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[-] [email protected] 80 points 10 months ago

They literally think the Russian brainpan is incapable of comprehending democracy due to them assimilating Mongolo-Asiatic authoritarianism genes in the time they were under Mongol rule so probably, yeah.

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

coming soon to /r/landlords: As a Catholic landowner, how can I legally check that my tenants are not engaging in homosexual activities on my property?

[-] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of a particularly cursed enshittification dream I had where I was in a bar restroom and the soap dispenser was blocked unless you downloaded their app and created an account.

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I am sorry if this is something basic that has been discussed to death before but I feel like I need to get this out of my system before I ruin friendships by wishing centuries of humiliation on people for the way they play pretend.

I had a casual chat with a friend and fellow GM about our current campaigns and worldbuilding. At some point beast races come up and I mention I like gnolls and give a few short details about their society in my setting. In response I get an explanation that he can't have this kind of characterization because of Goebbles level bullshittery about how beastmen are inherently savage and destructive and basically a swarm of pests that has to be put down. And how this is necessary in order to address the moral issues of what to do with beastmen non-combatants. Essentially giving players moral license to commit genocide and still be considered "good" in-universe.

It felt so fucking unreal seeing how normally chill people can almost reproduce word for word the vile shit that Zionists are using right fucking now as a justification for mass murder and not have a single moment of "oh shit wait wtf am I saying". I had to step away from the keyboard and calm down. I hate how concept of "sapient creatures that are completely and irredeemably evil and are specifically designed to be slaughtered" is seen as something completely normal and even expected. Gygax was a piece of shit genocide enthusiast who deserves to rot in hell and it's high time that we move on from colonial plunder sims with dragons and obligatory others that exist only to be killed and looted.

You are building an imaginary world and there are no limits. The genre is literally called imagination. There is no excuse for consciously designing entire species that are designated for slaughter and reproducing some of the vilest ideologies ever thought up by humans as a pillar of your worldbuilding.

That's it I guess. That's the rant. Thanks for reading. I am doing my best trying to give positive portrayals of non-human societies in my games and also trying to get my friends to play other games that aren't built from around breaking into others' homes to kill them and take their stuff.

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what width/depth should a good moat have?

[-] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago

Imagine being one of the wealthiest people on the planet but so desperate to feel oppressed that you do performative outrage over an app's in-built editor giving you conversion notes for commonly used systems of measurement.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

Fully expected. Didn't Zelensky say at some point that they are looking at Israel as a model for what a victorious post-war Ukraine will be like?

[-] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago

It takes an industrial grade alloy of smugness and lack of self awareness to proclaim yourself a herbivore when your society is built on brutal conquest and the immiseration of billions. This continent's century of humiliation can't come soon enough.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago

I am waging protracted people's war against installing apps and creating accounts in order to do things that shouldn't require a fucking app or account. I have used my browser's console to scroll wepbages with JavaScript when shitty sites would disable scrolling to force me to sign up. Death to enshittification.

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[-] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago

those are historical pagan symbols sweaty

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Hey bears, I am an enjoyer of milism-type games, like ARMA, Squad, Hell Let Loose, etc. Unfortunately, they require an organized group to fully enjoy, while also attracting a lot of terrible freeze-gamer types. My RL tacticool friends are busy with their lives right now and I'm feeling the itch to play a shooting game.

Anyone else around these parts into this sort of games? If yes, maybe we could get a chill hexagonal squad going. I'd love playing incompetent guerillas in an ARMA Antistasi campaign, but really I'm open to anything, I just want to play with decent people.

Edit: Regarding timezones/latency stuff, I'm in Europe

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Can't believe the West is repeating the WW2 propaganda nonsense similar to what the Nazis used

The mainstream Western perception of WW2 on Eastern Front is essentially distilled Nazi propaganda that was consciously pushed once WW2 slid into the Cold War, and the Soviets became the designated enemy. Every time the Eastern Front came up in casual conversation I would hear the smugest takes like "How the Russians won? Oh, they just waited for winter to save them and got lucky", "Russians can't fight, they just zerg rush and overwhelm you with bodies", "They were saved by Lend-Lease so basically America won the Eastern Front". When people grow up on a twisted fanfictionization of history where the Red Army was huge incompetent mass of untrained Asiatic conscripts who have to share one rifle between two people and only won because the Germans ran out of bullets to shoot at the horde and were eventually overwhelmed, they will believe all the bullshit "Superior British tanks will epically own Putin's orcs" articles and parrot them. Goebbles is laughing from the depths of hell.

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[-] [email protected] 80 points 2 years ago

The fact that they would rather believe this community is on a several years long маскировка op merely pretending to be leftist rather than engage in a minimal effort at self-reflection is mind-boggling. I understand that we are dealing with the most propagandized population to have ever walked the Earth, but it's still stunning to actually encounter the phenomenon in real time instead of just reading up on the abstract concept.

[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago

You are taking pride in the thought of fighting to the death against your own interests while parroting a line that was making fun of the sentiment you are expressing.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago

marx-hi

Finally made an account after lurking for the past few months. This community is one of the few corners of the internet that doesn't give me psychic damage. Hello, comrades, thank you for the warm welcome and for being cool people on a cool bear website.

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