No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
23d ago
you've figured out exactly how the world works and that they have to obey a specific list of rules otherwise they'll burn in hell is very far from neutral.
Liberals do that too except 'burn in hell' is substituted for by social ostracism and killing their reputation right here, right now.
No_one
23d ago
My understanding is that the Afghan war was quite bad.
Yet the casualties were light. I'd say it was basically nothing compared to the Ukrainian war, where entire companies in training have been halved by judicious use of tactical ballistic missiles.
No_one
23d ago
I strongly doubt that, and you're free to check on the onlyfans archive site. Most OF accounts are mirrored there.
No_one
27d ago
A lot of self-identified Marxists really do not seem to grasp the concept of the veil of ignorance.)
You don't understand Marxism. This here was written by a guy who was a respected and prominent Trotskyist in 1930s.
NON-COMMUNISTS HAVE OFTEN upbraided communists for what are alleged to be gross inconsistencies in communist behavior. The charge goes as follows: You communists call for a maximum of free speech, free press, free assembly and other civil rights in the United States and other non-communist countries; but inside the countries where communists are in power you have suppressed, or virtually suppressed, all these rights. You uphold the right to strike in non-communist countries, and very often exercise that right in practice when you are in control of trade unions; but in the communist countries it is criminal, in some cases a capital crime, to strike or merely advocate striking.
If you were able to understand the historical dialectic—which, since you are not a communist, you cannot really do: only the living practice of communism makes possible a genuine understanding of the theory of communism—you would realize that there are no inconsistencies. In every case the seeming contradictories, in the reality of time and history, reinforce each other and fuse their dynamism into a synthesis at a higher historical level. The communist camp is the thesis which represents the historical interests of the revolution, therefore of peace, freedom, justice, well-being, and the future of mankind in the coming epoch of a truly human history. Anything that strengthens the communist camp is right and just and good. In the present transitional era of world struggle, of wars and revolutions, the use of civil rights inside the communist camp to publicize opposition to the line of the Party and the revolution would only express the intrusion of counterrevolutionary influences, of capitalist hangovers and imperialist interventions; the proper purpose of public speech and assembly is to support, strengthen and improve the work of the revolution, not to sabotage it.
No_one
28d ago
Road 96 is an adventure video game played from a first-person perspective. The game's campaign has the player assume the role of several teenage hitchhikers attempting to flee the authoritarian nation of Petria without being arrested or killed
It sounds incredibly naive. If emigration is actually illegal, the border involves things such as
- self-attacking dogs (they chill in their kennels until it's time to maul a border intruder who unwisely tripped an alarm releasing them)
- a 'fake' dummy border, to make the intruders think they've made it
- electric fences, silent tripwires, flare tripwires
- sometimes, patrols unloading at the intruders with machineguns
It does actually get so bad people would hijack aircraft to get out, or fly a hang glider over it, or if they're a pilot, steal their plane. Usually, though, people just left through a foreign country they could travel to but which did not have prison camp style border. In the real world, this was Yugoslavia.
No_one
28d ago
I saw some people complaining on the reddit that there are none, so probably not.
Honestly though.. what we really need is companies recycling the assets in other genre. E.g. look at Cyberpunk 2077. I believe it's pretty doable to slap in a paused real-time combat system into in and real RPG stats. Could be an entirely different game, and most assets are already made.
No_one
28d ago
Not really, no. It's an invasion by entirely different aliens, this time someone was messing around with dimensional portals and fucked up. There's actually one common element - you can find a certain alien race as prisoners in the other place, and it canonically takes place in the same setting.
Find a copy and play it, if you have time. Once you get used to the graphics, it is a very fine game. The real-time mode was quite good, some people hated it but I liked it. I actually wish you could have that in OpenXcom.
No_one
28d ago
Genshin Impact
I loathed the aesthetics on sight. But then, maybe mission accomplished - I was told I have an abnormal personality profile.
No_one
29d ago
There is real-time X-Com. X-Com Apocalypse, IMO the best official game out of all the X-Com games.
It wasn't released entirely finished (they cut a lot of content) but it was still very, very good.
No_one
30d ago
I've recently found X-Com Files a so-called 'megamod' for OpenXcom - a fan re-implementation & polishing of one of the first squad based tactical turn based games ever. Ufo: Enemy Unknown, which came out in 1993, back when 1999 was still in the future and was re-made into a slick but profoundly soulless if somewhat competently made corporate product lately.
Better, I've found 'Brutal OpenXcom' which is a fork of OpenXcom with a completely re-written and pretty good AI that doesn't cheat (unlike original) and is massively challenging because it's basically fine and competent and can (if the mod makers were feeling nasty) use the same brutal tactics of lobbing satchel charges 15 m ahead where it suspects the enemy is. Luckily, it's not that common at the start that the enemy has large amounts of explosives on hand. O
Very comfy game. The setting is sort of like X-Files: all the major conspiracies are true. Name a major one , probably true in the setting. You have been appointed to investigate 'weird shit' on behalf of one of the more pro-social ones. Of course you don't know anything about that yet bc you're just some sort of capable security bureaucrat, and you have a shiny permit from UNSC to go around and black-bag people all around the world whenever sufficiently weird crap is happening. And boy, is there a lot of it!
Anyway the gaming loop of classic Xcom and also this is still the same: build base-> respond to weird shit -> black bag or kill said weird ..beings, loot the corpses->autopsy or interrogate -> find out more about said weird shit -> use this to improve your capability -> SHUT IT DOWN (whatever 'it' is, and 'shut' sometimes involves diplomacy and sometimes travelling to space, other universes and being very kinetic).
Ordinary Xcom had the alien invasion. XCom Files starts out earlier: you don't have jet fighters and intercontinental ranged VTOL troop transports, you have airline tickets and vans. You go around, abduct farmers, tussle with Men in Black (well, you are technically MiB too, but there's the not-so-prosocial ones), tussle with cultists, fight alien tech smuggling organised crime (most lucrative part of the game really) and so on.
It's a long mod, I'd say 6x-10x longer than the original game, and quite difficult, but you can save & load until you figure out how to do things. Or that you need to fight that particular battle another day.
OpenXcom looks dated, but the battles can be ran at increased resolutions which makes it look somewhat better. There's a lot of extra keyboard only controls for convenience which are nicely documented in the controls menu.
Anyway, except for some sometimes uneven and mildly bad writing in a few reports, I really like it and rate it higher than Xenonauts, which looked a bit nicer but felt somewhat soulless. If any game deserves a proper remake, it's the original Xcom. And no, I don't mind the cringe one they made. Proper scale, no stupid constraints on squad size, actual sloped hills. I can't believe it but forests in the old one look less artificial than in the new one, which doesn't have slopes.)
No_one
30d ago
No_one
30d ago
male who would choose to hire a 51-year-old prostitute also has a severe mental disability that warrants special sentencing treatment.
There are certain groups, and drunk people often are in one of them that don't seem to care much about the age. E.g. will rape old people etc. Any appropriately sized warm hole will do.
No_one
30d ago
Don't forget Jack L. Chalker.
I'm somewhat fascinated by the frequently short lifespans of American writers.
No_one
30d ago
...focuses? No. It doesn't. It's incidental to an experiment in trying to understand partner's POV.
No_one
1mo ago
I was reminded of the culture when reading the otherwise not that good AI-2027 essay.
There are even bioengineered human-like creatures (to humans what corgis are to wolves) sitting in office-like environments all day viewing readouts of what’s going on and excitedly approving of everything, since that satisfies some of Agent-4’s drives.33
No_one
1mo ago
One of those guys..
I've heard good things about the books but every time I opened one in bookshop /online & an excerpt it looked illgical/ silly liberal/commie/green idiot stuff so I never read any of it. I like near future SF but pious liberals at least need to make some sense (e.g. C.Stross)
No_one
1mo ago
You could make so many fun films based around the idea, yet they make crap.
E.g. imagine velociraptors escaping confinement and breeding freely in the continental Americas and being as smart as parrots -smart enough to have theory of mind and to bury evidence, avoid people who may have guns and leaving tracks in the mud.
Government dismisses it (dinosaurs? On our federal land? You've gotta be joking!), nothing much happens except feral hog populations mysteriously start diminishing. Blurry photographs dismissed as photoshops and reptilian conspiracy theories. Missing people cases not much impacted yet.
What's going to happen?
Season 1 is so good I stopped watching it 8 episodes in. It's just so predictable. Socialist realism. You can tell the writer read a few essays on fascism by the language people at ISA use. In the end it just bored me.
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