The problem with vampire hunting games is they typically involve other themes in addition to vampire hunting. But if you’re cool with that, then The Witcher franchise might scratch the itch. I’m pretty sure the Blood and Wine expansion is vampire heavy.

God this gif is a classic

But Russia, China, and the US are definitly broken systems, and ALL of them are imperialistic.

I can see the argument for Russia to an extent, but how is China imperialistic? From what I understand they’ve helped lift up nations in the global south (and not in a “do this or else we will overthrow your government” kind of way). I don’t think they’ve invaded another country for quite some time either.

I’ve found that most people understand that signing up for an email service like Gmail allows them to communicate with people who aren’t on Gmail. Tie that in to explaining federation.

“Mastodon is kind of the same idea, but for social media.”

Obviously the technical details are different, but it helps explain federation at a very high level. Then you can talk about why that’s valuable for longevity of a system.

Example: the decline of Yahoo and AOL as email providers didn’t end email as a technology because email doesn’t depend on those companies existing to function.

Thanks!

Israel is a nazi project from the start.

My understanding is that Israel (the colony) predates Nazism and was a British project.

However, It doesn’t seem far fetched to say that it was hijacked by Nazis since the goals of Zionists and Nazis aligned (Zionists wanted a Jewish state and Nazis wanted Jews in a concentrated area outside of Europe). That isn’t to say that Zionism was ever a good ideology (it’s bad), just one that didn’t originate with the Nazis.

Don’t take this as a challenge. I’d actually love to hear more about your thoughts on how it originated as a Nazi project. I’m relatively new to the subject of Israel. The similarities between Nazism, Apartheid South Africa, Jim Crow America and Israel are striking to me.

Maybe this is the exit strategy all along for the AI bubble.

Either that or it’s the trigger that gets Trump to bail out the industry. “We need this to win the war” is the new “to big to fail.”

I hope you’re right though

I love Fromsoft games, but I’ve always thought that people kind of have horse blinders on when evaluating them as a whole.

What I think sets them apart:

• the art
• the setting and vibe
• melee combat controls

What I think they severely lack:

• sometimes it feels like I have to google nearly everything in these games because they never explain mechanics/items/quests properly. Most people would argue that’s part of the charm, but I don’t think it’s executed well at all.
• Basic combat is generally very fluid, but there are things that are just straight trash, such as ranged weapons. I just won’t use those weapons for anything other than pulling mobs away from others
• the story is just so abstract sometimes that I rarely know etc is going on
• co-op multiplayer sucks. It really says something when a player-created mod works better than a system that’s been in multiple games

I’m an Obsidian user myself, but I have heard good things about Logseq

The story itself was buried, but It basically created NSPM-7. I think they got exactly what they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk killing.

Not that it excuses the horrific warcrime or absolves the US at all, but how did Iran not realize this possibility after the US has repeatedly bombed civilian boats in the gulf of Mexico?

Truly abhorent and cowardly. I hope Iran responds ruthlessly.

Its already been infiltrated. Been having people harassing us all week. Some bootlicker on Twitter found the names of all the dispatchers in one of the rapid reaponse groups and submitted it to the FBI.

Holy shit. I played the shit out of this game when I was a kid. I had no idea someone ported it like this.

I’ve also been confused about this, but this is my take on it.

You’re correct that they are making these changes to Android and not AOSP. This means that an OS like Graphene or e/OS/ will still be able to use sideloaded apps and other appstores like F-Droid.

I think the reason everyone is freaking out about this, is that it hurts appstores like F-Droid. It has a chilling effect on apps that are released to alternative app stores and may cause those stores to fail over time, thus killing FOSS apps at the point of distribution.

That said, this is also over my head technically, so I would love if someone more knowledgable could weigh in.

Read the rest of the discussion. To me, you come across as part of a mob trying to defend Russian state media.

And I’m saying that’s a problem with your reading comprehension; not the content of my argument. Especially because I never defended Russian state media. I too think state media is bad. The difference between you and I is that I’m not fooled by the corporate proxy that is western media.

I’m not arguing that all of western media is perfect; much of it is corrupt (especially in the US, but that is not all of the west). But not all of it is that bad.

Again, go on…

I am aware that making sense of that diversity requires critical thought, which is in increasingly short supply in recent years.

And yet you seem to struggle to explain how it’s so “diverse.” What’s diverse about it? Who are the non-corrupt Western sources? Please tell me, since I’m so stupid 😕

but that’s not all of western media.

Please, go on. I’d love to hear more.

I still don’t get why so many people here are so desperate to defend the state-controlled media of a brutal dictatorship.

…or just accuse me of something I wasn’t doing. You’re definitely someone who approaches things in good faith, unlike the Russians.

You cannot be serious. You know Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, right? What do you think is happening here?

The only difference between Russian State media and our media, is that the western ruling class is savvy enough to launder their propaganda through privately owned media.

Been thinking a lot about this. I think it’s going to be more prison labor. New crimes will be invented and punishments for existing crimes will become more severe in order to put more people behind bars.

Given the way things are going, i think that the homeless will be an initial target, but I think we’re also going to see an unprecedented criminalization of our children. Children already have fewer rights in school, so it will be easy to transfer that idea to the workplace. States like Iowa have already started rolling back child labor laws. The path ahead of the USA looks dark.

I bought a Flint 2 GL-MT6000 and I’ve been pretty happy with the choice.

• its currently on sale for $125
• it comes with a custom version of open-wrt, but it can be flashed to a different firmware
• easily purchaseable through their site
• I have not had signal issues in my place, but YMMV
• sustained speeds are at least 500Mb/s
• supports features like VLAN, which is part of why I bought it

Side note: Flint 3 just came out, but I’m not familiar enough with it to recommend.

Hell yeah - FMA has so many good side characters!