xhrit

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[–] xhrit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ever hear the term beefsteak nazi?

in his 1936 book Hitler: A Biography, remarking that in the Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts, SA) ranks there were "large numbers of Communists and Social Democrats" and that "many of the storm troops were called 'beefsteaks' – brown outside and red within".

See also : Alexander dugan's red-brown-green alliance of industrial union-focused leftists (red), ecologically-minded agrarians (green), and the far right (brown) which saw the russian hard left communist party merge with russia's hard right neo-nazi party.

AKA : Red fascists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beefsteak_Nazi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93green%E2%80%93brown_alliance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fascism

[–] xhrit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

it is a well known industry standard design philosophy.

"At the time, a console title cost something in the realm of $100 in today's dollars (or over €85-95), which made each game purchase an investment requiring long consideration and thoughtful planning. At that price, every game needed to last weeks, if not months, to justify the investment. Most games achieved this with the good old “Nintendo-hard” philosophy: Brutal challenges make a relative dearth of original content last longer."

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/too-much-of-a-good-thing-mourning-the-slow-death-of-the-retail-game-store/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_hard

[–] xhrit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Corporate greed has killed all of my favorite mmos, and every new mmo that comes out is further down the spiral.

So I decided to make my own damn game, a mashup of my top 5 favorite defunct mmos. Base gameplay/progression/dynamic events from Tabula Rasa, Star Wars Galaxies crafting/building, Firefall jumping/gliding/thumping, the mechs from Exteel, and the territory control map from Planetside 1.

It's 100% a shameless asset flip, and currently jank af, but pretty fun at the moment.

[–] xhrit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

And it was based on an arma mod from 2012.

[–] xhrit@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

You literally just denied 2 claims of genocide.

That makes you a genocide denier, by your own logic.

[–] xhrit@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wasn't talking about the atom bomb. I was talking about how many innocent civilian deaths it took to “remove Nazi Germany”.

Let me ask you an honest question - do you believe Vladimir Putin when he claims that zionist ukraine is committing genocide in the donbass region, or are you aware that klepto-fascist dictators lie about that sort of thing?

[–] xhrit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

When an MMO launches it normally has little content and uses difficulty to pad playtime, especially subscription MMOs like WOW and pre-one tamriel ESO. Typically an mmo reduces difficulty of old content over time, when new content becomes available.

I do agree that the effect is much more pronounced the more popular a game is. LoTRO at least added some of the overworld challenge back with an optional difficulty slider after community backlash, and I'm not sure that a less niche game would have bothered.

[–] xhrit@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The US killed more innocent civilians in 1 night of world war 2 then the total number of palestinians, militants and civilians combined, that Israel has killed in the entire 75 year history of it's existence.

And true irony is complaining about apartheid when there are more Arabs on the Israeli supreme court then there are Jews living free in all of Palestine.

 

The dangers of lost cause style narratives.

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