Ukraine’s Donbas Strategy: letting Russian forces pound away until they have exhausted themselves
  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 2w ago 92%

    All the while, they claim it's Russia that's engaging in "human waves" tactics

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  • Should we allow the newly created "politics unfiltered" community to continue posting reactionary electoralist nonsense from clickbait tabloids, or should we show them the door?
  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 2w ago 100%

    It looks like they're also doing the same thing with an alt on Hexbear (they posted the same Daily Mail articles to their politics community which looks to be against that community's "don't directly link reactionary sites" rule lol), which I think is another red flag

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  • Should we allow the newly created "politics unfiltered" community to continue posting reactionary electoralist nonsense from clickbait tabloids, or should we show them the door?
  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 2w ago 100%

    I agree that it's really suspicious at best, I have no idea what purpose this community could serve other than for spreading that kind of nonsense, especially considering the brand new account that created it is clearly a reactionary of some variety

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  • Should we allow the newly created "politics unfiltered" community to continue posting reactionary electoralist nonsense from clickbait tabloids, or should we show them the door?
  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 2w ago 100%

    I think it's a pretty huge red flag though that it's a brand new "transracial woke-free" account that immediately creates this community and starts using it to link fascist rags and nothing else

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  • On Covid and masks
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  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 38
  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 1mo ago 100%

    I saw someone on reddit complain about linking to a tweet because Twitter is a right-wing shithole, and someone replied "And reddit isn't?"

    But then someone replied to that with "Seriously? Right-wingers don't plague Reddit."

    Ahahahahaha reddit logo users have negative self awareness

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  • How tf is World at War not heroic?
  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 1mo ago 100%

    Taking a quick look at the video (everything except actually watching it), the idea seems fine, CoD WWII really isn't a very good campaign and it seems like a fair comparison to make

    Like, it's not like WaW isn't heroic, but it does focus more on the horrors of war than most other CoD games, and is a pretty big contrast from WWII which barely focuses on that at all and is full of goofy over-the-top action setpieces

    I'd need to watch it to know (so I could be wrong), but it probably isn't about Soviets vs Americans either since WaW's American campaign isn't much different in tone from its Soviet campaign

    I don't think World at War's some masterpiece like it's often made out to be, but it at least feels like it's got relatively a consistent tone

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    Ps5 Pro msrp prices
  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 1mo ago 100%

    A similar PC capable of 4k60 is more than double the price of the ps5 pro.

    I think that would depend on what you consider as "capable of 4K60", because the PS5 Pro will almost certainly be far less capable of that than a build that's double the price, especially since games that are already CPU-bound aren't going to get much better framerates if at all

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  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 1mo ago 100%

    Yeah, I really don't think an RX 6600 build would outperform the PS5 Pro at all, that doesn't line up with what I've heard at all

    From what I've heard, an RX 7700 XT build might be pretty close though, and a basic build with one of those and a 5600 would be not that much more than a PS5 Pro, which does definitely go to show how crap the PS5 Pro price is (especially since that CPU is probably better than the one in the PS5 Pro)

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  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 1mo ago 100%

    The regular PS5 isn't going anywhere, and you still won't be able to build an equivalent PC for near the same price as that, but the Pro is so much more expensive for relatively little gain that the price gap for that is pretty small, and on PC you'd get a better CPU too

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    Ps5 Pro msrp prices
  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 1mo ago 100%

    This costs nearly $1000 here in Canada (more after the disc drive and stand and tax), Sony's gone fuckin' nuts with the price on this thing

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    World order under threat ‘not seen since Cold War’, say MI6 and CIA chiefs
  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 1mo ago 100%

    The MI6 and CIA would know, they're the threat!

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    Esports is a blight upon gaming
  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 2mo ago 100%

    I can't really say SBMM is an overall esports problem because fighting games and MOBAs are also esports and usually people over there are pretty positive on SBMM from what I've seen

    Usually the people complaining about SBMM are the FPS content creators who want it gone because they profit from being able to constantly stomp people worse than them for entertainment, often those content creators don't even play in esports tournaments because then they'd have to fight fair lol

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    Esports is a blight upon gaming
  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 2mo ago 100%

    Man I'm sick of the phrase "optimizing the fun out of it all", it's so often flung around just to attack the entire concept of a game having advanced techniques and a high skill ceiling, even if the people executing said advanced techniques and playing high-level are having fun doing so, because people enjoy improving at stuff, you know? There can be a discussion about whether a game's designed well enough that high-level play is fun to play, but that's never what happens, it's just people complaining endlessly about "tryhards" because people are playing competitively in a competitive game

    His claim of "this is how online pvp games die" isn't really based on anything, and he even says this is happening to Deadlock which is really funny considering its numbers just keep going up and the game has been getting loads of praise

    The whole "the game isn't even released yet!" thing is always especially funny because like, if you really think that this stuff is a problem, surely you'd want the devs to be aware of that as soon as possible so they can fix it before the game fully releases? Closed alphas don't exist just so you can have fun, the point is to playtest the game

    There's also already a solution for the stated problem of "tryhards playing too good making it impossible for casuals to play", it's called SBMM, but usually the people who complain about stuff like this hate SBMM too for silly reasons

    Also, I took a look at that guy's profile and he constantly makes racist posts and calls people slurs, typical gaming YouTuber lmao

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  • AI could be a game changer for people with disabilities
  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 2mo ago 100%

    The literal only argument here is just "I don't have to use a bunch of Google tabs anymore because ChatGPT can lie to me all in one place!!" lmao

    Like, the only way this works is if ChatGPT is literally always correct at all times (which will never be the case fundamentally), because otherwise it's even worse than the existing process of just using Google because it's just another step before you end up needing to do that anyway

    This isn't even one of those "oh in the made-up future where ChatGPT is magically perfect, this will be useful, therefore we should support AI-bros right now so we can get there" types of things, this is just assuming that ChatGPT in its current form is somehow a good research tool which is just about the opposite of the case

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    since misinfo re: my country has forced me to come back unofficially and earlier than i wanted, i might as well ask: is there any other COD game that isn't pure state propaganda and isn't anti-USSR?
  • ShiningWing ShiningWing 2mo ago 100%

    Not sure you're going to find a CoD that isn't American propaganda, even the WWII ones have propaganda as other people pointed out

    Advanced Warfare has you end up fighting a genocidal megacorporation superpower run by an American (though you end up fighting alongside the US Army against it)

    Infinite Warfare has you play as American but you're at least not fighting an existing enemy group, you're fighting against cartoonishly evil space fascists lol

    Also, avoid Call of Duty WWII (the 2017 one), that one doesn't even have a Soviet campaign lol, it's rather hilarious how much that one goes straight to "America won WWII" when the older CoDs were pretty good about not doing that

    I've played too much CoD so I can go on a lot about these games lol

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  • Basically, for those of you here who ride a bicycle, what do you have in the way of bike infrastructure, and how pleasant/painful is it to cycle where you live? In my area, there's a small handful of mixed-use sidewalks (basically they made the sidewalk a bit wider, made it asphalt, and painted a yellow line down the middle) which are certainly better than nothing (especially better than painted bike gutters) but not really a connected bike network, it pains me to see how much *could* be done but isn't, it's not like there isn't the space or anything either There's one of those paths nearby that's very useful to me for getting to a few shops, and getting there doesn't require cycling in the road very much, but going any farther requires me to cycle in traffic which sucks, thankfully the main street I'd be going down is still pretty residential so it's not *too* busy and isn't too fast (the sign's 50km/h, though tbf people do always go at least a bit over the limit), still feels dangerous though to have to rely on cars safely passing, especially when Canada absolutely has loads of large pickups and SUVs just like the US The amount of hills in my area is also pretty troublesome, I had to get an e-bike just to be able to handle them at all, it's the only reason I'm even able to venture outside the neighborhood on this thing

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    Nintendo is suing the developers of Switch emulator Yuzu
    https://files.catbox.moe/pvdexr.pdf

    This is pretty disastrous, the things Nintendo is suing over are things that apply to pretty much all emulators, it would be a very dangerous precedent to set if Nintendo were to win this one And even if they *don't* win, it's still very shit that they're even able to use lawsuits as a scare tactic, that they can ruin people's lives even without needing to win Also, daily reminder that "piracy equals lost sales" is nothing but corporate propaganda, often it's the opposite actually: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/pirates-more-likely-to-pay-for-legal-content-choice-survey/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pirates-tend-to-be-the-biggest-buyers-of-legal-content

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