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Hideo Kojima is a piece of shit.

that's a rather flagrant use of the word "masterpiece"

i can't even count the games i'd call a "masterpiece" on one hand
because there's so few

Quote from: Verbatim on May 13, 2015, 01:28:34 PM

So in your world view, would there no longer be luxary/recreational items?  How would one go about buying/earning something like a 80" 4k tv or PC?

In my opinion, everyone should be entitled to their own comfortable home. Televisions are obsolete, and thus, unneeded. Everyone would have access to a standard, quality-assured personal computer that wasn't planned to obsolesce, unlike basically every electronic on the market. And by "everyone", I mean everyone. Everyone should have complete access to the infobahn. The Internet is an invaluable resource of information.

Is this feasible? Probably not. Is this a La-La-Land? Probably. But it certainly sounds a lot fucking better than the current world we live in, in my humble opinion.

You can talk all you want about how it won't work in practice. I think that's a pointless discussion to have, considering that we can't test it, and all we can do is look at historically failed attempts at socialist societies in the past (that most likely did everything wrong anyway). I'm not interested in that discussion. All I know is that it's rock-solid in theory.

Sorry for the wait.

just think of a pencil:

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All right, this was my favorite bit:

Each part of the pencil is the result of the collaboration and cooperation of millions of people. Together, they form a process that is constantly changing and adapting. A change in the availability or cost of material from one place might make another source more desirable, and the process changes and adapts fluidly. And there is a fact that's still more astounding: the absence of a mastermind of anyone dictating these countless actions which bring a pencil into being. Each member of this family tree supplies only a small amount of the necessary know-how needed to make a pencil. They do so voluntarily, not because they necessarily want pencils or like pencils, but because by working to create them, they exchange their labor and skills for the wages that let them buy what they want and need. What you're seeing is the market at work.

(As a quick aside, I saw Lee Doren's name in the credits there. I may vomit.)

Now, Mr. Leonard Read is absolutely correct there in stating that we create these goods voluntarily, NOT because we "necessarily" want them, but because it allows them to receive money. Money to buy things that they "want" and "need", but money. That's what people work for. But that's the problem.

In my opinion, that's not what people should be working for. That shouldn't be the control of the workforce. Frankly, people should work because it's the right thing to do. I know I use that phrase very often, but it's true. People don't make pencils because they like them? Well, why the fuck not? Pencils are pretty fucking cool. And useful. I'd love to make pencils. I'd love to do productive work, and I would do it for free. Everyone should want to work for free, because work gets shit done. That's really all the pay that you should need.

But since that's not enough for people, I'll stick to the next best solution that I can think of, and that's the concept of working for your bread, and not for green pieces of paper. I don't think anyone can really take issue with that, at least in theory.

There's also another bit earlier on in there that I'd like to address, because it illustrates rather decently my utter contempt for the very concept of "supply and demand".

A change in the availability or cost of material from one place might make another source more desirable, and the process changes and adapts fluidly

Exactly. Since water is so ubiquitous here, I can buy myself twenty-four bottles of water for about $2.50 (or £1.50). But if I were in the fucking desert, or Six Flags, or hell, the campus of my own university, I would be paying the exact same amount (or more) for one stinking water bottle. So yes, that's absolutely correct--the "value" (in the shitty, asinine capitalist sense of the word) of a good increases as it becomes more scarce in a specific area--even if the good isn't scarce elsewhere. The underlying problem with this should be tautological, but... perhaps not to a capitalist.

Obligatory videos:

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Currently watching these, as I now have the time to do so...

Miserable depressed atheist.

I also had the one on DS for some reason <_<

That one was more disappointing just because it was extremely, like... kiddie.

No, it is not.

"HUMANITY SUCKS SO MUCH FOR KILLING EACH OTHER, AND THAT'S WRONG.

SO HUMANITY SHOULD JUST KILL EACH OTHER OFF."

Or, just stop having kids. Which is my philosophy. No one has to kill anyone, ever.

Mortal Kombat is stupid.

Yeah, just commit tu quoque.
You're the king of logical fallacies in this thread.

And understanding primal order does not make you a psychopath.

Yeah, if it means that you aren't allowed to have any empathy and realize that being a selfish cunt and killing things for your own personal gain is the highest order of wrong, then yes, you're an evil piece of shit. A psychopath.

Quote from: Verbatim on May 13, 2015, 12:36:20 AM

Everyone else is a deluded, blind, and retarded motherfucking piece of worthless shit.

Well, you are Christian...

I rather enjoy my life to be honest

I don't care. That's not the point.

Just because you enjoy life doesn't mean that you're worth continuing the species.

no, you don't

Yes, I do.

You probably should have become an anti-natalist as soon as you heard about the Holocaust.

"One man is responsible for the deaths of 11 million people for no good reason?
Yeah, this planet sucks. Let's stop reproducing".

That's what you should say.