christian
@christian@lemmy.ml
I think I speak for most people when I say that I’m a good representative of the general population.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th 1 week ago:
I’ve started playing a game called Yaoling, which is a monster taming/collecting game. The battling system is much more like Yo-Kai Watch than Pokémon - you’re not really bossing them around, they kind of do their own thing once you’ve made preparations and started.
Absolutely spectacular gameplay so far, I’m really impressed. Love the artwork and monster designs. It’s in early access right now and it warns you to expect some bugs, but other than a lot of typos in the English translation I’ve only come across a couple minor issues. Official release planned for mid-July I think.
- Comment on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - ADG 3 weeks ago:
I played this as a kid. I loved the game except for the fights. I would press ‘0’ to sucker punch every time. I don’t even know what Indy Quotient is, why should I care about it going down?
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 5 months ago:
I had a few members tell me that I was part of the evil capitalist elite because I had a job.
Had to be a joke, I’m having trouble even imagining a person who could believe this in earnest, let alone enough to say it out loud.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 5 months ago:
This essay resonates with me, thanks for sharing, the author makes her points pretty effectively. I’m not a historian and I don’t know shit, but I think even if I give the critics the concession that everything is absolute rubbish, I still think there’s no convincing argument that the beliefs are dishonest or malicious or not genuine.
There’s so much bullshit and conflicting views about literally every historical event that I find it really hard to penetrate the context of the discussion and feel confident in anything, but I think the fact that I keep seeing people who hold “tankie” opinions dismissed as malicious propagandists pushes me very strongly towards feeling that the critics have not made any attempt to seriously engage with the ideas they’re fighting against.
I think the realization I’m coming to now is that when part of your ideology is that people who claim belief in a specific conflicting worldview can be dismissed as bots or propagandists, finding out that those people aren’t manufactured makes it a lot harder to take everything else you’ve said seriously.
On the other hand, the guy you’re replying to is correct that the author’s points fall completely flat and are ridiculous once you hunt down that specific paragraph and remove the context immediately before and after. Then it becomes obvious to an unbiased reader that the author actually ignored communist death tolls because it was inconvenient for her argument.
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