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Orcinus

@ Orcinus @lemmygrad.ml

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  • The Chinese are breaching the last line of defence -- video games

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  • But there’s also folks like this suggesting the sinister sisipee is using western games as a digital opium to pacify their disgruntled comstituents:

    I have a legitimate fear that such a thing is happening in the west, but on the other hand maybe it's for the best. The longer it takes for quality of life to fall so badly that even such "digital opium" doesn't suffice to soften it, the weaker the declining US will be when revolution comes.

  • Nintendo Direct 3.27.2025 – Nintendo Switch

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  • Metroid Prime Beyond looks awesome, and it'll look more awesome on the Switch 2, and it'll look yet more awesome when emulation's able to run it. Which option should I wait for, I wonder?

  • "Ukraine is not a nazi state, Russia is"

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  • Can you be more specific? The USSR had "universal military service" in its constitution and considering who their enemies were I don't fault them. Isn't that "forced conscription?" Or, maybe you could argue that these are different times. After all, China doesn't conscript but their tech is amazing.

    I know that this manner of forced conscription is of an entirely different nature than what Ukraine does, or what Nazi Germany did, where people ended up arming children in desperation near the end of their reign.

  • "Ukraine is not a nazi state, Russia is"

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  • I have a friend in the US and two in Russia who try to make these exact points, it's frustrating.

  • Is the next revolutionary wave near?

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  • Nice username, it checks out.

    The latter may feed into the former. The US, including I believe much of its military power, is fueled by resources it plunders from Africa. I'm hoping with the US's weakening forces and weakening soft power, people will be more incentivized to follow suit with what's going on in Africa (and also in South America, there may be a wave incoming there too).

  • What is Marxism? (Karl Marx + Super Mario Bros.) – 8-Bit Philosophy

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  • I remember this swell video. We need to make more like this to get into details, even if the videos last 100 times as long.

  • They sent Stalin to hell in the Simpsons S34E22

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  • I'd probably rather go there than heaven anyway.

  • Do you ever think of if the Revolution ever happens that communist parties are so tiny and have been so antagonized that people might just not listen to them?

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  • Alright, so 3.4 million people in the US's case. That's over a thousand times as many people as the group who stormed the capitol. Could work, I'd say.

  • Guilty Bourgeois pleasures?

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  • In a "communist utopia", we'd probably have the means to require less sleep and to stop aging (with how quickly tech is advancing I wouldn't be surprised). Thus, you'd have more time to game.

    Even the early socialism of the 1936 Soviet constitution limited the working day to 7 hours with plans from Stalin to further shorten it. Everyone being guaranteed a job means less work required from individuals (and higher purchasing power because the price of goods will fall as they become easier and quicker to make). So, your free time may still go up.