Good shit admins. Tankies gonna tankie, but I’m glad they aren’t going to tankie here.

How many Russians are there in Iran, Korea, or Syria?

Lots? With plenty of bombs, aircraft, and chemical weapons?

I haven’t! I’m going to get to it before I get BG3 for sure.

Speaking of CRPGs, I just played Baldur’s Gate 1 for the first time, funnily enough. It was a great game which is not exactly a controversial opinion but I wasn’t expecting it to be so fucking funny also. It was very very very hard though.

I also downloaded DOS2 but it felt like I needed a breather after BG so I’ll get to it when I can commit some time to it.

Remnant 2

I enjoyed the first but didn’t complete it. Remnant 2 has much the same AA jank but it’s fun as hell.

Shadowbringers and Endwalker were so fucking good. This is an instant preorder and I’m going to book time off just to enjoy it.

Thanks for all the fine work, dudes

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s been a while since I read anything of his and I’m loving it.

I started playing roguelikes with flash Binding of Isaac I bought for 99p in a steam sale, pre-Wrath of the Lamb. I’m still playing Rebirth and its expansions well over a decade later. I’d describe it as the perfect game. Why it shines as opposed where other great roguelites don’t is because of how the items interact with each other. The interaction is key. It’s still pure joy to walk into a room and absolutely melt everything in a second because of a synergy you’ve never seen. And now I think about it, what really makes the roguelike genre a favourite of mine is where every run is a challenge from the game: break me. I’d point at Noita as another game with this philosophy. Being given a random selection of tools and trying to cobble them together into something unstoppable.

Ceasefire is a Russian victory, Russia can fuck off home at any time if they want to appease the African Union

I’ll probably wait for the PS5 release to play it. I’m assuming there’s going to be one. I had zero faith PoE1 would work on console but it was a very cool time.

I don’t see you as my opponent. I see you as weird, very niche, and extreme for reasons none of you are willing to articulate beyond [points to US flag], but I don’t see you as an enemy or nothing.

Russia is getting US funding?

Crimea ticks every box of being a colony lol

And errrrmmmmm RUSSIA DID INVADE ITS NEIGHBOURS! And regularly does!

You guys are fucking psychos haha

Oh please.

Ah yes those imperialist interests in Latvia, Estonia and North Macedonia. I’m not reading Lenin dude. After an hour with you lot I’m worried it’ll turn me into a fucking moron lol

Just casually sweeping the soviet invasion of Afghanistan under the rug 👏

Not at all dude. Russia defended its land in an existential war against a fascism in way not dissimilar to what Ukraine is doing right now. I suppose the question is why does Russia 41-45 have the right to defend their sovereignty while Ukraine 2014-present does not? Don’t forget that the Soviets benefitted massively from US and British arms and equipment much like Ukraine today.

Absolutely not, that’s ridiculous. I’m not automatically pro-russian (and therefore pro-genocide) because the US is supplying arms to Ukraine. I’m not pro-US either by any measure and never have been.

In this current war, that Russia started twice (!), I am pro-Ukraine. That the US is supplying arms to Ukraine is not only something I can live with, it’s something I fully support

Ukraine is fighting an existential war against a country that NATO was formed to defend against. Are you seriously suggesting that not defending your territory from a very literal and an extensively documented attempt at genocide is the only valid option in your world view? Because holy fuck guy.