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Tuulik even had a message for his former colleagues (“comrades”) at ZA/UM, including Kurvitz and Rostov:

“To all other former respected comrades (Kurvitz, Rostov, everyone) – long time no hear, but we would love for you to join the struggle as well: time to roll up our sleeves and start building communism!”

 

Let a hundred flowers bloom

There are now as many ZA/UM successors as there are Workers' Internationals, appropriately enough.

is a pretty legit byline, gee thanks based Proletarian Communist Gamer magazine

 

Although I don't know if Steam will re-enable sales for regions without PSN coverage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Damn, I was right about Gosling and Ferrera's nominations but never in a million years would I have guessed that Gerwig and Robbie get snubbed.

I haven't seen the other movies nominated and tbh I don't really care that much about the Oscars, but if The Boy and The Heron doesn't win Best Animated it's going to be adventure-time for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's ok if you're just having fun, but we are so far past that point.

From the linked thread

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Latest indie darling blow up videogame fad that you'll hear less of in a month or so. I say that somewhat derisively but I think it's pretty normal, Lethal Company was the last one and that was a neat little horror co-op game imo.

I think the reason word of mouth is spreading so much can be attributed to two things:

  1. It's somewhat edgy, misanthropic and subversive take on Pokemon/Nintendo's family friendly aesthetics. I can't say much about this as I haven't played the game myself to judge just exactly how much is being played straight and how much is satire (and I don't plan to), but I'd guess people who grew up with Pokemon as a franchise have been looking for that edgy take and are reacting to that, and the resulting controversy is driving the engagement algorithms (I mean just look at hexbear lmao), and

  2. it's fulfilling a niche that Nintendo hasn't by being an online multiplayer Pokemon-esque game that's not turn-based; just judging based on some of the clips I've seen but working together with your friends to catch a high level Pokemon-alike actually does look kinda fun. This one's really on Game Freak for allowing Pokemon to go stale by playing it safe and not innovating the game design at all, so Palworld coming in to steal Nintendo's lunch money here's pretty deserved, I think. (Although yeah, I guess Ark did it first but the cartoony character designs are doing a lot of heavy lifting in making the on-screen action legible).

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Guy published a book titled "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" and hasn't been arrested yet, idk maybe if I try and "Gotcha" him now in an interview it'll work

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

If they read Malm’s fucking book they could have read between the lines of the examples of direct action he gave in it…

 

posad

The first screen treatment is kinda whack. Second had potential as a kinda "White People Get Colonised" allegory like War of the Worlds until this banger dropped:

There was no longer private property

and I just lost it

Edit: Oh shit the Galactic Emperor is Literally Hitler I'm fucking dying why wasn't this greenlit

Edit2: Oh god we almost had another live-action Gundam like G-Saviour, with even worse computer graphics

[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Pulling out my d20 and yelling “Roll for initiative!” every time my boss walks past

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

It was a South East Asian kid and a bit more convoluted than that, but basically yeah

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What a beautiful Duwang

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

God I should be that person

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

As a capitalist, you should hold these beliefs, because chasing after ever increasing profits is obviously unsustainable and will destroy capitalism. Steady profits year on year is what you, a capitalist, should want, because that’s how you keep capitalism fucking going.

The problem is that if you settle for steady profits, your competitors with no scruples will outdo you. If they outdo you enough times, they'll buy your company and/or drive you out of business, and then you'll have no profits.

Most rational system big-cool

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

When I was a kid, I used to pick all the super outlandish dialogue options just to see how far the game would accommodate absolute incoherence.

But then they stopped making games like Fallout and started making games like Mass Effect.

Nowadays I don't really have time to do novelty runs and I don't find it fun to play as an asshole so yeah, it's communism time in Disco Elysium Baay-beeeee! dubois-dance

(And my Baldur's Gate 3 character is a goody-two-shoes so now Astarion won't bang me, THERE ABSOLUTELY ARE BLOODY CONSEQUENCES kiryu-dame-da-ne )

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I was gonna say, this is basically the plot of the original Gundam.

I didn’t expect Jeff Bezos to be that guy in the meme, but maybe I should’ve known better

over-your-head

 

Lol. Lmao.

In the funniest timeline, the US nationalizes Nvidia to delay China from making chips that work well with LLM's... by a year tops.

Link to original Fortune article the PC Gamer article pulled from, with this juicy relevant quote:

To do that, Raimondo said the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, which manages export controls for the US, needs more funding from Congress.

“I have a $200 million budget. That’s like the cost of a few fighter jets. Come on,” she said. “If we’re serious, let’s go fund this operation like it needs to be funded.”

 

We're getting scapegoated for the DDOS attack that affected us too yesterday, all because @[email protected] made one (admittedly kinda funny) joke here.

Normally I wouldn't post petty internet bullshit like this but I thought our admins should know.

Edit: Entire thread is a gold mine for dunk tank material tho

Edit2: Now the Spook of @[email protected] is getting namedropped

Edit3: So after some digging (read: 5 mins browsing lemmy instances) another user made this post saying the attacker was someone with a personal beef with .world completely unrelated to us? Documented methodology of attack is different but similar to the spam bot we got hit with too, but idk I'm just amateur hour here not an OpSec pro.

Edit4: I was trying to click on the links provided in that post to check but lemmy.world is down data-laughing

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