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jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It was notable for being the highest rated PC game of all time by PC Gamer though.
yeah for the real bad expansion pack which got 98% or something (but only ever sold a couple of thousand copies at the time); I think PCGUK gave the base games both 85-90% scores? They had side-by-side reviews in the second ever copy of PCG I got bought, that much I remember.



In which someone wins by transcendence on Transcend difficulty in under 100 turns, lol http://www.dos486.com/alpha/

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Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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they really have taken the whole capitalism thing a bit close to heart haven’t they

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

they really have taken the whole capitalism thing a bit close to heart haven’t they

Well it look like Xi is going to reverse that. Cuck.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 29 days!)

love 2 have negative public wealth

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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Crowsbeak posted:

Well it look like Xi is going to reverse that. Cuck.

don’t have to follow me thread to thread chill out my dude

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


norway nearing maoist china is pretty nuts

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

don’t have to follow me thread to thread chill out my dude

Hey, I just tell it as it is.

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

norway nearing maoist china is pretty nuts

The norwegian version of a struggle session is just polite small talk with a stranger

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

there’s probably a term for xi’s ideology of cooperation with and cooption of the capitalist class combined with strident nationalism and an omnipresent police state but I can’t quite oh right it’s fascism

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

Fallen Hamprince posted:

there’s probably a term for xi’s ideology of cooperation with and cooption of the capitalist class combined with strident nationalism and an omnipresent police state but I can’t quite oh right it’s fascism

Hmm yes quite

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016

Fallen Hamprince posted:

there’s probably a term for xi’s ideology of cooperation with and cooption of the capitalist class combined with strident nationalism and an omnipresent police state but I can’t quite oh right it’s fascism

there are two constants in CSPAM: retarded Trump tweets and retarded Hamprince posts

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
If the Communists are the real Fascists, what does that make Chiang Kai Shek and his right-wing, nationalist, authoritarian regime supported by Nazi Germany :thunk:

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
xi at least locks up rich people on false corruption pretenses so he's better than most leaders

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Fallen Hamprince posted:

there’s probably a term for xi’s ideology of cooperation with and cooption of the capitalist class combined with strident nationalism and an omnipresent police state but I can’t quite oh right it’s fascism

Galaxy brain

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Jose posted:

xi at least locks up rich people on false corruption pretenses so he's better than most leaders

:agreed:

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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hamprince is right though

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 29 days!)

No.

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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lol can’t face it

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

hamprince is right though

*rolling around in human poo poo to own the left*

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Fallen Hamprince posted:

there’s probably a term for xi’s ideology of cooperation with and cooption of the capitalist class combined with strident nationalism and an omnipresent police state but I can’t quite oh right it’s fascism

:nallears:

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


just because its a one-party totalitarian state that uses historical injustices and revanchism to rile its citizens up while engaging in extremely aggressive ethnic cleansing in its colonies special autonomous regions doesnt make it fascist :rolleyes:

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


Jose posted:

xi at least locks up rich people on false corruption pretenses so he's better than most leaders

Which ones? The ones that end up in that fancy hotel-prison with the tennis courts? Or the ones that get some vaguely similar rubes to serve their sentences? Or maybe you meant the ones that "appear" in canada a few months later with new citizenship

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 29 days!)

the ones who get executed :black101:

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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xi does this trick where he reduces the number of rich people while not reducing the overall share of wealth the rich people in total possess

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


Also making his family into billionaires despite spending his entire life in government is a pretty neat trick

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011
yeah i don't get this threads' leftists being seemingly pro-xi or thinking that chinese communism is in any way in keeping with the principles of socialism

if i'm wrong please let me know why, but saying "gently caress hamprince" doesn't change that the PRC strongly resembles fascism on a lot of fronts, certainly more than any theoretical marxism

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


Its especially weird because the politburo has been cracking down on actual leftists for a while now. Also the new propaganda push is for "chinese dream" which according to the party is basically that one village where everyone has townhouses and mercedes writ large

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Flavius Belisarius posted:

yeah i don't get this threads' leftists being seemingly pro-xi or thinking that chinese communism is in any way in keeping with the principles of socialism

if i'm wrong please let me know why, but saying "gently caress hamprince" doesn't change that the PRC strongly resembles fascism on a lot of fronts, certainly more than any theoretical marxism

You don't have to be pro-xi or even a fan of China to realize any comparison to fascism is facetious :)

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 29 days!)

Flavius Belisarius posted:

yeah i don't get this threads' leftists being seemingly pro-xi or thinking that chinese communism is in any way in keeping with the principles of socialism

if i'm wrong please let me know why, but saying "gently caress hamprince" doesn't change that the PRC strongly resembles fascism on a lot of fronts, certainly more than any theoretical marxism

people aren't saying gently caress hamprince because there aren't legitimate criticisms of china from the left, but because comparing China to a fascist state is facile lib bullshit

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

people aren't saying gently caress hamprince because there aren't legitimate criticisms of china from the left, but because comparing China to a fascist state is facile lib bullshit

wonder if you would say the same if hamprince was talking about usa or israel lol

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 29 days!)

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

wonder if you would say the same if hamprince was talking about usa or israel lol

What is it with you and Israel, anyway?

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
always tell hamprince to gently caress off

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

hamprince is right though

Nah, you’re both always wrong.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Dreddout posted:

You don't have to be pro-xi or even a fan of China to realize any comparison to fascism is facetious :)
also.

Jose posted:

always tell hamprince to gently caress off

freckle
Apr 6, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
ISRAEL

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Jose posted:

always tell hamprince to gently caress off

Tagline of C-SPAM

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

that graph is super misleading. if the drop in public assets is due to the privatization of some state-owned enterprises then the full picture isn't being taken into account. the government has reshuffled companies' ownership schemes but public administration is still the norm.

as for norway, that rapid growth is almost entirely due to the oil boom-fueled sovereign wealth fund. socialism it is not.

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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so is china socialist yet

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Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Fascism is probably the wrong word, but it's definitely Authoritarian as gently caress when it comes to freedom of expression. Demanding any sort of accountability or transparency from the government or even suggesting that they're wrong or bad is a good way to get spirited off to a labor camp.

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