• Scubus@sh.itjust.works
        411·
        7 months ago

        And video game piracy. Also free housing. Pretty much anywhere where finances are involved, some people want to fuck the next generation instead of helping them.

        • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
          18·
          7 months ago

          Wait why piracy all of a sudden. Didn’t we agree that people who don’t buy games won’t buy them anyway even if piracy didn’t exist? Thus the denuvo lack of purpose because it doesn’t raise sales. Yet many of those same folks are willing to pay to indie devs even if their games are often laughably easy to pirate. It’s about the principles.

          For example Hollywood is such rotten hive of misogynist assholes that one may not want to fund them. Or not get royalty to Rowling for the potter game.

          By starving bad companies we have a personal freedom to leave generations with only the best devs and brands such as Larian-motherfuking-Studios.

          Hell if it wasn’t so risky IRL I’d probably steal Nestle food by tons and share it too. Let’s leave generations without that company.

          • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
            22·
            7 months ago

            “You guys should install denuvo into your game because console players have to pay to play it but on PC you can just pirate it. It’s not fair for them to get to play it for free while we had to buy it”

          • lugal@lemmy.world
            21·
            6 months ago

            That’s why we should decriminalize pirating because it’s unfair for those who did it and didn’t get caught (which is the majority) or rather the companies who suffered from that.

            You wouldn’t criminalize drinking clear water

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    793·
    7 months ago

    Goddammit this is brilliant in so many ways, and no we are not the ones pulling the lever, in real life trolley problem.

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    7 months ago

    Somehow I don’t think choosing between money and lives is a problem for that guy in any way whatsoever. The fact that the money would probably be salvageable even if the trolley hit it makes it even worse.

    • blandfordforever@lemm.ee
      161·
      7 months ago

      Yeah but it would be all scattered around and stuff. Some horrible poor person might try to pick some of it up. We certainly wouldn’t want that.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      6·
      6 months ago

      A lot of capitalists regularly make that choice, and they choose money.

      Be it warmonger sharks, heads of private militaries and military manufacturers, or, idk, Nestle executives.

      • PapaStevesy@midwest.socialEnglish
        21·
        7 months ago

        I think that’s a very generous read, and I just don’t see it. The first three panels are well done, but the last adds nothing. It’s like someone ending a Little Johnny joke with “and then the teacher sent him to the principal’s office” instead of with whatever dirty thing Johnny said that was supposed to be the actual punchline.

          • PapaStevesy@midwest.socialEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Lol, I never suggested anything about the author’s writing process and I certainly never even implied that I thought you were a dumbass, which I don’t. But now I’m not convinced you’re not the actual cartoonist, since you seem to have intimate knowledge of their creation process and their recreational habits. It’s not a “character study”—you would need characters for that—it’s a setup with no punchline, it’s half a joke. Actually, it’s worse, it’s a joke with a decent punchline, followed by a whole extra panel that just restates what the reader already learned in the previous panel with the actual punchline, making me feel like the author thinks I’m a dumbass.

      • PapaStevesy@midwest.socialEnglish
        23·
        7 months ago

        Except the last panel isn’t poignant either. Like I said, it’s useless. It would be just as poignant without it, and if they had actually written a punchline, it could have been funny too.

  • lugal@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 months ago

    You are in a trolley problem. Everyone is wearing a hat. No one sees their own hat. There are 2 red and 2 blue hats and everyone knows this. The guy to your left is wearing a red hat and the guy to your right has a blue one. The guy at the lever is too far away for you to see if he wears a hat at all and it doesn’t really matter since they will no pull the lever no matter what.
    What do you do?

  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
    7·
    7 months ago

    Happy go lucky guy is fine - they expected it and are just rolling with the punches.:-)

    In the USA, the leopard about to get his face eaten off would normally be colored red I believe… :-P

    image saying Karma is not a bitch it's a mirror

  • sqw@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    61·
    7 months ago

    only thing wrong with this cartoon is the capitalist is touching a lever. those guys dont do such menial work

  • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
    5·
    6 months ago

    The guy at the lever represents the oil execs and we all know they would rather kill people than sacrifice money.

  • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
    5·
    6 months ago

    Sometimes I feel like it’s the new generation memes. Straight from the shelters, getting taste of real life out there and making memes. But then I already knew the world is hell when I was 13 yo.

    Adult world was actually less cruel because everyone masks their primal insticts behind a facade of politeness and any violence is passive, systemic. Much easier to cope with in the short term but ultimately maybe more insidious. Money is violence.