I tried to get him to read theory, gave him the rundown on Engels' Origin of the Family as a starting point for untangling some of the brainworms, but he just says he has no time for reading books due to his work schedule, which is very fair, the dude is a retail worker and he is really pushing himself on the job. Good video essays or podcasts that can be listened to in the background during home chores are more likely to actually be engaged than books. Maybe I could get him to commit to an audiobook, at least as background noise.
Jobasha
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Reactionary transphobic brainworms inside, open at your own risk:
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The West is pushing gender ideology on us, think of the children and how being exposed to all this confusing transgender stuff will affect their development, I support their liberties but they should also respect that some people don't want to be exposed to this so this is why pride parades are bad, trans athletes have unfair advantages, the wokes are bullying minors into having permanent surgery that they may come to regret because their brains and personality are not fully formed and it could be just a phase, using gender-questioning teenagers as the butt of jokes, and the list goes on.
I counter this bullshit whenever he starts spewing it with sources, explanations, etc, and it does seem like he is taking it in, but it's really fucking tiring when it just keeps happening after a bit of time passes as if his brain just resets.
Thanks for the video rec. I sent the dude other stuff in the past, it just seems like it doesn't stick for too long and I blame the sus at best atrocious at worst g*mer content he keeps consuming on the side. I know the dude for quite a while and I genuinely think he's not doing that shit out of conscious maliciousness, but just the condition of being a straight white man who never had to face any discrimination on that front and whose only concept of LGBT+ people comes from irrational blue haired SJWokeDEI strawmen endlessly paraded by reactionary grifters. The Hexbear deworming treatment might work if he actually sticks to lurking here instead of on godforsaken internet cesspools, I'll link him here at the first opportunity.
I am once again banging my head against the wall as my socialist-identifying pro Cuba pro Vietnam pro Soviet Union friend literally cannot stop falling for reactionary talking points about gender.
Never been into jrpgs but I wish you all a very pleasant death to america
There's some kind of psychology going in how nato media for decades was all "look how superior german tanks were" without mentioning that the nazis had to build each one by hand and they broke down constantly, while the ussr and usa were assembling tanks by the hundreds on modern factory lines.
The production numbers are insane, check these tables from Zaloga's Armored Champion:
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Also I will never not find it funny how the Tiger II's glorious debut on the Eastern Front was a bunch of them getting ambushed and absolutely blown the fuck out by Soviets who only after the battle realized they weren't just Panthers. https://www.o5m6.de/redarmy/battleofogledow.php
Missed all the fun being out for the evening. I just want to inform you that I am not even exaggerating for comedic purposes that much, here is a random video found by typing "mongol influence on russian culture" on google and clicking the video tab. It features bangers such as "It has been several hundred years in their genetic inheritance that authoritarianism is the only solution".
Damn. I haven't heard this one in uni but I had a professor who was casually peddling Spengler and some other sus figures.
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.
I used to watch every WW2 documentary I could catch on TV as a kid, and I remember hearing the "Japan had to be nuked because otherwise 500 000 poor white troops would die attacking their home islands because fanatic Asians will all fight to the death rather than surrender" bit several times. I think I also vaguely remember hearing about how scary Asiatic Siberian divisions were sent into Berlin. Oh, and an informative 3D animation of how it took 4 Shermans to disable a Tiger.
nah, not even going to bother bumping up their user count, there are other ways to find music
I am a Souls fan and I agree with most of everything you say. I am also the type who plays games on the hard difficulty settings and installs mods to make it even harder. I like being challenged and forced to learn and adapt and find new ways to use the mechanics provided by the game in order to succeed. When I was younger and had more spare time I did SL1 challenge runs in the Souls games, in DS3 I got some 3/4 through all the bosses before I got a job and just didn't have the time and energy to perfect boss patterns anymore. It was very fun, my favorite bit was fighting the dope pope and changing gear during his phase switch. I found short rolls more favorable in his 1st phase as they landed me in perfect position for a punish after baiting his jumping lunge combo and long rolls more reliable during the 2nd to not get caught by the double.
However, my take on this particular subject is that I am a radical difficulty anarchist and people should be allowed to enjoy single player games in whatever ways they deem personally fun, even if it goes against the intended experience and core ideas of the game. If there was an option that allowed you to just iddqd your way through Fromsoft games or any other game where difficulty is part of the core game design, then I uncritically support their freedom to pick it and find fun in the game in their own way, even if it's just vibing and taking in the scenery without engaging with the intended process. The only truly wrong way to play a single player game is if you are not having fun.
I have played other games where hardship is an intended part of the experience yet they provide difficulty settings that let you fuck all that noise and just brute-force your way through the game if you so desire. They have a description that explains you will not get the intended experience the game was meant to convey, but they empower you to disregard it and engage the game on your own terms. I don't think the soulslike niche is in any way different or above such features and I fully support a god mode toggle that says "Hey, we worked hard to create a finely balanced gameplay loop that encourages learning from your mistakes and mastering the mechanics. We strongly believe you will get the most out of our game by giving it a chance and persevering, but if you truly do not care about that turn this on to enable chill vibes mode".