Basman

Royals are glorified mascots. Great when you like them, but as soon as they are unlikable people start questioning why you even have them. Royals serve no legitimate democratic function. It's bourgeoisie bankrolled by people's tax money. Notice how royals never make statements critical of the government, of culture, or of any kind that could be controversial. King Haakon never admonished Norwegian for drinking too much. Because if they started to be divisive, people would start disliking them and questioning why you are paying for their moon boots and literal royal treatment. Being "nice" is survival for royals. If I remember correct, the king technically has the right to veto new laws, but that never happens as it would basically be elite status suicide. And still things slip through the cracks, especially from the princes and princesses, because of how elite status and decadence corrupts people's sense of reality. Like prince Andrew or the Epstein hoe or the little Rapist prince who could. Given enough reason to, people will realize that they don't need royals for anything.

Because you are a white boy and fuck centrism.

Because of a lack of general users. The community is kind of stagnant. Leo promoting this forum more is the most obvious solution to the lack of users currently. Second best is to create higher engagements yourself.

You can tell which one's his favorite.

Apple does not fall far from the tree.

Almost first thing they used it for was stalking their exes. It's too much power at one's finger tips. It's too abusable and humans are too fallible. Mass surveillance is treating the general populace as suspect as opposed to democratic citizen. Especially during a time of public distrust, there needs to be a democratic support, which I don't think you'll find much of currently.

Because they are a marginalized minority. Leftists are pro-justice and anti-bullying. And because they don't want to spread anti-muslim sentiment they don't criticize muslim things that are obviously illiberal, which can look backwards and discredit leftists to certain people. Feminist support of burkas are a prime example. There's nothing feminist about a burka, let alone a niqab. It's as oppressive as dress code can get.

Horse girls 🐎

Never ask a white women why she owns multiple big dogs.

I just wish it won't be as railroaded as RD2. Even just trailing off the path sent you back to checkpoint. Might as well just be watching a movie at that point.

343, AKA "Halo Studios" is a great example of how corpos don't understand art. They fill out the mass of their dev team with contractors who are switched out once a year. It's corporate self-sabotage. How can you make any great art when you are constantly switching out the people making it? No accumulation of skill and experience. No chance to learn from failure. No vision is being developed. No wonder they are so mediocre compared to the OG devs at Bungie.

Too many fake jobs in game development now. Imagine needing 2000+ people to make a mediocre uninspired remake of a 20+ YO game that took less than 200 people to develop. Office politics and justifying your payroll become more important than making actual art and it weigh down development. No clear decisions are ever made. No one is accountable for anything. That's how you get toxic positivity and lame writing in modern games (see Concord). The budget balloons and safe and samey design rules to hedge the bet. And even when they are successful they will still struggle to just break even. It's like a workout. Over an hour and it's no longer a workout. Over 200 devs and it's no longer a dev team. It's a corporatocracy.

RD2 was one of the least creative games I've ever played. Just graphics and story. I wouldn't be surprised if GTA 6 is largely same.

You probably have a bias though. Seemingly narrow interests, dismissive of things you don't find worth your time and a lack of energy due to chronic illness. Am I wrong?

Nobody thinks of it like that. It's the ritual that counts.