KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them] @ KarlBarqs @hexbear.net

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Poland. They're already mad as fuck about Poland trying to close off the border to Ukranian goods.

Starting to think the ML in Lemmy.ml stands for machine learning, because there's no way an adult human writes like this

Remember that literally everyone considered the ETIM a terrorist organization right up until Zenz fabricated his bunk genocide claims, and then very suddenly the US and a few key allies dropped that label from them.

Redditors are some of the most gullible fucks on the planet

As soon as any one of these AIs asks to be referred to by pronouns, techbros will go fucking Butlerian Jihad on them.

Critically underrated root vegetable in much of the west, tbh

Ten bucks says the main character is a gusano. Probably some reference about their family fleeing the great evil for beautiful America and now she has to turn to crime to survive. Rockstar isn't clever, and they love their right wing views.

Yeah you right, I've gotta read more of those tbh

this is a classic sci fi plot

And every single fucking time it goes bad for the people involved

Like literally every single instance of a species being uplifted in sci fi is a cautionary tale about interference with others, and usually has the uplifted species be violent/used as a weapon

Literal fucking Torment Nexus bullshit

Love how these Reddit bros continue to stan for Guaido, a man so pathetic even the US doesn't even really back him anymore

Fucker isn't even official opposition, he's Some Guy who declared himself such

Remember that the claims of genocide are from a man who believes that he received a message from capital G God himself to destroy China, and that the initial claims to genocide were based on him sending someone to Xinjiang, going to eight tiny rural villages, and asking a single person in each village how many people they thought were taken away to be reeducated, before extrapolating that number to the entirety of Xinjiang.

It's a methodology so bafflingly bad it wouldn't be accepted anywhere academically, but for some reason you "uhhh citations please??" dorks fucking eat it up.

Liberals believe one of two things in my experience, in regards to that: Either that's all fake news, Ukraine didn't bomb anyone, there were no ethnic cleansings, and if there were, it was committed by a rogue militia that has nothing to do with the government, or

The existence of ethnic Russians is because Russia is attempting to ethnically cleanse Ukraine, and that they should be expelled anyway because they're not Ukrainian

Oh shoot, didn't know

My game keeps crashing to desktop on her races so I can't actually play em sadly

What's even funnier is that this is basically the only hint that Claire is trans. There's a line in her ingame bio that mentions it, but unless you look it up, at no point does any of her dialogue mention that she's trans. She doesn't even have a trans flag on her outfit or anywhere visible behind the bar she works at.

She is as far removed from "shoved in your face" as a trans character could possibly get.

Why is it capitalists can't make up their mind? Are we supposed to buy their shit or not?

Why not go fight yourself? It's the height of cowardice to send someone else weapons and shove them into a fight you yourself won't take up arms for, while claiming to do it for their freedom.

Ukraine is still accepting volunteers. Why aren't you there?

Even if it was 80% plastic, the advertising would still be positive advertising, trying to spin it as still a good thing.

Compared to Cyberpunk 2077 where their artificial slop is basically advertised as being the most disgusting slop ever, but people still accept that anyway

He was a lib, but he was also a lib with deep understanding of class and class consciousness. He fucking hated celebrity chefs, and celebrated the working class cooks and dishwashers he worked alongside. Where most celebrity cooking shows went to France and shit for the fanciest duck farts plated on endangered wood from Madagascar, Bourdain's favourite place to go was for a bowl of street noodles in Vietnam, sitting on the curb with a beer. A lib, but less insufferable than most, and one that may have become a comrade later.

The thing is that Cyberpunk 2077 exaggerates the evils of capitalism so far into absurdity that it stops being a critique of capitalism. Instead of the true mundane horrors of capitalism we have today, where companies basically knowingly stuff everything with microplastics and get away with it by greenwashing, and where single billionaires can inspired coups in foreign nations, Cyberpunk 2077 is a world where corporations feed you literal slop made of 100% artificial substances using the most crude and disgusting advertisements.

What CDPR does is basically make the most over the top faux capitalism where people do obviously evil shit and then gesture at it to go "haha wow glad we don't live like that, huh gamers?" There's absolutely zero meat to their critique, it's a capitalist strawman.

Johnny also does this during Judy's quest line to start a revolution at Clouds, a brothel.

Despite being portrayed as a revolutionary and a rebel, Johnny spends the entire time shitting on Judy and the other sex workers specifically because they're sex workers - the plan isn't good, but Johnny's problems aren't with the plan at any point.

All cyber, no punk.

This demonic entity in human form was good friends with August Pinochet, who during his coup of Chile murdered anyone left of him in extremely vicious ways

He also presided over the bombing of Cambodia and Laos, leaving both nations with so much unexploded ordnance that to this day, thousands are maimed every year despite the Vietnam war being decades over

He is directly responsible for at least two genocides

May he rest in eternal hellfire and boiling piss