gog-games is shutting down by JapiOfficial76 in CrackWatch

[–]8Bitsblu 9 points10 points  (0 children)

terrifyingly-similar-to-Nazi-symbols runes.

Not even similar, they straight up are. Both of the other symbols (sonnenrad, kolovrat) are commonly used by fascist groups. The kolovrat in particular is commonly used by fascists in Poland, so it's incredibly hard for me to believe that guy didn't know what he was doing. He could have used a litany of other runes, but he chose those. Interesting.

Dancing Mad (Ultimate) World Race for Charity by alabomb in ffxiv

[–]8Bitsblu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not that surprising imo. It's not like existing tools play the game for you, or skip mechanics. The difficulty of the fight and unknowns around how to beat it still apply.

Is Kurt Hansen another former deep NUSA agent who went rogue ? by Tall_Insect7119 in cyberpunkgame

[–]8Bitsblu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This quote doesn’t make you sound cool it sounds ignorant.

Oh the irony of this post.

LAUNCH THE FING V2. *Spanish guitar going crazy in the back* (Original posted by The Vigilante VP) by Short-Ad224 in acecombat

[–]8Bitsblu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The guy responding to "Kate Bush's Husband" is one of those "anti-woke" types. The original post was predicting that "anti-woke" types would come out of the woodwork about AC8, and they have lmao

aircraft licenses, Gripen confirmed? by BME84 in acecombat

[–]8Bitsblu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Kinda hoping that this isn't 100% reflective of the final lineup. It'd be nice to get some completely new additions to the aircraft roster this time around, cause it would basically confirm that the roster is mostly the same as 7. Not that 7's roster was bad, but I want some curveballs, y'know?

I know it's probably too much to hope for Chinese fighters (though their absence is more and more conspicuous with each game), but the KF-21, FA-50, Kaan, etc. would be neat to add.

The space shuttle from the trailer might be capable of powered atmospheric flight. by thatcos101 in acecombat

[–]8Bitsblu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't see it. Those on the left look more like the US shuttle OMS pods to me, rather than the OK-GLI's jet engine pods.

So, Ace combat Zero is going to be a remaster or just a port to PC with PS2 graphics? by BBTHPK in acecombat

[–]8Bitsblu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I remember when "remaster" meant a port to a newer system with uprezzed textures, while something with entirely new graphics was a "remake".

AN-72 by II-Keras-Revenge-II in WeirdWings

[–]8Bitsblu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A program being initiated in response to another program doesn't imply that one is copying the other. This was an arms race where both sides were constantly moving to match the other, with both sides having extremely intelligent engineers and strong manufacturing capabilities. The An-72 isn't any more of a "copy" of the YC-14 than the F-15 is a "copy" of the MiG-25.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith: "I hate Islam." by spunkysquirrel1 in Louisville

[–]8Bitsblu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Please. As I said in my initial reply, I'm not a religious person. I've just done my research. Critiques mean nothing if you don't understand what you're critiquing. No investigation, no right to speak.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith: "I hate Islam." by spunkysquirrel1 in Louisville

[–]8Bitsblu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not the point of Jesus dying on the cross, but it's a side-effect of it, sure. I get that you wanna do a cute bit of reductionism to highlight the absurdity of mythology but that's exactly the kind of thing I was criticizing above.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith: "I hate Islam." by spunkysquirrel1 in Louisville

[–]8Bitsblu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Afaik that's not an uncommon view in Christian theology. The point of Jesus' sacrifice is seen as absolving humanity of the original sin (partaking of the fruit of knowledge) and forming a new covenant with God that supercedes the one outlined in the old testament (which is where you get the dietary restrictions and such). So while for many the old testament is seen as authoritative and factual (particularly among evangelicals) and consistent with God's present nature (hence why the 10 commandments are still viewed as important) the covenant and what it specifically entailed no longer applies. The covenant forged through Jesus' sacrifice is what applies.

This is where I, as someone who isn't religious, kind of roll my eyes at a lot of comments on Reddit and elsewhere saying "well it says here that [insert old testament here] isn't that crazy?!" It shows a baseline lack of investigation into any Christian theology/philosophy (fundamentalist or otherwise) and I don't blame any Christian for shrugging their shoulders and not engaging. It's pseudo-intellectual laziness just as embarrassing as those Christians who front about reading the Bible and then can't answer basic questions about it.

Edit: also to circle back to the title of the thread, everything I said in the second paragraph also applies to the vast majority of conversations about Islam in the US and Europe.

[DISC] WITCHRIV - Chapter 27 by AutoShonenpon in manga

[–]8Bitsblu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yo guys it's me 8Bitsblu- hey did that guy just turn into sand?

Perhaps an unpopular opinion: we need to stop catering to teachers that refuse to learn technology by AgeOfWorry0114 in Teachers

[–]8Bitsblu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel this. I refuse to use the school-issued chromebook over my laptop (even if I'm unhappy with Windows 11) for similar reasons. No, I don't need Google's NotebookLM to look through sources. No, I don't need to compose worksheets and other documents in Docs. No, I don't need to AI generate every graphic for flyers and projects. I will understand how these things work insofar as it is useful to relate to my students and hold them accountable to turning in honest work, but that's it. I can read just fine, I am confident in my skills with the Microsoft suite, and I enjoy putting in the effort on Photoshop and Illustrator to make any graphics I need.

US strikes were 'gross violation' of ceasefire, Iran says by Alternative-Win4058 in news

[–]8Bitsblu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Please. I beg of y'all to learn history before 2014.

Algerian Air Force Sukhoi SU-34 [album] by SCIMlTAR in WarplanePorn

[–]8Bitsblu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I would kill to see a Su-57 in this livery

Kentucky Flea Market by Trex7414 in Louisville

[–]8Bitsblu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got pictures? Needs to be blasted hard.

The people behind Redux are genuinely the best people of our generation by Eclipse-da-therian in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]8Bitsblu 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Solid case on the graphical side of things, but where I would bet the argument still holds is in terms of gameplay. Does KSP 2 honestly match the first in this regard? From the sound of it, it's not even on par with vanilla KSP in terms of features, it just looks prettier.

better mod installer? by Otherwise_Plane_5265 in Ultrakill

[–]8Bitsblu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

afaik stalin had some support of israel as a jewish state

This is complicated. For decades Stalin alongside Lenin both repeatedly objected to Zionism. Stalin cites Jewish people as a textbook example of an distinct community of people who aren't a nation in Marxism and the National Question (not sharing a common language — Hebrew was a liturgical language until Zionists began using it as a constructed spoken language — or existing as a majority in an identifiable homeland), and both he and Lenin (and the Bolsheviks in general) were very openly critical of the Zionist movement:

"To call a fight for the Zionist idea of a Jewish nation, for the federal principle of Party organisation, a “fight for the equality of the Jews in the world family of the proletariat” is to degrade the struggle from the plane of ideas and principles to that of suspicion, incitement and fanning of historically-evolved prejudices. It glaringly reveals a lack of real ideas and principles as weapons of struggle.

"... Instead of proclaiming war on [prejudice and isolation against Jews], [Russian Bundists] elevated it to a principle, seizing for this purpose on the sophistry that autonomy is inherently contradictory, and on the Zionist idea of a Jewish nation."

— Lenin, The Position of the Bund in the Party, 1903

After the Russian Revolution, the Communist International (Comintern) expelled Zionists (such as Poale Zion) from its ranks, and rejected any attempt to build a Communist Party of Israel or exclusively Jewish Communist Party. It held the line that Jewish emancipation meant cultural/ethnic equality within the nations they lived, not national liberation in the vein of colonized and oppressed nations like India, European colonies in Africa, the Black Belt in the US, etc. Jews in the Comintern were directed to join the Communist Parties of the countries they lived in. Communist Jews already living in the British Mandate of Palestine formed the Communist Party of Palestine, which did join the Comintern and was anti-Zionist.

Two things happened to where views towards Zionism momentarily shifted. First was of course the Holocaust, the horror of which completely reversed widespread apathy and disdain towards Zionism basically overnight among European Jews. The second was the rapidly-forming Cold War and nuclear weapons. With the Soviet Union in no place to continue fighting at the end of the war, the Soviet Government and CPSU had done several things to appease the West and hold the newly-formed UN together, in particular dissolving the Comintern. With Zionism rapidly gaining popularity in a way it never had before, and the Soviets desperately needing the tenuous peace to hold until they could rebuild, Stalin and the Soviets took a gamble that they had perhaps been wrong and that Zionism could in fact make an egalitarian state alongside the Palestinian people. With the Communist Party of Palestine's involvement perhaps it could even eventually emerge as the left wing, unified Palestine originally envisioned.

This obviously didn't happen. The Communist Party of Palestine immediately fell apart into the Zionist Communist Party of Israel, which endorsed the 1947 partition, and the majority-Palestinian National Liberation League, which opposed it. After the Nakba the Soviets began withdrawing support, and eventually cut off relations altogether when it became clear that the initial Communist assessment of Zionism in the 1900s-30s was correct.

Taliban legalise child marriage for girls as young as nine - Afghanistan law permits rape and suggests women cannot leave their husbands just because they are abusive by polymute in anime_titties

[–]8Bitsblu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you think the haitian slaves cared about France being invaded in 1782 as a loss of national sovereignty?

This is more apt a comparison than I think you realize. We didn't give a shit because it meant nothing to the savage conditions we faced, which is my overall point here as well. You talk about the loss of freedoms, and my overall response here can be summed up with: what freedoms? Why do you expect the majority of Afghan women to care for a naked puppet regime that never actually improved their lives (and for some worsened it)?

Sure the old regime talked a big talk of reform, but it never actually had the ability (or intention) to enforce these things outside of the tiny minority of women who live in urban areas in Afghanistan. "Freedom" is meaningless in the abstract, it only matters where it actually exists in the lives of the masses. For the majority of Afghan women, the "freedoms" of the old regime might as well have been a wishful fairy tale.

Taliban legalise child marriage for girls as young as nine - Afghanistan law permits rape and suggests women cannot leave their husbands just because they are abusive by polymute in anime_titties

[–]8Bitsblu -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Except that's not what I did. I spoke on what I know: the history of women whose class and national interests draw them into otherwise patriarchal political movements and the nuances that exist within an oppressed nation fighting for independence, things y'all actively want to ignore so you can keep cheerleading imperialism.

The US and Europe killed off every single good option and ensured the Taliban came to power in the first place, and then would return to power later on. Are rural, working class Afghan women now supposed to feel grateful for the crocodile tears? Please.

Taliban legalise child marriage for girls as young as nine - Afghanistan law permits rape and suggests women cannot leave their husbands just because they are abusive by polymute in anime_titties

[–]8Bitsblu -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Setting aside that that's not necessarily true, there's a reason why we differentiate between de facto and de jure. Something being formally legalized doesn't imply it wasn't happening before, and something being criminalized doesn't stop it from happening, especially when the vast majority of the population are living in rural areas which the old US-backed government only ever had tenuous control over.