Power stancing
Zweihander parries
Small white soapstone
Covenant of Champions
Bonfire Ascetics
Dark Souls 2 had a lot of cool things that didn’t get enough credit.
Power stancing
Zweihander parries
Small white soapstone
Covenant of Champions
Bonfire Ascetics
Dark Souls 2 had a lot of cool things that didn’t get enough credit.
I’m glad I’m not the only one with that criticism. I enjoyed the first game so much more because of that.
I would guess the logic behind going harder on repeat offenders is that they’ve already been punished once and didn’t stop breaking the law, so we should punish them harder this time. Not sure that’s super effective reasoning, but w/e.
Carries a gun
Violently terrified of others carrying guns
This guy was never not going to murder someone.
Yep. Prisoners and homeless people are there to remind you what happens if you stop making money for the boss man. Plenty of horrible, exhausting, unsafe jobs get away with paying dogshit wages because it’s either that or being thrown into the maelstrom of human misery that is being incarcerated / unhoused. How many people would die of heat exhaustion in an Amazon warehouse if they knew their basic needs would still be met if they quit?
As a heads up: I went looking for Black Hole on fdroid after seeing this comment, and couldn’t find it. Looks both the fdroid and github were nuked.
Because half of the pictures are mopeds / scooters and God only knows whether those count or not?
Silly me, I thought you were trying to make a picture of an animal with a gun!
The receiver is backwards and there are two ejection ports.
Octopuses have zero hands, but it only takes one gun to kill a cat so this works out.
Silly question, but are any of your people vegetarian? Looks like those survival meals have meat in them. Only potential explanation I can think of.
Yeah! Kropotkin argues a couple points:
People are generally pretty good at self-organizing to solve problems, and have done so effectively in small communities for thousands of years.
We have the technology* and productive power to ensure everyone enjoys a decent standard of living.
Much of the scarcity we face today* is artificially created and entirely avoidable if we produce to meet needs instead of maximize profits.
Things like laziness, corruption, and greed can largely be addressed by ensuring that all of a person’s needs are guaranteed to be met. Many people we currently* call “lazy” are either stuck in a hyper-specialized job that they can’t leave because they need to sell their labor to survive, or unmotivated because much of the wealth they produce is absorbed by someone else. And people tend to take more than they need more often than not because they are stuck competing with their fellow man for resources instead of cooperating for the common good.
He also does some back-of-the-napkin math to show that it takes less than a year’s worth of labor to produce everything a household needs for a year, and that the remaining labor time of that year should be open for people to cultivate different skills and pursue their passions. He argues that the distinction between what we today call blue-collar and white-collar work is unhealthy, and that everyone should do a bit of both.
His central thesis IMO seems to be that in the event of a socialist revolution, people shouldn’t be afraid to immediately start doing socialism. Take inventory of the food & start giving it to the hungry, figure out how many empty houses the community has & start housing the homeless, stop growing cash crops / producing niche luxury goods and start growing food / manufacturing necessities until everyone’s needs are met. He sternly warns against half-measures: maintaining the state’s use of violence or keeping track of some kind of currency or propping up political leaders are all things he claims will spell the end of a revolution before it gets off the ground.
I really loved the book. I feel like it provided a great example of what communism could (and IMO should) look like without all the baggage of so-called communist states like China and the USSR.
*= The book was written in the late 1800s. I think a lot of it holds up really well and some points seemed like they really called events that would happen in the next hundred years. That being said, it’s probably not as airtight today as it may have been in 1894.
The Conquest of Bread was a breath of fresh air! I cannot believe I read a book about politics / economics that was actually optimistic and left me feeling good about fundamental human nature.
I would love to only be accountable to “guidelines” instead of “rules” or “laws”.
Motherfucker takes all your surplus value and doesn’t even enjoy it! It’s like someone robbing your house and taking your shit straight to the dump.
He prayed for a TV and a gun. Clearly both were answered, hallelujah!
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It’s Lemmy. We’ve got to have at least one “America Bad” comment per thread, no matter how irrelevant.
I spent all afternoon reading that comic, having to call it a night on chapter 93. Thanks for the link!