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Archelon ,

I agree that seeing the current regional conflicts as the opening shots of WWIII is a bit hyperbolic, but I also think a much better comparison is the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and the related July Crisis considering how the major powers are being lead through proxy conflicts into “a series of interrelated diplomatic and military escalations.”

Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? (old.lemmy.world)

Disclaimer: I am not trolling, I am an autistic person who doesn’t understand so many social nuances. Also I am from New Hampshire (97% white), so I just don’t have any close African-American friends that I am willing to risk asking such a loaded question.

Archelon ,

Irish isn’t a race

Well, not any more, anyways.

Archelon ,

Shout out to California’s gun laws only existing because of the Black Panthers.

Archelon ,

If the reason is something other than “culture war bullshit” I’ll eat an uncooked hot dog.

Archelon ,

If we learned anything from COVID, all we have to do is tell them that “Liberal Elite “””DOCTORS””” don’t want you using this home-grown remedy!”

Archelon ,

Nah, german fascists prefer meth.

Archelon ,

but the Dems chose Hilary instead

Seems to be implying Bernie Sanders

Archelon ,

I think what we’ll see is Biden’s support for Israel not so much making people more likely to vote for Trump as making them more likely to not vote at all.

(Which, in a 2-party system where one side ALWAYS falls in line behind their candidate, makes that side much more likely to win.)

And for the people who will choose to NOT vote for Biden over Israel, I think they’re likely more concerned with what Biden is doing rather than what Trump might do.

Though, as you say, it will definitely be worse not just for Palestine but for Ukraine and the world at large.

Discussions in the past about not being able to access digital gaming content that users had paid for...

I have a recollection of some long threads about some companies discontinuing gaming content and members of Lemmy having strong feelings and evidence about all this. I have been trying to search these older threads up but I can’t find them. Does anyone remember these conversations? What companies were involved? Games? How much...

Archelon ,

Digital media of any sort, really.

Archelon ,

Christianity I can understand, but would you mind explaining why you think feminism demonizes masturbation?

Archelon ,

See, that’s really interesting to me! The mainstream feminist spaces I’ve interacted with have been very sex-positive, so I’m curious how you’ve experienced this demonization.

Archelon ,

Here’s exactly what you want: a feminist forum that’s specifically for discussing men’s issues (including sexuality) in a constructive and healthy manner.

www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/

Archelon ,

Do you think objectification is good and healthy?

Archelon ,

Our regularly-scheduled reminder that a far-right government took Germany from the most powerful country in Europe to the 5th-most powerful country in Berlin.

Archelon ,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_China

Looks like the lowest as of 2023 equates to about 1.79 USD an hour?

Archelon ,

Ah yes, that will ensure compliance and not motivate mass resistance.

Archelon ,

My main disagreement with this decision is the same reason I disagree with countries that strictly enforce wearing hijabs.

Whether or not a person chooses to wear a hijab, or a burka, or khakis, or a swimsuit, or nothing at all is a personal decision. It’s the part where they choose that’s important.

It’s certainly arguable whether social or cultural or religious norms can remove the ability to choose without any legal action whatsoever, but I don’t think that justifies this kind of action and I don’t think this law will result in any sort of liberation. Historically speaking this direction tends to result more in reactionary radicalization.

Archelon ,

I can only imagine it being Little Big Planet

What are some excellent free games/total conversions that are worth playing the whole thing?

I used up play a ton of Doom mods years ago and a lot of the TCs were fun but lacked substance beyond the surface. Some of the new ones are cool but overly complex. (The Sonic cart game has an hour long tutorial before you start). I was a big fan of Simon’s Destiny, the Castlevania mod for Doom....

Archelon ,

I really enjoyed The Last Days of the Third Age, a lord of the rings TC for Mount and Blade: Warband.

It takes Warband’s medieval lord sim and focuses hard on the warfare side of things with lots of huge battles on giant maps, but even tiny skirmishes can affect a faction’s strength. (And with so many factions on both sides of the War of the Ring, you need to pick what to focus on)

New FPS Built Using Doom Tech Is Better Than Most AAA Shooters (kotaku.com)

Things aren’t looking good for me. I’m a few levels into Selaco, a new FPS out now on Steam, and I’m stuck behind a bar as a group of sci-fi soldiers unload their rifles and shotguns into my hiding spot. I’m also low on health. So yeah, a bad spot to be in. I take a deep breath and try something....

Archelon ,

Hell, minecraft’s vanilla textures look downright gorgeous with lighting mods.

Archelon ,

Oh, don’t get me wrong, minecraft’s art style is absolutely charming and a perfect fit for the “blocky” nature of the gameplay. See how many of its imitators try to look more realistic and end up looking genuinely ugly. But to speak to the top comment’s point, when fancy shaders are added minecraft’s simple style gets elevated so much and it goes to show how simple and effective design paired with good-looking lighting can make even the lowest-poly games look absolutely gorgeous.

Archelon ,

Actually, this graph does display the % average wage increase!

It’s the line where the x axis is.

Archelon ,

Sherriffs: what if cops, but with even less oversight and even more power tripping?

Archelon ,

Might be referring to the percentage of the chocolate itself, denoting how “dark” it is.

Archelon ,

Also if he calls over 40 hours a week short hours…

Archelon ,

Bioshock is most specifically about Randian objectivism, which promotes a version of extreme laissez-faire capitalism, not libertarianism in general.

And I think that’s the most economic philosophy buzzwords I’ve put in a sentence before.

Archelon ,

lemmy.world/comment/10286195

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Edit: I can’t take credit for this, I’ve just seen it around here a bunch. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/23dc4767-ec8d-4a9b-95ee-346b366719c7.jpeg

Archelon ,

Yeah, the joke was good but the delivery was wooden.

Archelon ,

But seriously this does actually explain why. A taller person’s stomach is closer to a shorter person’s shoulder-level, making it easier to stab.

Archelon ,

Black Ops IIIIII

Archelon ,

Come on, Germany, last time you did this you went from the most powerful country in Europe to the 5th-most powerful country in Berlin.

Archelon ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/339c2d48-248c-485e-87f2-b2bd850ee40d.jpeg

Archelon ,

Wait wait wait, are you saying that ethnonationalists from different ethnicities and nations might not like each other? Impossible!

Archelon ,

Thank you for this gift.

Archelon ,

Definitely holesome

Archelon ,

Ross and the team have been very specific about not wanting to force companies to pay for server infrastructure forever.

They’ve said quite a few times that what they want is for game companies to at least patch their games so they can keep running without the online connection or provide players the tools to host their own servers so that the company can end support without the game becoming a brick.

Hopefully by requiring games to be playable after support ends and the servers shut down it will also change the way games are made so that they no longer require the constant connection.

Archelon ,

Yeah but that doesn’t let us demonize minorities so we can radicalize the population into voting against their own interests for the benefit of the oligarchyyyyyy

Archelon ,

The Battles of Naboo and Geonosis basically play out as line battles with massive groups marching in formations at each other, not to mention most of the Tartakovsky clone wars, so I could see CA approaching it like Empire Total War with hover tanks.

Honestly, I doubt whether CA are even willing to adapt their formula enough to actually have small teams of shooters flicking into cover positions.

Archelon ,

Well, maybe take the land battles into more of a Dawn of War or Tiberium Wars direction. Other than that, make everything bigger and more detailed.

Archelon ,

The change that I always notice whenever I jump between earlier and later TW is the addition of hit points and how it really feels line it blunts a lot of impacts.

I mean, compare a heavy cavalry charge in Medieval 2 to one in Total Warhammer. A properly formed unit of Teutonic Knights is a devastating hammer blow that can shatter an enemy army since the charge bonus massively increases the chance to kill. Meanwhile, Empire Knights can get a proper rear charge against basic infantry and despite how far those rats get flung, they’ll all get back up because all the charge does is make the line go down faster.

The other big impact I find with this change is it makes the rout really annoying to deal with. In early total war, you always want some cavalry to pursue fleeing enemies since once they’re broken it won’t take much to capture or kill them and preventing those armies from regrouping really matters. Meanwhile, in modern total war, pursuing fleeing enemies never seems to result in significant damage because instead of capturing fleeing enemies you’re just making the line go down again.

I dunno, it just feels weird.

Archelon ,

I think if you want to Steel-Man an anti-union argument, then two routes you could take would be to look at police unions and the history of organized crime’s involvement in unions. Both are interesting case studies for how the purpose of unions can be corrupted, and worth examining for how to make sure a union does its job right.

Archelon ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bf376da3-0e7c-4a4e-87ba-55b33f902696.jpeg

Archelon ,

Been using voyager too, made the jump to Lemmy easier when Apollo shut down.

Archelon ,

Whatever it takes to avoid seeing differences from the “norm” as anything other than a moral problem.

Archelon ,

I usually use it to hold a pocketknife or change

Archelon ,

Turns out they did (for DS2 at least) and a user on the other site compiled the data into a series of convenient graphs so you can see what the win-loss rate is for all bosses sorted by console.

Archelon ,

Unethical working conditions are never necessary.

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