lol ok bud

You have not made one single argument that actually ties anything in the book to fascism.

So you did not bother to read the article I linked before responding?

Yes I have.

Have some sympathy and understanding for your fellow human

Don’t tell me I have to have sympathy for a country attempting to conquer another and conducting genocide while doing it, I see all humans as humans but don’t waste my time waxing lyrical about how I should empathize with the poor plight of the average russian.

By the way I do hold people in the US accountable including myself, but the US has a culture of standing up to authority unlike russia where people are taught to believe they are politically helpless.

A delta wing optimizes for raw interceptor performance but it isn’t necessarily a design well optimized for high energy turns without bleeding speed, which is one of the benefits of adding canards.

The F35, F22, F15 style fat wing brought back close to fat horizontal and vertical wings allows for less energy bleed (speed loss) at higher angles of attack.

The F35 is mildly stealthy and chock full of endless cost overrun.

These are not “video games” as they are simply extensions of real violence into digital contexts.

GTA is not a game 99.999% of people play because they want to actually do awful things, the same can not be said for the intended audience of this violence celebrating propaganda.

I keep bouncing off Caves Of Qud because I guess maybe it feels more build focused like Tales of Maj Eyal, which isn’t a bad thing at all, but there is something so radically expansive about Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, it feels less like you are in a game than you are in a system undergoing a descent into monstrosity and yet you have agency… with a depth Project Zomboid isn’t even on the same magnitude as.

Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead speaks to a desire to inhabit liminal spaces in me, which is also why I love the movie Stalker (and the mostly unrelated video games too of course) and that coupled with the fact that the most terrifying parts of Cataclysm’s world are geniously the wetlands (the monsters evolve out of pre-existing animals and wetlands have the greatest biodiversity so it makes sense…) makes it hard to pass over when thinking about trying some of these other games.

I say all this to say, the universe in Caves Of Qud is almost painfully evocative, I love it, it is beautifully strange and weird while still feeling heartfelt, I want to spend more time in it and I cannot recommend Caves Of Qud highly enough but fuck… Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead is one of the world’s great wonders.

If you want more focused gameplay in Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead you MUST try the “Sky Islands” mod that is now part of the base game, the name is a bit confusing, it changes the game into a “run” based system where you spawn in a random spot on the game world and must reach a portal some distance away in a randomized direction before a certain amount of time to get back “home” which is an empty island in the sky. You can only keep what you carry through the portal and if you die you spawn back on the sky island hurt and naked with nothing you had on you, which makes CDDA more into a “game” and I love it!!!

https://github.com/TGWeaver/CDDA-Sky-Islands

Also there is a frustrating lack of nuance here, if you are a US senator or maybe like an Admiral in the US navy maybe you shouldn’t drive a modern foreign car… whatever that means (which itself is a question that needs to be reflected on critically, does it matter where the car is made vs. what open and inspectable standards it is built to?) but if you are an average person a foreign government gains virtually nothing by obessively surveilling you, whereas corporations and entities within the domestic sphere of influence of your country ABSOLUTELY do gain from it… they are gaining from it this very moment by surveilling all of us.

All this panic about Chinese electric cars is completely centered around the perspective of the first category of people… which isn’t to say that this isn’t bullshit anyways the computers that run internal combustion engine cars are MASSIVELY complicated with an absolutely UNFATHOMABLE amount of code, this idea that eletric cars are some “new” threat vector is insulting to the intelligence of human beings.

I mean look of course I don’t trust China blindly to sell me an electric car that doesn’t have some kind of privacy invading aspect to it… that is why you have good cybersecurity regulations with agencies focused on maintaining a high level of standards in domestic markets… but I ALSO sure as hell don’t trust US or “western” automakers to not do equally evil shit with privacy invading crap and unlike China… there is much more of an economic incentive to invade my privacy by domestic interests.

I also for the record don’t trust the US government or other “western” governments to properly penalize automakers for invading my privacy, to the point that even if it is “illegal” international corporations surely just see it as a minor cost of doing business.

so shrugs my opinion is do better “western” car companies

I honestly find it hilarious you don’t think The Magic Mountain is one of the most antifascist novels ever written, and one of the most effective and wholistic takedowns of fascism ever created in any form ever… your understanding of history must be so mutilated into discrete bloody boxes one preceding after another with no connection between one and another…

Six months later, Mann resumed work on the novel he had begun before the war: The Magic Mountain. His development and completion of the manuscript occurred in tandem with a dramatic political reorientation: deeply shaken by the assassination of Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau in 1922, Mann took a decisive stand in defense of the fragile, embattled Weimar Republic. In his essays and speeches of the second half of the 1920s, he continued to warn Germans of the threat posed by the National Socialist Party. Had he not left Germany when he did, it is very likely that he would have been arrested and interned in the Dachau concentration camp.

https://yalereview.org/article/morten-jensen-thomas-mann

Not disagreeing with that kind of criticism, I think the escalation is serious and directly linked to a refusal to stop the Palestinian Genocide and/or similar tactics in Lebanon. Indeed the “west” often refuses to even acknowledge there is a genuine geopolitical connection between the two.

Thus we face the prospects of the red sea and the gulf of oman becoming genuine war zones because the “west” is blithely pretending like red lines haven’t been crossed for the relevant geopolitical powers in this region.

At least they don’t sell your usage to insurance companies so far.

What a grim sentence

But but but non-chinese automakers aren’t evil like China is and surely they won’t shove their vehicles full of spyware crap!

lol how about y’all actually make competitive cars people want to buy first?

hockey is legal so shrugs

*fix ed

Wake the fuck up!

The even cooler part is these are an answer with what to do with excess unused renewable energy supply!

Oh come on, lets not be pedantic, do you honestly think russia isn’t at war with the EU? Even if you define the terms and framing so it technically isn’t we are talking about splitting hairs at this point in a way that is completely unproductive to a broader discussion.

Insofar as russia is not at war with the EU it is because russia is incapable of taking on more than a single country or two at a time… not because russia’s aims are inherently localized to whatever nation it is attacking currently.

Aircraft carriers are rather impervious to all but the highest water, the problem is they are existentially vulnerable to hell in high places…

if there is no organised movement you can hardly blame individuals.

I would not so confidently presume…