Alaknar
@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
Who wants to use an increasingly locked down operating system?
What’s the alternative? Keep in mind: we’re talking about a primary phone used for calls, texts, navigation, banking, payments, photography, and social media.
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
What’s the alternative? Keep in mind: we’re talking about a primary phone used for calls, texts, navigation, banking, payments, photography, and social media.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
OK, there’s a MASSIVE gap between “illegal use of white phosphorus” and “chemical eradication”, like, dude, be real.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
- If that’s your point, why did you write about the Sami people?
- Source on “chemical eradication” in Lebanon, please. I searched for it but couldn’t find anything.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
It’s the exact same thing as right-wing weirdos associating the term “feminist” strictly with with the most extreme, fundamentalist, fringe elements of the movement, “feminazis” if you will, that went way over the equality hill and ended up in “all men are bad, m’kay” forest.
The fact that public media often reinforces that view does not help.
In short: the game is woke, because it showcases a gay romance with historical accuracy. Vavra thinks it’s not woke, because it doesn’t allow the player character to be a black lesbian with “them” pronouns.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
OK, now I get it.
Of course I heard about it. The “state sponsored Western propaganda” also very specifically mentioned that phrenology studies were shut down only in the 70s in Sweden, in case that would be your further attempt at a “gotcha”.
Why would you think that it’s some sort of secret?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, could you re-write that? I’m having trouble understanding what you meant.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This article would therefore define ANY war as genocide. (in whole or in part, killing members of the group), and it may even be a “peaceful situation”!
People always focus on the wrong part of the definition.
The important one is the intent.
Wars are waged for various reasons - you need “lebensraum”, you need oil, you intervene on behalf of the UN, you counterattack after being attacked yourself, etc.
The goals in these cases are: expansion of borders, hoarding of wealth, arguably humanitarian intervention, or military defence.
If your goal is to eliminate a people, that’s genocide.
And yes, that’s also the reason why it’s so difficult to actually define a military action as “genocide” - because it’s often almost impossible to unequivocally determine what was the intent behind an attack.
And with that, let’s look at your examples:
This would mean the Nazis were genocided by the Allies.
No, because the goal was the stopping of the genocide of Jews, and defeating an aggressor that terrorised Europe and North Africa for four years.
This would mean Japan’s treatment of Aum Shinrikyo was also a genocide
No, because the death sentences were carried out not because of their religious beliefs, but because they committed acts of terror.
This is why no one takes them seriously
No. No one takes them seriously because most people, like you, don’t understand the definition.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m not going to engage in this discourse, just as much as I won’t engage in the discourse about whether or not the Earth is flat.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I think I made a pretty strong refute of his points here.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
So in other words, the moment you read anyone that disagrees with you, you stop thinking immediately and reflexively shut off any and all engagement?
No. The moment someone makes a claim that is utterly ridiculous in its disregard for facts, I disregard their reasoning.
If you said “the Earth isn’t round to begin with”, you’d earn an identical reaction.
Sounds like you’ve holed yourself up in an echo chamber of your own making
Sounds like you’re projecting.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
From your first link:
Among many other potential reasons, cultural genocide may be committed for religious motives (e.g., iconoclasm which is based on aniconism); as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing
This is covered by “intent to destroy (…) ethnical (…) group”.
From your second link:
The final prohibited act is the only prohibited act that does not lead to physical or biological destruction, but rather to the destruction of the group as a cultural and social unit
There will always be political legalese in play, when imperialist powers want to commit genocide, and so they’ll cling to the fact that “cultural genocide” is not specifically mentioned. But, in the case of Uyghurs, it’s a very clear-cut case of both ethnic cleansing and physical genocide (through forced sterilisation and displacement of children).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The moment you say that “China isn’t imperialist to begin with” you lose all credibility and reading the rest is a waste of time.
Read about the Belt and Road initiative, the militarisation of the South China Sea, the treatment of Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Tibet, or Taiwan, THEN come back and say with a straight face that “China isn’t imperialist to begin with”. :D
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Cultural genocide is not recognized by the UN
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; 3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; 4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; 5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Elements of the crime
The Genocide Convention establishes in Article I that the crime of genocide may take place in the context of an armed conflict, international or non-international, but also in the context of a peaceful situation. (…) The same article establishes the obligation of the contracting parties to prevent and to punish the crime of genocide.
Bold by me.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Unless the media wants to check up on the Uyghurs.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
China isn’t imperialist to begin with.
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Excellent shitpost, milord!
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 month ago:
REAL GAMERS DON’T NEED WAMEN IN THERE GAMES!!!1
- Comment on The RAM crisis could completely change how developers make video games 1 month ago:
People, especially those who run games on monitors with hi resolution, sleep on the fact that you can easily turn AA off to get a massive boost in performance for virtually no degradation of graphics.
- Comment on The RAM crisis could completely change how developers make video games 1 month ago:
What in the world are you talking about…? I was using my GTX 970 for five years before I got a used RTX 2060, which I sold to my brother after two years. I’m nor running an RX 9070 XT and it looks like it’ll do its job for at least 5 years.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 1 month ago:
Top rated free games: itch.io/games/top-rated/free.
I personally don’t play on Itch that much, but I just had a looksie today and found something that seems to be the spiritual child of Trackmania: kodub.itch.io/polytrack.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s just unsubstantiated “looking back through rose tinted glasses” kind of thing.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 1 month ago:
Nonsense.
You have RPG games, rogue-likes, VNs, puzzles - literally all the kinds of games in existence are right there on Itch. It’s exactly like back when Flash was popular, only this time it’s more secure and less resource hungry (most of the time).
- Comment on Anon misses flash 1 month ago:
People who have no clue what they’re talking about be like:
I mean, seriously… Celebrating FLASH of all things? And complaining that there are no more free amateur games? MF, never heard of Unity? Godot? O3DE? Defold? GDevelop? OGRE? renpy? pygame? stride?
The worst of these still being infinitely better than Flash. And then you can publish your work at Itch.io.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 months ago:
My Steam account is almost 18 years old and I still have to select DOB when viewing “adult” games…
- Comment on ..? 2 months ago:
Sure they were! Nothing happening over there had anything to do with the women that were kidnapped, raped, and/or killed in the custody of the Guidance Patrol! Everybody celebrated these as beautiful moments of religious expression!
- Comment on ..? 2 months ago:
Yup.
- Comment on ..? 2 months ago:
Yeah, clearly the ones still in Iran absolutely loved him. To the point where they recently went out to the streets to show their support, right?
- Comment on ..? 2 months ago:
Dedicated his life to spiritual fulfilment.
LOL, good one :D
- Comment on ..? 2 months ago:
The ideal scenario, now that the greybeard kicked the bucket, is for Iran to fire a ballistic missile straight at Netanyahu’s arse, Krasnov suffering a heart attack, and Vlad just watching his entire country crumble to bits as his economy dies, and his military collapses from lack of manpower.
Not sure about Xi. Maybe a fishing boat accident.