Where is that from? I am sure I heard it before but can’t put my finger on where.

I would but I gave up playing videogames a year ago. I don’t even have a PC anymore. But I wish you and the rest lots of fun. Shred some droids for me.

I played it so much as a teen that the disc wore out. Haven’t played it since though.

I loved the clone commander and the technician.

You are really desperately trying to get a rise out of me, aren’t you? It’s not gonna work.

And who are you calling chronically online? My account made around 230 comments and 16 posts in a span of a year. Your account has made 280 comments in the span of TWO MONTHS. 🪞

I’m just not dirty tankie scum.

You are not a communist then. Just a liberal who read the communist manifesto once.

Yes exactly. I want you to read the forbidden tomes so you will fall to the ruinous powers of communism.

I recommended a 300 pages long book not a paper. You said you spend 30 minutes with it. That’s not enough to even skim it.

Why ask a question when you can’t be bothered with engaging in the answer?

If you feel the need to actually learn something in the future take a look at genzhou here on the grad. Otherwise please don’t waste anyone elses time.

Why do you guys even go to bat for China so hard? They’re not even communist? They are state capitalists and more right wing and authoritarian than the US republican party (other than on green energy)?

Because they aren’t. You are being lied to. If you want to understand us I recommend reading “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners” by Robert Boer.

Not that this is ever going to happen but how sick would it be if Caesar found a book collection of Communist works instead of Hegel.

Just imagine: the game is initially set up the same way, you are told that the legion (they would have another name ofc but I currently can’t come up with anything) is about to take Hoover Dam and that the NCR is barely hanging on. It is heavily implied that the Legion are the baddies but once you leave Goodsprings things get weird.

You can see at every corner that the NCR sucks and the more you learn about the Legion the more you realise they are actually good. All the while NCR personal is telling you again and again how evil the Legion is without the actual players perception ever reflecting that.

There would be so much potential to criticise western propaganda and hypocrisy regarding AES countries. And I think the best part would be that it would fly completely over the head of the average gamer/liberal.

O M G! You are being such a Ravenclaw right now.

Have you tried changing the load order of your mods? Might be as simple as that.

Maybe you need to rebuild your merged patch and/or bashed patch.

Probably a worse shitshow than Fallout 76. Even if I still had a PC I wouldn’t bother buying the game until (at least) 6 months after release.

I get that feeling when it comes to comics since their are a lot of reboots and stories in alternative universes and resets and stuff like this. I tried to get a better grip on Batman during the last days. The comics recommended where great but diving deeper has become very difficult since I just can’t figure out what is canon and what isn’t.

Getting into Warhammer is a lot easier in my opinion (don’t get me wrong, it can still be daunting without proper guidance). Most Warhammer book series are contained in their own. You don’t need to know the entire universe to understand the Eisenhorn books or Gaunt’s Ghosts or Ciaphis Cain. Knowing more about the universe might give you a broader understanding but it’s not required to fully enjoy them at all. The biggest hurdle is deciding on where to start. There are a lot of good starting points. Picking your first novel is pretty much depending on what you like.

Thank you. Follow up question, where can I read them? DC Infinite isn’t available in my country (I also wouldn’t mind putting on a pirat hat)

That might be the case. You seem to know more about Batman than I do so I will do as Mao suggests and shut up before I haven’t researched the topic.

Any Batman comics you could recommend?

That’s the point. You have a Villain who wants something good (stop the destruction of nature) and then pair it with something very evil (genocide). It’s a very common trope in media. It leads to the “Hero” of the story being able to defend the status quo again and again without ever challenging it.

As far as 40K is concerned I think it mostly comes down to the main faction of the franchise being a hyper religious, fascist nightmare and GW shitting the bed when it comes to presenting any real alternatives. Every faction is at least a little evil or extremely selfish. This leads to the very fucking evil Imperium coming of as “one of many” or “not THAT bad compared to Chaos”.
However, I don’t think this was the result of intentionally propping up fascists as cool and good and more the result of corporate ghouls not getting satire and as a result removing those elements from the narrative until we have arrived at the current point in time. Where we are told by GW that the Imperium is a fascist shitshow and is surviving DESPITE being so shitty. While pretty much all of the novels are portraying the Imperium as surviving BECAUSE they are so shitty. If any of the other factions were definitely good this wouldn’t be an issue.