There are a lot of anti-Semitic things being said and shared by this particular Internet mob. That Discord was shut down for a reason.
The fact that people of all stripes can find common ground in doing something that appears to harm Wall Street in favor of the little guy is affirmation that capitalism and corporate power is the common enemy. Remember that Trump promised, though failed, to drain the swamp. Wall Street is absolutely swampland. Both socialists and insurrectionists would love to see it burn.
Economic inequality has left all people relatively powerless. This gamestop thing has shown people that yes, posting comments on the Internet and clicking some buttons can move at least some of the levers of society in a direct and provable fashion. Click your mouse to actually change the world is what everyone, good or bad, self included, is after.
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It really is basically 4chan but with money - a chaotic mishmosh that produces loads of problematic content and occasional accidental brilliance.
I am interested in the possibilities for a model of vigilante disruption of the financial oligarchy. Could this be a technique that is leveraged to a predictable end? Yeah, a lot of the real volume is being driven by other larger firms, but the market also reacts in a cascade very frequently, so a group of agitators could hypothetically set a chain in motion.
In any event itās really fucking funny to watch the uber-rich cry foul.
Well yes, but in this case Iām specifically referring to the fiction that is value trading in the stock market. Currency is a fiction that is still somehow tied very directly to labor value, but the stock market is a game that plays out often independently of the actual output of a company. Thatās what this situation is fundamentally about. GME just happens to be the name on the certificate.
Trading app Robinhood has now stopped allowing the purchasing of a number of the meme-stocks. Users are only allowed to sell some of them.
Yeah, itās kind of disappointing, but entirely unsurprising to see the standard excuses come out. Oh, itās just economic anxiety. Oh, itās just a few bad apples. Oh, but theyāre on our side, look at what they did(while ignoring it was motivated by equal parts petty revenge and greed.)
I have nothing against the act of trading stocks - Even Marx was a stock trader, albeit with his wifeās(and later Engelās) money, though he did still feel the need to rationalize it - but we should be cautious being supportive of unrepentant bigots, no matter how many hedge funds they temporarily inconvenience, or how pleasant the second-hand power fantasy.
Anytime you get money and the 4chan/reddit crowd together, someoneās going to make jewish ājokesā.
I remember, the first time I jumped into the WSB discord a while back, the first conversation I saw was people going back and forth was if people should invest in ācompanies run by (N-slur)sā, because āYou know what theyāre like with money.ā Mods were aware, and didnāt do shit about it.
this one. To conflate actions with ideology is not useful. People attacking Capital out of spite is good, even if the individuals are bad.
Indeed, actions are separate.
Most of the time you have people who say they arenāt racist and believe all people are created equal, and sometimes I believe that is what they believe in in their own mind. But those same people take many racist actions and support the institutions that sustain systemic racism.
Here we have sort of kind of maybe the opposite. People who lay claim to all kinds of different ideologies, good and bad. But their actions represent a desire to attack wall street, though they might not be successful.
Iāll just say that this encapsulates my ultimate take on the whole situation.
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Their actions represent a desire to attack one guy who made fun of them, and make a lot of money doing so. Any attempt to give them a more noble cause than that is simply self-delusion. They were - and are - perfectly happy with other hedge fund traders and wall street types who havenāt offended them, or who they feel havenāt come after them, nor do they have an issue with Hedge fund tactics, which theyāve commonly used and exploited themselves in the past.
EDIT: Never mind this second part.
This turned out to be not true. There was some setting that people had enabled in their account that made this happen.
I think itās a bit sticky-er than that, like it was opt out rather than opt in soā¦ gray area.
Having now finished pretty much all the content I likely care to finish in Hades (just finished the epilogue tonight), I am confident saying this is one of the finest games Iāve ever played.
The thing I find most remarkable is that even though thereās a list of sidequests and a pile of shit to unlock, it never really felt like a grind. Well, alright, I think the very last quest line to get to the epilogue was a bit of a slog, but I had something else to do each time anyway, so it wasnāt bad. The challenges encouraged meaningful variety in my playstyles, and every single combination of weapon, aspect, pact of punishment, and boon progression felt meaningfully unique (even though I tended to gravitate towards specific boon choices over time).
I have like 10 minor prophecies left and like 6 of them are purely RNG driven (I need one more fucking Legendary boon, 4 different single Hammer upgrades for 4 different weapons, and 1 specific Chaos boon) so I have very little desire to keep trying to pursue those. The others are good legitimate challenges, but Iām not sure how keen I am on actually seeing them all the way through.
The only real complaint I have is that the randomness of the dialogue trees was occasionally extremely frustrating. More than once, I had a quest that involved talking to a specific character, but random dialogue put us in a different conversation, and I couldnāt complete that quest until I did another run. Iād say in the first 2/3 of the game that was no big, but in the last 1/3 it started really getting obnoxious.
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Did you mention that the soundtrack kicks ass? The soundtrack kicks ass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=156&v=SqFaCDvHxU4
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Listening to the soundtrack by itself makes it almost feel like music from a different genre. The heavy synth is really otherworldy.
Suffice to say Darren Korb is a musical wunderkind.
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Listening to the soundtrack by itself really makes you realize how similar it is to Bastion, which should come as no surprise.
If you somehow still havenāt played. Seriously. This is the game.