peppersky [he/him, any]

the dialectic of content and form

Stop normalizing the grind normalize this instead

is that one guy really saying people should be grateful to people for not actively supporting a fascist coup

train go toot toot

this is the only place on the internet im not banned from and i enjoy talking communism with people. i take this place seriously and will continue to take it seriously

People should pick apart things, people should be critical of the things they consume (most of it is absolute fucking trash anyway, what do you expect from late-stage capitalism). The problem is that gamers just completely lack the critical thinking skills to actually engage with the medium in any productive way. The vast majority of gamers and game journalists view and engage with media as if it was a piece of consumer electronics, like it was a fridge or a stove that had one specific function (that function being “to entertain”) and its quality lies only in whether it can perform that function with the least amount of friction for the least amount of effort. For them games are not art or cultural artifacts, but any value they have lies completely in what mindless entertainment they can provide.

just ask her out

im not from the us but where i study and work its increasingly obvious that there has been a deliberate plan to rob these places from any of the revolutionary or emancipatory potential they once had. at some point the capitalists realized that when you put a whole bunch of young kids together and let them learn and live their lives with relative freedom from the economic realities, they’ll just always turn communist, so they had to put an end to that.

its such a shitshow with endless budget cuts, no money for infrastructure or teaching at all, no money for research so all research has to be funded through corporate grants (meaning the staff that has the best connections to those companies rise to the top, no matter the quality of the actual research), students live in terrible and way too expensive housing, the university itself is such an unwelcoming and uncomfortable place that you’d never want to spend any time there, the food is expensive and bad, everything that is not teaching gets outsourced, etc. etc.

if that wasn’t enough, it is clear to all the students that none of the stuff they learn will ever be relevant to what they actually end up doing, which is either boring ass bullshit office jobs or marketing, with basically nothing inbetween and that the value of a liberal arts education (or any education under capitalism for that matter) doesn’t actually amount to anything (as is clearly evident from the world around us). like the idea that educating people in all sorts of things would lead to better outcomes when these people take positions of power is nice, but it is clear that under capitalism that is just simply not true.

sorry for my bad posts yesterday, next time i have a depressive episode i will just write my thoughts into a notepad document and delete them afterwards

oh i know its not a very nice thing to say but im a miserable fuck so what can i do

nothing truly bad ever happened to me booo hoooo another male suicide or homeless drug addict for the statistics

wish i was trans or queer or gay or anything instead of just being a loser white cishet male who cant find a job and cant afford his rent and deserves anything that happened to him

everything my parents did for me and for themselves they could do because their landlords have not raised their rent in thirty years and my mother somehow got her job right before they stopped giving new nurses any of the benefits. they were very lucky people so we could pretend to be kinda middle class

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the problem with my parents is that they were too good at being parents. they didn’t instill me with their ideology or hopes and dreams so i could make my own, which makes capitalisms never-ending never-ceasing attempts to kill my soul and heart even more damning. my parents were weird failed hippies who built their sad little lifes themselves and managed to gain whatever stability they could, but you can’t do that anymore in 2024 because we live in a complete late-stage capitalist hellworld

i should have just become a car mechanic and played soccer all my life instead of my half assed attempts at an alternate lifestyle at least i wouldn’t have known how miserable i am

if you want to look for creativity go as far away from videogames as possible

fuck off to the electoralism comm please dear god

nah they fucking wanted to pass legislation and then didn’t. if they fucking cared they would have outlawed that shit years ago, but profit over everything just like everywhere else

good comeback bro get those upvotes

china is just another bullshit country

i do not want to move back in with my parents jesus christ everything fucking sucks fuck