Anything else being called a roguelike is revisionism used to market games and ignores the fundamental contradictions between adventurers and dungeons
dustcommie
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Given that every western media source I have seen on this is saying this is just a move to strengthen a dictatorship we will see.
Based Americans would be better, wouldn't want to put a bigger target on Cuba
It looks like a (potential) dog whistle, and a lot of people here not hearing it, with how they zoomed in and framed the "he/him" pride flag. Given that hexbear requires pronouns it makes sense that is missed
ZiggoCiP - he/him GMT-5 — Today at 3:46 PM That's what I thought. [3:48 PM] They have an assortment of their own native (stolen from western ones of course) versions of said platforms if I'm not mistaken. Certainly would be easier to influence westerners if they got on said platforms. Like Cal pointed out, Tiktok as we see it isn't what it is in China.
The self admitted fed (Caledric) comments from the images
9/27/2022 2:31
I was an Intel Analyst in the Marines
9/27/2022 2:33am I'm undecided if I'm going back into the intel field after I get my degree. Just started back up in college as a 41 year old man... I'm older than 2 of my profs lol. Right now probably just going to do cyber security
9/27/2022 2:39am Being a fucking idiot who turned down 3 job offers in NC to move back to Western PA where my family lived cause I thought for sure I could find a job in Pittsburgh doing intel shit..
10/2/2022 11:49pm I was an Intel Specialist in the Marines and my Major is Security Risk & Analysis with an Intel Analysis option... so information security is kinda my gig
Just Caledric's messages from the discord convo
Caledric — Today at 6:57 PM Personally I say China bad because I have first hand knowledge and accounts of the things they have done or intended to do with various things like Tik Tok, Video Games, etc that are mass marketed to the public but completely banned in China itself. No I can't expand on that because I am not stupid enough to share top secret information on the internet like those dumbfucks on the War Thunder forums. Suffice it to say if you knew about the shit you did they would be a much bigger threat than Elon.
Caledric — Today at 7:01 PM No banning Tik tok is NOT Stupid. Tik Tok is a Chinese Psyop and nothing more. People are litterally addicted to it and will act out in violence due to their addiction and subtle programing. For fuck sakes there have been several stories of Teenagers committing violence just because of the THREAT of Tik Tok being banned. Biden said he had no intentions on enforcing the tik tok ban during the last days of his presidency and left it to Trump to enforce. As soon as Biden said he was not going to ban it China released their statement Via tik tok that they were shutting down because it was being banned. Then the day after suddenly the new President who created a crypto coin that China invested in to the tune of Billions, said he was going to save Tik Tok and then Tik tok puts out an announcement praising the purchased president.
Caledric — Today at 7:05 PM Did you miss the part where I said I was fucking part of the US Intelligence network and had first hand knowledge of how they were using the platform, and their plans on how to manipulate people with it? You are exactly the type of apologist that they were seeking to create. Someone who will blindly defend them with whataboutisms and turn a very specific issue into a wide general issue.
Caledric — Today at 7:08 PM I was during my time in the Marines. It was my MOS. [7:08 PM] My theater of specialization was Asia.
Caledric — Today at 7:10 PM Leon is absolutely trying to replicate it, he's just not smart enough to keep it subtle.
Caledric — Today at 7:13 PM Lol you think it's only Half?
Maybe he is fishing for Juche Necromancy secrets so he can live forever
If you want a bit of a laugh I saw this on xhs: What is the strongest military US, China, Russia? (many chinese netizens) Clearly South Korea they dared to build a country on top of a US military base
Anything funny you have seen recently?
I listened to one episode a year or two ago, coming in with pretty low expectations, and was very disappointed. It felt very phoned in/lazy, not much chemistry, not really informative, or entertaining. Maybe I just came into a bad episode but I suspect they are just coasting off the good years(if there were ever any) and habit from listeners. I guess it wouldn't hurt to listen to an episode yourself, but that was my experience
There was Roseanne, but I don't know if that was popular outside the US (ignoring Roseanne Barr currently and the "revival")
Most American politics is just theater(at the electoral level). Trump not really having any hard alliances, working with Meta, and seeing that the ban wasn't super popular it was probably easy to unban hoping he can get them to sell, but even if they don't he still comes out on top. All the millionaire geriatrics in the house, congress, Biden, and supreme court just thought "China bad" would be good enough to either kick them out or get them to sell. Most of the time that would work, but younger people are not on the same program (yet).
I don't really think it is some GOP conspiracy or long con by Trump, all this just seems like taking very obvious opportunities and capital just moving along.
Given the "reasons" TikTok was banned them censoring and adjusting the algorithms for anything relating to american politics is pretty expected.
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Well they can just be replaced with AI, replacing american bots with actual bots will just be more efficient.