China’s economy is growing while the entire west’s economy is shrinking! Here’s why that means communism doesn’t work and China will collapse any day now!"
India is also in the middle of a destabilizing Fascist takeover by a ethno-religious reactionary force that took evolution out of the text books. They’re also going to continue to suffer horribly due to climate change. Bangladesh, right on the border, is one of the primary candidates for an apocalyptic wet bulb event that could potentially kill millions of people and drive millions of more to flee.
Yeah, the idea that western neoliberal economies are capable of anything other than self-destructive auto-cannibalism is farcical. How is Blackrock supposed to jack up quarterly profits by building things?!! The UK is already speedrunning a return to a medieval economy. France is fighting for it’s life to retain it’s colonial possessions. Berlin answers to DC. And the rest of Europe doesn’t matter.
It’s always annoyed me that you see the recommendation to get a “side hustle” to get ahead… when in reality you need that “side hustle” just to afford basic cost of living. At that point it’s not a hustle, it’s literally survival....
The pool filled in with cement, an empty badminton court, halls and balconies strewn with refuse, surrounded by strip malls in what is essentially a glorified truck stop called Rock Springs....
I read somewhere that Mao’s family was considered well off for peasants because they could afford eggs a few times a year. I have no idea if there’s any truth to that.
en.wikipedia.org/…/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests… - I would like to point out that as much as they try to obfuscate it even the wiki admits that ~300 is the only credible number, and most of that was street fighting when insurgents attacked PLA troops with molotovs and firearms, with the death toll including unarmed PLA troops burned alive in their trucks
The whole thing is bullshit. The famine was sixty years and like four major government upheavals ago. Tianmenen square is the most overhyped government repression in history, and it’s never mentioned that many of the casualties were unarmed PLA soldiers burned alive, and the insurgents that attacked them when armed PLA units were able to respond. And of course while there were human rights violations in Xinjiang, they are absolutely not the human rights violations people think they were, and the whole thing was part of a campaign to suppress insurgent groups and needs to be compared to the West’s “bomb weddings and ambulances” strategy, to say nothing of the genocidal campaign in Yemen that recently concluded. It’s all ignorance, totally unselfconscious indoctrination, and general bs.
Try Battlebit if you like FPS games. It was made by three guys and is dramatically better than any battlefield or CoD entry in the last decade. Looks like Roblox, plays like SOCOM.
They suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I love stunting on people with the stupidest loadouts in CoD, Going 20:1 in CoD by just holding a hallway with stabilized machine gun never stops being funny. Eventually the SBMM will boot me up to sweatlord territory but until then just using basic infantry tactics and pieing corners for kills while people flop around like neurotoxin poisoned trouts trying to be cool movement shooter dudes is hilarious. When I learned you could cook grenades with extreme precision I did nothing but airburst grenades in people’s faces for like two days.
Try Hunt Showdown if you want something really different. It’s all old school cowboy guns, and two hits to the upper chest kills with any weapon within it’s effective range except bows, shotguns, and the elephant gun. It gives fights a very different pacing. It’s PvPvE with twelve players in teams of 1-3 competing to track down a boss monster, kill it, then extract with the bounty before someone else guns them down> The game is brilliantly constructed so that players organically move towards each other as they progress through each hunt. Instead of a big death circle forcing people together players want to do things that lead them towards one another, and hte result is that you know peolple are coming, but you never quite know from where. It has the best positional audio in gaming - You can hear every gunshot from anywhere in the 1kmx1km maps, you can tell roughly what kind of gun it was, whether it was inside or outside, and almost precisely what direction it was from. Which means every time you want to shoot you’re telling the whole map where you are. Managing how much noise you make is a huge aspect of the game that is one of the first skill floors new players have to climb to.
Probably both. A lot of games really do suck ass. CoD is just comically bad in so many ways.
There’s some cool stuff out there, though. battlebit is aces, better than any CoD or Battlefield in years. Hunt Showdown is unqiue and cool. Darktide is an awesome horde shooter. Warframe… is warframe. Deep Rock Galactic is fun spacedorf action. Splitgate mixes up old school HALO:CE gameplay with portals that let you pull off cool kills or radically change the movement rountes across the map. There’s ARMA3 and Reforger if you like milsim, with varyiung levels of milsimminess from “Sir yes sir” tryhards to people who just try to use basic infantry tactics and cooperate. There’s apparently a huge star wars mod scene right now.
We all die alone. Doesn’t really matter how you get there. If you can amuse yourself while you wait for death that’s usually preferable to the alternative.
Try the Risen or even the old Gothic games. They’re definitely old and janky but there’s a ton of exploration and discovery packed in with the old and the jank. Dark Souls and company are also worth looking in to if you haven’t played them. Get Prepare to Die edition instead of Dark Souls remastered. Read some guides for the first Dark Souls - It has some mechanics that can really fuck you over. But the second and third one, plus Elden Ring, you can mostly just fuck around there’s nothing particularly high stakes.
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'Young people are hustlers': Gen Z 'willing to do what they need to' to make ends meet (www.abc.net.au)
It’s always annoyed me that you see the recommendation to get a “side hustle” to get ahead… when in reality you need that “side hustle” just to afford basic cost of living. At that point it’s not a hustle, it’s literally survival....
I saw the future of the United States in a parking lot at a hotel somewhere in Wyoming. (media.discordapp.net)
The pool filled in with cement, an empty badminton court, halls and balconies strewn with refuse, surrounded by strip malls in what is essentially a glorified truck stop called Rock Springs....
Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week (www.reuters.com)
Chinese economy expected to have slipped into deflation as recovery falters (www.theguardian.com)
Posting my favorite memes (lemm.ee)