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cholantesh

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cholantesh
·3 dni temu·discuss
I'm significantly more tired of the reactionary whinge machine re: 'progressive storytelling', to be perfectly honest.
cholantesh
·17 dni temu·discuss
They don't have bylines, though, so individual authors could be of different nationalities.
cholantesh
·19 dni temu·discuss
It's not a fact-free handwaving; every last one of those comments is just steelmanning Israel's position without any evidential basis. And if you are so deeply concerned about characterizing them as 'XYZ evil foreign power's propaganda', I wonder why you see no reason to push back on claims like this:

>Iran isn’t negotiating in good faith, and will likely need another round of attacks. America should also flood Iran with small arms for the revolutionaries

What kind of productive discussion do you think this encourages? And given that the intelligence community broadly considers the latter a losing proposition, are we to assume that you think they are all Iranian proxies?
cholantesh
·20 dni temu·discuss
As opposed to treating fact-free rehashings of Israeli state propaganda as 'non-flattering statements' and decorating such treatments with thought-terminating epithets.
cholantesh
·25 dni temu·discuss
Someone in the Thief community was celebrating the Nightdive remaster announcement because it is apparently getting much harder with each passing year to install and run the Dark Engine games on Windows; meanwhile I've been doing this multiple times a year for about a decade with Lutris.
cholantesh
·25 dni temu·discuss
>Netenyahu evilness

Israel was an apartheid state before Netenyahu became its PM. The BBC wasn't quite as euphemistic about their settler colonial project until the 90s though.
cholantesh
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
More historically accurate, though, no?
cholantesh
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Firstly, the 'Islamic' character of Malaysia and Indonesia has never really factored into Singapore's geopolitical confrontation or collaboration within SEA. Secondly, the narrative that Israel is some kind of plucky outpost standing up to barbaric Islamic hordes at its gates is, at best, profoundly naive at this point. There isn't a meaningful correlation to be found here except through the lens of intellectual laziness and Islamophobia.
cholantesh
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
>surrounded by hostile Muslim nations ( though not as bad as Israel, but still)

What a bizarre non-sequitur.
cholantesh
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I gave up a few paragraphs in, partly because of the formatting, partly because the author seemed very impressed with themselves for being the nth person to articulate this sentiment in a particularly ostentatious way.
cholantesh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
"Disregard disregarding, acquire currency"
cholantesh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Incredible work and yes, it really captures a Flash vibe.

My only note would be that I'm surprised that Order from Chaos isn't featured anywhere; I feel like they are kind of a Rosetta stone for so much of what happened in the 90s/00s with black and death metal converging on each other.
cholantesh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
If you think your response was an attack on ideas, most definitely, in addition to correcting your juvenile conception of history.
cholantesh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Seems appropriate as it's about as much effort as you put into forming your worldview.
cholantesh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Which, in a sibling comment, you say reflects on the sect as a whole. This would be a clever use of weasel words if you were just more consistent.
cholantesh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Until I guess the mid-2010s there was a really pervasive stereotype of vegans as obnoxious pseudo-religious sticks-in-the-mud.
cholantesh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Most 'modern' Christians are barely even aware of the content of the Bible, and most adherents of all three religions are not acting on those commands anyway.

>They self-governed and organically evolved beyond several parts of their source material

Ah yes, wars, revolutions, general strikes, all famously acts of self-governance.
cholantesh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
>There were parts where I had to manually switch off the top layer because transparent stuff (such as clouds) would completely block my view

Yeah, that was my experience too; Dome 16 was a total annoyance. I did also use it to 'cheat' in sections of games where you had limited FOV, the alternative of having eyestrain and headaches wasn't really desirable.

I don't think I'd have gotten through a lot of my favourite RPGs without savestates, save points were always so ridiculously spread out while the random encounters were interminable. Still some of the best experiences I've had in the medium though.
cholantesh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Enjoy; I especially liked learning of the 'rebuttal' album that the Black Dog released lol
cholantesh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
>It's best to differentiate groups and not generalize about religions/people/groups down that path often lies justification for evil.

But broad generalizations about one of the principal denominations of a religion/its adherents are entirely above board?