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it’s so funny how many examples of these dueling headlines there are lol. it’s like a new meme format

I know it’s reddit so of course it’s gonna be racist but I feel like the last few weeks have been especially bad on r/linux. I swear in that time span I’ve seen like 4 posts that basically amounted to “Distro from China… DAE China bad???”

You’d think people who were interested in open source would be more open minded but instead it’s just a bunch of libertarian STEMlords. Also I guarantee if any other distro’s twitter account like Fedora or Debian reposted that image none of these losers would bat an eye

god this gives me flashbacks to a few weeks after elden ring released when I got downvoted into the negative triple digits for daring to criticize the game in r/eldenring lol

we saw it when Obama had a supermajority in 2008 I believe; they just said “it takes time to change things” like expecting the dems to do anything during it was expecting too much

yea the original game was scary as shit back in 2008. I played the remake earlier this year and while I like the new side quests and quality of life stuff they added, a lot of the things that were novel back then are pretty played out in 2023 so it wasn’t nearly as scary. Motive still did a good job remaking a beloved game though.

it’s been pretty funny watching all the people who were howling about Russia’s inevitable loss suddenly having to confront reality. every few months I check in on r/ukraine to get a read on their cope levels

I hate how so many projects have replaced their support forums with discord servers too

or when the Wolfenstein twitter account made a tweet about making America Nazi-free again and gamers got mad lol

yea I’ve made this point before; even if I assume China is spying on me, wtf are they gonna do with this information? Send me a letter like “hey we saw you looking up a guide on how to beat the last boss of final fantasy 4 you motherfucker.” On the other hand I live in the US and my government has a history of spying on its citizens and using that information to make their life a living hell

lmao I saw that post yesterday and that exact comment made me roll my eyes. there was another post on r/linux yesterday asking if Deepin linux (Chinese linux distro) is safe and all the comments are some variation of “It’s CHINESE so you know it’s filled with spyware.” There’s even a few comments like “I would rather be spied on by the US than the Chinese.”

btw don’t read that linked thread if you don’t want to be exposed to classic Reddit-style Dunning–Kruger smugness

trailer looked good but my interest kinda dropped when it said 2025. when it’s that far away my brain is just like “well there’s no reason to care about this for another year or more, then” because you know they’re just gonna drip feed you the smallest bit of info at a glacial pace until then.

same thing happened when Bethesda announced ES6. I hate when these companies announce projects super early. I wish more games would follow the Fallout 4 route where they announced it in the summer and it released like 4 or 5 months later.

Owlcat makes some damn fine CRPGs so I’m excited for Rogue Trader to come out this week. While waiting for it I finally got around to finishing FF13 for the first time since it released. I’m actually kind of mad at myself for waiting so long because everyone kept saying how much it sucked. It’s not the best FF game or anything but I liked it a lot and will eventually play its two sequels as well.

2000 tanks in 3 days! am I reading that wrong or what

They think that among many Russian EW systems the truck-mounted Shipovnic-Aero (pictured) is proving especially deadly to Ukrainian drones. The system has a 10km range and can take over control of the drone, while acquiring the co-ordinates of the place from where it is being piloted, with an accuracy of one metre, for transmission to an artillery battery.

lol damn that’s pretty impressive

maybe it’s because I’m an old geezer compared to the average twitch viewer but I honestly don’t understand the appeal of these streamers. It must be some kind of parasocial thing

and every once in a while I’ll see a clip where some popular streamer is talking, little “donation” messages show up on the screen and I’m reminded that people who are presumably much less wealthy than the streamer routinely donate money to them and it just breaks my brain

It’s really telling that when faced with any information that runs counter to the classic China Bad narrative, libs immediately resort to “this person must have been paid to say this.” Their brains have been steeped in capitalism for so long they can’t imagine someone praising e.g. China’s poverty alleviation programs without some kind of financial incentive. And then, like clockwork, even this post has an “aUtHoRiTaRiAn ReGiMe” comment. These people would rather plug their ears and yell “LA LA LA CAN’T HEAR YOU” than approach China with an open mind. Shameful

man like 13 years ago I uploaded a short clip from an 80s film to youtube and it was fine until last year when the clip got reported, my account got a strike and then was locked until I did their ridiculous “content creator school” or whatever it’s called. It treats you like a child and then you have to take the world’s most condescending quiz. I was so insulted I just abandoned the account and made a new one lol. Like hell am I gonna waste my time with that shit

that sub usually has at least one or two “is Russia imperialist? I’m just asking questions!” posts a week. I wish they would ban those people

also I think I see a little Karl Marx bust at the very end of the video too (bottom right)

those are actually on my list! I’m working through Castro’s autobiography right now but I’ll get to them soon