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So the takeaway is... server merges incoming on November. Why not go all the way and make two megaservers? And of course, thoroughly underwhelming news on the content front. Guess I won't be picking it up again anytime soon.

Sega or...? I guess. Isn't that kind of thing up to the publisher rather than the studio?

Getting my ass handed to me in OpenRA. I don't remember sucking this bad. Either I'm getting old, or a decade of games coddling me has taken its toll...

It'd be great if they went ahead and removed it from Warhammer TW 1. As an aside, why are both games currently priced the same? Brilliant strategy, Sega.

Inside a cave? The larger problem is the criterion, because of course, everyone believes themselves to be free thinking, rational and unique individuals. Hell, you might even succeed, and raise the next Ted Kaczynski...

Who are you and what have you done with Guard Dog?

LOL So, commies are relevant enough for you to note that almost all of them are (even though not really), but Franco isn't because... "he was kinda dictator as his opposed commies" (?). And Salazar neither because, uh... Of course, I forget: pointing out commie dictatorships is always relevant.

Yep. And that makes sense, except that Chilloutman's objection to the larger list was that Africans in the list don't count (even though Africa isn't in Europe and Europe isn't Africa despite what some would have you believe). Which is why I added some non-European, non-African examples to the reply. The African reference only makes sense if Chilloutman was expanding the scope to the whole world... except Africa. Anyway, let's see if I can fix up a statement we can all agree on to get this trainwreck back on track: "almost all are commies, except those who aren't" Right?

So calling people on their bs is now "being edgy". Okie dokie. Looks like I need to get with the times.

Right, right. So: - "commies": Enver Hoxha, Tito, Todor Zhivkov, János Kádár, Stalin* -- rest don't count because you shifted the goalposts to admit only European countries - non-commies: Éamon de Valera, Salazar, Franco, Urho Kekkonen So, 4 (5 if you count the Soviet Union as being in Europe) commies vs... 4 non-commies. Still your original statement that "almost all are [...] commies" is bull. Care to try again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-ruling_non-royal_national_leaders_since_1900 almost all are from Africa, rest from commies ruled states Sure. Except from Franco, Salazar, Díaz, Trujillo...

That is all well and good, but I think that if you parade around chanting Blut und Boden and toting a flag with a swastika, "Nazi" is a fairly adequate term to describe you. Yes, technically they aren't Nazis, because they don't have a card with their member # in the National Socialist German Workers' Party, so they are neo-Nazis at best, but that's not an exceedingly useful distinction to make outside of a historical discussion. And btw, I hate when "nazi" is thrown around by people who actually mean "I don't like that you disagree with me".

Academic blocked from researching people who reversed their gender assignment surgery speaks out “The fundamental reason given was that it might cause criticism of the research on social media and criticism of the research would be criticism of the University and they also added it was better not to offend people,” Mr Caspian told Radio 4. The University told Mr Caspian that “engaging in a potentially politically incorrect piece of research carries a risk to the University”. lol twattercracy

I see it taking off once they iron out the kinks. Sims and racing (and pr0n, ofc) games seem like the perfect games for this, but the ability to look around without having to turn is probably something you could get used to having in FPSs. The Alien Isolation VR mod looked sweet, for instance. A glove controller of sorts might be nice, but I'm not sure how well it could work without some sort of physical feedback. Jumping around like a moron in your living room, knocking into furniture? Maybe not so much, so not really "virtual reality" as much as, uh, simply 3D headsets. Bandwagoneers gon' bandwagon, though.

You're far from the only one. Yep, thanks! I don't live in Catalonia but have friends there. All of the tension that's been brewing for years now with friends and families declining to discuss politics for fear of coming to blows seems to be finally coming to a breaking point. Leaked calls of riot cops bragging that there's enough police there now to "level Beirut" (?) and that "all that's needed is the cojones to let them do their thing" sure aren't helping. Hopefully something good will come out of this and a few kleptocrats on both sides will see their political careers finished as a result. Shame that the price for that will be, at the very least, a few cracked skulls.

Ah. But how do you know that the song, rather than mockery, is not a lament of the fact that "a falsehood repeated often enough becomes truth"? He could be congratulating Kellyanne Conway (and her boss) on her mastery of mass psychology...

A bunch of high level Catalan government officials have also been arrested and charged with sedition, contempt of court, malfeasance and embezzlement. People have started taking to the streets. I'm guessing the first outbreaks of street violence are imminent, and likely inevitable on 10/1 when the actual referendum is scheduled. Fun times.

I'm not that far in yet -- trying to remain PURE IN THE EYES OF THE EMPEROR, so I doubt I'll see that, in this playthrough at least. Banter is pretty good regardless, with each sergeant constantly trying to out-edge each other, haha. Yeah, I'm not sure how that's even supposed to work. In a traditional RTS, massive infantry rushes is a basic tactic. But in DoWII you don't get more units and it's always just a handful of soldiers. In the campaign, you mowed down huge waves of Orks and Tyranids, which is how it's supposed to be according to the lore, as I understand it. Do you get tank factories as IG, hatcheries as Tyranids, etc...?

Do they have giant vats somewhere from where Bruce clones are spawned? Or is it a more or less "natural" process, perhaps involving spores?

I'm currently going through DoWII - Chaos Rising. So far the plot is better, more developed, with more fleshed out characters and antagonists than the vanilla campaign. The corruption mechanics are good too, but this game isn't at all RTS. More like a tactical RPG-lite. I don't mind but I can see how DoW fans would get pissy, resulting in Relic trying a "return to form" with 3. The only thing I'm not digging is the supply item separation. But I guess it makes sense because in vanilla you could solo maps -bosses included- with Cyrus once you got the planted explosives. Scarcity curtails that, but I'm not a fan. I also played a couple hours of Styx: Shards of Darkness coop. Not impressed. There doesn't seem to be any coop specific mechanics at all.

Been a while (at least... a decade?) since I've played vanilla, but wasn't that an Ascension addition?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism "In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal")[1][2] is the philosophical, social, political and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money[3][4] and the state." https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalism "an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market" Back to school man, back to school... Le sigh. "Capitalism is an economic system and an ideology based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. [...] Economists, political economists and historians have adopted different perspectives in their analyses of capitalism and have recognized various forms of it in practice. These include laissez-faire or free market capitalism, welfare capitalism and state capitalism. Different forms of capitalism feature varying degrees of free markets, public ownership,[8] obstacles to free competition and state-sanctioned social policies. The degree of competition in markets, the role of intervention and regulation and the scope of state ownership vary across different models of capitalism.[9]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism If you're going to go by Wiki to illustrate your (glaring lack of) understanding of concepts, at least be consistent about it, and don't cherrypick definitions.

This reasoning works both ways. "Communism" therefore was first and foremost a form of economy, and what killed eleventy billion was the totalitarian dictatorships that oh just happened to have their economy organized along the lines of "communism". Realistically, "the economy" itself is not something abstract and separate from politics. It is a system whose main actors are invariably connected to the levers of power, because said power is rooted in economic control and influence. The degree to which these two (infrastructure-superstructure) are interdependent has apparently been a point of contention since Marx postulated the model, but I don't know of anyone seriously proposing total and perfect compartmentalization.

The Nazi party of 1920 and the Nazi party of 1932 were not quite the same. By that time, Hitler's views as expressed in Mein Kampf were basically the party's ideological corpus, and there's plenty of references to the evils of Marxism and "Judeo-Bolshevism" present in it. Fun fact: Hitler was actually ordered to infiltrate and report on the nascent DAP by German military intelligence in 1919, after they had become aware of the risks posed by militant workers' movements. He ended up liking it quite a bit, and took it over for his own purposes. Ok guy. That was in size 5 lucilda so I'm totally convinced now.

Except, your timeline does not make sense. The Nazi Party was founded on 24 February 1920. Antifa was founded on 10 July 1932, shortly before Nazi won the national election and became the biggest party in the German parliment for the first time. At the time, Hilter and Nazi had already made their fascist intentions and missions publicly known, yet they were widely popular in Germany. (Here were the 10-point platform and [25-point manifesto](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSDAP_25_points_manifesto) of the Nazi party - the 10 points are eeringly similar to Trumpism.) Antifa was founded as a direction reaction and resistance to the rise of Nazi popularism in Germany. Ehh... the Spartacist League (later renamed Communist Party of Germany) was founded on 1914. They launched an armed revolt in 1919, before the founding of the NSDAP. Yeah, "Antifa" wasn't a thing until later, but it's true that the rise of the Nazis was thanks to, among other things, left-wing street violence and fears of a repeat of the October Revolution in Germany.