That and PC Gaming (for a while) for me. I’d always look forward to every issue that came. Now, “can’t I just find that stuff online?”.

Why is everything here making me feel like a boring adult

Only sorta related but while GFWL was garbage, Little-Me did find it neat that I could wrack up gamerscore with the same account and achievement list on two different platforms.

“Combat-aged men” is there to “counter” the accusation that Israel targets entire families as well as normalize violence against “acceptable” targets.

It’s why I’m against the usage of “women and children”, even if I understand the place that’s coming from. Once you dehumanize Palestinian men, it’s not hard to write off their sisters, mothers, wives, and children.

This would be hilarious if these crocodile tear-shedding fuckheads weren’t handing lists of people to to have the American Gestapo grab in the dead of night. Though, I think it’s more likely that some alphabet soup s pay a visit to Ms. Rachel’s house a la Second Thought/JT Chapman, at most.

At the very least, unhinged stuff like this alienates people and shows that Zionism’s PR team is desperate. It’s a large part of why Israel itself and the US are desperate to “finish the job”.

how many of those work out for the colonists?

I mean… North America and Oceania.

Granted, those had the “helping hand” of disease ravaging the indigenous population as well as an (initially) large technological discrepancy. They also were less concerned about optics, whereas Israel was built following the post-WWII “international consensus” (though even when the “gloves come off” it doesn’t change much). In effect, Israel is an Anglo-style settler colony with the time, place and underlying conditions less than ideal for it.

By the time of the second world war’s start, Germany had effectively been able to secure its own autarky (war loot and occupied territories factored in) and wage war independently of Western support for a good few years, though it certainly accepted outside help in some regards (like IBM, as you mentioned). Even before, while it certainly did help, Germany didn’t need material and diplomatic support from the Western Allies to incorporate Austria and Czechoslovakia (thereby giving them the industry to support themselves), only their inaction.

By contrast, Israel’s existence while at war is entirely predicated on Western support. Without it, it would need to mobilize its entire infrastructure, population and industry towards war, which would absolutely kill it as a viable project within a matter of years. The genocide in Gaza and displacement in West Bank and East Jerusalem is effectively as much of a Western undertaking as it is an Israeli one. It’s the same beast with two different faces.

I don’t mean to belittle the evil of mask-off Zionism or fascism, just that its soulless liberal PR team which gaslights all while making a mockery of the very concept of internationalism gets under my skin more often.

I hate these rabid ethnonationalist quasi-zealots but I hate the Western liberal “democracies” and their institutions who enable them in the first place so, so much more. They will parrot their utopic aspiration of a law-abiding community of secular democratic states prizing the value of individual rights above “the nation” only to then read shit like “The Bible offers three modalities for a religiously mandated war” and entertain it. Blood-and-soil “nation-building” ramblings with religious justification were bad when the Serbs were the ones spewing them but are perfectly valid for the only democracy in the middle east.

Pierre Laval was basically the opportunist’s opportunist. Man unabashedly licked the boots of every party and ideology under the sun to get ahead even before he was “forced” to collaborate. I’m surprised to find out he was even worse that I thought (and pleasantly surprised to find out he actually had justice doled out to him, unlike so many other collaborators).

Damn. I got got

The more I read from average hogs and libs, the more I come to sympathize with on the “Democratic Principle”

The march’s organizers are predominantly lib (“Hands off NATO!” but no word about Palestine) but it is still a good opportunity to capitalize, as seen here.

No joke, I’ve heard “you’d complain about Lenin for tearing apart his rivals in the RSDLP and SRs too!” as a defense for this kind of behavior.

Hm, what else was Lenin up to in between getting into slap-fights with Marxists and ‘Marxists’, I wonder…

Thinking back to when Bucha was talked about for months on end by MSM “reporters” and talking heads. The travesty in Gaza really pulled off the mask of this rotten “order”, even more than the GWOT already did

I can just hear that raw SNES sound effect

I have fought mudcrabs more fearsome than you!

The “Iranian Pro-Democracy Movement” (ie, the English-speaking ones who Libs actually listen to) is funny because if you bring up Mossadegh as opposed to some failson “prince” as an actual historical figure to rally behind, they go onto some tirade about him being a crypto-commie dictator who deserved to be overthrown by Ajax “the Iranian people”. Westoids love that shit because it absolves them of the fact that “the good guys” essentially strangled a US-friendly liberal democracy in its cradle and set Iran on the path to become what it is now all because of Britbong oil interests.

There’s also that guy who tried making an “Lore-Friendly All-White Commonwealth” mod for Fallout 4. Or the dipshits who tried that for Stellaris while putting a neonazi “defend muh evropa” link in the desc.

Similar lighting and everything

What’s that? “Anti-campism” leads to another kind of campism? Huh.

If you have a good-ish rig (as it’s poorly optimized) and the patience for some annoying bugs, it’s very good. The devs poured their everything into making London feel like a varied and dense place with its own identity separate from the Commonwealth, some underlying similarities notwithstanding (eg. no FEV means no supermutants but you still have loads of ghouls and raiders hooligans to kill), and it expands on visual story-telling that Beth Fallout games are actually good at. Aside from that, the quests are better (even if they sometimes fall into the vanilla shoot-n-loot formula), there are a lot of skill/perk checks in dialogue and I also quite like the companion roster and their unique quests. YMMV on some of the goofier factions (one of them are raiders who LARP as 18th century British sailors) but I personally like Fallout when it embraces some absurdity.

That being said, I wouldn’t quite say it’s Fallout 4’s New Vegas like some have. It still has some fundamental flaws, some of which are actually worse than vanilla F4, like the main quest’s handling of the faction conflict. Also the settlement system is still an unfinished mess and some of the original game bleeds through there.

There are planned updates which will include stuff for the main quest and even some “DLC” so who knows how much better it will get?