ProdigalFrog

A frog who wants the objective truth about anything and everything.

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  • Muntedcrocodile: “I believe in the right to spread hatred as long as it’s not calling for violence.”

    Lemmy: “Um, okay. Let’s give that a try. We hate hateful right wing views, and call people with those views total assholes.”

    muntedcrocodile: “Wait, not like that! You should tolerate us so there’s a diversity of views!”

    Ironic.


  • A lack of resistance now will only guarantee a quick decent into Russian style authoritarianism. We resist now, or wait years or potentially decades for it to crumble and break.

    The 50501 resistance movements have already shown us that there are millions who will openly resist. The military parade showed hundreds of slouched out of step soldiers, who would only do so if they disapproved. Trump only barely won the election.

    Does he have supporters still? Of course, a wide amount of brainwashed people are were caught in that trap, and it will take a great deal of hardship for them to come out of that cult.

    But just as many are not. Just as many are awake to what is happening. It may decent into civil war, and I think it’d prudent to be ready for that possibility, but hopefully it won’t come to that.

    But don’t wait for a mass movement to make it safe for you to stand up, or you may never stand up.


  • If you’d prefer a more standard union, there’s quite a few to choose from. The United Workers Union looks to be alright.

    An issue with more ‘standard’ unions is that they are often centralized with leaders that can become corporate captured, and thus begin to actually work in the interests of the capital owners to only achieve modest or lackluster gains from negotiations or strikes. They also often don’t have a particular interest in truly changing the status quo, such as working toward building up popular movements to challenge capitalism itself, instead only hoping for a wage increase so they can continue as usual, with a little more breathing room.

    The ASF-IWA doesn’t demand that their members don’t vote in political elections, only that as an entity, they’re more focused on direct-action instead of waiting for permission from a corporate captured system.

    But in the end, joining any union is still a win in my book.










  • Fractic’s tone, the repetitiveness, and gimmickery.

    He’s pretty much like that in most of his videos.

    Just because someone did amazing stuff in the past doesn’t mean they’ll have the ability or the desire to do it in the future—the relative incentives, market conditions, technological constraints, and just plain interests are completely different than before. It’s fun to think one is changing the world and potentially getting rich by pushing the state of the art further than anyone thinks is possible. That’s not where these folks are now.

    This I completely agree with. From what I can tell he’s established relationships with these folk over the years during his coverage of C64 content, and likely felt having them be a part of this would legitimize it and make it feel like the ‘real’ commodore, but time and time again, when I’ve seen old legends try their hands at recapturing the magic of their past, it rarely seems to work out (a good example would be every ex-Sierra employee trying to make a new game with a kickstarter, all of which resulted in pretty sub-par stuff).

    But I’d have a really hard time forking over any scratch to this guy, and will be astounded if this actually produces more than a curiosity.

    I’m of the same mind.

    I don’t think Frantic has any sort of bad intentions or scheme planned (he’s been steadily making classic computer content for over 7 years now), but I do think he’s completely blinded by nostalgia, which is an ever pervasive theme in his videos, and is ultimately wildly overestimating the commercial viability of the goals he has in mind.

    If he really did refinance his house to help fund all this, I don’t foresee things going too well for him, as I can’t really imagine them being able to put to market something that will be affordable enough and with some killer feature to truly capture a wide enough market. I also would love to be proven wrong here, but based on how the Commander X16 went, I suspect whatever they produce will be far too overpriced for what it actually is, and will end up only appealing to a small subset of similarly nostalgic Gen-x’ers who have the disposable income to get into it, similar to the Spectrum NEXT.