[–] 3 points 2 hours ago

I'll give it some time to see if the horrible matchmaking where playing the game became instant lock death, waiting to respawn. Not fun at all.

PvE was much better as it removed the toxic factors and more balanced games but since they don't develop that it became boring.

Which is unfortunate because when it works it's fun and there is a concept there, but the focus on sweatlord EeeeeeeSpurtz rather than the base bones I think is what destroys it for me right now.

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  • [–] 45 points 7 hours ago* (1 child)

    DW - Zimbabwe tycoon Wicknell Chivayo dies in helicopter crash

    The family of Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo and President  Emmerson Mnangagwa have confirmed reports that he and his wife Lucy Muteke were involved in a fatal helicopter crash southeast of Harare on Wednesday evening. 

    Family spokesperson Herbert Chivayo told state broadcaster ZBC that the 43-year-old tycoon and his wife were killed in the crash, saying, "We are at a loss for words after the tragic news." 

    President Mnangagwa said the sudden and unexpected deaths "left our nation, my family, and me personally numbed and in deep shock and grief." 

    Chivayo was a prominent supporter of Mnangagwa who had secured a series of lucrative government contracts and was known for his lavish lifestyle and often-ostentatious gifts to allies and associates. 

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  • [–] 57 points 7 hours ago*

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    US envoy Jared Kushner holds the largest stake in Israeli firm supporting Israel’s military, CNN reports

    Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a top US peace negotiator for the Middle East, has been found to hold a significant stake in an Israeli firm investing in companies supporting Israel’s military, according to a CNN report.

    Kushner’s investment group, Affinity Partners, doubled its stake last year in the Tel Aviv-based firm Phoenix Financial.

    Records disclosed by CNN – obtained using Israeli financial transparency laws – found that Phoenix invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer.

    Kushner and fellow US special envoy Steve Witkoff brokered the “ceasefire” deal between Israel and Hamas last October.

    Israel continues to attack the Gaza Strip on a near-daily basis, despite the “ceasefire”.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    CW descriptions of extra judicial murders. I would say probably NSFL.

    The Act of Killing documentary interviews the perpetrators of the Jakarta Method genocide. Some proud, some ashamed. It is a witness to what imperial propaganda, false flags, and western backed coups are capable of.

    They did not teach it in Indonesian schools or American Schools. It was an open secret, hardly talked of or mentioned. I had to educate myself and then my late Indonesian husband about them and his father was a schoolmaster.

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  • [–] 71 points 9 hours ago

    Palestinians in Gaza City hold mass funeral for 105 victims of Israel's genocide

    Families pleaded for heavy machinery to retrieve hundreds of bodies buried at the site, but Israel has repeatedly barred the equipment.

    Families in Gaza City held a mass funeral on 1 October for 105 Palestinians, including 37 children killed by Israeli airstrikes, whose bodies had been buried beneath the ruins of 16 residential buildings in the Al-Taj area for nearly three years.

    Civil Defense crews, backed by Egyptian and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) teams, recovered the remains during a 17-day search through the rubble.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago

    I think it's the banks and hege funds watching potential profit walk away because they only have a one track mind. Once China gets it, they will make it cheaper and better. Then spread it across the globe. Wall Street and City of London can't exploit it and enshittify it for profits. That is what Aaron Swartz died for. Academic Research should be public.

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