Lemmy ate my reply. But the short version is that I actually do mostly agree with you. I try not do this myself, but it is linguistically difficult to speak more narrowly about the Nazis in Ukraine. I just think it’s a wee bit of a stretch to assume that the comment you referenced actually refers to all Ukrainians.

How is it any different from saying “Americans” do such and such when their representatives say awful things? We know that there are American comrades, and we know that there are likely a great number more comrades in Ukraine. I really don’t think the post was meant to disparage all Ukrainians. Just the ones that support what their representatives are saying.

That’s not even a lemmygrad user. Regardless, I think the point is that the people in power are Nazis. Not the general populace. Ukraine is tearing down victory monuments for Christ’s sakes. When Georgia starts doing that, I’ll definitely be sympathetic to calling their government Nazis.

Oh you’ll learn quick enough that beneath the cozy shell lies madness.

Also, spring berries are sold at the egg festival on the 13th for 100G apiece. I like to plan for them. Without speed gro fertiliser you’re only getting two crops in before the end of the month, but they are still the most profitable spring crop. With the speed gro you can get from the spring crops bundle, you can get an extra crop if you turn in the bundle, plant, and fertilise the day of the festival.

If you’re not interested in optimising, just play and have fun. Outside of two cutscenes in the first year, you won’t miss anything. Everything is doable just as easily in year 20 as year 1.

But if you are interested in optimising…

1. Don’t let your farm get too big too quickly. You’ll spend all your time watering.
2. Fishing can be amazingly lucrative in the single player early game.
3. Mining should be your primary activity until your farm is automated.
4. Don’t donate your first dinosaur egg or your first prismatic shard. You’ll get more.
5. Basic sprinklers are a trap. Wait for quality.
6. Berries are great first year crops. Especially in 1.6 given the addition of a new way of processing them. But don’t forget to grow a bit of everything.
7. Resist the temptation to build a glorious hoard until the second year. Profits and bundles are the most important things in the first year.
8. But that being said, never sell resources. Don’t be afraid to buy them either (especially in the first year).
9. Check the travelling cart every Friday and Sunday. High value items are red cabbage, rabbit’s feet, and truffles. Getting these from the cart instead of producing them yourself will greatly aid in getting the bundles done earlier.
10. make sure to plant a pomegranate and apple tree as early as you can manage in summer. Plan for a pig before the second week of fall.
11. Fish are seasonal, and appear in different locations. However, outside of the legendary fish, none are unique to spring. This means you can delay worrying about fish bundles until summer. But you can’t miss any more seasonal fish after that.

I saw that earlier and was going to post it here when I got back to my computer. Absolutely depressing. But if the comments at Phoronix were anything to go by, this isn’t going over well. Hopefully sanity will prevail.

Way ahead of you.

They’re losing the war at a rapidly increasing rate. But they have to spin it as a victory. They’ve been claiming this entire time that the Russians are throwing massive amounts of men and materiel at them in human waves. It makes sense to keep using that claim and say that Ukraine is cleverly exploiting the dumb Russian tactics to increase the attrition rate.

Of course that all falls apart even if you only read western media, if you read further than the headline. The reality is an underequipped, under trained, under staffed UAF being sent to the frontline in their mass. Pretty much the opposite of what’s advertised. You’re not supposed to remember that Russia has air superiority and at least a 3:1 advantage in artillery and drones. You aren’t supposed to see the military cemetaries in Ukraine adding hundreds of thousands of new plots.

You’re just expected to forget all that, and believe Zelensky when he says that there have been less than 40k casualties, and Russians are throwing themselves on the brave Ukrainian bayonettes. Then this makes sense.

I read that article this morning. It’s a well oiled routine at this point. Russians are using human wave tactics in the first half, then the second half talks about massive Russian artillery and air superiority, and how the UAF is taking enormous losses.

I almost think that the reporter knows that their regular readership only reads headlines. But they still want to tell the truth.

I very rarely click on video links. But I watched this one. It’s honestly not that earth shattering IMO. Russia has nearly encircled a fairly large area where there may or not be a sizeable chunk of UAF.

I do think that the end of the war is fast approaching, and we’ll see some real change this winter. But this isn’t it. This is a tactical victory, not a strategic one.

A phenomenon I’ve noticed many a time, and I’m not a tinfoil hat wearing type. This is why anything smart gets removed when I want a serious talk.

I’d not been following the war that closely until the Kursk invasion. I strongly believed it to be the beginning of the end. It makes absolutely zero strategic sense. Zelensky himself has waffled on what the point of it is. At this point it seems to be just a terrorist attack/PR stunt aimed at harming Russian civilians. That’s not really a good use of your best troops if you want to win a war. As we can see with the collapse of the Ukrainian fronts, which Ukraine is still not doing much about. This just isn’t sustainable.

It matters to Canada because the US told them to care. I have absolutely no clue about the US. Presumably they spent a lot of money getting those judges appointed and don’t want to lose their investments?

For anyone else out of the loop: From what I gather, Mexico is currently trying to make it so that judges are elected, rather than appointed. Canada and the US are fussing about this and threating trade sanctions, claiming that electing judges will somehow harm Mexico’s democracy (as you might expect, the reasons I found were a bunch of FUD without much substance). Mexico wants them to mind their own fucking business.

If you only play one JRPG in your life, make it Chrono Trigger.

If you do, don’t judge the franchise based on the first game. Silent Hill 2 is a very different game.

It was decent when it was released. It had some great ideas that were only really realised in the second game. I think playing through it these days would be a bit of a slog and I’m not sure I would recommend it for a modern audience. I might suggest starting with 2, and if you need to play more, then play the first and third games (in that order). Everything after can be safely skipped.

Your tastes are a little different than mine. It’s rare for me to play a CRPG. But on your current game list, Silent Hill 2 stood out to me. There’s a reason that the game is universally loved. I’m kind of waiting for the remake to do another playthrough, but it’s honestly a pretty short game. I might also suggest giving the PC version a go. Silent Hill Enhanced Edition is reportedly extremely good, although I haven’t played it myself.

I like to watch the TV series “Mayday: Air Crash Investigations”. The US dubs their version though, and I got curious one day. I watched the original and the US dub side by side of S3E06 “Mistaken Identity”, which was about the time that a US Aegis Cruiser shot down an Iranian passenger jet in the Persian Gulf. As I suspected, the US version was censored.

It was very interesting which bits were censored. It was fairly obvious that they would want to cut any parts that humanised the Iranians. To my surprise, they didn’t cut the bits where the crew was praised for their actions. But the most interesting bit for me was that they cut a couple of interviews with the crew of the cruiser, where they talked about how terrified they were of the plane.

They absolutely do not want you to know that their great invincible navy spent half their time peeing in their pants when an airliner flew overhead.

Honestly, it’s not the taxes that kill me. It’s what they do with the money.