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Honestly, I don't know why a General getting murked is such a big deal. There's always someone to replace them so that orders are passed down to missile a school or hospital.
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Sep 26, 2023 15:21
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Tai posted:Honestly, I don't know why a General getting murked is such a big deal. There's always someone to replace them so that orders are passed down to missile a school or hospital. He was the best mean-mugger in the armed forces.
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Sep 26, 2023 15:25
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Rad Russian posted:There's a tourist place, like a 1.5-hour ride from Moscow. Not even that hard to get to, they send a limo to your hotel in Moscow to pick you up since it used to be a popular thing for tourists. Pre-war, you could rent relatively new tanks there (and shoot them if you wanted, although it was several hundred bucks per shell or so). It would be hilarious if all they had left now was a single T-55 as even the overused stripped tourist rentals they had before (T-62, T-80, and T-90) got sent to the front.
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Sep 26, 2023 16:00
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Vampire Panties posted:Quake 1 with OpenGL on a 3dfx card was a loving revelation
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Sep 26, 2023 16:09
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Keeping on theme of video game chat: https://www.engadget.com/cd-projekt-red-apologizes-for-anti-russia-references-in-cyberpunk-2077-update-092347196.html quote:Cyberpunk 2077's developer has apologized for dialog and graffiti inserted in the Ukrainian version of the 2.0 update that's critical of Russia's invasion of the country, PC Gamer has reported. CD Projekt Red said it had nothing to do with the changes and promised to remove them. Oh no, Cyberpunk was too much of a dystopia for Russian players. 
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Sep 26, 2023 16:16
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weg posted:Keeping on theme of video game chat: lol they're getting mad over this quote:There also appears to be brand new graffiti in the game that references Russia's occupation of Crimea in 2014. "The graffiti represents the outlines of Crimea, the peninsula that was illegally annexed from Ukraine by russia in 2014," Tarasov told me. "Juxtaposed are the Ukrainian coat of arms and taraq tamga (the symbol of Crimean Tatars)." The suggestion is that in Cyberpunk 2077’s world, Crimea is part of Ukraine.
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Sep 26, 2023 16:33
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weg posted:Keeping on theme of video game chat: 
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Sep 26, 2023 16:33
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Flying a MIG has been on my bucket list since the early 2000's when I read an article in some "gentleman's magazine" where they flew a a MIG 25 (I think) really far up and they could see the black of space above them. I don't remember if they flew it themselves, or if they were passangers but I remember them saying it cost $18k. I think you can still (or could before covid) catch rides in old fighter jets in Czechia.
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Sep 26, 2023 16:35
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The_Franz posted:lol they're getting mad over this quote:one of Cyberpunk 2077's Ukrainian dialogue line alters "We're loving through" to a Ukrainian phrase that roughly means "Go gently caress yourself in the same direction as the ship did". 
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Sep 26, 2023 16:36
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Tai posted:Honestly, I don't know why a General getting murked is such a big deal. There's always someone to replace them so that orders are passed down to missile a school or hospital. because generals are treated like minor royals, no matter which country youre from
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Sep 26, 2023 16:41
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Hats off to those localizers. Hopefully they can get work at a company that isn't so cowardly. I guess I could be ok with CDPR removing the edits if they issued a statement to something of the effect of, "While we denounce Russia's invasion of Ukraine and wholeheartedly agree that Crimea is Ukraine, altering our creative vision without permission was not appropriate." Buuuuut we all know that money talks, apparently even the rapidly devaluing Ruble.
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Sep 26, 2023 16:42
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 Alternate meme, "step shadow, help me I'm stuck in this dry dock. Step shadow, what are you doing?!"
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Sep 26, 2023 16:48
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Huge "Barbie had a dashed line in it" vibes from those Russian crybabies
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Sep 26, 2023 16:49
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Ukraine War: Weekend at Sokolovs
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Sep 26, 2023 16:51
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weg posted:Keeping on theme of video game chat:
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Sep 26, 2023 16:51
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CannonFodder posted:When Lance Bass of NSYNC was training to be a cosmonaut as a space tourist and fly on the Soyuz up to the ISS (yes that almost happened) he flew a MiG. After drinking vodka with his cosmonaut trainers. Who were also drinking vodka. He had no flight training before that day. I liked how he appreciated how goofy his space flight was and parodied it on Andy Daly’s Review. Daly’s character takes his father in law played by Fred Willard on space tourist flight to try to bond & Bass is also on board. The crew neglects to strap down Willard so he is killed instantly & his body floats around during the flight, but Bass is still obligated to read ads for his sponsor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxmkiK2g_PM Hyrax Attack! fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Sep 26, 2023 |
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Sep 26, 2023 16:52
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I liked how he appreciated how goofy his space flight was and parodied it on Andy Daly’s Review. Daly’s character takes his father in law played by Fred Willard on space tourist flight to try to bond & Bass is also on board. The crew neglects to strap down Willard so he is killed instantly & his body floats around during the flight, but Bass is still obligated to read ads for his sponsor. Tbf noted dork Richard Garriott had flown to space successfully on a Soyuz capsule around that same time. It wasn't some insane death wish that Lance Bass created whole cloth.
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Sep 26, 2023 16:57
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Flyinglemur posted:
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Sep 26, 2023 16:58
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weg posted:Keeping on theme of video game chat: There is this tendency with cyberpunk (genre as a whole, not just the IP by that name), for the people around it to create the most sterile neo-lib enviroment possible where even things like "trans women are women, trans men are men" gets you banned from a shadowrun server by a guy with a googly eyed catgirl avatar for "divisive politics", but fudd-chuds who talk about setting burglars on fire with homeloaded incendiary ammo in real life are tolerated under "you don't have to like it, but you must respect their view".
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Sep 26, 2023 17:03
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A lot of "Cyberpunk" misses the whole punk part. It's just Cyber.
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Sep 26, 2023 17:12
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Ronwayne posted:There is this tendency with cyberpunk (genre as a whole, not just the IP by that name), for the people around it to create the most sterile neo-lib enviroment possible where even things like "trans women are women, trans men are men" gets you banned from a shadowrun server by a guy with a googly eyed catgirl avatar for "divisive politics", but fudd-chuds who talk about setting burglars on fire with homeloaded incendiary ammo in real life are tolerated under "you don't have to like it, but you must respect their view".
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Sep 26, 2023 17:12
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Antigravitas posted:A lot of "Cyberpunk" misses the whole punk part. It's just Cyber. Way too many people who are comfortable middle class or middle class presenting think they'd be one of the ones that claws their way to the top, become cyber-god and cyberpunk is a rags-to-riches story. I mean i guess it is, in a Scarface way.
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Sep 26, 2023 17:14
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fish and chips and dip posted:Flying a MIG has been on my bucket list since the early 2000's when I read an article in some "gentleman's magazine" where they flew a a MIG 25 (I think) really far up and they could see the black of space above them. I don't remember if they flew it themselves, or if they were passangers but I remember them saying it cost $18k. $20-25K USD pre-war, depending on MiG model and if you were doing just yourself or with a trained copilot. It was a thing local rich kids would do to post on Instagram. With money in Russia (and even as a dirty NATO tourist) you could have access to any military hardware you wanted short of nuclear weapons. These were either run by a local mafia business that bribed some general to get the hardware, or the local army base general did this himself as a side hustle. The more east from Moscow you went, the more loose the rules got with what you can play with. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Sep 26, 2023 |
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Sep 26, 2023 17:16
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 Pictured: a good cyberpunk game.
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Sep 26, 2023 17:21
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RDM posted:Half the Russian players in the NHL would only support a generic War Bad statement if it blamed Ukraine for the war. I really hate the victim blaming. So what if Ukraine is totally Nazis from the cradle to the grave. So you invade them and start murdering people under the aegis of what? This is coming from an American who witnessed the horrible and pointless wars against Iraq (twice!) and Afghanistan to find one terrorist. Putin licked GWB's anus once for a dare.
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Sep 26, 2023 17:31
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:So what if Ukraine is totally Nazis from the cradle to the grave. So you invade them and start murdering people under the aegis of what? In Russia, the spin is that the Nazi ethnic Ukrainians were not simply existing, they began genociding ethnic Russians inside Ukraine for daring to speak Russian and for opposing the gay agenda of the West. They're at war to "save our people". An average Russian war supporter is not an imperialism supporter. It's a person who watches propaganda TV news and believes that Russian children were being systematically rounded up into Nazi re-education camps where they were forced to learn Ukrainian, worship Hitler, and change their gender. That storyline makes it much easier to get support for the war vs "we want land and buffer zone". Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Sep 26, 2023 |
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Sep 26, 2023 17:34
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CannonFodder posted:Ahh, the day I installed a Voodoo II... and hosed up my driver settings and had to flatten and reinstall everything. Ahh, those were the days. I clocked my Voodoo II as worse than a Monster 3dfx and mailed it to the manufacturer for a straight up Monster card. It was a daughter card thing and I got to keep the mother as a much better card than my internal graphics. They were super awesome about it.
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Sep 26, 2023 17:35
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Antigravitas posted:
Not gonna disagree there.
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Sep 26, 2023 17:35
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Antigravitas posted:
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Sep 26, 2023 17:38
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theres a p good lp too dragonfall is much better, and hong kong better than that. they wrote a whole engine and actually got value out of it
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Sep 26, 2023 17:38
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Prettz posted:I really hope that's not Shadowrun Returns, cause buddy... Dragonfall, set in an anarchist Kiez in Berlin. His companion quest has you punch Nazis.
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Sep 26, 2023 17:45
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Antigravitas posted:Dragonfall, set in an anarchist Kiez in Berlin. His companion quest has you punch Nazis. Incredibly good CRPG that has the added benefit of not being too long.
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Sep 26, 2023 17:47
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Antigravitas posted:Dragonfall, set in an anarchist Kiez in Berlin. His companion quest has you punch Nazis. Written by the original creator of the game franchise, it should be noted.
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Sep 26, 2023 17:56
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Wait a second, thats not eye divine cybermancy??
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Sep 26, 2023 18:06
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Ronwayne posted:There is this tendency with cyberpunk (genre as a whole, not just the IP by that name), for the people around it to create the most sterile neo-lib enviroment possible where even things like "trans women are women, trans men are men" gets you banned from a shadowrun server by a guy with a googly eyed catgirl avatar for "divisive politics", but fudd-chuds who talk about setting burglars on fire with homeloaded incendiary ammo in real life are tolerated under "you don't have to like it, but you must respect their view".  I don't want to keep this cyberpunk derail going on too long, but I agree with your assessment. I also feel that that tankies and neo-fascists are the same or at least a similar type of person. "Oh wouldn't it be cool to be a part of such a strong a powerful organization, ruling over creation with absolute power and authority". They seem to see themselves as part of the elite ruling class in this situation, not the huge majority or losers being crushed under its boot either directly or indirectly. People that put stormtrooper helmet stickers on their pickups are one example of this. The authoritarians are bad you dumbfucks, cool space future or not! The folks that look to the USSR as a misunderstood workers utopia are just the same morons who think Vader is a badass and not a villain, only they are into history and not science fiction. I think the scary thing about cyberpunk fiction is that we are seeing the worst parts of it come true. The governments that haven't failed are becoming increasingly undemocratic and corporate control and business interests are paramount to human rights. Unfortunately the lesson of cyberpunk is more applicable than ever to our world: You can't save the world, you can only try to save yourself.
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Sep 26, 2023 18:14
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weg posted:Hats off to those localizers. Hopefully they can get work at a company that isn't so cowardly. Eh, IIRC, they made statements when the war started, donated some money to humanitarian organization and stopped selling their titles in Russia and Belarus. I am somewhat surprised they apologized for offending them, "altering our creative vision without permission was not appropriate" would be probably better choice of words, unless there are some more offensive remarks than what was quoted here, article mentions "derogatory terms for Russians"
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Sep 26, 2023 18:16
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I really hate the victim blaming. It wasn't a dare, Putin was told "Bush rides horses" and something got lost in translation
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Sep 26, 2023 18:55
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Flyinglemur posted:
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Sep 26, 2023 18:56
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Tai posted:Honestly, I don't know why a General getting murked is such a big deal. There's always someone to replace them so that orders are passed down to missile a school or hospital. Experienced leaders are not fungible, assuming this guy was doing something and wasn’t just a nepo hire.
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Sep 26, 2023 18:58
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Tiny Timbs posted:Experienced leaders are not fungible, assuming this guy was doing something and wasn’t just a nepo hire. It really doesn't matter at this point beyond experience, Putin has had 20 years to replace everyone competent with loyalty which overlooks things like "do they have any idea how to do their job". And the ones taking aren't better either because competency is the enemy of the dictatorship.
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