MasterBlaster

You can’t just call an entire unit who is fighting and dying defending their country “Nazis” because of a shitty orgin story.

what do we call the actual historic Nazis then hahaha

Oh, that's gross. The depravity of American capital surprised me for the first time in a while.

they're transgressive leftists, understand. its just a coincidence they happen upon the exact conclusions american exceptionalism comes to.

knockout jumpscare, wild to see crossover here

tl;dr he's a weeaboo and not a latinoboo

they get to feel special and like they have exclusive rights to speak on an issue, they're also generally uneducated westerners who have nothing to say but bloodlust and star wars plots

THAT BEING SAID THIS IS REALLY COOL.

I don’t want to fear monger in general because this is neat as hell and I love to see big copy protection schemes fall.

With you 100%, I'm not sure I'll ever be bothered enough to fuck around with this hypervisor stuff to play like, NBA 2K26, but it's extremely exciting to me that Denuvo is getting more holes poked into it. I felt a sort of impotent anger over fellow pirates singing the 'age of piracy is over!!' because Denuvo came out on like, 2% of released games that year.

Importantly, for me, it represents a return to a baseline in piracy. The ability to access art regardless of your disposable income. That baseline is coming back, baby!

to be fair, so is earning a wage, waiting for that wage to be deposited in your bank account and using that money to purchase games

I'll just wait for emulation tbh. I know that'll be a tall order compared to the first Switch, but I just...don't buy games.

Dragons are easy. They're just animals in this world. That isn't even divorced from the actual, textual origin of dragons in ASOIAF. GRRM put a lot of effort into making sure his designs resembled 'real animals' and the world is also inhabited by non fire breathing dragons that seem entirely naturalistic and could've been a base species bred into modern dragons.

The ice wall or shadow babies or Jon's resurrection all have their associated sci fi explanations, from self-servicing forgotten technology to telekinesis, an important piece of context to this theory is that GRRM has previously written about all of these things under a sci-fi lens. GOTs time travel plot is almost 1:1 copied from a sci-fi work of his dealing with hive minds and sending memories through time.

The story is fantasy, to be sure, but I think its a damn good one to inspire these sorts of ideas.

Personal opinion of/c but GOTs identity kinda strives on being the grounded 'realistic' & edgy fantasy.

The novel series plays with unreliable narrators and historical distortion under medieval level historians a lot more, leading some fans to theorize that the world isn't magical, but rather a sort of regressed sci-fi world, with observed magical abilities plausibly being sci-fi concepts related to genetics instead of prophecy.

IMO, it does take a brilliant writer to create a world textured enough that people can dispute the nature of it all, within its own genre conventions.

why do people seem allergic to considering the differences in culture and material realities

good chance if you hear someone complaining about China's LGBT scene that they probably have never even spoken to a LGBT Chinese person. Or more broadly, a Chinese person.