How can you say that your meme is not hostile when it is literally an image pointing a gun at the words that are wrote? "it always has been" is a correction. I wrote that the US is admitting to supporting genocide and your meme says "well duh". It is smug. You are saying "I already knew that" with an image of a gun. That is hostile and annoying to me.
https://www.pathofexile.com/private-leagues/league/Settlers+Restart+xdd+Thanks+GGG
This is a link to join the POE1 Pohx Private league. It launched 2 hours ago and it will last for 60 days. A private league is a sandboxxed version of the game where you can only interact with other characters in the same private league. Pohx is a twitch streamer known for playing the skill Righteous Fire, a skill which will be added to POE 2 in the future. This private league has 18000 registered players, which is a pretty sizeable amount, though I think a typical poe 1 expansion launch has around 150,000.
Instead of arguing, I am inviting you to play POE 1 with active players and a fresh economy so that you can experience the game for yourself. If you don't know what to build to play, go to youtube and search "poe 3.25 lightning strike", "poe 3.25 righteous fire", "poe 3.25 archmage ice nova", "poe 3.25 hexblast mines", "poe 3.25 power siphon mines", "poe 3.25 holy relic", or "poe 3.25 bama". It is important that the video says 3.25 because builds from previous patches will not work.
Please try Path of Exile 1. Any in game purchases that you made in POE 2, such as stash tabs, are also accessible in POE 1.
I never said that I was owed another POE 1 expansion. I didn't say that I was owed anything. There's no "entitlement" here. I am not writing a "screed" for the devs. I said that the devs lied for profits. In November, they said give us money now and you'll get a POE 1 expansion in February. They took the money and then there's no planned expansion. That's just a recollection of events that happened.
I make posts on hexbear for my own interests. Path of Exile 1 was my favorite game ever. I have made many posts about Path of Exile 1 and Path of Exile 2. If the devs say that my favorite game is indefinitely put on halt, then I'm going to say that it upsets me. I explained why it upsets me. You are telling me that I'm not allowed to be upset. You are not allowed to police how I feel.
I did not say that people who don't like POE 2 don't like it. I didn't say anyone is pretending. I bet that POE 2 players who never played POE 1 actually really enjoy it. I said that they don't know that the POE 1 was better because they never experienced it.
Let's say you've never been to a ramen shop and you try microwave cup ramen. Cup ramen tastes pretty good right? It's not bad. People who go to the ramen shop might say, "Cup ramen is not bad, but I prefer to go to the ramen shop". People who enjoy the ramen shop even start eating cup ramen on the side and recommend it to their friends. Okay but now the ramen shop says, "We're closing down the ramen shop because cup ramen is making more money." The people who enjoy ramen made at the ramen shop are upset because the quality of cup ramen does not match the ramen shop experience. The people who only have had cup ramen don't really care because they never tried it before. They say, "Why are you mad, we still have cup ramen and I like that a lot." POE 2 is the cup ramen. I'm happy that you enjoy cup ramen. I like cup ramen too but it's not a substitute for the ramen shop.
And yes, this is a sign that "they're literally taking the first game out back and putting a bullet in it". The last POE 1 expansion was released in July 2024. POE 1 expansions have historically lasted for 3 months. POE 1 expansion 3.26 was expected to be released in November. POE 1 development has been delayed like 4 times now. In the video, Jonathan says that they have not even started working on 3.26. He also says that the expansion will not even be worked on until after POE 2 patch 0.2 is released. When will POE 2 patch 0.2 be released? March maybe? So they're going to start working on POE 1 again in March? Does that mean 3.26 will be released in summer 2025? Two or three POE 1 expansion cycles have been missed in that time period. He doesn't even provide any information about a future POE 1 expansion release in the video.
As for POE 2 being in Early Access as you said. During the Early Access announcement, GGG said that POE 2 will complete Early Access within 6 months to 1 year of the initial release. It has been 2 months since. We don't even have a date or any information for Patch 0.2. At the current rate of development, do you think that Early Access will be completed within 6 months? Do you think that POE 2 will be fully complete within 1 year? How long will the Early Access run at this rate? Is it sensible to abandon a full game for an incomplete game for over a year? Time will tell.
The way you are talking is not antiwar. You're just saying Putin should do whatever he wants or else he'll use nukes. Russia already tried to annex Ukraine and the UN voted overwhelming against it. Not even China voted in favor of Russia annexing Ukraine. Being antiwar doesn't mean being pro-russia or vice-versa.
Do you think antiwar means Russia annexing Ukraine?
When LaRouchites and Patsocs says they are antiwar, they are lying. You are choosing to believe that. That says something about you, not everyone else.
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022145
368 Yea (219 Democrats, 149 Republicans), 57 Nay (0 Democrats, 57 Republicans)
Blaming AOC specifically is still a cringe LaRouchite take considering 100% of the Democrats voted for the bill and no other politician was targeted in the same way. The only reason that AOC is specifically brought up in this instance is because LaRouchites and Patsocs are reactionary and they target AOC because she is more progressive than other US politicians. The only people that voted against the bill were reactionary, pro-war Republicans.
AOC would have been the only Democrat to vote against it, it wouldn't have changed whether the bill passed, and she would have received much more backlash. AOC does not have the power to make any meaningful difference in this situation.
Why are you posting cringe LaRouchite takes on a silly video?
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The people that heckled AOC as being pro-war were not anti-war. The 2 hecklers were pro-russia, one of them was a LaRouchite and the other was a patsoc infrared haz guy. You can find both of their profiles on twitter.
This is how AOC responded to the incident. She says that she's not prowar, that she has voted to increase the US defense budget 0 times.
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To think that a country can rely on it's own internal economy is the foolish mistake that Trump is making. China is not foolish in this way. They know that the growth of their economy is accomplished by trade with other countries. Trading with the US was very useful for the growth of China's economy. When China reduces trade with the US, they will increase trade with other countries to compensate, not rely on internal economy.
This is possibly why China is doing One Belt One Road, because they want to create more trading partners. Which is why I think it is misleading to compare their internal economy with their international trade.