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CW: Homophobia. Putin compares European use of alternative (non-traditional) energy sources to their acceptance of LGBTQ+ ("non-traditional") relationships in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Fellas, is it gay to use solar and wind power?

Been playing a lot of Civ 6 lately in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

They are all like

The only thing better than a steam engine, , , is two steam engines

  • Leopold II
Dark Forest theory is the most reddit brained shit in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Colonizers love to come up with narratives about how genocide is actually inevitable

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Fallout 3 hot take: The choice of whether to blow up Megaton or not is actually good design (hexbear.net)
 

The choice of blowing up or saving Megaton in Fallout 3 is often cited as an example of bad game design, but it's actually just fine. It is usually criticized for being not morally complex enough, being just a choice between being good or being evil for next to no reason, but this assumes the only role of a moral choice in games is to offer the player a neat little morality puzzle to solve.

Let's, for argument's sake, imagine an alternative FO3 from a parallel universe, where instead of it being a choice, it was just a normal quest of you saving a town from exploding. Maybe the guy even shows up to tell you to blow it up instead, but there is no way to actually do it. Wouldn't the experience of saving Megaton be lesser in this game?

Being able to destroy Megaton makes you saving it feel more meaningful, as a moral good only exists in relation to a moral evil, and making the choice real makes the game better.

It's still a pretty shit game otherwise, though.

We've been owned so hard in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I absolutely love how in these "oh you want to defund the police, what if something happened to you and you needed the police?" type arguments, half the time they can't even come up with a crime the cops would do anything about.

Fandoms have some weird ships in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Straining my brain trying to decipher the logic used to highlight some of the pairings but not the others

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I love the Chinese underage online gaming restriction, it has generated such a wealth of hilariously bad takes (hexbear.net)
 

Weird 2010's gamer nationalism meets china bad.

"Oh no, kids won't be able to use games to escape reality now" — Good, have them play outside or read a book or something.

"Horrible, I couldn't live without games" — Yes, this law is attempting to help people before they become like you.

"New generations won't grow up to be gamers now" — How will society survive!

"It's about controlling freedom of thought" — Ah, yes, this will stop the great dialogue had by fourteen-year-olds in LoL game chats.

Anyone else feel they've gone from demsoc to ML to Maoist/Third Worldist in less than 2 years? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (4 children)

When change is forced upon the global north, it will still be an internal change, just one triggered by external conditions. And that internal change, whenever it happens, will need local principled and organized communists. So, the thing to do is the same as always, educate yourself and others, agitate, organize.