Probably too many old fart executives that “know better”, plus directors or writers with a pet project that have to drop it and work on a “stupid game movie”

Also Uwe (suck my) Boll for tax reduction

The transparency in this case is the “We’re doing bad shit and putting you in danger” and privacy policies. The author is against because this kind of transparency is effectively useless and pointless, because it allows companies to continue being absolute assholes towards people, which I agree.

Last panel has strong Carl vibes

I feel like a celebrity now 🤩

Hard to belle-ieve

There’s quite a discussion about that further elsewhere in this thread. To me, the combination of vector-like thick lines with that background color, the characters having such mute expressions and there not being one actual optimist.

Others also pointed to the “weirdness” that is the lines of the characters’ arms becoming part of the table, which I didn’t notice at first.

Perhaps more importantly, it does not look like the “author” has “zero drawing skill”, but actually knows how to make vector art, even if relatively simple. That makes the problems more glaring

You’re probably better off on a mastodon instance rather than lemmy

I’ve been exposed! 🤖

I’ve always loved the pose the dude on the back does

Sounds like you’re walking a metaphorical minefield

Not OP, but let’s make this better:

PS: i doubt anyone here would honestly say “damn, that’s beyond my skill”, which goes to show that “not everyone can draw” is a bullshit argument for using AI to make comics

Demontower, found within Night in the Woods. That could easily be a standalone short game

1. On average, how much do you think your fellow North Koreans actually believe in the dear leader?

2. How do you feel about the general culture of absolute obedience to people higher up in the hierarchy?

3. How do you even have access to a computer (phone?) and the internet? Aren’t those heavily restricted and watched by the police?

4. Youtube has some propaganda/advertisement videos showing shops in Pyongyang with ice cream and other sweets. Do the locals buy there often, or at all?

Lawful good: absolutely nothing

Neutral good: Pascal

Chaotic neutral: Python

Chaotic Evil: Brainfuck

We’re as cooked as artists (when asked to do shit jobs for non paying customers)

I guess people prefer having an actual executable program instead of a browser page

I feel like I only have the old lady who’s fed up with all this shit

Kawasaki vs. John Doe, robo-horse fucker

Same. Can’t leave it because of communication with family and work. It sucks that it is the de facto messaging app of so many countries

Open Veins of Latin America. Finished reading it today. It’s a 1973 book that explains some of the reasons for the massive underdevelopment of Latin American colonies. The general gist can be summed up as “it is a place full of riches, and the colonizers only want to extract everything and send it back to their masters” - that still applied to the industrialization efforts funded by foreign capital.

Although Spain and Portugal were the nominal masters, they, too, were fucking themselves over with debts to Dutch and English bankers back in 16th and 17th centuries, not to mention bad trade deals, effectively killing their own industries and those of their colonies.

EDIT: Galeano also exposed a lot of the shady deals made mainly by USA companies with governments in order to “develop” the southern countries, like ensuring that they’d get less taxes, better exchange prices and better credit options, that their goods would only be shipped by USA owned ships, etc. Not to mention that, during 1950-1970, the price of the commodities sold by Latin American countries kept falling (probably growing below inflation) and the income from the exports kept getting lower, despite larger volumes.