Via Oglaf (NSFW)

  • @[email protected]
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    701 year ago

    I loved how the shopkeeper in Link’s Awakening would kill you if you stole anything from his shop. Also every NPC starts calling you THIEF.

    • @Carvex
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      191 year ago

      I completely forgot about that! My whole play through on my Pocket they called me that, I was devastated

      • @[email protected]
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        141 year ago

        Yeah I thought it was really interesting how the gameplay penalty is tiny but the psychological penalty is harsh. Really encouraged me to never do it again on subsequent playthroughs.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          At least a couple screens down is the crane game that can be cheesed pretty easily. Not as easy in the remake, but not too hard.

    • @Cruxifux
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      101 year ago

      That bitch would TRY to kill you anyway.

      • @son_named_bort
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        51 year ago

        Yes. That’s what I would name myself so that the NPCs didn’t change my name.

  • Hyggyldy
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    521 year ago

    Wait… There are Oglaf comics without penii?

      • @mrspaz
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        51 year ago

        The labyrinth one is probably my favorite. It’s tough to say a web comic has “timing,” but the way the look on the labyrinth builder’s face hits in the last panel is gold.

    • Cosmic Cleric
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      81 year ago

      Wait… There are Oglaf comics without penii?

      I was wondering why this comment was marked NSFW, not having heard of this artist before now.

    • MenKlash
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      21 year ago

      “Commerce” is only possible if both parties are willing to respect each other’s natural right to have private property and each other’s right to express consent (voluntary exchange). By trading these goods, there is a mutual benefit (social cooperation) that emerges from wanting to satisfy their own self interest.

      I think this is pretty capitalist for my taste. (And please, it’s not the same as corporatocracy).

      • @Ultraviolet
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        91 year ago

        Commerce only requires personal property, not private property. The distinction is important.

        • MenKlash
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          -61 year ago

          Your (socialist) distinction between “personal property” (consumer goods) and private property (producer goods) is purely arbitrary. The difference between consumer and producer goods is totally subjective, as it depends of the individual using that good.

          Each people as its own goals, they can use various means to achieve them and their knowledge, preferences and skills are not the same.

          • @xanu
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            81 year ago

            Your understanding of the distinction between personal and private property is simply flawed. Personal property is something that is owned by a single individual for their personal use, i.e. buying a house for you and your family to live in, while private property is something owned by either an individual or a corporation of people for the sole purpose of making money, i.e. buying a house that you never plan to live in for the sole purpose of renting it out to make more money.

            A corporation can own consumer goods and it be private property, like Walmarts warehouses of consumer goods, and an individual can own producer goods as their own personal property, like tools and raw materials in their workshop.

            The distinction is important because it boils down to intent and the inevitable consequences of that intent. Private property solely exists to make money, and therefore will put that goal above everything, leading to things like market manipulation, exploitation, and enforced scarcity. Trade is not capitalism, and capitalism isn’t “when people trade”.

        • MenKlash
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          -61 year ago

          By “ideal capitalism” I think you meant praxeology (Mises’s Human Action) and Austrian Economics.

          People are not perfect, and if they make mistakes, they should be the ones responsable for their own actions. This does not happen by the existence of FIAT money, subsidies, taxation, positive rights and every regulation the Monopoly of Violence does in our private lifes and commerce.

      • @Klear
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        11 year ago

        It’s a well-known fact that there was no commerce in feudal societies.

        • MenKlash
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          -21 year ago

          Regardless of the socio-economic system imposed, commerce always persists because natural rights are inherent to human beings. Even in socialist systems, grey and black markets are going to be there.

          • @Klear
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            41 year ago

            Yeah, that was my point, but maybe it got lost in the snark.