Notices by Silver Spook Games (silverspookgames@mastodon.social), page 8

Some animation I'm working on from my cyberpunk adventure Neofeud 2! Check out Neofeud 1 over here: https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud
or here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/
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I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong. But sometimes you have to in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, today, I admit that I was wrong about Google, Facebook, & surveillance capitalism in general being toxic for our human rights and democracy … it simply cannot be true given how they are endorsed by some of the most well-respected organisations in the world.

Musk: "Let's do GITS anime cosplay on Mars, and merge with Skynet, goth gf."

Bezos: "I can't think of anything to do with this $150,000,000,000 but go to space."

Thiel: "I want to be immortal like Peter Weyland."

McAfee: "It's mathematically possible for me to fuck a whale."

Exploiting too much labor value is a medical condition whose only remedy is ending capitalism.

Was asked today, "Where are all the flying cars, it's 2019!"

We've had flying cars for forty years. They're called Gulfstream G650s, cost $60 million, and only Mark Zuckerberg & billionaire friends will ever have these corporate jets and helicopters.

The future is unevenly distributed, because the labor that produces the future is not yet cooperatized.

Question the capitalist boss-dictatorship in the workplace. You, labor, build the future- you can do it democratically and actually enjoy it.

The future will look at the first forty+ years of the video game industry & say, "This deeply toxic, misogynistic, adolescence-worshipping culture functioned as a core pillar of military-industrial complex propaganda, was instrumental as a vector of far-right global fascism through things like gamergate, & was emblematic of 'capitalism' -- profiting billionaires on the backs of criminally underpaid overworked kids."

The evolved sapient tardigrades will say, orbiting the lifeless husk of Earth.

last saturday "activists from around the world led a tour of the British Museum... call[ing] for the museum to return cultural objects acquired through colonialism, and to end sponsorship from the oil company BP." the museum "is currently bound by an Act of Parliament from 1963, which prohibits the deaccessioning of items in its collection, except... artifacts containing human remains and cultural objects looted from Jewish families during WW2." https://hyperallergic.com/475256/hundreds-attend-guerrilla-activist-led-tour-of-looted-artifacts-at-the-british-museum/

There has been unexpected (was supposed to get these expenses until next month) expense that I have to pay for my apartment. Since on of them is renters insurance, I have to pay it or I will be evicted. I’m sorry that I keep asking for help. this shit keeps happening to me. I work so much but it isn’t enough. I’m a full time student work 40 fucking hours a week. This shit sucks.

Anything would help
https://www.paypal.me/JourneiG

"It’s a very passion -driven industry"
"For many people it’s been a badge of honour to work all night and until the early hours of the morning"

This is fucked up game culture propagated and exploited by rich execs to milk bright-eyed young devs for all their labor value, & unfortunately HUGE in the industry.