Notices by Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀 (alyx@gameliberty.club)

Accurate.

@VD15 @p
I have a bad feeling that if she saw this fanart, she'd turn full yandere.

@LukeAlmighty Thing is... as bad as things are today, someone from medieval time would think living anywhere in Europe today would be epic.
We've lost perspective of how much life has improved because of technology, and I'd wager it makes sense in universe that people in Cyberpunk consider it a dystopia, because they also lost perspective on things and focus only on their present day issues.

I had a sobering though a year ago. Back during the days of Mozart or Beethoven, these people weren't composing music for the wider audience. Entertainment was a thing solely for the rich. But today, a homeless person in America can listen to any music he wants on a pocket sized computer.
Or Tim Pool likes to make the argument that the original oil baron had worse dental care than an average american has today.

People are free to complain about wealth inequalities, but they should also take a second and appreciate that they probably have access to the same, if not more, life amenities than the richest of the rich from not that long ago. That is bonkers to me.

So yeah, any realistic fiction set in a much more technologically advanced future, is gonna have some of the things we care about solved thanks to technology, while also introducing new unique problems that make it a dystopia.
I haven't played the game, but my understanding was that the dystopic element was some kind of augmentation psychosis and people losing their humanity.

@hachi @LukeAlmighty
Gender is a lie. The word you're looking for is "personality". You can have a feminine personality as a male, and want to wear dresses and makeup and whatever, and you'd have my full support.

@LukeAlmighty Does anyone have freedom under trans ideology?

@LukeAlmighty You're more optimistic than me, cause I don't see any kind of political willpower to build up nuclear. All I've seen throughout my life was tearing it down. When I was a kid, not even a teenager, I was certain that by now we'd have the majority of our energy being nuclear, with research being done to perfect solar panels for when we'd start running out of uranium.
There's been some advancement in solar panel tech, so at least that's something. But nuclear has been the biggest disappointments for me.

@LukeAlmighty Oh... ok... In that case, sure. I can agree with your original post.
But man... you really shouldn't use the word "conservative" in that way without expressly saying that's how you're defining it. And even then, you're still gonna get people angry at you for misdefining "conservative".

@LukeAlmighty @Nepiant
A lot of this. Charcoal gives you poor efficiency. And you won't be able to grow trees fast enough to even maintain, let alone technologically grow, a society with a high number population.
Again, in the 90s, we were panicking because we were using too many trees to make paper. We were already burning other stuff for energy. In the winter, you're gonna use A LOT more trees to heat up a house than you'd use for your paper needs in the same amount of time.
You might have some steam stuff from charcoal, but you're not exploring advanced technology off of it.

@LukeAlmighty Thing is, if we lose enough technology or energy output, we simply won't be able to make us of nuclear material anymore. We won't have enough resources to build and ignite a nuclear power plant.

As for fusion... no... we've been "a decade away" for how long now? And we're still "a decade away". Best estimates are for a TEST production facility for 2040 I think. Which means, there's still far off from widespread adoption. And that's of course assuming the test goes well, and there isn't another Greenpeace social panic that sabotages everything... again. I'd rather maintain zero hope for fusion and be pleasantly surprised if it does happen. Fission is a known quantity, and we should have had a fission power plant at every corner by now (figuratively speaking).

Global warming is a bit more complicated than that, but I was trying to avoid the topic altogether. The whole sea level rising issue has been horribly explained by the media for as long as I lived. And now that I finally had someone explain it properly... yeah... it IS happening, and no EU "carbon plan" will stop it.

@LukeAlmighty Do/Did conservatives actually have foresight in all of this? Maybe you have some specific examples in mind, but to me it seems that conservatives have been struggling to react. The strong opposition to everything social-justice/feminism/woke has come from moderate liberals, or "centrist" types, that sometimes slowly moved rightward as the culture war progressed.

To me it seems like conservatives are still clueless about how bad things are. Meanwhile I was saying that social-justice, what we call woke today, was a religion for close to a decade. I've been doubting the new trans ideology for at least three quarters of that time. I've seen the intentional uglyfication of female characters in games since ME:Andromeda. I've called Antifa as being today's Nazis brown shirts since they first appeared.
I can't remember how many observations and hypothesis over what is happening I've thought about over the years that I've seen intellectuals discover from scratch years later than me.
Easy example, Gad Saad has been talking about idea pathogens for a few years now, and describing "woke" as such a pathogen. But this isn't new concept. I read "The God Virus" by Darrel Ray over a decade ago, before even GamerGate, and realized the social-justice/woke movement was essentially the same thing as Darrel Ray was describing. He just didn't have the foresight to generalize his concept, and he was just focusing on religion.

And I am definitely NOT a conservative. Back then I was liberal-left enough, that taking a political test that recommended what US presidential candidate best fit your politics gave me Bernie Sanders.

There was nothing conservative about me observing this crap and opposing it. None of the thought leaders or "intellectuals" that shaped me before were conservatives. It wasn't conservative values that lead me to realize "bruh, progressivism is bad" before the word became mainstream.

So I really am curious what specifically you have in mind when you say conservatives have decades worth of foresight. Because I don't think this was what I experienced so far in this culture war.

I've been thinking about something last night. I'm starting to think that this could be it, that what we're experiencing right now is the height of human civilization on Earth.
I think that, because we didn't build up nuclear energy in time, we will fail to make the transition away from fossil fuels fast enough, we'll run out, and we'll reach a point where we won't be able to make enough energy to sustain societies as they are today.
A collapse will come. But that's not the real issue. The real issue is that without an abundance of oil anymore, without that much cheap energy, human civilization won't be able to rebound, and will basically remain stuck to somewhere around steam engine stage. At best we might see steampunk become a reality.

I've been thinking about something similar for some time. Humanity owes its technological advancement to fossil fuels. To forests and critters of countless millions of years ago that died and got buried before they could decompose.
As such, ANY intelligent alien civilization NEEDS to evolve on a planet that has fossil fuels in the ground already. If an intelligent life form evolves before fossil fuels get created through geological processes, or where they don't exist for any other reason, that's it. That's a technological dead end for them. They'll be stuck at a medieval stage, forever.

"But muh solar power" NO! You're not gonna make solar panels from burning wood. If you're struggling to barely melt metal, you're not gonna have the cheap resources needed to experiment and research anything more than a basic axe and a sword.
And remember the social panic there was in the 90s, that we were cutting down all trees to make paper? Now imagine trying to sustain a high population civilization that BURNS only wood for everything.
You are not building a technological civilization off of wood. At the very minimum you need coal, but realistically you need oil. No civilization, alien or otherwise, will EVER make the transition from burning wood to solar panels. Same goes for wind. You think you'll create fine copper wire to make electric engines and generators by burning wood?

Now going back to humanity. If societies collapse. That's it. We don't have readily available oil. The reserves we still have need highly advanced machinery to extract. Machinery that might not survive a collapse, or that we'll lose the knowledge of how to use.
We still have a lot of coal, but I'm not sure if even that is easily exploitable anymore. Can you still find coal with nothing more than pickaxes as tools?
After the collapse happens, there will be no more smartphones, no more computers, no more internet, anymore. Ever. For as long as Earth continues to orbit around the Sun, humanity will continue, but will remain stuck in much more primitive societies.

This is not something I expect to happen in the next decade. Not in our lifetimes either. Could take a few centuries. But I think it could happen.
Our energy needs are growing too fast. First cryptocoin and now AI have been the world's dumbest ideas when we're struggling to deal with finding energy alternatives. And dumber ideas are sure to be on the horizon still.
IF nuclear energy had been abundant, this wouldn't have been an issue. But instead of growing nuclear capabilities, we've decimated them. Now there's talks about a revitalization. But projections for the first batches of new generation nuclear power plants are for like 2050 or something. And that's assuming the political willpower is maintained until then. Which... fucking hell people... western nations can't keep it together for 5 years, let alone decades.
Even if I assume mere stupidity, and not outright malice, the world's political system is essentially trying to kill humanity.

But going back a bit, with energy usage growing so fast, at some point something will collapse. If people start rioting and pillaging AI server farms and solar plants, if people start chaos and revolutions, you think energy plants will survive? You think fragile solar panels will be intact? You'll have South Africa style situations where the infrastructure will be compromised, and left in taters to the point where you can't even use every bit of energy making capacity you have left to create new solar panels, new windfarms, etc.
You won't be able to grow back, because trying to ration energy for basic industry instead of population needs will just get you a free noose around your neck as part of a new population revolt.
And solar panels wear out. So do wind farms. You won't be able to replace them, more and more of them will fail, until you have nothing left and are back to burning wood to stay warm during winter.

If you had an abundance of cheap oil, gas, coal, sure you can build back. Just burn more and more. But you're not building back from solar and wind.

I don't think it will happen within our lifetimes. So unless you care that much about your great-grandchildren, this really isn't something that will affect you. Not something you should care about.

But if you have some deep optimism and hope that one day humanity will reach the stars, if you're like me and hope humanity will exist forever more, discover everything there is to discover, explore all the deep blue and the cosmos, reach the pinnacle of science and technology that we can't even imagine yet... If you're romantic in that way... this is a sobering thought to consider.

@LukeAlmighty @Mr_NutterButter
You either learn how to treat your partner or how to raise children from your parents, or you learn how NOT to treat your partner and raise children.

It depends a lot I think on how well you were raised. If there was a good healthy relationship, there are probably gonna be things that you unconsciously copy and never even think about it. So sure, there are gonna be some similarities. But I stress "similarities", because your partner will never be exactly like your parent, so your behavior will adapt to him/her.
But if the relationship was bad, you're more likely to end up thinking about your parents actions, and try to do things differently.

TL;DR There are always gonna be things you pick up from your parents, but it's not gonna be a perfect 1-to-1 correlation to how you treat other people, especially if you had a bad relationship with your parents.

@LukeAlmighty @Mr_NutterButter
A lot of parents would spoil their kids to hell and back with games and consoles, because they've been gamers themselves at some point in their lives. But when there's simply not enough children to begin with, and political leaders are salivating at the idea of importing more human beings, like cattle, than babies being made... It's simply a better investment for companies to focus on adults.

Case example: you're Valve and want to do research on a new gamepad or joystick.
Is it a better idea to focus your research on how children hold a gamepad, when your birth rate is predicted to keep dropping, and nobody even wants to fix it (and there's enough conspiracy theories that elites work to make it drop more)?
Or should you do your research on adults, since you know politicians insist that we will import more and more adult human cattle, at least until the end of the century?
In the first case, your research is less and less relevant as time goes on, but in the second case, the research remains useful and pays dividends for a long time.

@Mr_NutterButter @LukeAlmighty
The reason they can't market towards kids is not because the gaming market has become big, but because the growth potential for advertising to kids is too small. There are no kids. Society is broken and no one is having kids. Even suggesting to a woman to have children is now in the best case scenario taboo, in the worst case scenario is considered misogyny worthy of a prison sentence. The only "children" women want to take care of are illegal immigrants from some god forsaken hell whole, who are also adults.

So the only market that exists and keeps having a reliable potential for growth, not just in gaming, but in entertainment as a whole, is adults. And this might also be what has caused media to be stuck in this remake era. They keep playing on adult's nostalgia, instead of making something that children of today might like.

@LukeAlmighty
>They made it bigger
I've heard people argue before, and I didn't quite believe it, but I'm starting to. Gaming is not for children anymore. They're not focusing on making games or consoles for children. The entire market is focusing solely on adults.
Kids can cope with a smaller screen because they're holding it closer to their face anyway, since they're, you know, small kids. But adults need bigger screens, bigger surfaces to grasp, etc.

@LukeAlmighty
Ultimately women's choices when it comes to children are voluntary, but there is something to be said about whether you can say someone is making a choice with informed consent when the feminist religion is giving people false/fake information on which they base their decision making. Is it your choice if you're being manipulated into it?

But in the end women are still responsible to gather information outside the propaganda (which too many don't do, and that's a choice in itself for which they are solely responsible).

TFW you realize communists did "anime figurine" collections before it was cool. Ok, not actually anime, but same basic idea.

Also, this is a random picture off the internet, not my family's stuff, BUT, there are 2 pieces here that my mom did possess at some point.

@Forestofenchantment
Well... at least Gamefreak won't sue over this.

@icedquinn Yes, but they also wanted to undo Mundus. Don't know how well you know the lore, but human or not, Talos was the embodiment of Lorkhan (kinda like how Christ is God in Christianity). And since in TES, gods gain power and exist based on people worshiping them, if you stop the worship, the god ceases to exist. And since Lorkhan is basically the creator of Mundus, getting rid of Talos/Lorkhan allows you to undo the world.

@icedquinn Look, clearly Talos is the one true god, and Elves are heretics we need to conquer.