[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 105 points 10 months ago

It's fake. It doesn't work. They skipped safety procedures. It's not efficient anyways. It's not scalable. It wouldn't work without state funding. State funding is the reason it doesn't work. Social credit score.

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 88 points 11 months ago

Mods will patrol upvote history like they do with transphobic comments. Anyone who doesn't upvote this post will be banned.

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 107 points 11 months ago

People talk about Baldur's Gate for months after it's released. Nobody talked about this after two weeks. Same with Starfield.

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 74 points 11 months ago

Very important piece of military cringe I just learned. What are members of the Space Force called, like soldiers for the Army or sailors for the Navy?

Guardians. Actually Halo LARP shit.

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Also history books will forever use term "Burgerize" after the fact.

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen a Lemmy lib in ages it feels like. How did you get here?

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Sidenote, I really enjoyed the Report starting Adam Driver. One downside was it painted Feinstein as a heroine when she was absolutely complicit in torture.

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 89 points 1 year ago

Always important to point out that more Ukrainian fought in the Red Army in WW2 than with the Nazi collaborators. Just to piss off the "national liberation" crowd.

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Spoilers for the movie, obviously.

How dare the US pretend like they would be the peaceful nation and that China would be belligerent the entire time. Don't get me wrong, it didn't stop me from enjoying the movie. The atmosphere, setting, plot, editing. Everything was so fantastic. The aliens, the themes about language and culture.

And I know that it was a US made movie with US main characters, but everytime they mentioned China being hostile felt so cringe. I doubt Villanueve was being intentionally anti-China, he just needed a non US ally to be belligerent so the protagonists would have a clock to race against. But even having Russia in that role would make more sense. And even weirder that China was ruled by a general from the People's Liberation Army.

Now this isn't me coming from a "China would never do anything bad" perspective. It's just silly pretending that the US wouldn't immediately send sidewinder missiles into that thing before it landed. The US would shoot first, second, and third before thinking to ask questions. The Chinese weather balloon tells us all we need to know about that. Now for the sake of the movie I was willing to accept the premise, but when it became all of the non West countries acting hostile it stung with me.

I think I'm only ranting because it was such a good movie and the whole theme of language being the key to understanding culture was undermined by making China the Bad Guys. If this was a shlockier, worse movie I wouldn't care to complain about that detail. I haven't read the original short story, but I'm sure that it didn't have this element.

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[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago

Objectively correct, but annoying? I'll accept it.

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 77 points 1 year ago

The counter offensive is more than a military maneuver. It's an idea. Light itself.

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 90 points 1 year ago

Telling someone they suck a man's dick as an insult is pretty basic homophobia. Unless you meant it as a compliment, then by all means I hope xigma-male gets his knob schlobbed for all his hard work.

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 83 points 1 year ago

Go read about BRI infrastructure projects in Africa and Asia. The global south is generally very positive about Chinese politics because Chinese give them hospitals and roads and ports.

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 91 points 1 year ago

Casual homophobia to own the tankies xi-square-up

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New account but I've been using burner accounts and lurking since the sub got banned. I've been seeing all the standard liberal brainworms again for the first time since reddit-logo and everytime it's an account from another federation. I was tepidly against federation at first but this has been entertaining, like the old days of pigpoop people who wandered into the sub.

I gotta imagine this will only last another week before everyone defederates us, but let's enjoy it for now.

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