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 No.23814[Reply]

Has anyone heard about this new dating app called Duolicious? It's supposedly designed to help you meet like-minded individuals based on your personality. Sounds like a neat concept, but I can't help feeling a bit skeptical about it.

First off, how accurate can these personality assessments really be? I mean, are we reducing the complexity of human relationships to a mere algorithm? And what about privacy concerns? With all the data breaches happening these days, I'm wary of handing over intimate details of my personality to some tech company.

Plus, there's the whole capitalist angle. Is this just another way to monetize loneliness and exploit our desire for connection? It feels like these apps are more about making profits than genuinely helping people find meaningful relationships.

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. Do you think Duolicious is a step forward in online dating, or just another tech gimmick preying on our emotions?
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 No.23840

>>23839
Third places are not the commons.

 No.23846

try leaving your house and talking to people

 No.23847

stop shilling your chvd dating app on the tech board
at least have the courtesy to dump it in /siberia/

 No.23923

>>23835
When a third place is known for having single women, all the creepy guys will flood it and then either it shuts down or guys get banned.

 No.23924

>>23923
Do you have any examples where this actually happened?



/draw/

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 No.3341[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

First time on /leftypol/ Edition
I like drawing on occasion, mainly my OC Gabriel (redhead boy with a little femininity) and sometimes Larissa (his deadpan but kind gf)
Anyway this is an art trade thread, so exchange doodles or full-blown drawings, depending on what you're about
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 No.4326

>>4325
She's Dina, there's a reference sheet: >>4205

 No.4327

>>4326
Ah apologies

 No.4328

>>4325
>Is the redhead drinking out of a burger
Yup, and I have no idea why I drew that lol
Also what this anon >>4326 said

 No.4329

Here’s a sketch of Gabriel I just did

 No.4330

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>>4329
I think that's Dina you just drew :) Either way thank you sm! It's cute



/hobby/

 No.16134[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

What do you think of the Solarpunk literary genre? I find it very interesting, not only because I find the aesthetics very attractive, but also because it is openly anti-capitalist and has a very strong ideological content.
But I would like to know what /leftypol/ thinks.

Do you find a Solarpunk society the ideal society?anarcho-communismAnarcho-Communism
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 No.40768

>>16134
eco-fascists gargabe

 No.40769

>renewable energy and green space in cities is fascism
the fatsocs are still malding about this and bumping this thread?

 No.40813

>>40769
There's nothing inherently wrong with those things, but why's it called solar punk and why is it rooted in Tumblr scifi and consumerism (seen here >>16171 )

 No.40816

>>40813
>but why's it called solar punk
It's like cyberpunk… But with no punk… and with barely any cyber… You know, people used to call that "utopian fiction" back in the day.

It's like with goblincore, it has nothing to do with hardcore punk or even hardcore techno but normies like to appropriate le funni suffixes to sound cool without understanding what they mean. It's not even Goblin Slayer porn.

 No.40817

>>40813
>>40816
It's like steampunk and dieselpunk, you can blame them for following trends but it's not like they invented it. I don't know about goblincore but maybe it is a play on cottagecore? Idk where the "core" stuff comes from, but it does not have to do anything with music. The "punk" in cyberpunk does not have any direct connection to music either, it's just a word for young troublemaker.



/edu/

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 No.21458[Reply]

My party is going through line sturggle on the lgbtq question. i had read red fightbacks marxism and trangender liberation. i need this and more marxist bibliography on the question to help form a revolutionary line.
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 No.21517

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If you really want to push forward the dialectic, bring up intersex people.

 No.21519

>>21517
Yeah. XX cis men and XY cis women.

Also point out how biological sex is the gendering of the body, and not vice versa.

 No.21526

>>21458
For my country, on the issue of LGBT people in general, these would be my arguments

1. support individual self-determination
1.a. anything else is a conservative, idealist form of morality
2. historicize class in order to see how gender, race, and nationality distort any "pure" form of class (e.g. the role of women in primitive accumulation and early capitalism, the role of women's domestic labor in reproducing capitalism, the national and racial disproportions in the working class and the bourgeoisie, etc.)
3. understand why conservatives attack lgbtq+ individuals
3.a. sex is the tether for gender that is used to claim its natural existence. If sex and gender activities are untethered, it's a threat to patriarchy, and thus a threat to the historic bourgeoisie (e.g. increased competition) and the reproduction of capitalism (e.g. women withdrawing labor).
3.b. it's the refusal to perform sex-assigned-gender activities, as required by the supremacist superstructure. Refusal is treated harshly, the same way criticism within a cult or disobeying a mafia don is treated harshly. The worry is it could cause a cascading effect that unseats patriarchy

basically, to support these identities on both human grounds of self-determination and because their detractors are upholding systems of oppression (patriarchy specifically) that scaffold capitalism.

>>21465
on your adoption issue: if your party is against adoption because of the commodified nature, then be against adoption for everyone. A child shouldn't be treated as something everyone has a right to (a consumerist mindset anyways). A child is a responsibility. Like another anon said, insofar as there are children in need of legal guardians for natural reasons, then allowing queer couples and individuals to adopt is helpful to the problem. [no i dont have studies :,( ]

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can i please live as the person i am comrades? why is that open to question? i would make a good mother i promise

 No.21817

>>21815
put me in the screencap



/hobby/

 No.27348[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

post meme templates and objects with transparent backgrounds, etc. for our OC makers to use.
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 No.39426

>>39424
who's the crackhead lain?

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>>39426
>who's the crackhead lain?
idk, sorry.

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/music/

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 No.9235[Reply]

Post music to cry to.
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 No.11407

>>9378
Oh damn, this got taken down
Here's the song: Meddling Gut Wrenches by King Creosote from Love + Hate = Hate

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/AKM/

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 No.2594[Reply]

Is there anyone who would be willing to do a reading groups about warfare, strategy and tactics at a theory level? and possibly should, can or how could we use these concepts and theories into our own non-kinetic projects and more broadly the class/social war/.
I'd be very interested in this as it will help me grapple with the ideas bettert. We could do it on an easy to anonymously communicate platform and choose a book or theme collectively.

 No.2595

I've got too much on my plate rn
Sorry comrade :(

 No.2617

>>2594
Sounds very interesting to me. I may wish to join in a few months time. Thank you for the offer anon.

 No.4664

>>2594
I dunno about a reading group, but is there a list/archive of MODERN(so at least ww2) military literature? Specifically military, not guerilla/terror stuff. Some youtube channels about military would also be appreciated.

 No.4665

>>4664
And I'm not talking about stuff like "how to treat your wounds and handle your ak", but preferably stuff like "how to be an infantry squad leader".

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/music/

 No.10951[Reply]

post conservative and rightoid music of any genre.
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 No.11359

>>11352
Jesus fucking christ

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/hobby/

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 No.9852[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Discuss.
Dune discussion general.

https://youtu.be/jJj2yHM3d3Y
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 No.40794

>>40784
>>40793
worst part is that both the movies and books are incredibly in your face about it but people still dont get it

 No.40795

>>40793
>Probably some kind of generational trauma from all the centuries of religious repression against pagans, heretics, and doubters.
99% of those people were not even close to "free thinkers," anon.

 No.40811

>>40784
the villeneuve dune movies so far are just timothee chalamet and zendaya thirst trapping while fighting the evil black-and-white people

 No.40812

>>40795
nobody said "free thinkers" but you, chvd

 No.40814

>>40812
That's the implication, isn't it? If the reason that people want to be bullshitted into a grand narrative is because of generational trauma from centuries of religious repression against pagans, heretics and doubters, it stands to reason that said pagans, heretics and doubters must have been rational free thinkers generally freed from such nonsense.

Except that they weren't. For every Galileo, you had at least a hundred people like Montanists, Cathars and Hermeticists. Take a long watch of vid related if you want to see how supposedly rational the Hermeticists are.



/games/

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 No.29738[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Is it any good? I haven't played it myself
Also do I have to play the previous games to understand what's going on?
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 No.33836

Where's the Baldur's Gay eroge spin-off when we need it?

 No.33838

>>33836
yeah Japan wtf

 No.33840

>>33822
>>33833
most sales come from the first month or so, and all the streamers showing people what the game is like will mostly be playing the earliest parts. way less incentive to make the game not a piece of shit past that point.

 No.34261

the raphael song is cringe. i've seen some cope on reddit saying that it's supposed to be cringe and that in the context of d&d it's okay if it's cringe. but that's not true. the song is cringe because it's badly written. the rhyme scheme is doctor seuss level and the analogies/metaphors are are the most basic 1:1 simplistic shit. i get the impression that it was written by some person in the dev team whose actual job was some technical shit and they were unqualified for the task

 No.34273

>>34261
it came off as cheesy boss fight stuff and that is one the reasons i liked it though, that and the singing was competent.



/games/

 No.29648[Reply]

They’re easy to produce, last long, can fuckup thousands of other aliens and even humans, cost little to maintain and can be deployed anywhere. Why not skip the process of training, educating and deploying tau soldiers and just automate defensive lines to preserve the taus existence in the most pragmatic way possible. It’s not even like the tau aren’t politically inclined to rely on automated warfare
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 No.29652

Thats what I do in Ultimate Apocalypse when playing as Tau basically. Build a bunch of turrets to create a perimeter and then hold it with blobs of drones and vehicle support until I get to building heavy battlesuits and titans to push forward with powerful long range fire.

 No.29653

>>29651
On second thought since they seem to use wormhole drives (per Google) that might not work for FTL. Even still relativistic warfare seems like the best option.

 No.29685

>>29653
I think they cover that in Rocks Are Not Free Citizen or whatever that essay is called

 No.29686

>>29685
>Rocks Are Not Free Citizen
Correct name.
https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Rocks_Are_Not_Free!

"
Rocks are NOT ‘free’, citizen.

Firstly, you must manoeuvre the Emperor’s naval vessel within the asteroid belt, almost assuredly sustaining damage to the Emperor’s ship’s paint from micrometeoroids, while expending the Emperor’s fuel.

Then the Tech Priests must inspect the rock in question to ascertain its worthiness to do the Emperor’s bidding. Should it pass muster, the Emperor’s Servitors must use the Emperor’s auto-scrapers and melta-cutters to prepare the potential ordinance for movement. Finally, the Tech Priests finished, the Emperor’s officers may begin manoeuvring the Emperor’s warship to abut the asteroid at the prepared face (expending yet more of the Emperor’s fuel), and then begin boosting the stone towards the offensive planet.

After a few days of expending a prodigious amount of the Emperor’s fuel to accelerate the asteroid into an orbit more fitting to the Emperor’s desires, the Emperor’s ship may then return to the planet via superluminous warp travel and await the arrival of the stone, still many weeks (or months) away.

After twiddling away the Emperor’s time and eating the Emperor’s food in the wasteful pursuit of making sure that the Emperor’s enemies do not launch a deflection mission, they may finally watch the ordinance impact the planet (assuming that the Emperor’s ship does not need to attempt any last-minute course correction upon the rock, using yet more of the Emperor’s fuel).
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 No.34272

>>29653
Light speed still means waiting like 30, 50 years for it to get from some system not even that far off in 40k terms. Warp travel makes it trivial. However
>>29686
doesn't explain why not just drag the damn rock through the warp, put a fucking geller field around it if you must, then drop it. I guess the idea is these unobtainium made planet killer weapons are cheap and plentiful.

But that's not even the problem. The biggest problem is combination of fleet battles and the stupid ass between WWI and WWII tier tactics employed by any side in a conflict. It's even funnier when everyone is called "a tactical genius" and it literally just consists of fucking line fire, or at best a feint.

Actual warfare is still going to be much like firing relativistic weapons, space rocks, Rods of God, dyson sphere energy weaponry and the like on the micro to macro scale. See also why the F-16 being faster than the F-35 doesn't mean jack shit and how they would lose miserably to modern fighters and you begin understanding how actual battles would ultimately work. Anyone with super far off weapons wouldn't even see each other.

The only excuse for this is duh durr hurrrr but we only got servitors for that not REAL computers that doesn't even make fucking sense and other factions like Tau and Eldar would still have them.

>>29649
40k is meant to be cheesy and dumb as hell. They literally have to fly through hell to make the central premise make any sense at all. Which is a lot funnier considering they tried handwaving this shit with multiple FTL technologies.



/edu/

 No.9252[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

ITT post information about the history and anthropology of the New World. A lot of new anthropological work has been done in this field in recent decades that has not yet entered public consciousness.
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>>21394
>Keywords "deep in the jungle". Not denying that they were large urban spaces.
I think they mean it's in a location with heavy jungle, not that it's near the geographical middle of the Amazon…

>>21530
Hard to build pyramids in the mountains. Inca sites are concentrated in very mountainous areas. Moche and Nazca are in relatively flat spots.

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>>11579
I started reading more about this recently and it's interesting it's mentioned that the Incas brought back "black people" from their voyage. Apparently the farthest west they went according to this map was to Mangareva in Polynesia. But I don't think it would make sense for the Incas to call Polynesians "black" since they have a similar brown skin color to native Peruvians. It would make more sense for them to call the darker-skinned Melanesians black, but if they found Melanesians that means they went really fucking far west

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Sharing this collaborative thread (you need to make an account to view it) about Aegon and his islands being transported into Mesoamerica in 1390:

>No one has been able to find an answer to how the event known as "The Shimmering" occurred. Scholars, priests, and more have all come up with many theories and ideas, but the answer may remain rooted in mystery til the end of time.

>What is known is that on the first of January, in the year 1390 AD of the Gregorian Calendar, three islands would appear to the northwest of the Yucatan Peninsula. That the inhabitants of the islands, from their rulers to the lowest peasant, saw the sky shimmer and ripple with a strange, otherworldly light. Those who lived on the coast closest to where the event occurred likewise saw strange lights on the horizon, but lacked the means to investigate.

>History records that the impression the Targaryens and their dragons brought in the first major meeting ranged up and down the spectrum. From reverence to sheer terror, to fanatic euphoria to people fainting in shock in the streets. The display of power and might as the dragons flew circles over the city, dancing in the sky and belching forth gouts of flame, was both intimidating and mezmerizing.

>Among the members of the ruling family, the Cocoms, and their nobility, the message was a clear one. These strange new visitors were not like any they had seen before, in more ways then one. And it would be wise not to anger them, for even one of these great beasts they rode upon could likely bring the fury of the heavens to an entire city.
>The trio and their dragons landed outside the city, and it did not take long for a grand procession to exit the city to seek audience with these strangers. It is here that the first bit of miscommunication would come into play, and show that the Targaryens efforts at translation could still use much work. A great offering of sacrifices was brought forward, as a means to both appease and show reverence to those who were clearly touched by the gods if nothing else. >This however, took the Targaryens by surprise, and after a moment, prompted an argument that had the procession grow remarkably confused and even fearful, for as the three argued, the great dragons they had ridden seemed to grow restless and agitated as well.
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 No.21671

sharing this book about the Maya.

 No.21814

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New evidence of contact between South America and Pacific islands over 1000 years ago.
<One thousand years ago, the first settlers of Rapa Nui — also known as Easter Island — feasted on a fusion cuisine of plants native to Polynesia but also ones indigenous to South America, around 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) away, a new study finds.
<Researchers discovered the food remnants by identifying starch grains clinging to obsidian blades at the archaeological site of Anakena, the earliest known settlement on Rapa Nui, which was occupied from about A.D. 1000 to 1300, according to the study, published Wednesday (March 20) in the journal PLOS One. The finding suggests that the early Polynesians had regular contact with the people of South America as far back as a millennium ago.

<Starch grains from yam and taro were not a surprise, having been previously identified on Rapa Nui, but the team's discovery of breadfruit and Tahitian apple is new, as neither plant had been found on the island before, and their discovery of ginger is a first for Remote Oceania, the researchers wrote. Both breadfruit and Tahitian apple are essential Polynesian crops, probably brought on canoes by the earliest Polynesian settlers, while ginger may have been used as a medicine and spice.


https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/obsidian-blades-with-food-traces-reveal-1st-settlers-of-rapa-nui-had-regular-contact-with-south-americans-1000-years-ago



/edu/

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 No.9906[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Thread dedicated to debunking western propaganda and information relating to the NATO encirclement of Russia, Ukrainian government's mistreatment of ethnic Russian minorities and support of fascist militias to do its bidding. Criticism of Russia and its occupation is welcomed aswell.
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 No.20585

>>20578
>>20579
>>20580
great contributions to this thread. Thank you, anon.

 No.20587

>>20585
Всегда пожалуйста!

 No.20885

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Long thread with links and info on the Euromaidan snipers:

https://nitter.woodland.cafe/I_Katchanovski/status/1717738123893817350#m
>Wow! Unreported 1,000,000-word Maidan massacre trial verdict corroborates my academic studies by stating as its “categorical conclusion” that there were snipers shooting from Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina & that it cannot be ruled out that 8 protesters were killed & 20 wounded by “unknown persons,” who were not "law enforcement officers." This implies Maidan snipers since the verdict states that the trial disproved claims about presence of Russian snipers.
https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/114304164

>The verdict also confirms my study findings that there is no evidence of order given by Yanukovych or his ministers to massacre Maidan protesters and that 4 police officers were killed & 39 wounded by Maidan-snipers. In addition to acquitting two Berkut policemen for killing and wounding protesters, it states that all accused Berkut members were baselessly blamed for killing 13 & wounding 29 Maidan protesters. As usual there are zero media reports.


>Prosecution, Maidan lawyers, media with some exceptions, self-proclaimed experts & propaganda peddlers denied shooting by snipers located in Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina & called it conspiracy theory.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2023.2269685

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<Inside the PoW camp where Ukraine ‘re-educates’ Russians
>“I grew up in the Soviet Union so I feel that we are one country,” he said, sitting in the camp’s sick bay where he is recovering from a bullet wound in his arm.
>It is this neo-imperialist ideology, famously expounded by President Putin in a 7,000-word essay, that the camp authorities are trying to deprogramme from their charges before they are returned home.
>“Russians have been subjected to propaganda their whole lives,” said Petro Yatsenko, spokesman for Ukraine’s co-ordination headquarters for the treatment of PoWs, during a tour of the camp at an undisclosed location in western Ukraine. “It’s like trying to pull someone out of a religious sect.”
>[…]
<To get from their living quarters to the canteen, prisoners must pass along an alleyway lined with photographs of figures from Ukraine’s past, such as Stepan Bandera, the divisive and controversial leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) during and after the Second World War, and Taras Shevchenko, the 19th-century national bard.

https://archive.is/V8P6w

It doesn't seem to be working either however, although I suppose it's preferable to prior Ukrainian treatment of POWs (torture, murder, etc.)

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>>20580
>Canadian-Ukrainian
I know their ilk all too well living in Alberta. This is interesting shit



/hobby/

 No.40126[Reply]

A thread dedicated to the study of wild / cultivated mushrooms. Hallucinogenics included*

Useful links:

Wildfooduk
https://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/

Psychonautwiki
https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushrooms

Magicmushroommap
https://www.magicmushroommap.com/map/

Myceliumsociety
https://www.myceliumsociety.com/blog.html
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 No.40538

>>40519
i see..I was starting to think i had a natural resistance or something like that. dunno when i'm going to try again sadly

 No.40579

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I think this is related to the thread
some anon on the main board posted that bulgarians are gonna protest to try and decriminalize weed and shrooms
https://www.facebook.com/events/942760050582651/

I ain't seeing anything about mushrooms besides picrel though its prob guaranteed since its a protest for drug use

 No.40786

>>40579
They moved it to the 20th of April (4/20)

 No.40790

>>40786
>4/20
I see what they did here.

 No.40810

Ironically, I was not yet eating those mushroom bars when this thread was created. I had no idea this thread existed when I posted on /b/. Or equivalent I should say.

You guys do actually get the reference right? For Lenin was a mushroom. Although I think that it takes a certain experience dealing with Slavs particularly Russians begin to get "mushroom cultural experience."

>>40148
Slavic experience. There is a reason why Hamilton went to Eastern Europe. That stated I still think that picking wild mushrooms without knowing what you're doing and getting spore prints is literally the dumbest most dangerous thing you possibly can do, literally more insane than doing smack not knowing how much fentanyl is in it. There's so many false friends out there and I wish to God I could just go and pick some psychoactive one but basically a lot of fucking toxic mushrooms look very much like good ones and I have zero reason to do so.



/edu/

 No.21809[Reply]

Can there be a proletarian nationalist revolution according to Lenin? I've seen people argue that nationalism is reactionary and that it advocates for class-collaboration instead of workers revolution, since a nation is an abstract that includes all classes.
Also, did Lenin advocate for self-determination of nations? And in what context did he do so?

 No.21810

>Can there be a proletarian nationalist revolution
no
>according to lenin
if so then he'd be a revisionist
>I've seen people argue that nationalism is reactionary
it is
>and that it advocates for class-collaboration instead of workers revolution
not inherently, but even with that it'd be useless

 No.21811

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nationalism is gay. if you are a nationalist you like men and u are gay. you like pride parades, flags, butch dudes marching, and idpol and big manly leader to overpower u. thats gay. GAAAAY. u are a faggot OP.

 No.21812

>>21811
I agree!



/games/

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 No.26405[Reply]

Do corporations just hate people? Once I used to think that sure you have big bourgeoisie who act in their class interests but you still has creatives who could flex their muscles and produce something great and then it would make a shit ton of money for publishers. But it seems that publishers these days just absolutely hate developers and moreso despise the consumers and now you have what the modern gaming industry is today, record profits with absolute gutted and half made releases with microtransactions to "buy" the full game. Also physical copies aren't useful anymore and digital copies can basically be "erased" at any time. All of these problems make me think that they just hate, like actually hate their consumers.
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 No.34262

>>26405
> but you still has creatives who could flex their muscles and produce something great and then it would make a shit ton of money for publishers.
that's actually not cost efficient lol

 No.34268

>>34262
Three words:
Blair
Witch
Project

Fucking literal student project winds up making millions of dollars. Fucking corpos try and lightning in a bottle it, fuck it up and fail hard as usual, big budget, bad returns.
This is because the exact sort of people doing this are centrally soulless. You basically just can't even make money without the fucking creatives. I mean you technically can but only when it's so watered down and soulless it becomes capeshit, which is hilarious seeing these fucking narcissists have to watch in jealous rage whenever some shit like Disco Elysium comes around and blows their hundred million dollar project out of the fucking water and gets all the awards. Oh man I can not deal with you right now f.lux please don't start making the monitor turn different colours on me

 No.34269

>>26405
Corporations don't have emotions, they're just mathematical constructs for extracting the maximum possible amount of profit.

 No.34270

>>34268
99% of indie projects don't blow up like that though. Corporate slop is more reliable income (usually).

 No.34271

>>34270
sure, but things don't have to go viral to be a fair income tho. It is more reliable big bucks to work on industry stuff tho.



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 No.5046[Reply]

Communism is dead and died in 1922. The USSR basically became another imperialist bloc and then died, there is no relevant Marxist power on Earth, and the revolution hasn't happened after +150 years. Trade unions are pretty dead (not that they're progressive in the first world) and people join them for workers' rights without caring about internationalism or communism at all or because the industry itself is already unionised; hustle culture, part-time jobs, reverse army of labour, etc, means it's harder to unionise jobs. There isn't a righteous bloc between the first world or third world/BRICS/China, it's which favelas and former colonies are exploited by economic imbalance, colonial infrastructure, and the USD. I'm not sure how unequal exchange could be stopped without communism and it seems like a form of intersectionality so I'm not going to talk about it too much.

I feel like most people here have tacitly accepted that communism is dead and it's just band kids, or intellectuals, or nostalgia-boos. Endlessly regurgitating the same talking points and having literal near-zero impact. It's a glorified history club with some "happenings" about sectarian moralist garbage. Can anyone agree what communism is or what they want after le revolution? And why anyone would listen to Marx' and Bukharin's schizo-ramblings from over a century ago instead of doing something immediately useful like studying for something, or jerking off and playing video-games. I don't think you could scientifically prove Marx and Stirner (lol) btfod him anyways. Communists or Anarchists can't even take over a small island or a city or something. How many people have read Marx in full and how would you distil it without turning it into dogma or agitprop.

Anybody who is sort of successful and is absorbed by western media (which is 90% of the world) will be a liberal by default. Then alt-right/neo-nazis or religion captures other people because they're provocative and lean on perceived real life experiences and spirituality. There is no logistical reason why you couldn't implement communism tomorrow if you wiped every other ideology off the Earth, it's that aesthetics matter way more than "materialism" (Yes, I'm using the human nature argument.)

My point is I'm bored and I don't have anything to do or any meaning in my life.
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 No.5082

>>5080
Ok, you're being pedantic. It's like saying why so-called God can't move an immovable object. I guess I left myself open by making that claim.

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/76730/is-philosopical-skepticism-self-defeating

>>5081
I'm not getting committed to a psych ward m8.

 No.5083

>>5082
Chill out anon do you seriously think society cares enough to throw you in the psych ward the second you say you're depressed?

 No.5084

>>5083
It definitely happens. There's a lot of horror stories about people being locked in for years.

 No.5085

>>5084
Not for just telling your doctor you're depressed lol. If you say you're about to kill yourself or someone else then maybe but Reagan closed most of the asylums years ago.

 No.5086

>>5084
>There's a lot of horror stories about people being locked in for years.

Like the joker!



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 No.11615[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Noticed a lot people talking about Tolkien’s works and philosophy. So, I created a thread specifically dedicated for that and other things related to it, like the movies and games.
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 No.40788

>>40719
NTA, but iirc Tolkien's response to the belief that Lord of the Rings was supposed to be an allegory for WWII was to give an outline of what Lord of the Rings would have looked like if it actually WAS an allegory for WWII, in which case it would have been a much more grey vs black conflict and if the elves, Gondor, Rohan, et al were allegorical for the Western Allied Powers (France, Britain, the United States, et al) then would have taken the Ring for themselves and conquered the Shire and enslaved the hobbits.

 No.40791

>>40788
The simplistic "forces of good vs forces of evil" don't really work then since national chauvinism, like anything people call "evil," is just false consciousness. There is no good and evil as ideologies, these are simply ideological judgements of others. It's all just spooks in your head, people are evil because they think they are the good guys. Orks should think they did nuffin rong and that they are blessed by Jesus.

 No.40796

>>40791
Okay, so
1) Tolkien stated multiple times that Lord of the Rings wasn't an allegory for anything. His example in my post was what the story would have looked like if he was making it some kind of political allegory, namely for WWII.

2) Tolkien didn't necessarily deal strictly with Malthusian evil. He plays with the idea, but Malthusian evil (which is evil as its own motive force opposite to good) takes a huge thematic backseat to "evil as an absence of good" or "evil as an absence of virtue."

 No.40798

>>40796
>Malthusian evil
Sorry, I meant Manichaen evil. Whoops.

 No.40809

>>40796
The idea of virtue is also relative to one's ideology. Just because the evil is defined through the lack of good doesn't mean that it changes anything, it just makes "goodness" the ideology that defines what "evilness" is not. The kind of relationship between good and evil becomes a dependency instead of opposition, otherwise it's all the same.



/games/

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 No.34158[Reply]

I don't care about gamergate 2 or whatever but I did think this was interesting

> Former game executive and develop at Blizzard Mark Kern


> @Grummz


< "The way games are funded you don't use your own money. Even EA, its games are hugely expensive to make, they're upwards of you know 250 sometimes 600 million dollars it's for certain live games it's incredibly how expensive they are and to do that uh your CFO is your best friend.


< "You're counting on your CFO to get you tax breaks to get you in to put studios in regions which are financially favorable and you will borrow the cheap money, you will get a cheap money to do it. Even EA does this. I worked with EA; we were putting together a deal where they were taking bailout money from the banks in the last financial crisis that we had, and they were applying that cheap money towards games, same thing with Covid money. They're applying that cheap money towards games, and what has been the cheapest money while interest rates were still low, you know a couple of years ago it was ESG financing, and so they're going to take this money."


< "Because the returns on investment have been so poor on Wall Street for ESG funds, that source of Revenue is drying it up. This Woke machine cannot continue in the way that it is now for AAA gaming, and I think unfortunately, it's so entrenched that you're not going to see—you're not going to see much of an ability to course correct because the studios are—they're just gonna shut down."


>He goes on to state that the ESG money comes with “strings attached”:


< Mark Kern explains how ESG money comes with strings attached inside corporations and is used to make companies partner with DEI consulting companies like Sweet Baby Inc:

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 No.34256

>>34240
>but they do the same with rightwing moral crusading
Feminazism is just a new form of right-wing moral crusading with a new coat of paint.
>it is closer to the actual culture and strategy of the ruling classes
Nah, the ruling class primarily cares about making profits so they can use any ideology that spreads hate and division. It's more like both feminazism and alt-rightism play into each other since they cannot exist without one another as the boogeyman. Without feminazism nobody would be buying into the alt-right bs and without the alt-right nobody would be buying into the feminazi bs, they need each other like yin and yang.

 No.34258

>>34256
>Feminazism

 No.34259

>>34258
Radlibs, radfems, libfems, wokescolds, SJWs, ultraprogs, call them whatever you want, I do not care.

 No.34263

>>34160
forced meme, no one except people who are online 23 hours a day can even pierce together what they're saying. i mean sweet baby inc? sounds like a bbq sauce company, it's not a real serious company, it sounds, as >>34208 explained, a backwater outlet to capture public funds and keep some failsons employed and maybe try and pretend that they're not gray souless companies filled with CEOs that fuck their own hot employees as a matter of routine.

 No.34267

>>34263
As I said in >>34232, rightists always try to damage-control when their conspiracy theories point at the porkies as the ones at fault. A shame that there are no dedicated sites or YouTube channels with leftist conspiracy theories.



/games/

 No.27910[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Always wanted to make this thread, but could never find time for it until now. Discuss lore, art, modding, headcanons, C0DA and other stuff related to the games.
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 No.34235

>>34231
I mean, it's just their preference. what's the issue with that? Although prefering vanilla Skyrim is kinda weird.

 No.34236

>>34231
NTA but the leveling system alone makes vanilla Morrowind and Oblivion almost unplayable.

 No.34237

>>34236
>consoles: good ports
>PC: good mods
Damn it, I dunno which one is better anymore.

 No.34239

First for OpenMW VR is very good.

>>34236
>Oblivion
Possible to underlevel, but difficult
>Morrowind
You have to be retarded to fuck it up with so much static stuff in the world. Halo kiddies who got it with their xbox hueg console could handle it.

 No.34265

>>34239
I dont mean unplayable as in hard, Morrowind if anything has exact opposite problem, there are so many ways to break the game player will inevitably do it just by accident. But I like roleplaying, and the leveling in those games is overly complicated, unintuitive, and encourages power-gaming.



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 No.233[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

itt hueg fricken 2d oppai
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 No.23092

>>23091
not bad

for a start

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 No.23144

>>23107
>someone else living my dream

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/games/

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 No.34191[Reply]

I guess this is the best place to ask. If you're mobile gaming, whatcha gaming on, /games/ anything from a phone, to a switch, to an Odin. S20fe here. Bout to get an s22 or s23 on Ebay soon though. I mainly use it for emulation and Dex. I always see these fuckfaces on social media hawking these mobile pieces of shit for upcharged prices and it pisses me off. If you wanna play nothing but snes games go on Ebay and get a phone for like 50 bucks. Chances are if you're a gamer and wanna use it for that you probly have a controller lying around. I mean. I get it, it's a fun little gameboy shaped package, but the phone is a lot cheaper and a whole lot better.

 No.34264

i barely use my gpd win 4, i kinda just carry it around to play games with my sister when i visit my parents, i may get one of the newer retroid devices to play earthbound or something i dunno



/games/

 No.26672[Reply]

I just beat this game, I remember seeing another discussion thread about this game but I can't find it, but I want to talk about the game, full spoilers.
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 No.34211

>>34174
>thats how i died the first time too. but then i became obsessed with it after that happened lel
Lmao exactly the same.
Tbh I thought it was gonna be low quality meme shit just from seeing memes on this site, never thought I'd get so in to it.

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putting all your points into empathy is a good way to turn it into one of the most depressing games ever

 No.34243

>>34242
Wow, it's just like real life.

 No.34244

>>34242
I did this aktually.

 No.34260

>>34242

You: I'm sorry you have to sit here on the ice, feeling miserable. At your age –or at any age –in this weather… waiting for it to get dark.
She looks you in the eye, her pupils wide, surrounded by a ridiculous amount of make-up
You: The people who build this world intended it to be better for you, but they failed. It is easier to live in their failure with this by your side." (Tap on the tape recorder).
The wind howls. She remains silent.
Empathy: It's real. Tell her.
You: It is not a childish fantasy. It can be a real weapon against what's coming for you now
Acele: "What is…? "Her shoulders shake a little.
You: Nothing, if you got this. Don't be scared.
Acele: Okay.
Her teeth rattle. She takes the device from you and places it in her lap
Acele: "I'll stick to it"



/anime/

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 No.4715[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

/jp/ , Otaku and weeb thread.

This thread is to talk about things on Japanese culture, and the good and bad of it
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 No.23221

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 No.23222

Recently learned about nagashi soumen, which is like, ramen sliding down a half bamboo with a gentle stream of water pushing it along.

 No.23223

>>4715
There is no Japanese culture. Most of what exists is a construct created to keep the citizens hikkimorized, supine servants of western hegemony. It's so successful it was exported to Korea and now it's come home to the metropole.

 No.23226

How much is a normal price for sushi? The local grocery store sells like, 3 rolls for 10 USD and a plate for 15, and 10 bucks seems rediculous for just one meal where the main ingredient is rice.

 No.23809

>>10550
"Social Credit", contrary to the hysteria and slander, is largely about business regulation. The claims of sinister social psyops or social manipulation are yet once more the projection of Western societies. The irony is that now, as the system is under genuine trouble, policies of liberal governments outright clamp down on the counter-liberal and counterhegemonic positions more harshly and skillfully than their opponents, despite all the talk of openness.
https://rtsg.substack.com/p/corporate-governance-in-the-peoples



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 No.32810[Reply]

Can someone tell me if any of them are worth playing? I bought them while they were on steam sale so they were like two dollars each, are they any fun or are they just standard libshit stuff
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 No.32924

>>32922
superpower 2 is too SIMPLE ANON. I NEED SOMETHING MORE.

 No.32979

>>32922
so happy to see superpower 2 mentioned. i really do think it has pretty much the best "template" for a geopolitical sim, it all flows together so well despite its numerous problems

 No.33040

Mao's legacy now tells you what techs due to the economy as a tooltip.

Qol is increasing.

 No.34254

Shallow af but cozy tbqh
It's just one of those games you mindlessly play after work like Microcosmum or something

 No.34257

>>32810
Why do these pictures look so… gray?



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 No.29791[Reply]

Here's the caveat: MISS me with games that don't have an overworld layer because IMO that's more fun than the actual battles half the time. Games like Gears Tactics feel very halfassed due to not having that layer where you can do research and get immersed.

My favourites are the 'After'X series, very underrated, but eager to see if there's any unsung gems I missed. Doesn't necessarily have to be modern day vs aliens.
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 No.34119

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>>29791

Phoenix Point, thank me later.

 No.34124

>>34119
Played it already twice, good suggestion though. Polyphonic tendency for life.

 No.34126

>>30591
Battle Brothers and Wartales are great games both on management and tactical level.
But if you are looking something close to XCOM in terms of combat, I cant recommend Showgunners enough. There is virtually no management other than picking which gun to equip, and overworld consists of finding colectibles and solving puzzles, but it has the most tightly designed combat encounters of any of these games I played.

>>34119
I adored the writing (out of place ancom faction and wacky DLC arms dealer notwithstanding) and the desperate atmosphere the whole game had, enforced by how every mission you are under constant pressure, everything can go south due to single mistake. But for that to make for actually fun gameplay the mechanics need to be reliable and clearly communicated to the player. Instead I kept running into shit like bullets flying out of gun at bizarre angles, overwatch soldiers unloading magazine into a wall instead of approaching mutant, enemies hitting my guys through cover or wasting bunch of research time and resources on an armored transport because the game forgets to tell you its not something your soldiers take on missions but rather something you take on mission instead of your soldiers.

 No.34238

>>34111
I must be at like 200 hours at least… it's just so fucking repetitive and I have to savescum so much. I'm really thinking of just giving up. It doesn't help that my playstyle is kind of boring, I just give 90% of my troops the best sniper rifles I can buy/manufacture because it works for most all situations.

 No.34255

>>34040
>>34111
>>34238
lol anon seeing what you're going trough I'm almost sorry I talked about this mod, I'm currently midgame I think, mid 99, no idea how many hours I played, and it's true that it can be repetitive.
The thing is you have to progress fast if you can on the research tree and the interrogations to stop some missions for appearing, no idea how to get rid of those pesky "haunted houses/farms" though, I just don't do them anymore because those psy attack coming from the other side of the map are too annoying and I have a good score.
The game is throwing you some mean difficulty curve balls also, the red dawn HQ was annoying but man fuck the vampire castle DRAINING your balls sanity, I had to do it two times because I couldn't capture the queen the first time.

As of now I use salvaged alien laser rifles, pulse rifles, black ops snipers with tritanium ammo, one or two smartgun, a minigun, a dog and a laser tank. I also give a smart pistol and a katana to my guy with the most TU who I also equip with a synthsuit built with what I could get from Osiron crates. Melee is OP in this mod. I also save scum, otherwise I would use explosives, mortars, grenade launchers, rocket launchers way way more



/hobby/

 No.1328[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Seeing how there’s multiple /co/ related threads on the board. I think we should just put all of them into one general just for clarity’s sake.

Discuss anything related to comics and animations from comic recs, leftist animations to comic writers’ attempts to larp as leftists.

Seriously is there a worse anarchist in the UK than Alan Moore?
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 No.40762

>>40756
I wasn't saying you did, but it's like a commandment, y'feelme?

 No.40763

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>>40756
>Wtf is this discussion?
You're clearly not a /co/mrade.

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 No.40767

>>40764
But all rabbits have these proportions…

 No.40787

First episode of xmen 97 is pretty alright.



/anime/

 No.23154[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Why do people constantly call the saga of Tanya Mangaka a communist? just stumbled upon the guy's feed and it's full of boomer takes, SDF shilling(this is the complete antithesis of the JCP), and anti-communist retweets.

On top of that, Riyoko Ikeda(The Rose of Versailles) who was a member of the Japanese communist party in her youth is now doing interviews with LDP and butt buddies with a senior member. The Riyoko one is far more shocking than the nazi anime girl
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 No.23718

>>23713
probably cause he did tons of work for anime as well

 No.23719

>>23711
>In the west he was oveewhemingly mocked
I understand that his views are stupid but Xitter's """satire""" is as bland and boring as Stephen Colbert. It won't come even close to South Park or the Brits when Thatcher died, lmao.
>that's why cartoons are superior to anime
But they borrow from each other constantly…

 No.23744

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if you know, you know. It caused quite a reaction

 No.23773

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>>23409
They added precure into compulsory education recently over there recently lmao

 No.23808

>>23718
People care because Dragon Quest is a bona fide cultural phenomenon over there
he had anime credits, Cyborg 009 is probably his biggest, but none were for series at anywhere close to the same level of influence or fame.
but yeah, boomer has bad politics, not like he bombed countries himself or anything



/music/

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 No.19236[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

By Blood alone waiting room edition.

>RedFlood

I didn't realise they also reworked the Far-Eastern Collapse.
If Kerensky fucks up the Manchu's still take over the West, Republicans run off to Transamur and Vladivostok and then either become one of two different flavours of authdem, Ukrops spawn in the north, but can either be SocDem or Banderites who are now properly set to reactionary.
Harbin proper gets to keep some of the south now, Its either led by Gastev who calms down his autism a bit and becomes PopSoc

Or…
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 No.34151

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I can't believe the historical internal politics path is the best one in Iron Curtain. I guess every good socialist had already been executed by that point though.

 No.34152

>>34151
What is the name of this mod? The interface looks like TNO, but Stalin is alive somehow, he did not transformed into a pony, wich is impossible. Is this how TNO looks like nowadays?

 No.34153

>>34152
It can't be, the year is 1950 i saw rn

 No.34154

>>34152
I said it's Iron Curtain, cold war mod, I wouldn't really recommend it though TBH, there's not much to do

 No.34253

Tried to play the Ace Combat mod, it's only in alpha so don't really recommend it right now, was just bored. Winning as Belka seems fairly impossible, go figure. Apparently it is winnable but Osea just has like infinite troops.



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