Taken is like American Psycho if it was unironic. Everything after the first act should be understood as a stress induced hallucination in Neeson's character and then the daughter should just show back up after a week when she gets back from her totally uneventful trip. Would be a far better film
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I think he was gone and the dev team had disavowed him before that feature was released
There’s a similar class system element in one of my favorite city building games, Foundation, where higher level citizens need more luxury goods and better property values to be satisfied compared to the low level serfs that you can pretty much exploit to your pleasure as long as you have a strong church presence. I love it though, it’s an interactive peer into the political economy of the feudal period. The end game is the beginnings of a proto-capitalist society and I’ve seen complaints from players online that it’s nearly impossible to manage the logistics of the economy after that point but that’s great because in real history this creates the need for bureaucracy to manage those logistics rather than relying on a centralized power figure like under feudalism. It’s a really fun little educational tool in its own way. Honestly my biggest complaint is that the game is fully gender neutral for which jobs you assign the peasants too which I feel like is a miss if you’re trying to show how the economics of the medieval period worked. Maybe the creators aren’t being that intentional tho
It’s funny in both situations the games correctly display the horrifying economic stratification present in our economic systems but because the Sim City devs live under liberalism their brains are drenched in liberal ideology so they see these disparities as either good or “unavoidable” but either way immutable and natural to how economics should work
Dumb question: does queer mech story mean like a specific thing I don’t know about or is it literally a story about like gay robots?
This reads like a JBP bit
A) don't ever share this site, it's like fight club that way
B) cum guzzled through a dog's muzzle
I mean we have a /c/Marxism if you think that would be more appropriate for sectarian content than /c/politics
Yea circa 2016 my thought process was "America sucks, I hate living here" to "America sucks, it must be razed to the ground"
I find the idea of a Brit complaining about being 'culturally' colonized immensely hilarious
I think a realistic reimagining wouldn't involve Stalin actually continuing to march west from Berlin but instead involve the Soviet Union supporting communist revolutionaries west of the iron curtain rather than abandoning them a la Greece. This would've resulted in another hot war while the ink was still drying from the last peace treaty, but hopefully this time the Germans actually take up the side of the Soviets rather than wavering like they did post-WWI. I don't know if it would've changed the outcome, if the USSR would've won the fight against global capitalism, but by sealing themselves off they ended up losing anyway. They needed the support of industrial workers outside of the Eastern bloc and they never got it because they chose to protect what they had gained rather than risk it all. Pursuing this route though ended the ascension of communism in the 20th century, leaving behind fledgling socialist projects without the industrial base to truly compete with the US and global capital. Only China is now positioning itself to take on that challenge but it took decades of building infrastructure and a Faustian bargain of market liberalization to get there
Excited for my kids to make fun of me with a :vote: emoji but it's the word protest. Also it's on cybermyspace where the hdmi cables plug directly into your eye sockets