People who hate communism because their ancestors were sent to the gulag conveniently never want to bring up *why* that happened. And when they do, it’s always either because they were fascists or some variation of “and then Lenin took my family’s castle!!!!!!😡”
no fr there was once a thread on russian twt asking about why were their relatives jailed during ussr times and a lot of users in here were like my family always claimed sweety potato grandpa was an innocent victim of evil stalin’s repressions he went to jail for NOTHING😠 but then i looked up the archives turned out “nothing” was financial fraud/murder/rape LOL like criminals in the family would always bring shame and people would desire to cover it up. khrushchev’s anti stalin policies gave those people a great cause to hide what actually happened and blame it all on stalin. also i will NEVER believe ones who claim their relatives were persecuted for no reason by socialists. that’s just willful ignorance and anti communism.
i can be ur token from-commie-country communist lol. my parents during yugoslavia had much better life and less stress over jobs and housing and were able to actually have a life as young people being literally newspapers-sellers lol
yeah my family members were basically saved from poverty thanks to ussr too
i love how anti-commies on this site always pull up ussr tho 😭 like do they know its not the only communist european country??????
my grandpa literally got a flat from the state, they could even choose which city to live in. croatia still has some remnants of socialism which rule, such as student lunch subventions, career and social apartments etc. and yeah people didnt have as many “things” (had to go to trieste to get good jeans etc) but also people had jobs and werent starving and entire neretva was prospering off oranges which you cant sell in this day and age anymore, and there were factories which have all been closed when we entered the capitalism age and moved towards tourism 😭 where does this myth that you had nothing come. my father literally had a computer in the 80es during yugoslavia and walkman and everything
its always “listen to eastern european voices” unless they disagree w u
they’re Enlightened Liberals while we’re Brainwashed Tankies 🙄
this is stupid but I genuinely worry that kids ARE being priced out of video games like. totk is heavily sanitized to maintain a particular rating that often works against itself but like, I struggle to imagine the kid who’s approaching their parents like “one hundred dollars for a video game please” my biggest gaming triumph was in high school when my parents bought us an xbox 360 and one game. we got the wii as it was going out of style and played primarily gamecube games on it, and even back then to buy a new gamecube game or a DS game was a twenty dollar endeavour. what kind of slideshow does a ten year old have to present in order to convince their parents to drop a hundie on legend of zelda.
This isn’t a problem with video game pricing. Proportional to inflation, AAA games are the same price they’ve always been. Less, actually. They do their best to make up for it with DLCs and ingame cosmetic sale items, and it mostly works. And cheaper games and indie games are often $30 which, again, counting for inflation is still cheaper than those old $20 cartridges.
The problem is that people have less spending money. Full stop.
I’m working with the US here because it’s what I’m the most familiar with, but since the GameCube was the primary console of the day, the fraction of people’s incomes which is free after paying for basic necessities has dropped to about a *third* of what it was. And that’s not counting cost outside basic necessities which are nevertheless crucial, like the financial impact of medical procedures and paying for your children’s colleges, both of which have skyrocketed relative to income. Heck the parents might still be paying off their own college debts these days. Things are *really fucking bad out here*.
So when you look at $100 a game and feel really queasy, like that’s so unaffordable for a family to buy on their child’s behalf, and it just seems so out of reach? Remember. This ain’t about the cost of games. It’s about how capitalism is slowly eating our generations alive.
(and in the process devouring itself, because I feel like it should be obvious that you can’t consume people spending money forever while running a consumerist economy)
