WideningGyro [any]

Fair point

Isn’t aggression a hallmark symptom of dementia? I seem to recall everyone being super happy and relieved that my grandma was only forgetting our names, but generally being chill and cheerful in spite of it all.

they do X and Y

Goes to any forum for landlords: “How can I avoid doing X and Y for my tenants?” “Is there any way I can force my tenants to do X and Y or pay for them?”

Ah, I see. Thanks!

I’m a bit OOTL on the Winnie the Pooh thing. I always just assumed it was just a bunch of redditors making a racist effigy out of a fake news story, but googling it does give a bunch of (western) news outles, wikipedia pages etc. saying the character was censored/banned. Can someone pill me on this/direct me to a less brainwormed place than wikipedia for learning more?

Ew, reddit is leaking

Even my lib dad could see this bullshit for what it was. It’s a super transparent attempt to manufacture crisis support.

Not in the spirit of the thread, I know, but they could murder everyone.

Whatever site that is really knows their audience. Not only is Yasuke, famously a real human being who actually lived and was black, “originally depicted as a black man”, the mod also apparently turns him into an “authentic Japanese character”. Which is apparently a more fitting description for whatever generic Japanese dude the modders think up than an actual historical figure. Christ.

Makes me so fucking dejected. Not even just for myself, but I have wonderful nieces and nephews and they don’t deserve this shit

So public support for Palestine is just straight up outlawed then? Wonder if they’re already handing out fines to people wearing keffiyeh yet?

Community did it first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z906aLyP5fg

a notably right-wing fascist state masking as socialist just like the Nazis did

You’re doing a bit, right? Please say you’re doing a bit

being “a communist but still arrogant and inventing wildly.”

I feel personally attacked!

No but seriously, as someone who followed a path which was roughly militant online atheist -> lib debate fetishist -> arrogant communist with nothing but cursory knowledge, I really sympathize with having to work to not fall back into past bad habits. I often find myself furiously typing long comments, then stopping and asking “do I even know this?” or “what am I trying to achieve here?” and then deleting it in shame.

I start to think and then I sink into the paper, like I was ink / when I’m writing I’m trapped in between the lines / I escape - when I finish the rhyme

Saddam’s army was one of the most powerful in the world

By what metrics?

Coming from the person who defended generational racism because one bad thing happened once.

I have a close friend who was kidnapped and kept as a fucking slave by a gang once. That gang’s ethnic makeup? Romani. It’s a horrible story and I hate the people who subjected my friend to that shit and gave him PTSD with a burning passion and hope they die in a ditch. And yet, when talking about the extreme racism Romani people face, I don’t decide to defend it because a handful of horrible people did something horrible to my friend. It’s not that fucking hard to separate general systems of oppression from individuals and their actions. You even acknowledged how extremely limited your knowledge of Romani people is, and yet still chose to defend racism.

I fear that will just make them double down and nuke everyone/get nuked

Archolos is very good - it adds a lot while sticking close to the OG Gothic experience. My biggest objection to it is that as of right now it is only available with Polish voices, and I miss the crappy EN voice acting of the originals :( but that’s hardly fair given the amount of work that went into it. If you have the time, and love Gothic 1-2, you should definitely give it a shot.

I played Risen 1 and 2 a long time ago and recall them scratching some of the same itch, albeit not quite as good. Just saw there was a third entry which I never played

Piranha Bytes Gothic and Gothic 2 are some of the best RPGs ever produced in my view. The atmosphere, the sense of progression and danger, the way every single item and enemy is curated and placed in the world with care and thought, the way the game doesn’t hold your hand and characters actually behave like human beings - including the player. All wonderful.

Unfortunately, the graphics were ugly as shit for 2001-02 and the combat is unbelievably janky. A large part of the game’s difficulty curve comes from how fiddly and frustrating the combat is. So, it is really hard to recommend.