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Egg Moron posted:Hey war knowers Don't make em. Can't sell em.
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gradenko_2000 posted:here's another book-posting tip (that I learned from TikTok of all places) i use keep.google.com for my notes (kinda crap tbh) but something they've got built into it is grabbing text from images. works on desktop too. if you use modern android phone, it's built into the OS when you do the equivalent of 'alt-tab', you can just select all the text. i've been relying on it since the Google Now days.
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gradenko_2000 posted:here's another book-posting tip (that I learned from TikTok of all places) new versions of ios have a built in “copy text from screenshots” button too and its genuinely useful
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gradenko_2000 posted:it'll use "AI" to scan the snip for text, and then you'll get a further two buttons to select from. Click the one on the left, "Copy all text" The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)
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If America ends up invading Venezuela or Mexico or anywhere else in the Americas and it turns into a quagmire then there is a small chance of disaffected officers or soldiers marching back to Washington, which is probably why previous administrations never risked it.
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Washington DC is actually kind of a difficult, logistically speaking,target to do a military coup iirc.
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PawParole posted:If America ends up invading Venezuela or Mexico or anywhere else in the Americas and it turns into a quagmire then there is a small chance of disaffected officers or soldiers marching back to Washington, which is probably why previous administrations never risked it. Lol at fighting in the Northern Andes. "What if Vietnam, but also mountains?" (not to mention a whole military specifically oriented to a people's war strategy against the USA)
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Thinking of Stanley McChrystal trying to do a Bonus Army
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Blockade posted:lol check out the new super soldier grift Why do you insist that the human genetic code is "sacred" or "taboo"? It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter -we- are chemical processes and nothing more. If you deny yourself a useful tool simply because it reminds you uncomfortably of your mortality, you have uselessly and pointlessly crippled yourself.
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sullat posted:Why do you insist that the human genetic code is "sacred" or "taboo"? It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter -we- are chemical processes and nothing more. If you deny yourself a useful tool simply because it reminds you uncomfortably of your mortality, you have uselessly and pointlessly crippled yourself. Chairman Yang Gang!
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sullat posted:Why do you insist that the human genetic code is "sacred" or "taboo"? It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter -we- are chemical processes and nothing more. If you deny yourself a useful tool simply because it reminds you uncomfortably of your mortality, you have uselessly and pointlessly crippled yourself. this post is wearing a fedora
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Dec 5, 2023 07:18
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Centrist Committee posted:this post is wearing a fedora Man has killed man from the beginning of time, and each new frontier has brought new ways and new places to die. Why should the future be different?
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Centrist Committee posted:this post is wearing a fedora If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species. As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth: that life's only purpose is life itself.
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Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.
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The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are creating their own private army of demons.
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Centrist Committee posted:this post is wearing a fedora What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.
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sullat posted:What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output. As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
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Centrist Committee posted:this post is wearing a fedora Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective. zetamind2000 has issued a correction as of 07:54 on Dec 5, 2023 |
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Centrist Committee posted:this post is wearing a fedora Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.
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Nonsense posted:Now that Kissinger, like Bismarck, has passed, war can begin! Well there's still some damned foolish thing brewing in the Balkans.
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gradenko_2000 posted:it's not "materialism" to reduce warfighting to a production plan while being ignorant of things like ideology and political economy. the US couldn't, and still doesn't, recognize that bombing everything into dust doesn't cause a Douhet-ian impulse to overthrow the current government just to make the bombing stop, and neither does "body count" matter to an enemy that's fighting for national liberation It's a communist vs capitalist thing. A communist applies mathematics and formulas to understand reality, in the hopes of achieving material results. A capitalist applies mathematics and formulas to obfuscate reality, in the hopes of achieving money. It's deeply ingrained and cannot be easily overcome. If you put a car company CEO in charge of a war, they will run it like a car company. Otherwise you wouldn't have chosen a car company CEO!
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gradenko_2000 posted:As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. It's not Earth's final century. Just the final century for one particular empire.
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Cerebral Bore posted:Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist. Beware, you who seek first and final principles, for you are trampling the garden of an angry God and he awaits you just beyond the last theorem.
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did AC have a proper sci-fi novelist writing those? They were so much better than what you see in most games
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FuzzySlippers posted:did AC have a proper sci-fi novelist writing those? They were so much better than what you see in most games The designers were supposedly just really into scifi and just read a lot and incorporated it into the game. We are never going to get a proper sequel to Disco Elysium either.
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FuzzySlippers posted:did AC have a proper sci-fi novelist writing those? They were so much better than what you see in most games don’t think so, but I still lol at the fact crytek got Peter watts - blindsight guy - to write the story for the intensely mid crysis sequels.
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There were some interesting parts there, I liked the idea of "How many times have you been shot and blown up since you put on the nanosuit? You are essentially dead at this point in case you didn't realise. You can never take the suit off, in fact you are the suit now, good luck with that." C1 will always be the best though, purely for being a better sandbox.
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Yeah the book created the whole nanosuit transhumanism plot, which the game only barely touches right at the end with Prophet coming back. But there wasn't really a story story to go along with it.
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FuzzySlippers posted:did AC have a proper sci-fi novelist writing those? They were so much better than what you see in most games Brian Reynolds was an enthusiast at the time and he came up with the idea for the quotes to be narrative elements, rather than just a clever descriptive thingie. I think that just by the fact of dealing actively with ideology pushes the writing to be better, even in the rudimentary form it is in the game.
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FuzzySlippers posted:did AC have a proper sci-fi novelist writing those? They were so much better than what you see in most games I think the guy who wrote them, Brian Reynolds, was the one competent writer at firaxis bc as soon as he left their writing went to poo poo. it doesn’t usually matter bc it just manifests as very uninspired civ tech quotes but whenever they make something that requires world building like xcom or that beyond earth it’s extremely noticeable xcom 2 with an Alpha Centauri level treatment of the premise of a guerilla war against aliens would have been so cool. instead we got factions like the human supremacists who eat aliens and have no other characterization
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It is a real shame about Disc Elysium because while I don't think that game needed a sequel the setting they created was interesting and worth exploring. It made me think of a more coherent Bas-Lag. Maybe in 20 years the original creators can get back permission to use the setting like the SC2 devs. It is possible Watts wrote a lot of stuff that didn't get into Crysis 2 or 3. Like Destiny had a bunch of scifi writers come in and develop their lore, including an SA local writer, and wrote tons of interesting content. Then the lead devs threw out or ignored a lot of it so they could chase dumb ideas they had. I remember Pratchett's daughter, who writes for games, complaining about how so often the carefully crafted text they write gets tossed out and mangled by lead devs wanting to do cool set pieces inspired by some other game or movie even if they make no sense. Peak Civ quotes was 4 with Leonard Nimoy which had some awesome quotes along with the inspired Beep which I used as a notification noise for years. I remember 5 was okay but the 6 quotes were truly awful. I think the Civ 2 wonder video for the UN is actually the most positive depiction of the UN I've ever seen lol.
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FrancisFukyomama posted:I think the guy who wrote them, Brian Reynolds, was the one competent writer at firaxis bc as soon as he left their writing went to poo poo. it doesn’t usually matter bc it just manifests as very uninspired civ tech quotes but whenever they make something that requires world building like xcom or that beyond earth it’s extremely noticeable we were robbed of marxist guerilla xcom2. farc, the naxalites, the ndfp Hatebag has issued a correction as of 03:36 on Dec 6, 2023 |
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Hatebag posted:we were robbed of marxist guerilla xcom2. farc, the naxalites, the ndfp get me the programmers and I write the everliving poo poo out of backstory worldbuilding and plot of this
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FuzzySlippers posted:It is possible Watts wrote a lot of stuff that didn't get into Crysis 2 or 3. Crysis 2 was mostly written by Richard Morgan, the altered carbon guy who wrote books about people swapping bodies then turned out to be a transphobe.
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Hatebag posted:we were robbed of marxist guerilla xcom2. farc, the naxalites, the ndfp like there’s just zero mention of it at all bc firaxis can’t do any kind of world building or writing
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Has any game ever done insurgent warfare particularly well either from a narrative or gameplay perspective? Games, like Hollywood movies, have always been a lot more comfortable with CI. I remember there's space rear end in a top hat Red Faction Guerilla which at least has a lot of infrastructure destruction. I don't recall narratively in JA2 whether you were helping the CIA support the noble contras kind of crap or not, but gameplay wise I recall it was a lot of mowing down endless grunts as the a-team rather than managing an insurgency. Sometimes in games you play a metal gear solid spy kind of thing, but I don't really think that's an insurgent.
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https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1731765278848045144 china be testing combination uav+mlrs tubes
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it’ll never beat a real MAN up there on the joystick bro!!!!
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FuzzySlippers posted:Has any game ever done insurgent warfare particularly well either from a narrative or gameplay perspective? Games, like Hollywood movies, have always been a lot more comfortable with CI. The OFP: Resistance campaign probably comes the closest. Freedom Fighters was thematically guerillas but in practice it was just another shooter, same with the likes of Far Cry 6.
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