Good games allow thousands, tens of thousands, limitless investment in skills and mechanics. They are simple and don’t depend on plot or lore. That other stuff? That isn’t “game.” It’s literature.

Punched my first nazi at a punk show back in the day as well.

That’s the thing about fighting fascism…

non sequitur

Get it?? IN MIND?!?!?!

Don’t you know how that happened? You are talking about the state of Iran. The Iranian people are not religious extremists or fascists. They are very progressive. They used to have a progressive, secular government. Surely you know this.

It is much better for the working class to weild its authority than the Capitalist class.

Unfortunately, I don’t believe that. Humans don’t come in two flavours.

I think unfettered capitalism and the systems of power that you propose are both hostile, inhuman systems. I think that meaningful voluntary social systems have to be able exist within that context, and cannot replace it. I don’t believe that eight billion humans can form a single community; our capacity to be social breaks down, and we collectively become something else that we don’t really have a lot of power or comprehension over. I suspect that attempting to work on that superhuman scale can only bring greater conflict and chaos. I think that the enlightened human has to disengage from it, stop identifying with it, and instead find human-scale social constructs that we are capable of existing socially within, that are voluntary and free of coercion, and that seeks to address the social deficiencies of the ambient environment, whether that’s an empty wasteland, or a metropolis.

Jesus, it was your word. If you didn’t want to be pinned down to it, why apply it to yourself in the first place. Feel free to pick a better one, I’ll wait.

You know what the single most powerful force in human history is?

Organization.

This is a subjective statement.

Organization. Which is always hierarchal.

This is an untrue statement.

You know what the most common attribute of Anarchist revolutions is? They all failed. Every single one of them. That is what you want. Failure.

Save this one until you are crowing at me from the parapets of your Utopia. Oh wait, it has to be global, so I guess I’m the one inside the walls.

All states are authoritarian

It is not a binary distinction. It is also not something all ideologies seek to use as a tool. Rather, some seek to minimize it. I think you are telling me Marxism is an ideology that seeks to fully utilize authoritarianism, almost as though it WERE a binary distinction, and there is no point in going half way.

Overall I take your response in support of authoritarianism to mean you would have found that a less objectionable definition.

Would you have quibbled less if I had said “authoritarianism” instead of “violence”? I wasn’t trying to be slanted, that was genuinely my impression of what the term meant.

You cannot have Marxist views if you are not in favor of using violence to impose Marxist ideals?

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I mean it had a lot to do with Iran’s government kidnapping and murdering our citizens.

Iranians are an amazing people with an equally amazing history, who are currently suffering the consequences of American imperialism.

I use a teletype. My scrollback is INFINITE.

You dropped your friggin’ > in another thread and I just stepped on it. Pain like Lego.

tankies (ie people who endorse violence as a valid path forward from right here) == marxists?? man, i don’t know jack

15-20 years ago was the climax of the Internet. But it still wasn’t as good as getting my first point-to-point node up.

It’s not always easy to source unadorned components, especially when you are working with a budget. People who seed aren’t power users, they are pirates. Few of them are building a machine specced specifically for most optimal seeding 24/7…

some people self host

BeBoxen had der blinkenlichten and we all thought it was so cool, but I can’t help but think we should have reflected on this obvious potential future and pulled back on it.