I've been playing the communist birds in Stellaris. I haven't played in a few years, and a big new patch is coming soon. I had a hankering for a 4X game, and figured it would be a good time to play a game. The patch will probably take a while to stabilise, and I also wanted to see what had happened to the game in the last couple of years before the rework. I've also been dabbling a bit with The Pale Beyond and SpaceVenture. I'm not that far in SpaceVenture yet, but it seems like a solid rebirth of Space Quest. The Pale Beyond is like a choose your own adventure version of The Terror Season 1. I'm also not too far in that one, but I can see it getting really bleak really fast. I like it so far.

I liked the Nintendo Direct. The hardware seems solid, if entirely too big. It'll probably just sit plugged into my TV though, like my Switch, so it's not the worst thing in the world. And I have some excitement about maybe getting to play Bayonetta 3 at full speed. I'm surprised that the only big 1st party launch title seems to be Mario Kart World though. I'll probably pick that up, and maybe the upgrade pack for Tears of the Kingdom, which I still haven't finished. I'm less than pleased about paid upgrades and the pricing in general, but I'll live with it.

I'm sorry comrade. That's rough.

About damned time. I was checking the LGBT travel advisories a few months ago, and was surprised that the US was green. Absolutely no way should anyone be travelling to Florida.

The average American's overton window is so frickin narrow that they can't tell left from right. Everything that's not liberal conservative just looks like an extremist to them.

And they, who had already divested themselves of their white capes, astonished us with their beards, their mustaches. The Red Star stood out on their fur hats. And there were female soldiers, similar to the male soldiers, armed as they were, and driving mules hitched to sleds. They surrounded us, as surprised as we were. And already we were "tovarish" (comrades).

… For two days I took advantage of the sunshine to go and wash in the snow. I was rather weak, but how can I describe my joy that once again I was free, that once again I could walk without holding myself at attention among the Blocks. That it was good to sit myself down on one of the benches on the perimeter. This was the first time that something like this had happened to me, and in the observation towers it was Soviets who were standing guard."

https://www.yadvashem.org/artifacts/featured/liberation/diary-auschwitz.html

Even if that were completely true, the island of Taiwan has been under the rule of mainland China since 1683. That's longer than the existence of the United States. This would be like if the CSA had occupied an island off the coast of the USA, and Britain had guaranteed their independence instead of letting the US Civil War come to an end. I don't think it matters whether the PRC has a claim to the island older than 1683 or not. It's STILL under Chinese control, and the ROC needs to be wiped out. We can talk about whether it should remain under Chinese control or not after that happens.

Glad to have you back! They defederated from us months ago.

It was the NATO puppet West Germany, who reimprisoned 100,000 gay holocaust survivors. Not the Soviet Union.

EDIT: Yes, I like history: !daily_us_history@lemmygrad.ml

Which is honestly really surprising to me, given the sorry state of housing in Canada.

Blahaj is innocent! The trans community just adopted him because he has a pink mouth, white underbelly and blue surface. These resemble the colours of the trans flag. To the best of my knowledge, Ikea is not behind this. They might be capitalising on it now, but it's not really much different than when Subaru noticed that a not-insignificant number of their customers were lesbians and started marketing specifically to them.

I don't believe it for a second. We were defederated for no real reason. They allow explicit anti-communism. These are just words. They'll defederate you the first chance they get. Then they'll release a statement like "well, we tried, but those tankies were just too evil".

If that's true, why were we defederated?

Edit: also, it's really fucking telling on themselves that they would rather federate with Nazis than with us. Not to mention the clear contempt for hexbear, even when ostensibly trying to mend ties.