Jamrock Hobo

@jamrockhobo.bsky.social

Disco Elysium guy on Youtube youtube.com/@JamrockHobo

"... so they have some kind of communist magic in that game, which, of course, is kind of a contradiction, since materialist philosophy shouldn't relapse into idealism, but since the very concept of dialectics is part of Elysium's ontology, and because they also have light-bending capitalists..."

Did you ever notice how, even though Disco Elysium is a player-driven RPG, the plot will always proceed in the same way, no matter your choices? This is due to it being a historical materialist game that subverts the ludonarrative implications of bourgeois individualism. In this essay, I will

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Gaming discourse here is terrible. I get that everyone wants to counter-signal Twitter, but Relooted didn't fail because of toxic male gamers. Highguard didn't fail because it catered to competetive chuds. Blaming gamergate incels for everything is not smarter than them blaming "wokeness"

Youtube is now just immediately showing me a Short when I open the app. Horrible stuff. Just give us two different apps at this point, one for Youtube and one for Shorts. (I'm saying this as both a viewer *and* a creator)

Thank you my dear proofreader for pointing out that "when shit comes to shove" isn't a real idiom but an amalgamation of when shit hits the fan & push comes to shove. I do like the toilet humour of my original creation though...

Two little kids asked me on the street to subscribe to their Youtube channel and I told them that's bad for the algorithm. Don't feed the beast, let it find its own food. Wise unc shit