I very much dislike the discourse over Macklemore and Ed Sheeran. Sure, it's nice when artists speak out for Palestine, but people are needlessly putting too much weight on any pop public figure if they speak or don't speak about it. It's all celebrity worship in the end
@ProudBavaria I can understand that there are people who do find some fun in finding ways to min-max a certain country, but they don't understand that most just want to larp and do some light RP. Do what makes sense.
@ProudBavaria Pretty much this. It's why I always hate it when I want to look at good starter strategies, and the person making the strat says stuff like "Now go out of your way to conquer this distant landmass to steal their pops and then convert to norse for these specific stats and-"
@xanxbarbieprt2 You're 100% correct. I learned this the hard way when I started out Uni with a laptop. Switched to pen and paper and by the time I finished I was a straight B and A student in almost all of my classes
@jiveinz@burnthalies@cstrlke32 If you feel moral satisfaction and it doesn't harm your material prospects (IE, a low price), then yes, you can feel a sense of profit from the entire endeavor.
@alexriesart Helldivers 1 actually does this really well because Super Earth is the explicit aggressor. Helldivers 2 not so much, because that one's just the reckoning as all the other civilizations turned into worse, extreme versions of themselves in response to SE's genocide / slavery
@jadecristal@platypusjones Then they try to enter the banking sector of another country and wonder why no one is adopting them over the highly digitized and streamlined native counterparts.
@PatrickHeizer And also:
"Yeah, we had to abandon the original internet and create an entirely new one because it became completely flooded with malicious AI and slop and also we lost all the original content and information that was on it"
@DrewSav Brother, by the time the next Dem president rolls around, they would only have to deal with a pit and a half-assed foundation made with shitty concrete if the Ballroom is of any reasonable indicator