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I hate Factorio.
No matter how simple or dumb the design, I will always hate it later, when I find out how stupid mistakes does it have.

@LukeAlmighty Rimworld allows me to have a kidney-only economy. It is worth the effort
@corfiot I don't think removing the gatekeeping and lowering the bar to entry is why no new games of note are being created. Quite the opposite, I think it allows for those talented people who would normally be obstructed by bullshit to enter where they might not. I think the issue actually is fundamental to the culture. The issue is not the systems in place to create things, the issue is the population. People today on aggregate suck more than they did in the past, at least in terms of their talent for creative output.

And I think a lot of that has to do with the reality that people don't live real lives anymore. In the 20th century it was normal for people to leave their parents home and find themselves in real danger, to make serious moral choices that actually redeem or destroy themselves or others, experience pain and pleasure that is brought on by real external experience and so on. Now it is only normal for people to leave their parents home to be in some kind of highly controlled institution like a university or a job, they don't get to make any serious choices to prevent them from making the "wrong" ones, and only experience pleasure from drugs and pain from socially contrived punishment.

In other words, people today are more controlled than they ever were in the past, and that is very much the case with young people. Young people are being systematically denied the opportunity to venture forth and write their own destiny, and as a consequence of this none of them have a real source of inspiration for art. It's all abstract to young people today in a way that it wasn't in previous generations. And you can tell when someone hasn't really lived it. And really, what have zoomers lived aside from charge they phone, xanny bars, and egirls? And whose fault is that? (Not theirs, actually)

They can't make a game about street racing because none of them actually do any street racing. So if they try to make a game about street racing it's going to come off as dumb and contrived because it will be. They will never break bad and become a Jesse Pinkman. They will never get into a bar brawl over a tarted up woman. They will never get into a car chase with the police. They will never fire a round in anger, and most won't ever fire a round at all.

@PapaPole @LukeAlmighty @caekislove @dave
Elon Musk will spend hours yelling about Hunter Biden's penis and "woke mind viruses" while banning people for posting videos of him getting booed at a Chapelle show and will unban people like Baked Alaska. But won't unban anyone mass flagged by antifa.
I have literally spent nearly the past two months studying and lifting ever since I became a NEET. While I fucking hate that I have no source of income for the time being, I will admit that spending my time aim training, studying A+, video editing and learning Sports and Athleticism philosophies has come to benefit me way more than I thought I would. I'm drained and poor, but holy shit I am breaking plateaus that were realistically holding me back BECAUSE I was drained and paid. But all good things have to come to an end. Ontop of testing for my Cert, I have a job interview tomorrow. Offering Pay ranges anywhere between 44K~55K and I'm only able to get it because I've spent the past 3 going on 4 years of my life in the tech industry farming EXP.

Considering the standard warehouse monkey makes 36K for picking and packing, it'll be nice to actually make some real money doing shit instead of just farming for EXP now.
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