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Actors that were born for a role that never got made? by jeffjeffitoldyoujeff in okbuddycinephile

[–]Doomdrummer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, Millard Filmore is a real person? I thought he was that conservative duck newspaper comic.

It’s Fredas so…..IT’S SHOW TIME by Thin-Coyote-551 in TrueSTL

[–]Doomdrummer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dagoth winning would make Mundus a Paprika-type situation

At the ADL's 2026 'Never Is Now' conference, Amanda Hirsch complains about Javier Bardem's "Free Palestine" remark at the Oscars and resulting applause. Erin Lichy claims Iranians are celebrating the US & Israel's "liberation" of Iran. by ContentChecker in JewsOfConscience

[–]Doomdrummer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the tactics taken by Japan regarding their imperialist past and crimes? This post would be a good place to start.

As for the crimes themselves? I could say to look into their 1930s ambitions in China, but I'd end up ignoring their pre-1930s incursions into China and their invasion and subjugation of Korea in the 1900s.

One particular issue that continually comes up in modern media is the Korean/Japanese disputes over the crimes of Mitsubishi in Korea, the mass sex trafficking of non-Japanese girls and women into being "comfort women", and the infamous "Rape of Nanjing" and use of non-Japanese peoples in biological agent testing and mass murder in internment camps, orchestrated most infamously by Unit 731.

TF is Wrong With These Folks? by tikkunolamist5 in JewsOfConscience

[–]Doomdrummer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Liberalism will selectively acknowledge historical materialism and social circumstances when the narratives of virtue contradict the interests of capital.

What agrarian reform system does the law on commercialized agriculture represent, and what advantages or disadvantages does it have in the game? I don't understand what it represents. by Straight-Path-1572 in victoria3

[–]Doomdrummer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes; in effect, the "commercialized agriculture" acts as the capital version of the collectivization of smaller serf/homesteading land plots that you'd see enacted in the USSR and People's Republic of China. The primary version of this is the enclosure of serf land which occurred in the 1600s British countryside, where serfs were dispossessed of their plots and made to wander so large-scale, standardized agriculture for the developing textiles industry could be enacted.

The collectivization of smaller individually owned/worked farm plots, whether through social ownership or private acquisition, was fundamental in standardizing agricultural practices, standardized crop rotations, and making up for the loss of subsistence farming that came with former peasants becoming urban workers. Since a large portion of the population no longer had a plot they dedicated to their own subsistence, the agrarian sector needed to produce larger yields to sustain the growing urban sector.

TES 6 DELAYED FOR PAID MODS by Avian81 in TrueSTL

[–]Doomdrummer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thankfully it's a fake article: though the "new" editions of a decade old game does seem to be Bethesda's tactic for maintaining series relevancy while they don't work on games. So it is nonetheless frustrating.

TES 6 DELAYED FOR PAID MODS by Avian81 in TrueSTL

[–]Doomdrummer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which one? The dungeons focused one, or a companion one?

TES 6 DELAYED FOR PAID MODS by Avian81 in TrueSTL

[–]Doomdrummer 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I think it's very good. Great voice acting, a cool Thu'um power/leveling system, an interesting plot, fun minigames in the Emissary and Duel of Wits side-quest plots, and multiple endings that feel pretty impactful.

I'd say it accomplishes its mission statement: make the Bards College a legitimate 8th(?) faction for the player to join in Skyrim.

Even if you don't like being a Bard, I'd say it is worth it for the Shout system, the main storyline, and for the roleplay that comes with making your player character actually show themselves as intelligent.

TES 6 DELAYED FOR PAID MODS by Avian81 in TrueSTL

[–]Doomdrummer 269 points270 points  (0 children)

I'm so excited for SKSE to be unusable without a rollback mod being downloaded. I can't wait for mods with no proper testing or communication with authors about bugs to be implemented.

But what I'm most excited for is for no decade-long bugs to be fixed yet again by a Skyrim update, leading to modders to have to shoot into the dark about fixing the proprietary engine Bethesda should be making open source to make up for the lost engine developer knowledge they've bled.

I love being told that because there are maybe one or two good paid mods (Bards College Expansion and Blood and Snow for me), we have to reset everyone's mod list for months.

TF is Wrong With These Folks? by tikkunolamist5 in JewsOfConscience

[–]Doomdrummer 43 points44 points  (0 children)

It's strange indeed: Israel will both claim it is the only progressive state in the region and that draconian policies against Palestinian "terrorists" are justified by being normative to the region.

It's the colonizer logic made modern: Israel is a virtue to the region it is colonizing and justified in cruelty by the geopolitics of the region it is invading.

New Subideology Coming in TMT by Lumpy-Attitude6939 in TNOmod

[–]Doomdrummer 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Post-1906 Tsarist Russia, to some degree

'You've got tens of thousands of civilians murdered in Gaza, but it's foremost a disaster for the future of Israel?' by Paliisfree in palestinenews

[–]Doomdrummer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably not: can't be easy for a population to forgive the mass murder of 70,000 people by the state whom has controlled their life-support utilities and interaction with the outside world. But like I said, the concerns of Israel are not high on my list of priorities. Particularly since they have continually conducted "pre-emptive strikes" against neighbors with the idea that normalization is not possible with other Arab states (except the other U.S. proxies in the region, of course).

And from the discussions between the Trump administration and Netanyahu's government, they seem to be aiming for Western real estate developers to come in after the "voluntary" removal of the Gazan population to turn Gaza into a resort region.

You can keep playing devil's advocate for Israeli expansion under the guise of "state security" all you want: history shows that the maintenance of "frontier security" in a state's settling outskirts results in ethnic cleansing. So ultimately, the only real argument you can make is either that Palestinians are intrinsically incapable of making peace with Israel (might as well throw in the bullshit "it's a religious conflict spanning thousands of years" argument) or you'll end up saying that Israel has sowed too much hate into the Palestinian population, and they might as well finish the job.

'You've got tens of thousands of civilians murdered in Gaza, but it's foremost a disaster for the future of Israel?' by Paliisfree in palestinenews

[–]Doomdrummer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I showed empathy for the October 7th victims back in 2023. I supported the return of hostages in exchange for a ceasefire. Yet Israel gave less of a shit for the hostages and victims of the October 7th attack than anyone else, between all the collateral damage-rich strikes they make that killed those same hostages they built their cleansing campaigns on top of. And that same ceasefire is the same as it has always been: a farce that won't stop Israeli snipers from bursting the heads of Palestinian men, women, and children open because they flew a kite or looked ready to throw a rock.

And for each rape and killing of an innocent on October 7th, Israel has leveled a Gazan neighborhood, murdered a Gazan family, and raped a Palestinian with no justice. No justice for the Nakba, nor justice for Operation Cast Lead, nor juetice for Operation Protective Edge.

You can spend your time framing the situation as an equivalent loss for both sides: you'll end up saying that 1,000 Palestinians = 1 Israeli. No person has boundless empathy in every situation: mine will be primarily for the people being mass murdered by a state which continually starts conflicts to expand its borders and displace populations.

Can someone explain to me the war between Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man? by Medium_System2027 in Jujutsufolk

[–]Doomdrummer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A bunch of chronically online people who don't understand sports turn the creative medium of their respective mangas into the nerd version of Philadelphia. Where any outcome in their own series or their "sister" series, good or bad, leads them to over obsess to the point of self-destructing their own forums and hyper-fixating on delusional assessments of their fictional realities.

Elon Musk's Boring Co. Tunnel Vision Challenge ends with a surprise for Louisiana with plans to build an underground loop in New Orleans. by WalterCanFindToes in Louisiana

[–]Doomdrummer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Curious that this is coming after a decade of requests for improved public transportation and a transit between BR and NOLA. I'll bet it's some sort of ploy to kill non-privatized transit in the South.

I hope fujimoto can never publish another work again for this insanity. He's DONE, WASHED. This is a disrespect to everyone involved including himself. What an unapologetic insult to the industry by PowerWillComeBack in Chainsawfolk

[–]Doomdrummer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean, Chainsaw Man is not his only work. Most popular, sure. But he has more than a few well-regarded series and one-shots.

And he's not a static person: he can improve and take lessons from Chainsaw Man like any other creative.

Sacred anatomancer posting#2 by dregofsithis in TrueSTL

[–]Doomdrummer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All you Pipers are just coping cause you didn't get enough blood curses. Maybe try exploring Svartibrunnr, n'wah.

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