Addfwyn 11h ago • 100%
I feel like the PragerU audience would probably see this as a good thing, so it does make a certain degree of sense for them to advertise as such.
Addfwyn 11h ago • 100%
"The problem now"
They have been in desperation draft mode for a while now, we always knew the problem was people. Anyone with sense was saying this like a month into the conflict. Getting western powers to shovel their old equipment to them was never an issue as it just let the weapons manufacturers sell newer ordnance to said powers.
Not only do they lack people, they need more than just warm bodies that they can shove a rifle at and point them in a direction. Armies aren't lining up and charging at each other anymore. Modern warfare isn't just which side has more troops, you need trained and experienced soldiers that have a willingness to fight and know how to use their equipment. Ukraine has none of those.
Addfwyn 11h ago • 100%
So their current line is that the explicitly anti-Russian military alliance is checks notes controlled by Russia?
That's...wait, yes that makes perfect sense. Quick, disband NATO in order to spite Putin! That will show him!
Addfwyn 1d ago • 100%
Depends what the line is for and what kind of relative hurry we are in. Are we waiting for food in a cafeteria? Not a big deal. Seats at an event that is a first-come, first-served basis? Bigger issue. It affects everyone behind me too, not just me.
I’d likely say something, but not create a big fuss about it if they’re dead set on it.
Addfwyn 1d ago • 100%
This is pretty much accurate. They have moved rapidly more towards revisionism to try to garner more popular support in recent years, which hasn't really been worth it, but do have probably the best policies of any of our majors parties. And they ARE a pretty major party here, technically speaking one of the biggest communist parties in a non-Communist state. Their position about the CPC is a huge miss, admittedly.
Local chapters can be a lot better depending where you are. Marx remains extremely popular throughout academia and is very often taught by economists at universities here quite positively. I am not sure how much of it sticks with the college aged though, I did my undergraduate in another country, only did graduate school here.
The LDP (our governing body since WW2) has sucked since inception, but I still hold out hope for the more revolutionary elements in the country. If it wasn't for the US-led red purge in the aftermath of WW2, we likely would be socialist already.
Addfwyn 1d ago • 100%
5 is great, and also pretty underrated in my opinion. I recently replayed the first six and I think I had greatly underrated 3/5 and overrated 4.
Addfwyn 2d ago • 100%
Not obscure, but I always felt FF3 never got enough credit. Largely because it never got a western release at the time I imagine. It was incredibly ambitious for a NES title, the nested world maps was absolutely bonkers at the time and it was really the first real form of the iconic FF job system.
Yeah the party was just a blob of blank slate characters, but overall I think it actually holds up pretty well.
Addfwyn 1w ago • 100%
So are the citizens of the DPRK all starving and barely able to lift a finger or strong young soldiers who are swinging the war on their shoulders?
Are we sure they aren't pretending to be soldiers, since we know every single person in the DPRK is an actor pretending to be happy.
Addfwyn 1w ago • 100%
I am going to stop going to work, because making me go to work is a plot of putin to <mumblemumblemumble>.
If you disagree, you are a putin apologist. I will still need that paycheque though.
Just reaching across the aisle to pander to the more fascist elements, nothing else.
Addfwyn 2w ago • 100%
Nah, that would involve them engaging with non-Japanese. They basically sequester themselves to black vans driving around and Twitter. Lots of Twitter.
Addfwyn 2w ago • 100%
Yeah it’s pretty much garbage
It’s not even trying to get you to do anything. Just phrased as a bizarre self introduction about how much he likes nuking places. A lot of scams here are phrased in that exact way “Hi, I am name! My hobbies are…”. I used to get about ten text messages like that a day.
Not really sure what the goal of this particular one is. I am not aware of anyone with that name even they’re trying to target.
Addfwyn 2w ago • 100%
Only 330 huh? Those were the only Nazis memorialized right? Definitely no other fascists mixed in there?
Addfwyn 2w ago • 100%
I have always worked in some form of customer service, which has all kinds of...fun moments. Highschool through university I worked in restaurants. Got the full gamut of rude customers, customers rolling in thirty seconds before close, etc. Had a customer try to pay us in cocaine once, which we do not accept as legal tender.
I am in [luxury] hospitality now and have had to deal with all kinds of entitled jerks and celebrities. Including some heads of states that I have very strong negative opinions about. The mid tier CEOs are the worst though, because they think they are far more important than they actually are. Had a guy call the police while he was checking out because he didn't want "a foreigner" handling his luggage.
Saved us the effort of blacklisting him, because the police obviously escorted him out instead.
Addfwyn 2w ago • 100%
Everytime I tried to play HoI4, I just made whatever country I played communist. I assumed that is the victory condition right?
Addfwyn 2w ago • 100%
I would offer to help sourcing/translating it if needed, I am in Japan, but ultimately doubt it matters much if it is just random spam. Just sounds like random right-wing Japanese twitter folks.
Addfwyn 2w ago • 100%
Should I consider it an accomplishment that I do play games and don’t recognize any of those names?
Addfwyn 2w ago • 100%
Brigades forming from…what? Are they fielding robot brigades now? No amount of money is going to fill the severe manpower shortage, unless they are getting more mercenary/thinly disguised nato troops.
Addfwyn 3w ago • 100%
Not at all, appreciated in fact!
Addfwyn 3w ago • 100%
I actually entirely missed that they were a woman, sorry. I missed that one word when I read through it. Obviously I didn’t mean it in that way, but I understand the term can have that charged meaning when referring to women specifically. Which wasn’t the intended effect. I’ll edit the original post accordingly. Thank you for pointing out my mistake.
Everything else basically stands though.
Addfwyn 3w ago • 100%
Sorry I’m not sure where the misogynist bit comes in? I may have missed something though, so I am happy to correct myself if I did.
We have a pretty large volume of “study abroad students” that just come here to treat the country as their personal party and holiday for six months. Not everyone, but the ones who don’t rarely feel the need to point out that they did a study abroad.
That is really all I have to say, but Astrobot is just one of the most delightful games I have played in years. Nothing deep or life-changing, just pure simple fun. Very much in the Nintendo school of design philosophy, but I enjoy it more than anything Nintendo has put out recently. Looks visually great, fantastic music, and a lot of interesting mechanics that never overstay their welcome. They are still the only studio who has really leveraged all the PS5 haptics well too. My partner won't let me play it by myself because she just enjoys watching it that much. Basically, if you have a PS5 I strongly recommend it.
Dune seems to be everywhere now. Multiple board games, a MMO, strategy games, multiple movies. With the recent resurgence of popularity of Dune thanks to the movie, curious what people think of it. It's a series I have pretty fond memories of from when I was much younger, and have been considering maybe giving them a re-read to see how they hold up. Might even keep a blog on it, if people are interested.