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- Comment on Colonialism’s sole defensible product 3 days ago:
Most of current technology was evolved through the pillaging and looting of resources from weaker countries.
Our comforts, our phones, our PCs are the result of cruel and substandard practices against people who were deemed subhuman and unworthy of having rights and the spilling of blood on a global scale.
We are a civilization of death and suffering and will likely bring about our own extinction through our mindlessness and cowardice.
So as you can see, you are wrong.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 days ago:
Still hanging on with The Riftbreaker. Was suckered into a fight by what i believed to be the final boss. It was just the first boss fight and they ran away. After that, i went around map to map to unlock all the resources I was missing and now I’m on the last one, Palladium. No idea how close i am to the end game, but I haven’t gotten bored with it yet.
I’ve been looking for some multiplayer shooty squad-based action, but the popular ones are too pricey for my wallet or are joined at the hip with unpleasant and unwelcome elements. Dunno, I’m just maybe looking for that special something which doesn’t exist… Doesn’t help that I’ve lost my touch and can’t aim as well as i used to.
Also, I have Metro Exodus on standby, but it doesn’t really draw me in yet. Hopefully that changes because I finished the previous two in the series when they came out and i liked them back then.
- Comment on well well well 1 week ago:
Find India, many trade contracts to India. Find the boonies, no trade contracts at all.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
So I’ve been making some Rogue Legacy runs while also playing poker (not gambling with real money) for fun in the background. It weirdly works because while the other players think their moves, I clear a room or two and then switch to make a dumb decision like going all in with a pair of 2s.
I’ve also been playing The Riftbreaker one map at a time. Barely unlocked titanium recently and next I’ll have to see what I can research and build with it.
Also, Soulframe in small doses. It’s like Warframe, but with way less content.
- Comment on Any "social" games like old CODs or something like pre-2020 rust? 1 week ago:
A monster fart
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Soulframe became available to the public and i joined the rabble going in. It’s fun, but slow and grindy. Also very confusing. As an alpha state game it’s also full of bugs and incomplete content. .I do recommend it though.
- Comment on Gotta keep up with the meta 3 weeks ago:
Sounds reasonable. But it might have been an “eat the rich situation” as well. Just sayin’..
- Comment on Gotta keep up with the meta 3 weeks ago:
I’m actually starting to think it was ye ol’ corruption and decadence which did them in. The rich hoarded wealth, gave up or banned knowledge and then conveniently found a boogeyman to blame for the unavoidable collapse.
It’s been happening too many times to discount it as a possibility.
- Comment on History,s Greatest Redemption arc 3 weeks ago:
One-sided declaration because he became a consummate buddhist. His enemies disagreed.
- Comment on Nobody ever brings up post WWII aid when bringing up the US contribution to WWII. 4 weeks ago:
USSR. PRC. A need to invest does not mean a want to invest.
- Comment on Sneaky Austrians 4 weeks ago:
They’re doing it again a third time because they sick of having to deal with all the countries east of them.
- Comment on What are you all buying during the Steam summer sale? 5 weeks ago:
Nothing yet because I don’t decide easily, but I’m having an eye on Dragon ball XenoVerse 2, the SPAZ collection, Dungeon Siege collection and A House of many Doors.
I was also eyeing the EA 90+% discounts, but they’re EA and their apps/anticheat are a nightmare to deal with and i don’t think it’s worth the trouble.
- Comment on Graham Hancock's modus operandi 5 weeks ago:
Everything dug up is an archeologist conspiracy. It’s a cartel meant to drum up sales of old junk to pay for their expensive hobby of playing in dirt. Wading through dust and grime every day isn’t cheap you know!
- Comment on Nothing a 90-degree bow couldn't fix 5 weeks ago:
So, will they enforce the same values they follow by committing seppuku for their transgression?
- Comment on Waiting for GTA 6's PC release might save you dropping an extra $20 for access to some special shops, based on my wading through GTA 5's editions soup 5 weeks ago:
Addicts won’t care.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know. I have a vague state of being this week, so I really don’t know.
- Comment on The Mongol Empire - the most powerful nomadic empire in history 5 weeks ago:
Remember the mountains, their natural foes.
- Comment on Nobody remembers the people with the good quality copper 1 month ago:
Bad press lasts the longest.
- Comment on A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading 1 month ago:
This is what happens when fun Gus is no longer having fun.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I focused on Jagged Alliance 3 this week. It’s comedic in nature and fun. The player rents the mercenaries they use, with a few exceptions. They have a map full of squares, and each square is a combat map. Move from place to place, explore, interact with npcs, capture objectives and kill the opposition. The enemies can be deceptive in strength from square to square. There’s like regular, veteran and elite and some squares have skewed distribution. Without information beforehand, one can easily get overwhelmed.. If also playing on ironman, mercenaries can be lost easily.
Anyway, I only have half a map done and there are raids, to it will take a while longer to reach the end, if I don’t burn out with turn-based games by then.
- Comment on Notorious adulterer is shocked that his daughter is a notorious adulterer 1 month ago:
Hmm…
Several convoluted hoops to a conclusion later: Stalin was gay. He too was big on patriarchal imposed values and hated his eldest(?) son for not adhering to them. He also really disliked his home nation of Georgia for some unknown reason, giving hint of blaming his origin for his own repression.
It’s probably incorrect, but sounds plausible, so I’ll roll with it.
- Comment on No Cause, No effect 1 month ago:
I believe those who committed crimes were spanked with wooden boards a number of times, based on severity. And not the gentle, sexy kind of spanking.
- Comment on Epic Games is hiring a Security Engineer to champion Linux anti-cheat 1 month ago:
Really? The guy who hates Linux? Colour me shocked.
- Comment on Humility of Emperor Constantine 1 month ago:
And we know for sure it’s not his mom who named them all?
- Comment on Smh, kids today, thinking new media is good 1 month ago:
The good ones are hidden in dusty libraries. The great ones are hidden in lost temples and underground labyrinths full of angry animals and rusty traps.
- Comment on Priorities 1 month ago:
Sadly, I don’t enjoy huge anime tiddies. Large at most, as i feel the want to engulf them, not be engulfed. There are thighs for that. Each with their purpose, for me.
- Comment on Earl of jizzburg vs Shogun emperor from sun dynasty 1 month ago:
I heard a theory it happened due to unavoidable decadence and corruption where aristocrats controlled key administration and military roles and considered investing into exploration a risk to their consolidated wealth and power on the domestic side, so even if an emperor wanted to focus outwards, he was blocked on both manpower and economics.
- Comment on Has anyone else been playing the Epic Games giveaway of LONESTAR? It's been surprisingly cool! 1 month ago:
Yeah. Easy enough game that can get more complicated with each unlock and rng picks. Made it past the last boss on the first run. Did the same with the second ship, but I lost randomly with the third. Plenty of ways to go at it with each unlock and bonus, while also increasing the difficulty, but it does get repetitive when you’re not in the mood for repetition.
- Comment on In Defense of Ea Nasir 1 month ago:
Cartel of debtors, obviously.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing people Nazi symbols 1 month ago:
Well, according to the poor explanation given shortly after, someone did do that.