LazyBane

joined 1 year ago
[–] LazyBane@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd argue that Valve does more than just take 30% as a middle man. Between Steam Input, Proton, the beta built in recording system, the Forums for every game, community system and the marketplace, having your game on Steam is a massive value generator for the consumer and by extension developers.

30% might not be what the industry standard should be, but Valve isn't just providing a standard digital distribution service.

[–] LazyBane@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

I feel like trying to frame men's mental health issues as a problem caused exclusively by "the patriarchy and capitalism" seems like it's trying to wash the rest of society of their own personal responsibility to contribute to making the world a better place for everyone. Patriarchy and Capitalism are just tools of the greater power structure of society, which we all have a hand in forming and perpetuating.

And let's not pretend that the feminist movement's tendency to pump out and empower misandrists and misandrist thinking isn't going to have a negative impact men's mental health, especially if we continue to hold feminism as a scared cow beyond reproach or criticism. And let's not pretend the fact that we have the explicitly female coded "feminism" that opposes the explicitly coded "patriarchy" isn't going to give people who don't have a lot of time to philosophise an inherently combative view of the feminism.

It's hard to buy into the whole "actually femismim is for anyone who wants equality" shtick when you're working exhaustive jobs most your life and then you get exposed to the kind of feminist who says men might as well go extinct because they have sperm banks now.

[–] LazyBane@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't it convenient how every time the US or Israel bombs civilians they automatically know they we're secretly terrorists the whole time?

[–] LazyBane@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

In the UK knife crime is a big issue for those in poverty or those in struggling cities. Having access to weapons of course increases risks of people dying ot those weapons, but removing guns isn't going to just convince everyone trying to lash out to just lie down and suffer in silence.

I don't live in a contry with civilan access to guns, and I don't live in a situation where I feel the need to protect myself with weapons, so I'm not gonna stake a claim in the gun control debate. But if you ban every weapon ever conceivable, without addressing why people are becoming violent to begin with, people will just result to using their own hands (or perhaps more realistically, going above the legal means. Like with Shinzo Abe's assassination).

[–] LazyBane@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't help that sex keeps being written into shows where it doesn't belong.

It's trying to make a show "more adult" in literally the most childish way possible.

That Halo show is a good example of completely needless sex scenes.

[–] LazyBane@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a European, its funny watching these guys talk about "Europe" as this pure implementation of their motorphobic utopia.

A lot of us still drive daily yanks!