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Maalus,

Are we forgetting the very start of the war, when the Hungarian rhetoric was “we need to go to the region that is ‘disputed’ by Hungary to protect Hungarians from the evil Russia”?

Maalus,

And people looked at me funny saying I won’t buy anything from them for the hype they built with NMS. And here it is, happening again. See you in 5 years when the game actually has the features, huh

Maalus,

Or they never tried since it’s hard and bitching about it is free.

Maalus,

The bar will soon be the Quarx

Maalus,

Enter, stage left, the Emergency Command Hologram

Maalus,

Why stay on a site that reacts like that to your actual person though? I don’t blame him at all for leaving

Maalus,

“I wonder if he was actually bullied” with “Will tends to whine a lot” in the exact same sentence. I love how self-aware people are over here.

Maalus,

It’s been enough people to have become a problem

Maalus,

Leave it to you to define what “bullying” is huh

Maalus,

I always wanted to start an overmoderated forum for debating on various topics, bringing it to the “ideal” debate as close as possible. Basically the Venezuela scene from Parks and Rec - you use an ad hominem? Believe it or not, banned. Personal attack? Instantly banned. Arguing in bad faith? Banned. Ignoring everything the other side said and just ranting? Also jail.

Maalus,

Yea, that’s why I didn’t do it in the first place lol

Maalus,

Don’t judge a book by its cover. There is plenty of gameplay out there, RTS players worldwide have played the alpha. It’s basically Starcraft 2, meshed with Warcraft 3, with creep camps. They are targetting a 1v1 PvP mode, and a 3vE mode where you play against AI, similar to how SC2 has the commanders 2vE mode.

Maalus,

They are fully funded already, this is for a collector’s edition, and beta access so they can scale the infrastructure before the game itself is ready for release.

Maalus,

… Moba started with a warcraft mod. You might have heard of it, it’s called DOTA. Warcraft is a staple of RTS, and so is Starcraft. Both had “hero units” since forever - with the campaigns in Starcraft featuring hunter killers (hero hydralisks) for example, later in 2 featuring Jim, Kerrigan, Artanis. It’s nothing new really, and it’s really unfair to say that an rts that features heroes, like Warcraft, makes it a moba with some RTS in it.

Maalus,

What does the hero unit’s strength matter if they’re just in the campaign or coop modes?

Maalus,

Yeah, they are campaign and coop only. No hero units in 1v1. Also, even in the campaign, there is no levelling them up. They’re just beefy named units with unique abilities.

Maalus,

Yay, a warcrime. Let’s celebrate it since it is our guys that did it!

A parachuting pilot is protected under the geneva convention. Them shooting means it’s like a guy who threw up a white flag, then started shooting the negotiator that approached with their own white flag.

Maalus,

Ya, sure buddy. “Intent on finishing him off”, pilot “opening the canopy to get a better look”, it all sounds like bullshit.

If the other pilot wanted to shoot the parachuting guy, why not just do it, instead of going through this weird dance of “I’ll check if he’s dead”? How do they know he was “intent on finishing him off”? Even if this weird “checking if alive” thing happened, maybe he wanted to radio back that a combatant on a parachute fell to the ground, so the military police can expect one?

Maalus,

Both entirely irrellevant to a guy claiming that a flying-by pilot “opened their canopy” to check if they are still alive.

Maalus,

The outlandish part isn’t “guy got shot”. The outlandish part is “the guy who shot him bragged about shooting him then made an entire story up why it was cool to shoot him. Now people celebrate the shooter despite it being a literal warcrime”.

Maalus,

Kay, from now on, I’m ableist. I’ll also block you, so I don’t see your ramblings anymore.

Maalus,

You don’t really choose to be a night owl though, it’s mostly genetic

Maalus,

The source description translates to “Ukrainian drift” lol

Maalus,

Or the Jean-Luc The-New-Generation Picard

Maalus,

Stop vandalising wikipedia.

Maalus,

Well, DS9 era Miles can fix everything, even a broken marriage. Not his broken marriage mind you.

Maalus,

Or maybe, just maybe, there is a third way? When it comes to politics, americans are as defeatist as russians are.

Maalus,

Thw alternative is to choose people who would change the status quo of just having to choose between two candidates. Seriously, how is it democracy, if it’s the exact same shit going on year after year after year? One president is a democrat, one is a republican. Average that out, and it flip flops from one to the other. Neither change the status quo at all. So maybe vote in someone who will?

Maalus,

See, defeatism. It is that simple.

Maalus,

If nobody votes 3rd party, then they’ll never win, now will they?

Maalus,

Which again - go vote and vote for a third party.

Maalus,

Yeah it is simple - when people stop buying the “a vote for third party is lost”. Go out, protest, vote for 3rd parties. But nope, it’s easier to let democracy be eroded further and further.

Maalus,

Yeah I heard that repeated without a reason as to “why”. Ultimately it boils down to “we got conditioned to voting for the status quote”

Maalus,

I know how it works. I’m saying you got convinced that your vote doesn’t matter and to “vote strategically”. Which is entirely defeatist. It’s no wonder you only have a two party system, when it’s so easy to tell people “you don’t have a choice”.

Maalus,

People have shit to do. Also, I decided to stop arguing with a person who doesn’t even know that they have a choice. I’ll now be ignoring you, since I don’t care about debating a defeatist american and furthermore I don’t care about you.

Maalus,

They are comparing the totality of the value something has been bought for. So a $60 game needs to sell 10 copies, when $600 piece of hardware just needs to sell one. That’s been the reason why Valve Index was nr 1 for so long - it was very expensive, with purchases comming from the enthusiast market. Same thing for the steam deck - not many people will buy it, but it will be worth a lot of AAA games.

Maalus,

They’re already dead inside

Maalus,

There is no real way to invest into Gaza’s economy tho. It is under embargo, and everything that used to go in, went in through Israel. Israel checked everything for possible military applications. So no concrete, no wood. No plastics / 3d printing filament even. Want a new type of velcro, that has hook and loop on the same side, and sticks to itself? Apparently it’s a weapon of mass destruction, since you can’t get it in.

Maalus,

It’s not checking it for weapons, it’s banning most items because you can maybe use it as a weapon. You can’t get 95% of the things in.

Maalus,

It adds up pretty easily. If you want to stir up fear against nuclear, you hack an irrellevant system of a nuclear power plant - like HR. Then you want as many people as possible to hear about it, so it scares as many people. So you think up something memable to spread the thing. Like “gay furry hackers want cat girls!”. People then start writing articles, readers start sharing them because “funny thing” and others who don’t like nuclear get “validated” in their opinion.

Maalus,

Make them a pizza and bring it to bed.

Maalus,

Also, you can get groceries and make your own dinner. Why would you ever go to a restaurant?

Going to a bar is most likely about the atmosphere, the people there, just as much as it is about the alcohol

Maalus,

They can in TNG at least. There is an episode about people being cryogenically frozen in the past, because of uncurable illnesses. They unfroze them, and one dude ordered alcohol. He even said it was the best glass he has ever had.

Maalus,

Yeah, like Russia cares. “War crimes” are for the weaker side to not lose global support. All wars involve war crimes on huge scale.

Maalus,

Or… just make your own meme instead? Smh

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