zqps

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[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ah. I've spent hundreds of hours on Anno games and always considered them part of the range of RTS. Are you sure those terms are incompatible? Seems like a strategy game can be "grand" and "real-time" at the same time.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They feel like they're winning as long as groups they don't relate to are made to suffer even more.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

tbf a lot of people don't buy a top notch rig for RTS games, so I think it's entirely valid to test on a dated PC and point out if this is a weakness - but not record gameplay on it exclusively.

If one reviewer has an insufficient PC, assign it to a different person - at least the gameplay recording.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How did you take that picture?

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

I doubt that statistic.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 weeks ago

That wouldn't even help at this point. One of the openly fascist ministers would be in power by the end of the year.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

That is an insane takeaway from my reply.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Predators are all over the societal food chain. Consider Nick.

To me it was more of a detective story X coming-of-age story. The actual social commentary doesn't cleanly map onto specific issues beyond a general "discrimination and crime are wrong".

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This still serves their larger goal of portraying all of government (potentially representing the will of the people to some degree) as inefficient and unreliable. This furthers simplistic "strongman" attitudes, as well as the continued push for deregulation and privatisation.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah "unproven" except for a decade of international research. And there's nothing generic about it.

https://theconversation.com/i-investigated-millions-of-tweets-from-the-kremlins-troll-factory-and-discovered-classic-propaganda-techniques-reimagined-for-the-social-media-age-237712

"Uniformly happy and rich country like the US" ok lmao you're straight trolling with this one, good job.

"If the propaganda supports Trump, why didn't it support Hillary" because she's not fueling right-wing extremism. No one cares about Hillary Clinton or your outdated Windows, jeez. Hope you get well soon.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

The ever-increasing pressure for short-term profits which, once real growth stagnates, forces them to screw the remaining loyalists by trying to make enshittified crap look premium.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

It's a well-documented fact that there is a decades-long large scale state-sponsored effort of propagandists in St. Petersburg using bots and tens of thousands of fake accounts to push far-right propaganda narratives online which are aimed squarely at dividing western societies. They are on every platform, posing as concerned citizens, creating the illusion of a silent majority fed up with wokism or whatever the boogeyman is today. They've scored massive wins with their support for Brexit and MAGA, and have only doubled down on this strategy since.

So the question is, are you denying this or pretending it doesn't matter?

I am obviously not saying it's all Russia and things would be fine otherwise, so don't even go there.

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