Some of my favourite games were JRPGs growing up. I always had the impression that while CRPGs gave the player a lot more freedom, I found JRPGs were more about telling one really good curated story.

Games like the early Final Fantasies, Chrono Trigger, and basically anything Squaresoft put out “back in the day” were among my favourite gaming experience.

These days, whether due to my tastes changing, more limited time, or just the genre shifting in a way that doesn’t appeal to me, I play very very few JRPGs. A lot have gone the route of the heavily anime-inspired fanservice vehicles that just aren’t really what I ever liked about the genre.

I still will play the heck out of a Persona game though.

I feel we have been hovering right around there for a while now.

Look, I fully understand this is a case of doing a good thing for probably the wrong reasons/by accident, but yoooo I will take it.

But man, the easy pickings for Shit Reactionaries Say will be gone.

There is a non-zero chance the account runners aren’t actually located there anyway. They are totally aware of what they are doing, appealing to the western warmongers who will highfive and talk about how bad a burn it was to Russia. If you told me that the account was run by a US social media manager or something, I would believe it.

Did you forget that US are the Good Guys and Russian are the Bad Guys? Only Bad Guys can be imperialist.

Of course not, they label themselves a defensive alliance. Which means it is 100% true and they can’t possibly be imperialist. Any territory they claim is driven by uh…defense.

But as The Spectre of Communism, you strike fear into their hearts. Really they have no other option but to ban you, look at that fearsome profile picture.

Weren’t there overtly fascist instances? Surely those would be more hated.

I have about the same position on this. A lot (though not all) of these people are insufferable, though we don’t have nearly as many in my country as the US does. Being annoying on the internet is, thankfully, not something people get deported for however.

Nor does it mean I wish them death, which is likely what would happen if they were sent back. Their death and a prolonging of a war that is just going to kill even more.

he literally just does auctions to sell ukrainian assets to western investors

And you are wondering why Zionists would admire him?

Surely they don’t actually think NATO is an equal partnership between them and the US, right?

I mean my expectations are low because reddit, but is there any /r/CountryName that isn’t like this? You usually have to find the alternatively named sub to find people positive on the place, like MovingtoNorthKorea or Sino.

On first read, thought they meant “sensitivity for the victims and their families” meant the victims of Mussolini. I could understand cautioning sympathy for them, and that just seeing Mussolini could be triggering for those people.
Then I realized they probably meant that Mussolini and his family were the victims? Which is…a take to be sure. Especially as from what I remember, his remaining family are not a whole lot better.

I am sure that the…Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has no bias whatsoever in their reported numbers.

Now what would their reaction be if you used the Russian’s numbers?

There was that Brit volunteer (Richard Woodruff) who was advocating everyone be racist to Russians for the rest of their lives and was being celebrated for it.

He was also advocating taking a plane and flying it into the Kremlin. I am not sure how multiple three letter agencies haven’t visited him yet.

They always fall back to “Russian isn’t a race so it’s totally okay to be prejudiced!”. Which about tracks for the level of humanity they can muster,

Their proposed solution is to displace not only the Palestinians but also the Soqotri people. Why destroy only one people when you can do two instead? Yemen apparently gets no say in the matter either?

The Soqotri are already dealing with issues stemmed from displacement and immigration to the island. The Soqotri language, very unfortunately, is in danger as it is. Not a lot of speakers anymore to my knowledge. Notably it is NOT a variant of Arabic.

Yes but internal conflicts so that one is a mulligan, obviously.

It is far faster to count the wars that the US has actually won than those they have lost. And if you pare that down to wars they won on their own merits, it is almost nothing.

But I guess all of those don’t count because of internal conflicts? Wonder if they should maybe do something about that.

I am not going to say you can’t find love while involved in a political party, the best relationships I have had (including my current longterm one) all came about incidentally while involved in something else. But maybe that shouldn’t really be something the party is spending time focusing on.

That aside, the terminology they are using is…really bad, both ways. Especially if you think identifying as a trot is a good thing.

US speedrunning driving their economy into the ground. I would be curious to see if this is just a momentary blip or actually some kind of long running sanction.

There are so many things I get from China that I would be missing out on if I were in the US. Nevermind the most simple things like care packages for people living overseas.