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 No.11615[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Noticed a lot people talking about Tolkien’s works and philosophy. So, I created a thread specifically dedicated for that and other things related to it, like the movies and games.
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 No.40788

>>40719
NTA, but iirc Tolkien's response to the belief that Lord of the Rings was supposed to be an allegory for WWII was to give an outline of what Lord of the Rings would have looked like if it actually WAS an allegory for WWII, in which case it would have been a much more grey vs black conflict and if the elves, Gondor, Rohan, et al were allegorical for the Western Allied Powers (France, Britain, the United States, et al) then would have taken the Ring for themselves and conquered the Shire and enslaved the hobbits.

 No.40791

>>40788
The simplistic "forces of good vs forces of evil" don't really work then since national chauvinism, like anything people call "evil," is just false consciousness. There is no good and evil as ideologies, these are simply ideological judgements of others. It's all just spooks in your head, people are evil because they think they are the good guys. Orks should think they did nuffin rong and that they are blessed by Jesus.

 No.40796

>>40791
Okay, so
1) Tolkien stated multiple times that Lord of the Rings wasn't an allegory for anything. His example in my post was what the story would have looked like if he was making it some kind of political allegory, namely for WWII.

2) Tolkien didn't necessarily deal strictly with Malthusian evil. He plays with the idea, but Malthusian evil (which is evil as its own motive force opposite to good) takes a huge thematic backseat to "evil as an absence of good" or "evil as an absence of virtue."

 No.40798

>>40796
>Malthusian evil
Sorry, I meant Manichaen evil. Whoops.

 No.40809

>>40796
The idea of virtue is also relative to one's ideology. Just because the evil is defined through the lack of good doesn't mean that it changes anything, it just makes "goodness" the ideology that defines what "evilness" is not. The kind of relationship between good and evil becomes a dependency instead of opposition, otherwise it's all the same.



/games/

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 No.34158[Reply]

I don't care about gamergate 2 or whatever but I did think this was interesting

> Former game executive and develop at Blizzard Mark Kern


> @Grummz


< "The way games are funded you don't use your own money. Even EA, its games are hugely expensive to make, they're upwards of you know 250 sometimes 600 million dollars it's for certain live games it's incredibly how expensive they are and to do that uh your CFO is your best friend.


< "You're counting on your CFO to get you tax breaks to get you in to put studios in regions which are financially favorable and you will borrow the cheap money, you will get a cheap money to do it. Even EA does this. I worked with EA; we were putting together a deal where they were taking bailout money from the banks in the last financial crisis that we had, and they were applying that cheap money towards games, same thing with Covid money. They're applying that cheap money towards games, and what has been the cheapest money while interest rates were still low, you know a couple of years ago it was ESG financing, and so they're going to take this money."


< "Because the returns on investment have been so poor on Wall Street for ESG funds, that source of Revenue is drying it up. This Woke machine cannot continue in the way that it is now for AAA gaming, and I think unfortunately, it's so entrenched that you're not going to see—you're not going to see much of an ability to course correct because the studios are—they're just gonna shut down."


>He goes on to state that the ESG money comes with “strings attached”:


< Mark Kern explains how ESG money comes with strings attached inside corporations and is used to make companies partner with DEI consulting companies like Sweet Baby Inc:

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 No.34256

>>34240
>but they do the same with rightwing moral crusading
Feminazism is just a new form of right-wing moral crusading with a new coat of paint.
>it is closer to the actual culture and strategy of the ruling classes
Nah, the ruling class primarily cares about making profits so they can use any ideology that spreads hate and division. It's more like both feminazism and alt-rightism play into each other since they cannot exist without one another as the boogeyman. Without feminazism nobody would be buying into the alt-right bs and without the alt-right nobody would be buying into the feminazi bs, they need each other like yin and yang.

 No.34258

>>34256
>Feminazism

 No.34259

>>34258
Radlibs, radfems, libfems, wokescolds, SJWs, ultraprogs, call them whatever you want, I do not care.

 No.34263

>>34160
forced meme, no one except people who are online 23 hours a day can even pierce together what they're saying. i mean sweet baby inc? sounds like a bbq sauce company, it's not a real serious company, it sounds, as >>34208 explained, a backwater outlet to capture public funds and keep some failsons employed and maybe try and pretend that they're not gray souless companies filled with CEOs that fuck their own hot employees as a matter of routine.

 No.34267

>>34263
As I said in >>34232, rightists always try to damage-control when their conspiracy theories point at the porkies as the ones at fault. A shame that there are no dedicated sites or YouTube channels with leftist conspiracy theories.



/games/

 No.27910[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Always wanted to make this thread, but could never find time for it until now. Discuss lore, art, modding, headcanons, C0DA and other stuff related to the games.
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 No.34235

>>34231
I mean, it's just their preference. what's the issue with that? Although prefering vanilla Skyrim is kinda weird.

 No.34236

>>34231
NTA but the leveling system alone makes vanilla Morrowind and Oblivion almost unplayable.

 No.34237

>>34236
>consoles: good ports
>PC: good mods
Damn it, I dunno which one is better anymore.

 No.34239

First for OpenMW VR is very good.

>>34236
>Oblivion
Possible to underlevel, but difficult
>Morrowind
You have to be retarded to fuck it up with so much static stuff in the world. Halo kiddies who got it with their xbox hueg console could handle it.

 No.34265

>>34239
I dont mean unplayable as in hard, Morrowind if anything has exact opposite problem, there are so many ways to break the game player will inevitably do it just by accident. But I like roleplaying, and the leveling in those games is overly complicated, unintuitive, and encourages power-gaming.



/draw/

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 No.3341[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

First time on /leftypol/ Edition
I like drawing on occasion, mainly my OC Gabriel (redhead boy with a little femininity) and sometimes Larissa (his deadpan but kind gf)
Anyway this is an art trade thread, so exchange doodles or full-blown drawings, depending on what you're about
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 No.4325

>>4324
Is the redhead drinking out of a burger

Also are they a boy or girl? Was the image above just a gender swap?

 No.4326

>>4325
She's Dina, there's a reference sheet: >>4205

 No.4327

>>4326
Ah apologies

 No.4328

>>4325
>Is the redhead drinking out of a burger
Yup, and I have no idea why I drew that lol
Also what this anon >>4326 said

 No.4329

Here’s a sketch of Gabriel I just did



/anime/

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 No.233[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

itt hueg fricken 2d oppai
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 No.23092

>>23091
not bad

for a start

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 No.23144

>>23107
>someone else living my dream

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/games/

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 No.34191[Reply]

I guess this is the best place to ask. If you're mobile gaming, whatcha gaming on, /games/ anything from a phone, to a switch, to an Odin. S20fe here. Bout to get an s22 or s23 on Ebay soon though. I mainly use it for emulation and Dex. I always see these fuckfaces on social media hawking these mobile pieces of shit for upcharged prices and it pisses me off. If you wanna play nothing but snes games go on Ebay and get a phone for like 50 bucks. Chances are if you're a gamer and wanna use it for that you probly have a controller lying around. I mean. I get it, it's a fun little gameboy shaped package, but the phone is a lot cheaper and a whole lot better.

 No.34264

i barely use my gpd win 4, i kinda just carry it around to play games with my sister when i visit my parents, i may get one of the newer retroid devices to play earthbound or something i dunno



/hobby/

 No.27348[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

post meme templates and objects with transparent backgrounds, etc. for our OC makers to use.
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 No.39424

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 No.39426

>>39424
who's the crackhead lain?

 No.39710

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>>39426
>who's the crackhead lain?
idk, sorry.

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/games/

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 No.26405[Reply]

Do corporations just hate people? Once I used to think that sure you have big bourgeoisie who act in their class interests but you still has creatives who could flex their muscles and produce something great and then it would make a shit ton of money for publishers. But it seems that publishers these days just absolutely hate developers and moreso despise the consumers and now you have what the modern gaming industry is today, record profits with absolute gutted and half made releases with microtransactions to "buy" the full game. Also physical copies aren't useful anymore and digital copies can basically be "erased" at any time. All of these problems make me think that they just hate, like actually hate their consumers.
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 No.33663

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Under socialism, games will no longer prey on human psychology.

 No.33676

>>33631
This. Nobody should be playing AAA trash. It should be flushed down the toilet, where it belongs. Though I'm not sure that the AAA publishers will go bankrupt. Especially since the platform holders actively promote and serve them (console platforms display their crap on the front pages of their stores, Steam allows them to add Denuvo so people can't pirate their shitty games, etc.).
>>33663
Sounds based. If only it happened tomorrow.

 No.34250

Why would I buy any game from America though? Or the Swedes. I basically get all my games from Poles, Latvians, Ukrainians, and Estonians and Russians. Like I am not even joking nearly every last one of my games is this way. I don't know the last time I truly enjoyed an American game beside The Division and that was only because it was literally during the pandemic of 2020, so. It made it a bit more special.

 No.34252

>>26495
Cyberpunk was unironically the better story with better characters and ironically you should say that given the author of Witcher literally just did it as a way to make money and he really didn't give a shit about the world as I understand. It was a fluke his cash grab really paid off. Meanwhile despite the fact I hate Hollywood and its bullshit influence on gaming, and despite all wrong with CDPR and nVidia, it was a truly great and memorable story. I appreciated Cyberpunk very much honestly, far more so than the base game of Witcher 3 which pretty much sucked. Like I'm sorry but that main questline is so fucking tedious and dull, boring or annoying characters, Gaunter o'Dimm was cool. The DLC was cool. I liked the Crones, that was really memorable. But a ton of it was pretty meh, it was just a well done openworld is all. Of course all this goes to my original points, I basically just don't deal with the Americans anymore and haven't in years, this is a literally dead society. It is as spiritually dead as Calhoun's rats. It is deader than Soviet society in the late 1980s. Nobody believes in anythingabout the place, it's a fucking cash grab and always has been a ponzi scheme, the only people that're worth a damn here are the immigrants themselves maybe not entirely clicking yet on the scam, or they did and it's all about the remittances.

Anyway that's another exceptional studio and they still had all that cancer, in fairness GTA V was one of the better games ever made, shame it all goes to shit like all else because the corpo is hellbent on rock squeezing using micro, DLC, online and other bullshit scammery.

>>26442
I refuse to give EA, Activision or Blizzard my money and Paradox has been added to that list

>>26424
I'd literally rather smoke crystal meth and be homeless

 No.34262

>>26405
> but you still has creatives who could flex their muscles and produce something great and then it would make a shit ton of money for publishers.
that's actually not cost efficient lol



/hobby/

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 No.9852[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Discuss.
Dune discussion general.

https://youtu.be/jJj2yHM3d3Y
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 No.40784

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Dune is such a fun litmus test for who "gets it" and who would be easily led into committing atrocities by a sufficiently charismatic leader.

 No.40792

>>40784
All muslim e-celebs are screaming about Lisan Al Gaib, so you are right.

 No.40793

>>40784
I'm starting to think that there's a big chunk of the populace that just wants to be bullshitted into a grand narrative. Probably some kind of generational trauma from all the centuries of religious repression against pagans, heretics, and doubters.

 No.40794

>>40784
>>40793
worst part is that both the movies and books are incredibly in your face about it but people still dont get it

 No.40795

>>40793
>Probably some kind of generational trauma from all the centuries of religious repression against pagans, heretics, and doubters.
99% of those people were not even close to "free thinkers," anon.



/games/

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 No.29738[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Is it any good? I haven't played it myself
Also do I have to play the previous games to understand what's going on?
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 No.33833

>>33822
Maybe they would if the game wasn't awful and if the rest of it was at least as polished (meaning barely) as the first act.

 No.33836

Where's the Baldur's Gay eroge spin-off when we need it?

 No.33838

>>33836
yeah Japan wtf

 No.33840

>>33822
>>33833
most sales come from the first month or so, and all the streamers showing people what the game is like will mostly be playing the earliest parts. way less incentive to make the game not a piece of shit past that point.

 No.34261

the raphael song is cringe. i've seen some cope on reddit saying that it's supposed to be cringe and that in the context of d&d it's okay if it's cringe. but that's not true. the song is cringe because it's badly written. the rhyme scheme is doctor seuss level and the analogies/metaphors are are the most basic 1:1 simplistic shit. i get the impression that it was written by some person in the dev team whose actual job was some technical shit and they were unqualified for the task



/games/

 No.26672[Reply]

I just beat this game, I remember seeing another discussion thread about this game but I can't find it, but I want to talk about the game, full spoilers.
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 No.34211

>>34174
>thats how i died the first time too. but then i became obsessed with it after that happened lel
Lmao exactly the same.
Tbh I thought it was gonna be low quality meme shit just from seeing memes on this site, never thought I'd get so in to it.

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putting all your points into empathy is a good way to turn it into one of the most depressing games ever

 No.34243

>>34242
Wow, it's just like real life.

 No.34244

>>34242
I did this aktually.

 No.34260

>>34242

You: I'm sorry you have to sit here on the ice, feeling miserable. At your age –or at any age –in this weather… waiting for it to get dark.
She looks you in the eye, her pupils wide, surrounded by a ridiculous amount of make-up
You: The people who build this world intended it to be better for you, but they failed. It is easier to live in their failure with this by your side." (Tap on the tape recorder).
The wind howls. She remains silent.
Empathy: It's real. Tell her.
You: It is not a childish fantasy. It can be a real weapon against what's coming for you now
Acele: "What is…? "Her shoulders shake a little.
You: Nothing, if you got this. Don't be scared.
Acele: Okay.
Her teeth rattle. She takes the device from you and places it in her lap
Acele: "I'll stick to it"



/anime/

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 No.4715[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

/jp/ , Otaku and weeb thread.

This thread is to talk about things on Japanese culture, and the good and bad of it
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 No.23221

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 No.23222

Recently learned about nagashi soumen, which is like, ramen sliding down a half bamboo with a gentle stream of water pushing it along.

 No.23223

>>4715
There is no Japanese culture. Most of what exists is a construct created to keep the citizens hikkimorized, supine servants of western hegemony. It's so successful it was exported to Korea and now it's come home to the metropole.

 No.23226

How much is a normal price for sushi? The local grocery store sells like, 3 rolls for 10 USD and a plate for 15, and 10 bucks seems rediculous for just one meal where the main ingredient is rice.

 No.23809

>>10550
"Social Credit", contrary to the hysteria and slander, is largely about business regulation. The claims of sinister social psyops or social manipulation are yet once more the projection of Western societies. The irony is that now, as the system is under genuine trouble, policies of liberal governments outright clamp down on the counter-liberal and counterhegemonic positions more harshly and skillfully than their opponents, despite all the talk of openness.
https://rtsg.substack.com/p/corporate-governance-in-the-peoples



/tech/

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 No.23814[Reply]

Has anyone heard about this new dating app called Duolicious? It's supposedly designed to help you meet like-minded individuals based on your personality. Sounds like a neat concept, but I can't help feeling a bit skeptical about it.

First off, how accurate can these personality assessments really be? I mean, are we reducing the complexity of human relationships to a mere algorithm? And what about privacy concerns? With all the data breaches happening these days, I'm wary of handing over intimate details of my personality to some tech company.

Plus, there's the whole capitalist angle. Is this just another way to monetize loneliness and exploit our desire for connection? It feels like these apps are more about making profits than genuinely helping people find meaningful relationships.

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. Do you think Duolicious is a step forward in online dating, or just another tech gimmick preying on our emotions?
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 No.23837

>>23834
Cool. Don't be afraid to finish a thought for once in your life. How do you answer a few quizzes and generate a match ranked list of singles in your area using Scuttlebutt? There is an obvious answer but it sucks on a number of levels and centralization is the lesser of two evils.

 No.23838

>>23837
We can use the tagging system.

 No.23839

>>23836
hardly like erasure of the commons is unique to usa

 No.23840

>>23839
Third places are not the commons.

 No.23846

try leaving your house and talking to people



/games/

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 No.32810[Reply]

Can someone tell me if any of them are worth playing? I bought them while they were on steam sale so they were like two dollars each, are they any fun or are they just standard libshit stuff
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 No.32924

>>32922
superpower 2 is too SIMPLE ANON. I NEED SOMETHING MORE.

 No.32979

>>32922
so happy to see superpower 2 mentioned. i really do think it has pretty much the best "template" for a geopolitical sim, it all flows together so well despite its numerous problems

 No.33040

Mao's legacy now tells you what techs due to the economy as a tooltip.

Qol is increasing.

 No.34254

Shallow af but cozy tbqh
It's just one of those games you mindlessly play after work like Microcosmum or something

 No.34257

>>32810
Why do these pictures look so… gray?



/hobby/

 No.40126[Reply]

A thread dedicated to the study of wild / cultivated mushrooms. Hallucinogenics included*

Useful links:

Wildfooduk
https://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/

Psychonautwiki
https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushrooms

Magicmushroommap
https://www.magicmushroommap.com/map/

Myceliumsociety
https://www.myceliumsociety.com/blog.html
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 No.40522

>>40521
The Phenomenology of Spirit of Shrooms

 No.40538

>>40519
i see..I was starting to think i had a natural resistance or something like that. dunno when i'm going to try again sadly

 No.40579

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I think this is related to the thread
some anon on the main board posted that bulgarians are gonna protest to try and decriminalize weed and shrooms
https://www.facebook.com/events/942760050582651/

I ain't seeing anything about mushrooms besides picrel though its prob guaranteed since its a protest for drug use

 No.40786

>>40579
They moved it to the 20th of April (4/20)

 No.40790

>>40786
>4/20
I see what they did here.



/games/

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 No.29791[Reply]

Here's the caveat: MISS me with games that don't have an overworld layer because IMO that's more fun than the actual battles half the time. Games like Gears Tactics feel very halfassed due to not having that layer where you can do research and get immersed.

My favourites are the 'After'X series, very underrated, but eager to see if there's any unsung gems I missed. Doesn't necessarily have to be modern day vs aliens.
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 No.34119

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>>29791

Phoenix Point, thank me later.

 No.34124

>>34119
Played it already twice, good suggestion though. Polyphonic tendency for life.

 No.34126

>>30591
Battle Brothers and Wartales are great games both on management and tactical level.
But if you are looking something close to XCOM in terms of combat, I cant recommend Showgunners enough. There is virtually no management other than picking which gun to equip, and overworld consists of finding colectibles and solving puzzles, but it has the most tightly designed combat encounters of any of these games I played.

>>34119
I adored the writing (out of place ancom faction and wacky DLC arms dealer notwithstanding) and the desperate atmosphere the whole game had, enforced by how every mission you are under constant pressure, everything can go south due to single mistake. But for that to make for actually fun gameplay the mechanics need to be reliable and clearly communicated to the player. Instead I kept running into shit like bullets flying out of gun at bizarre angles, overwatch soldiers unloading magazine into a wall instead of approaching mutant, enemies hitting my guys through cover or wasting bunch of research time and resources on an armored transport because the game forgets to tell you its not something your soldiers take on missions but rather something you take on mission instead of your soldiers.

 No.34238

>>34111
I must be at like 200 hours at least… it's just so fucking repetitive and I have to savescum so much. I'm really thinking of just giving up. It doesn't help that my playstyle is kind of boring, I just give 90% of my troops the best sniper rifles I can buy/manufacture because it works for most all situations.

 No.34255

>>34040
>>34111
>>34238
lol anon seeing what you're going trough I'm almost sorry I talked about this mod, I'm currently midgame I think, mid 99, no idea how many hours I played, and it's true that it can be repetitive.
The thing is you have to progress fast if you can on the research tree and the interrogations to stop some missions for appearing, no idea how to get rid of those pesky "haunted houses/farms" though, I just don't do them anymore because those psy attack coming from the other side of the map are too annoying and I have a good score.
The game is throwing you some mean difficulty curve balls also, the red dawn HQ was annoying but man fuck the vampire castle DRAINING your balls sanity, I had to do it two times because I couldn't capture the queen the first time.

As of now I use salvaged alien laser rifles, pulse rifles, black ops snipers with tritanium ammo, one or two smartgun, a minigun, a dog and a laser tank. I also give a smart pistol and a katana to my guy with the most TU who I also equip with a synthsuit built with what I could get from Osiron crates. Melee is OP in this mod. I also save scum, otherwise I would use explosives, mortars, grenade launchers, rocket launchers way way more



/hobby/

 No.1328[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Seeing how there’s multiple /co/ related threads on the board. I think we should just put all of them into one general just for clarity’s sake.

Discuss anything related to comics and animations from comic recs, leftist animations to comic writers’ attempts to larp as leftists.

Seriously is there a worse anarchist in the UK than Alan Moore?
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 No.40762

>>40756
I wasn't saying you did, but it's like a commandment, y'feelme?

 No.40763

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>>40756
>Wtf is this discussion?
You're clearly not a /co/mrade.

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>>40764
But all rabbits have these proportions…

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First episode of xmen 97 is pretty alright.



/anime/

 No.23154[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Why do people constantly call the saga of Tanya Mangaka a communist? just stumbled upon the guy's feed and it's full of boomer takes, SDF shilling(this is the complete antithesis of the JCP), and anti-communist retweets.

On top of that, Riyoko Ikeda(The Rose of Versailles) who was a member of the Japanese communist party in her youth is now doing interviews with LDP and butt buddies with a senior member. The Riyoko one is far more shocking than the nazi anime girl
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>>23713
probably cause he did tons of work for anime as well

 No.23719

>>23711
>In the west he was oveewhemingly mocked
I understand that his views are stupid but Xitter's """satire""" is as bland and boring as Stephen Colbert. It won't come even close to South Park or the Brits when Thatcher died, lmao.
>that's why cartoons are superior to anime
But they borrow from each other constantly…

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if you know, you know. It caused quite a reaction

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>>23409
They added precure into compulsory education recently over there recently lmao

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>>23718
People care because Dragon Quest is a bona fide cultural phenomenon over there
he had anime credits, Cyborg 009 is probably his biggest, but none were for series at anywhere close to the same level of influence or fame.
but yeah, boomer has bad politics, not like he bombed countries himself or anything



/music/

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/games/

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By Blood alone waiting room edition.

>RedFlood

I didn't realise they also reworked the Far-Eastern Collapse.
If Kerensky fucks up the Manchu's still take over the West, Republicans run off to Transamur and Vladivostok and then either become one of two different flavours of authdem, Ukrops spawn in the north, but can either be SocDem or Banderites who are now properly set to reactionary.
Harbin proper gets to keep some of the south now, Its either led by Gastev who calms down his autism a bit and becomes PopSoc

Or…
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I can't believe the historical internal politics path is the best one in Iron Curtain. I guess every good socialist had already been executed by that point though.

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>>34151
What is the name of this mod? The interface looks like TNO, but Stalin is alive somehow, he did not transformed into a pony, wich is impossible. Is this how TNO looks like nowadays?

 No.34153

>>34152
It can't be, the year is 1950 i saw rn

 No.34154

>>34152
I said it's Iron Curtain, cold war mod, I wouldn't really recommend it though TBH, there's not much to do

 No.34253

Tried to play the Ace Combat mod, it's only in alpha so don't really recommend it right now, was just bored. Winning as Belka seems fairly impossible, go figure. Apparently it is winnable but Osea just has like infinite troops.



/games/

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 No.33862[Reply]

Can I still be a communist if I play Helldivers 2?
THE FUCK YOU MEAN FLOOD DETECTED
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>>34113
>>34115
>>34116
>It's literally anti-fascist satire lmao
>Not this again
Yes, it is.

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>>34068
>>34087
>Thoughts on automatons?
>based freedom fighters trying to liberate Cyberstan from super earth tyranny.
Why yes, indeed. How could you tell?

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>>34115
This is true and it gives me great joy to do so, even greater joy in knowing they're so far down OUR rabbithole a this point they've basically already taken the Red pill. They're just too dumb to know it yet. We've more or less already gotten them to utterly reject this entire society and this entire system.

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>>34249
One might argue it's a case of interpassivity, where none of the people actually did anything to oppose the system, but feel like they did. Cloaking themselves in irony and distansing themselves, while their hand is still on the handle, cranking that machine, like good little Eichmanns.



/games/

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 No.23683[Reply]

There was an abortion of a thread in the main leftypol. This is for discussing W40k from a leftist reading, sort of Sigmarxist lite.

Interestingly enough, first, the Imperium is actually a great deconstruction of how booj and sheeple in the first world can justify their imperialism and inhumanity. Basically, you have folk justifying child soldiers, lobotomizing dissidents, etc, just because if they didn't do it, either AI or Xenos would overrun the Imperium.

A second focus of conversation might be Genestealer Cults as a deconstruction of proletarian revolts.
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>>34181
Much better than when it first came out, get Toybox to fix the still broken stuff just in case.

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>>34213
squatmunism

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>>34181
This is literally one of the best crpgs I played already and I am barely past prologue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_25eAN2fo14
Like, my God dude

Also I should emphasize that due to this entire game universe being set up in the 1980s that while it is a direct rebuke of Thatcherite bullshit and policies [spoiler]keep in mind GW is literally British, the tongue in cheek poking fun at reactionaries routinely goes over their retarded Poes Law heads[/spoiler] but it was also quite clearly premised more off of Soviet stuff, given that again, 1980s.

Like the emperor of mankind is quite literally Space Stalin. That's the whole hilarious thing about the lore, Lorgar basically found out the hard way that Emprah is not only a dick he's also full of shit, and that is especially hilarious that the entire false, heretical Ecclesiarchy was literally made up by a fucking heretic traitor who helped start the Horus Heresy partly because the Emprah DESPISED religion in all its forms. There's a great part in the fluff where the Emperor hunts down and burns to death the last living priest on planet Earth. How in the fuck a bunch of reactionaries can like that is beyond me, but what I usually found is they're literally too retarded and pigshit ignorant (like all else) to know any better, and so they trundle along blithely thinking this setting agrees with them and their xenophobia. It's just priceless to me because the fake ass pseudo Catholic theme, if you actually know and understand the lore, the Emperor himself would literally murder the entire Ecclesiarchy and purge the fuck out of anybody else who supported it and had the audacity to worship him as a god or replace science and the glorification of rational secularism with religious superstition. It was quite literally a shitty, degraded version of Space Sovietism, it's basically if the space USSR grew so corrupt that someone made a state sanctioned church to worship Mao or Stalin as a god after they died. It's literally North Korea tier. That's part of the irony too, is it's actually one of the most shitty imperialistic societies out there, in much the same way as, who was it Orwell? That one author who was Socialist got horrified at the betrayal of Socialist values by the Stalinist crew. Oh and also that Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>34181
oh shit sorry and I didn't even answer your question, so far so good and I just really love Owlcat. I want them to actually have my money. But I also adore Slavic devs. Mainly, because for whatever strange reason they don't fucking suck like Western corpos, probly due to something called SOUL. Anyway I haven't noticed fuckery yet but supposedly that shit all come at act 4 or something. The first half was fine before, it may be fixed now anyway. Oh and also. Yes this is true, you get Iconoclast, Puritan, and Heretic. There's a choice I made that I literally didn't realize was gonna get me cut by a cursed warp artifact, I now am haunted by a demon. That, to be fair, I took for darkest hour accidentalyl having something to do with a heretical cult. This works really superbly for me, as I like to have an actual personal story arc and struggle with my characters, something that made some games like KOTOR more memorable by not knowing I was the big R, and drifting to the dark side, or VTMB and its whole deal, or even FNV slowly making me cold and callous just by dealing with wastelanders. It's something I particularly adore about RPGs, the ones that actually give you the option to have that kind of terrible push and pull temptation, the inward struggle against darkness and tyranny. Not just as a narrative plot, but truly having it incorporated in both headcanon and gameplay choices, and this game let's me really start off by being a crime lord with accidental flirtations with chaos that I used the devout voice, and got heretical and imperial tattoos. I want this character to struggle, even without being a psyker. And yeah you can do the psyker thing too.

I have no idea how all this works in gameplay as I not far yet, however this being Owlcat game will give you many such options including eventually alienating your party. Of the starting few, you have an iconoclast, a puritan, and a heretic (Tlas Idira and Argenta don't get along, Sister Argenta absolutely despises Idira and all psykers like her sanctioned or not so I'm pretty sure you'll lose your big gun sister of battle companion by going down that path)

>>30082
It's called the Ultramarines and Matt Ward and yes it does and yes it's fuckin retarded. Stupid mfers, you know, all that is Ultramar and RPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>23673
>left wing
Genestealers are quite LITERALLY how reactionary bullshit establishmentarians operate. Remember the Tea Party and Tea Party Express? Remember how those corpo RNC ghouls tried hijacking Anonymous and the whole "we are legion" thing for their teabaggotry?

Although I always thought the Trump thing hilarious because he's clearly of the ruinous powers trying to take down the imperium, cause a civil war, and spread the coof, the gift of Nurgle among his retarded followers.

>would I support

The fuck kind of full retard question even is that?
No, I don't support being assimilated into the same coopting corporatist hive which has coopted literally everything, even to the point of selling pretorn jeans for fucking 200$ USD that we would get that way by just being working poor. I swear the fucking commercialization and coopting of the working class is one of the most obnoxious fucking things.

>>23678
More or less how the fuck is Chaos remotely Socialistic though? They're literally egotists, fully self absorbed narcissists without any real code or honour well except maybe Khorne. I mean I guess maybe in the sense that many anarchists claim to be pro-communal pro-Social but realistically they aren't that kind of anarchist.

>>23679
A lot of genestealer cults hide by pretending to be worshipers of the emperor. And try to skirt by the law and notice by being as goody twoshoes publicly as possible while subverting all the systems. They're way more like the fascists tbh. Like, it's to the point where an inquisitor can basically just write off yet another failed uprising on some hive city as the type of failed leftist Decembrist type stupid shit incompetence uprising that is no more heretical than it is xeno.
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/music/

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 No.9235[Reply]

Post music to cry to.
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>>9378
Oh damn, this got taken down
Here's the song: Meddling Gut Wrenches by King Creosote from Love + Hate = Hate

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/edu/

 No.6563[Reply]

A list of reading groups and their schedules that have chosen to advertise themselves here. Take a minute to check them out. If you would like to promote your reading group, feel free to leave a comment telling people where they can go.

>>5912 /read/

>>6162 Continental Floppa
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>>21582
Roland Barthes is one of several theorists associated with structuralism and post-structuralism. Start with these books then read Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Jakobson, Barthes, Lacan, Althusser, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Baudrillard, Derrida, and Kristeva

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/hobby/

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Post what you're wearing today, pieces you want to wear, recent cops, thrifting, inspo, concepts, runways, designers, questions, etc.

Previous thread: >>29827
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>>40550
vinted?

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>>40563
>>40566
feels like only asians make high waisted pants anymore

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>>40566
Unfortunately high rise pants have not been popular with men for over half a century.
I have a few pairs from a japanese designer brand but designer brands might be iffy since a lot of their stock is seasonal.
There is low demand and low supply for this style of pant. Repros of trousers pre WWII fill the niche but often some details are wrong. Scavini and Kit Blake are european brands that offer RTW high rise trousers but I think they are online only. You can also get a tailor to make them for you, or look for a MTM brand that offers a high rise customization for their trousers.
I have no idea how you're going to try one on before you buy, unless your city is big enough to have a number of designer boutiques that happen to carry what you're looking for this season. Or maybe Uniqlo U if you're lucky.

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Without exact measurements this shit is so useless, lmao.



/edu/

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 No.21619[Reply]

>Historical events, states and peoples with cool names
'The expedition of the thousand', 'Triarchy of Negroponte', 'The Battle of the Crater' and 'The Boxer rebellion'
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>>21619
the Late Heavy Bombardment

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Jorge Mario Bergoglio
<aka Pope Francis I
<aka Bishop of Rome
<aka Vicar of Christ
<aka Prince of the Apostles
<aka Pontifex maximus
<aka Apostolic Lord
<aka Holy Father
<aka His Holiness

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The Hundred Days



/anime/

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 No.2508[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Post them
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Nico Robin's Hana Hana no Mi is walking fetish material >>9121 including foot fetishes and giantess.

https://animefeet.blogspot.com/2021/04/one-piece-nico-robin-op-15.html

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Getting back on topic; kenaga has some very detailed 3d stuff
https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=kenaga

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>>23727
>And you guys claim to be different from 4chan and Reddit?
You sound like NonCompete, Jesus.

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>>23759 (me)
MUH FUNNI NONCOMPETE FACE NOOOOOOOOO!!

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migrated from the /siberia/ feet thread because for some reason someone there insists that it be an exclusively /irlfeet/ thread.
Spoiled since /anime/ is in /sfw/



/AKM/

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 No.2594[Reply]

Is there anyone who would be willing to do a reading groups about warfare, strategy and tactics at a theory level? and possibly should, can or how could we use these concepts and theories into our own non-kinetic projects and more broadly the class/social war/.
I'd be very interested in this as it will help me grapple with the ideas bettert. We could do it on an easy to anonymously communicate platform and choose a book or theme collectively.

 No.2595

I've got too much on my plate rn
Sorry comrade :(

 No.2617

>>2594
Sounds very interesting to me. I may wish to join in a few months time. Thank you for the offer anon.

 No.4664

>>2594
I dunno about a reading group, but is there a list/archive of MODERN(so at least ww2) military literature? Specifically military, not guerilla/terror stuff. Some youtube channels about military would also be appreciated.

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>>4664
And I'm not talking about stuff like "how to treat your wounds and handle your ak", but preferably stuff like "how to be an infantry squad leader".



/tech/

 No.23845[Reply]

Does anyone have a Riseup invite for a comrade?

I don't want to use Protonshit anymore.


/tech/

 No.23768[Reply]

Stalinists and many other types of leftists are about to be fully jettisoned into the fucking dustbin of history if they never manage to overcome their history LARP. You unironically have nighas on this board arguing the OGAS cybernetic system of the fucking 70s USSR was the last actual technological advancement meanwhile American and Chinese research firms are building general purpose humanoid robots (androids that can take any basic command and execute it), building the infrastructure for a fully digitized real world visible only through headsets, neuro-chips that control computers with thoughts, successful gene therapy, and successful eye transplants; but keep fapping to tech from a literal century ago
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 No.23811

>>23810
The first web page was hosted on a NeXT workstation in 1990 so not a great metric.

The question is how quickly are computers getting more powerful compared to then. In 1981 the IBM 5150 was on par with Apple /// in terms of processing power and by 1985 the Amiga 1000 could do stuff even Unix workstation could not do in 1984 all for far less then the IBM XT and things gets insane when RISC processors hit the scene where PPC machines emulate 68k code in software due to massive uplift in performance.

IBM lost the PC market because in the XT and AT era computers keep getting cheaper and faster at an exponential rate and if it held that trend to today that would mean AM4 computers would be completely obsolete now due to AM5 being more then twice as fast for half as much but we don't see that.

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>>23811
>Actually nothing has changed because le compooters have had images in the 90s, that's definitely the same as a smartphone, a device that can functionally do almost any day to day task
Please kill yourself
People like you justify anti-elderly eugenics

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>>23809
>NVIDIA literally crunching the numbers faster than Moore's Law predicted with their new AI chips
<Le 1970s dogshit computers ain't got nothing on literal humanoid robots that can take essentially any order and follow it to the letter while engaging in natural generalized speech with any human at the exact same time
Contrarianism is the Highest Stage of Fucking Faggotry

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>>23841
>>23842
You missed my point. In 1985 a consumer computer war more powerful then the top end workstation of 1984. That would be like today being able to buy a gaming rig that completely trounced the top end IBM Power10.

 No.23844

>>23842
>>NVIDIA literally crunching the numbers faster than Moore's Law predicted with their new AI chips
What does this even mean

The number of transistors on the chips is very slightly off the predicted 2 year mark in the negative direction, and this has been the case for the last decade.
If you mean it literally, then you're forgetting that the arithmetic of AI accelerators is probabilistic and imprecise. This is good for neutral networks, but it's a completely different thing from and not comparable to chips not specialised for ML.



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