, but he refuses to even admit he ever even acted aggressively or anything towards me

spice things up and put a bomb in it ^/j

closest non-apple alternative to appleTV is probably nvidia shield, but it may have enshittified when i wasn’t looking. appleTV is pretty much the only apple device I use these days, every now and again i use my old ipad

kinda makes me want to do it to hurt my dad but tbh he would probably still not realize that he’s the reason

dw i’m not suicidal but yeah

my problem with this is, why wouldn’t they just walk away after selling the game? they sold a shitload of copies and probably could have just taken the money, paid themselves a handsome bonus, facetanked the false advertisement lawsuit, declare the company bankrupt and walk away with enough money to retire for life, changed his name or whatever, and lived a life of luxury, no?

maybe there’s something i’m missing

you’re not, I liked it too. hbomberguy has a short video about it!

boomer shit

ok boomer

The ruling class is allowed to inflict infinite violence upon you, but the moderators here do not allow for you to suggest the ruling class shouldn’t have a monopoly on violence.

It is typical liberal behavior, enforcing the status quo for no reason other than civility.

Okay, great, so we’re all in agreement here, Marxism-Leninism is auth left. That’s the only point I care to discuss here.

You know fine well what it is, an authoritarian state with a great deal of control over the people living under it. You can argue that this authoritarianism is justifiable because it’s the best way to bring about communism, but it’s still auth left. Heck, we currently live under an extremely authoritarian right wing system, so it could be less authoritarian than the current system but still remain authoritarian in the full balance considering alternatives, and thus auth left.

I hope this helps clear things up for you.

You sure do love deep throating that boot, huh? Are you a small business?

The auth left really sure do hate being called auth left, don’t they?

If you can’t see how layoffs are used to suppress worker rights and keep pay as low as possible then I’m sorry but you are a total fool.

Or, you know, workplaces organize and form strong labor unions?

How does boot taste?

It can be a form of harm reduction at best. For the few minutes it takes to postal vote, I feel like it’s worthwhile, personally.

It isn’t ineptitude. Of course executives at Microsoft know that they could be good and be successful with consumers. But they don’t need to please consumers, they have far more important customers: the surveillance state, and the military industrial complex.

Once corporations have a near-monopoly position, they do not need to make good products anymore. Microsoft has enough money already to completely fail at everything for centuries and they’d be just fine. So they can focus on other goals, such as dismantling online anonymity for the benefit of the ruling class, who owns and controls Microsoft.