So you’re cool with what happened at tiananmen square? Or maybe you deny anything bad happened there? Because that’s what being a tankie is all about. Tankie != Communist.

A communist isn’t a tankie per sé. Tankies are people who blindly follow authoritarians of a communist regime and defend/deny the gruesome acts committed by said authoritarians. The idea behind communism is a valid one. In a perfect world, communism would lead to the star Trek utopia. Problem is, assholes will always take advantage and turn everything to shit. I still prefer communism over the heap of flaming shit most of the world lives in.

Not really. People stop analyzing problems via critical thinking because things are becoming too convenient. Just look at social media. It’s so easy to access information, people stop analyzing the data and blindly believe things that they’re fed via the algorithms. These algorithms highly favor controversial material because it boosts visibility of ads. This wasn’t always the case. It became this way because it’s an easy way to make money. Now that money isn’t enough, it’s abused for political power.

For now LLMs might seem like a good tool, but if people lose the ability to do their own research, what stops them from believing just about anything an LLM bot tells them? Remember how grok turned into a Nazi bot? That wasn’t very long ago…

It just takes one generation to completely lose this ability. Don’t take it so lightly please. At least try to keep yourself mentally aware of potential problems with tech. Especially since almost all of the tech is owned by Nazi cunts.

They’re all the same and most of their answers are complete horseshit. Don’t give in to this shit, it makes you lose your ability to discern truth from lies. It’s just another tool to turn people into mindless, propaganda-gobbling zombies.

Anyhow, if you want quick photos that look good without additional editing, then phones are likely your best bet. I’m not aware of compact cameras that have the kind of computing power and enhancement algorithms on board. I don’t like the kind of photos iPhones makez but you’ll fool most people with the pictures you take on an iPhone. There are also quite a few good android phones.

Mirrorless cameras are the way to go if you want to change lenses but that’ll be way over the budget you set yourself. Even the a6400 costs a small fortune when paired with a good lens or two, and that’s really the beginner’s segment. Then you need good software for developing the raw photos and that’s a hobby itself.

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I have a feeling this is something very American. I’ve never heard of or experienced this kind of bullshit in Germany. It’s completely normal to start having sex. Just make sure that there are condoms and let the teens be teens.

It’s a shame really. The horrific necktie is one of the funniest things in the game! I also don’t vibe with the character. He’s a horrible person! But it just makes the whole story all the more funny to me. I can actually identify way better with Kitsuragi… Anyway, the game is not for you, so I’ll stop trying to convince you now! That’s also not the point of the post anyway.

Ok, that sucks of course. Going in with a completely different expectation will ruin it for sure!

It’s a CRPG, which is like a computer version of a pen and paper rpg. In this case it heavily relies on character development. The game changes significantly according to the choices you make. Not just dialog wise but also stat wise. Games like Skyrim barely pass for an rpg tbh. It’s an action game with a stat system bolted on. I like those too, but they’re completely incomparable imo.

That’s just not the point of a role playing game. You’d need some action game instead. It’s completely cool that you don’t like the game but it just sounds like you were expecting something not-rpg from an rpg.

It’s an RPG… You have stats and those stats dictate how good of a chance you have at achieving something. That’s why you can play this game in so many ways. Just go with it when you fail something. Most times it doesn’t matter, it just changes the way you play the game.

He works so much, he doesn’t even have time to find a new jacket. What a cringe lord.

2 and 3 are horrible though. These completely change the meaning of a sentence :(

Lautmalerei.

It’s just the German word for onomatopoeia (which also exists in the German language). It could be directly translated into soundpainting I suppose?

Procreation and survival. That’s what all living beings have as an instinct and that’s the only meaning behind it. It’s merely a mechanism to prevail and improve.

While I also liked the 90s, because that’s where the most pivotal part of my childhood took place, I’d never want to go back. That was also the time where air pollution was insane, older kids bullied little children and drank beer on the playgrounds, there was dog shit everywhere, car stereos were constantly stolen, cars were put on bricks to steal the wheels, litter was everywhere, people smoked everywhere etc. etc. Fuck all that. I just wish we could go back to pre internet times. Maybe the beginnings of the internet. That’d be nice.

Gojira have become fairly popular (I think). They’re incredible!