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  • Perhaps financially stressed people are both financially stressed and susceptible to right wing nonsense because they are under-educated, and they are under-educated because they are financially stressed.

    I say this as someone from a lower class family who dropped out of highschool and at my most financially desperate, voted for the most batshit rightwing asshole my country had to offer at the time. I have since gone to college, gained a stable financial position and highly skilled career, and now wants free university for all (even though I paid for mine), UBI (even though I don’t need it), abolition of landlords (even though I don’t rent anymore), and a prime minister as left as left goes.










  • I really, really tried to like Ancestors: The Humankind Oddysee.

    Playing as an ape, swinging from trees, eating fruits and mating. It was a lot of fun.

    But there are mandatory mechanics that drag it down. You have to discover everything to progress, and you have to bring your kids and tribe along manually. The cost of failing in combat is too high. You can grind for two hours to learn your area, and then lose your best ape and 2 kids to a panther with one second of quicktime events that you haven’t trained for.

    Building fortifications is very laborious and I couldn’t find a good reason for it.

    Training the clan to build weapons eluded me.

    The exploration was amazing though, and if it was less grindy, more forgiving in combat (especially with more opportunities to practice, I mean, why not allow apes to initiate play fighting with each other where you could master the quicktime bullshit without such high risk) and a more independent tribe behaviour where they advance without having to be led manually, it could be a great game.