They are not militarizing to fight the US lol.

Please read my comment before giving an obnoxious response. I am under no illusions about this.

As someone from , I have somewhat mixed feelings about the ongoing militarization in European countries.

As long as Germany doesn’t have a real military, it will only ever be a vassal state of the US. The same goes for all EU states. Do I think Germany or the UK for that matter will use their militaries to liberate themselves from US control and end Western hegemony? Absolutely not, they will probably do fascism. But I still think it’s a prerequisite to end the imperial core as we know it.

She deserves it for voicing my wife in BG3

I can’t believe they’re such morons. You’d think they’d be capable of confidently bullshitting their way through a hearing like this. I could probably improv something that would be more convincing. What an absolute imbecile.

So does Trump want to install a more Russia-friendly leader?

What are the odds Kamala Harris is on the list

I don’t get why they vote no even on something purely symbolical and completely inconsequential.

It’s camp and fun. It’s popular among theater kids like me. Every now and then they actually have a good song too.

The Eurovision Song Contest is going up in flames. Several nations were calling for Israel to be expelled from the contest but the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) bent over backwards to ensure its participation. There was supposed to be a vote but that seems to have been scrapped.

In the immediate aftermath the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia have announced their withdrawal from the contest. There might be more to follow.

It genuinely saddens me that we have to burn it all down for this rabid Nazi state. Truly the bourgeoisie cares about nothing but the right to genocide.

Even if programs like these partially backfire, it’s just nice that they’re trying, you know? All we have in the West is lunatic start-ups whose pitch is to darken the skies and bring about eternal winter.

We’re gonna get lead in our brains like the boomers

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One thread on the frontpage mentions Star Citizen, another Eliezer Yudkowsky. Wherever you are, UlyssesT, your spirit lives on.

the majority of chess GMs i know of seem like completely insufferable people

critical support for tech employees

The game is just too big for its own good imo.

It’s linear in the sense that you have a sequence of scenarios and the game is pretty much completed afterwards. You don’t have different factions, randomized starting positions or random events to add variety to your campaigns. It’s all pre-determined. Think of it as a story-driven singleplayer game which you play through once or twice and that’s it, rather than a game like SimCity or Civ.

That comment is misrepresenting it. Frostpunk is not a sandbox city builder, it is a much more linear game based on the question of “How much of your humanity are you willing to give up to survive?” Picking the fascist options does make the game objectively easier, but the game will effectively tell you that your victory is hollow at the end.

For example: There are 3 people outside your city, asking to be let in. Their limbs are frozen and need to amputated, so they can’t work. They will purely be a drain on your limited food and medical supplies. Many of your people (though not all of them) will be against taking them in too. There is little to no in-game benefit to taking the 3 people in, it makes it more likely that you will run out of food and everyone will die, but the whole point is that you’re supposed to take them in anyway because it’s the right thing to do.

Oh, you’re a gamer? Name every racial slur

as a former Asian kid

Are you a hispanic kid now