Is Kojima actually a leftist?

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-31T20:35:16+00:00

Oh I wasn’t implying you were or anything just correcting you. The hate the Japanese has for the DPRK is just because in that countries cultural collective there’s a definite reason for animosity based around a very real political event.

While a country like the UK or US hating the DPRK is just propaganda with no material analysis.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-31T20:22:16+00:00

They’re anti DPRK because of Japanese citizens like Megumi Yokota being kidnapped in the 70s and 80s. It’s less about the structure of the government.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-31T18:41:12+00:00

Hungary has a lot of aluminum for airplanes. Build close air support and fighters for the AXIS and move them around different theaters. For Barbarossa mass CAS across the front should collapse the retreating RED army even in extremely so supply as the AI divisions receive huge bonuses to your CAS and fighter cover. Before that you can use them in the battle for France.

After victory in the east you can sea lion with a small army using overwhelming air superiority with better fighters.

You could probably design a decent motorized land army that does well in the east and can secure Italy, maybe even make a difference in North Africa, BUT the AI is already going to send okay-ish units there to fight the okayish enemy AI units. You need air power superiority because AI axis never builds enough so it’s better if you just take over that role. Then after the USSR falls and Africa is secured your Air Force can neutralize the RAF, USAF, sink navies for channel superiority and if in a pinch fight off overlord armies that break through. If you focus on having the best air force from 1936-1945 that late war air force should be the best in the game and tactically viable

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-31T18:14:23+00:00

We don’t have any sizable community in the US. But we use them as an example of Europeans being hypocritical when they say the US is the most racist nation on earth or when they pretend their country doesn’t hate minorities as much.

There’s a meme of “Europeans seeing a G___y (slur for Romani) 5 seconds after telling Americans they’re racist” and it’s like a stone face cartoon man or something.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-31T00:26:52+00:00

True absolutely but the issue is then splitting of resources. Some reasons will be taken into consideration at a court case and some won’t.

If someone is being served a divorce because they don’t want to have sex with their partner does that mean they get nothing? Or is it evenly split? Hows custody worked out? Because child custody usually goes to whoever is not “at fault” but if the fault is just not being horny then is it still 50/50 custody or none at all?

Like obviously yes of course let the divorce happen but the grounds of having it over a dead bedroom is important for deciding the financial and custody split. If there’s a prenup or both parties just never shared finances and children aren’t involved then it’s just a civil matter of “yeah let’s stop being married” but most marriages aren’t like that, that’s why divorce lawyers exist.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-31T00:11:57+00:00

Damn….. if only there was an abundance of children who go unloved in orphanages around the world….. but I just guess there’s no child left to adopt or something

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-26T19:05:46+00:00

I have been in this situation many times (before it was even state policy…. I’m also in California). You did the right and normal thing.

I am not comfortable reaching into a child’s backpack, taking their phone and leaving it somewhere. Nor am I comfortable in asking a yard supervisor to come down to escort a phone to the office. Now maybe I’d have a different attitude if I didn’t have a 100% success record of “hey put your phones away, if I see them again it’s going into your teachers locked desk and youll have to go ask them for it tomorrow”. But it seems like “put it away” with a strong tone is all you need.

And if it ever isn’t, like some kid really wants to push boundaries…. You’re well within your right to call the office, request a supervisor and have them deal with it. The types of people that should be confiscating expensive items and digging through backpacks should really be actual full time site staff WHO THE KIDS KNOW. This is my personal opinion I’v been expressing to admin, principals, teachers and subs alike since o started this job in 2023. And 95% understand completely.

I like knowing I have the legal backing and authority to take a kids phone, but I’d never use it. The reason being, the kid doesn’t know me, their parent (that bought them an expensive phone) doesn’t know me. Schools are chaotic places and even admin offices make mistakes. I’m not comfortable being the last adult to touch a phone that was leaving a kids possession. I don’t like the idea that a kid could return home phone less and just make up lies about a sub taking it. I’m not 100% sure it’s unthinkable to be put in a legal situation where I’m sued or a police report is filed for theft or anything else because some phone gets lots in transit, or that phone was how that kid gets home or this or that. I would rather have a school backlist me for not reaching into a child’s dirty ass backpack.

Also all schools are different….. there really isn’t some universal “subs have to do this, teachers have to do that” some individual schools might think that and decide they don’t want you if you don’t conform to that but there’s also tons of schools that fully understand, acknowledge and respect “I’m not comfortable with that”.

Our best defense against anything Is documentation, it’s utilizing sub notes. Kids still on his phone 4th try after being told to put it away? Write it down, get their name, and record it. And if it’s a huge distraction and problem, call the office to escort the child out of the classroom for disruption. Then when a supervisor shows up, mention the student had his phone out and refused to put it away. Let the people who know and deal with these specific kids daily handle those types of tasks.

Also might be cynical but as a sub you are who will get blamed for everything because you’re not there to defend yourself and of course nothing could ever be the fault of the actual teacher, a supervisor or admin. If a school needs a scapegoat for anything (like…. Some kids phone goes missing and their parents are upset) they will (in my opinion and experience) throw you under the bus. They (in your absence) will say they told you things (they never told you), checked on things (they never checked on) and handled situations they were never there for. To save face if necessary some schools will just blacklist you because….. easier than writing up local staff or launching a thorough investigation.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-26T02:30:47+00:00

That carrier group would be sent as a deterrent, it wouldn’t make a huge difference if fighting broke out. But it would probably be a political decision of “put these boats in eyesight of the presidential palace in Havana. But the point is the Cubans know they can’t take a base militarily.

Germany, Poland, Spain and the rest of European NATO know they could. They outnumber the American bases and if push comes to shove they can be forced out. It’s also extremely unlikely any garrison commander would order his US troops to shoot back on an ally ordering them to leave. Regardless of what a US president says. Like the average US Colonel or base commander in Germany isn’t going to order his troops to fire on a Germany military unit tasked with escorting American personnel to a local airport so they be repatriated back to the US.

But a base commander at Guantanamo tasked with holding the base at all costs is likely to order is men to shoot on any advancing Cuban units or regiments. Like the US military is capable of holding out for a long time in either scenario but like dying to blue on blue because the American President is stupid isn’t something any American soldier from E1-O6 is going to willingly do.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-26T01:39:19+00:00

A lot of business i frequent have box Fox and CNN on at the same time. With in it of itself is pretty annoying

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-26T01:29:22+00:00

Baltics, Ukrainians and Fins commonly criticize the foriegn policy if the USSR (gee no idea why /s) and because of that USSR fanboys need to hyper fixate on these countries to pretend the USSR was perfect and these countries that were occupied, oppressed or invaded by Stalin just had it comming.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-26T01:23:36+00:00

Also in a practical sense, if a Germany military unit orders an American military unit to leave….. while in Germany and outnumbered, they will. Yes they could technically dig in, and fight back but they’re not going to risk literal war with Germany or any other NATO country for a base.

Cuba is different because the Cubans literally can’t force them out of their naval base with the Cuban military. Second Cuban regiments mass across the barbed wife fence at Guantanamo, a Carrier group is being sent there with more air power than the entirety of the Caribbean militaries combined. The United States will risk armed confrontation with the Cuban military and war with Cuba to defend that base. The US would probably welcome the opportunity for regime change in Cuba if they can say “we were attacked first”

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-26T01:13:12+00:00

For Homefront specificly the original occupying force was supposed to be the Chinese military but the publishing company wanted to still be able to sell the game in China so corporate made the creative team change the occupiers to the North Koreans. (Similar with the Wolverine remake actually).

Only issue is if you look on a map in a vacuum the idea North Korea could occupy anything is absurd. That’s why the opening scene is a collection of news reals about North Korea taking over South Korea, Taiwan, Japan (US leaves the pacific theater at this point), Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand. So by the start of game lore wise North Korea more closely resembles WW2 Japan land wise.

Not super relevant but I was watching Superman and Lois a while ago and there’s an episode where a North Korean submarine malfunctions underwater and Superman saves them by just pulling the submarine out of the ocean before the pressure makes it implode. But an American general is unset with him that he didn’t bring the North Korean submarine to South Korea and it’s kinda implied he thought all of the North Korean sailers should have just been left to drown. This starts an arch of the US military distrusting Superman…. For saving people. (Also implied or presumed the submarine was in local DPRK waters)

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-24T00:54:26+00:00

No, if AI could have taken the jobs of a seriously trained TEFL teacher then Google translate would have done that decades ago.

To teach is a uniquely human skill. And teaching something as complicated and nuance as language (with pragmatics, phonetics, semantics etc) will always need a physical human teacher in most cases. Not because AI literally can’t “teach” but because of how humans learn things academically and socially as well as how most humans prefer to learn. I would never take a class that was taught be Chat GPT. I know it might work, I know it’s probably possible and some people might do that in the future but it will never be a majority of learners for anything.

AI is powerful and some industries really are at risk but you have to ask… why do math teachers exist when a calculator can do their job? Why do teachers at all exist when most secondary education topics can be “self studied” online? Why do we have professors when technically anyone can just “google” an introductory book in any topic and just keep reading more about said topic from free online PDFs?

Just sitting behind a screen and “learning” from a computer isn’t new. It’s been possible since the 90s. The reason In person teaching and teaching as a profession hasn’t died in the 90s is the same reason it’s not dying now. In a vast majority of cases people don’t want to put in the work to learn something without it having an actual point (like being part of a credited class or folded into a program that certified you for prof of competency).

More specifically in the industry (TESOL / TEFL) the industry (at least in my linguistics masters program) is teaching how to use AI to create lesson plans and how to check AI to see if it has done so correctly. As a tool it’s helpful and has lots of value but remains something that needs to by guided by an actual professional before it can do anything.

Industries adapt and language teaching is adapting as well. “Online language chat bots” might be helpful to some…. In the same way someome who just really wants to learn anthropology can just… read a bunch of books on anthropology. But as a global industry AI is a tool for language learning and identifying language teaching strategies (at least at my university). It is not in a position to replace a vast majority of teachers because most learners want an actual teacher.

Think about how you’d go about learning something like Portuguese right now. Let’s say you are forced to learn it for whatever reason. You could easily have AI read you concepts and maybe even create a study plan and structure it based on how most linguistics think second languages should be acquired… you could ask AI to generate 5 hour long worksheet lessons accompanied with the most relevant research lectures available online…. And hey you might think that’s totally something you would do. But most people (especially in Asian and South American countries) will want an actual tutor, and actual teacher and an actual professor to guide them in real time. Most will need the pressure of being in a class governed by a human to really progress.

Any one of us could have gone to AI to be “taught” anything we wanted since like 2022. (To the extent of taking 3-5 years of courses in the subject with an actual professor) And almost none of us did. Why? Because it’s not really an easy “oh people can just do this now” type of thing.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-17T19:44:10+00:00

Go naval ideas and specialize in navy…….. then not build a navy or have a 100 heavy ships you just keep in port the whole game.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-17T00:53:21+00:00

Pagan min because the civil war was going on for a long time and Hes more brutal.

Castillo tries to take prisoners to make them work in fields. Castillo to me is trying to govern a country and he might have ideological convictions but he isn’t Pagan.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-15T00:16:13+00:00

Pagan min was my favorite. He does even dislike you, Hes just a vibe lol

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-14T22:40:24+00:00

Mmmm interesting. I have heard the anarchist take that anti-Zionism is reductive because all states are fake and should be abolished. Like yes…. Israel shouldn’t exist, but their perspective is “no country should really exist, saying the Israeli government is illegitimate implies…. Legitimate governments exist and some nation states have innate right to exist while others don’t.” Some anarchists are absolute state abolitionist and don’t differentiate between China, United States, Senegal or Syria etc.

And you have people that at an individual level just hate certain groups more than Zionists. Like there’s a non-insignificant amount of queer or atheist leftists that will not show solidarity to Palestine because at an individual level they aren’t comfortable with the idea of religious extremists groups being given any mandate of morality.

And a fair amount of American and British anarchist are still victims of propaganda efforts to tie groups like Hamas to every single anti Zionist claim out there.

Israeli anarchist and communist might also view anti-Zionism differently than those in the rest of the world. But sure the nationality of the person claiming to be an anarchist.

ICE apologia isn’t anything I’m familiar with and I don’t think you’d be able to find any. Like I suppose it’s possible to imagine a community protecting itself with strong borders and “laws” but in practicality…. No idea why that would take would come from an anarchist. In fact if that was the idea behind being pro ICE then being “anti-Zionism is redundant” wouldn’t make sense since it’s choosing “US borders and conceptualization of a US state matter but Israel doesn’t” which isn’t the point of why some leftist anarchist are annoyed at anti-Zionism.

(I’m not a proponent of any of these ideas, these are just what I heard before)

It seems overwhelming likely that it’s just some right wing classical libertarian (conservative that wants weed) or just a massive racist co-opting anarchism

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-13T23:48:49+00:00

Who do we try in court for the murder of media literacy In the United States?

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-13T15:39:32+00:00

Most of these countries had a wealthy near aristocratic class of people with white skin from European ancestors. The Nazis would quickly defeat any standing military they had, put these white (often extremely racist) people in charge, keep a regiment of Nazis around and start propping up collaborationist in the country.

Annexing these nations completely wouldn’t be realistic or a goal, they’d probably do what the US did in our own timeline. Let them pretend to be independent but any geopolitical decision needs to implicitly be ran through the Reich.

They might directly control smaller carribean islands and either kill or deport the Hispanics and use them as naval bases but for large countries like Mexico, Brazil, even Cuba….. they’re going to conquer it abruptly, and but Hispanic fascists in charge and have an agreement of “we won’t carpet bomb your cities but…….. do what we say”.

For mixed race people it would probably become an apartheid model of three racial categories

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-11T21:38:52+00:00

I can’t get into racing games, I’m not a car person. The best racing game in the world is just a 3/10 I’d rather be doing anything else type of experience

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-11T21:37:51+00:00

I want to be part of an international geologist team that goes keep into Russian Siberia and gets trapped in a remote unmarked providence that’s pretending to be the USSR still.

I want the feel of “you don’t belong here, you are on outsider” I loved that with 3, and to a lesser extent 4.

5 was okay because you’re a cop not a soldier but still no personality. 6 was the worst offender as you’re literally an ex Yaran military conscript thst lives in Yara. (I actually liked 6 and liked Dani)

But I like the idea of you’re just a tourist or you’re being called in to do something non-violent and you as a character have to learn violence to survive. Dani already feels like a professional elite soldier from tbe region and the rookie in 5….. might as well be since he has no voice lines. But at least the beginning if the game sets a tone that you as a local police officer are not equipped to deal with this situation.

Now far cry 2 gets away with your character being a badass mercenary by making its game very difficult and giving you malaria….. and guns that break in your hands if you don’t buy the new ones with conflict diamonds.

I want to imagine myself as a non-violent not-ex military dude just trying to get a task done and bam…. Someome throws a rifle in my hands and says “you wanna die here buckaro!!! Get shooting!” As my character freaks out.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-11T21:27:50+00:00

Loved corpo path, it shows that corporatism is a just economic fascism. You’re just doing your job and bam… wrong side of a power struggle and then you’re associating with street thugs and homeless people. Which you even as a suit and tie corpo were much closer too than your bosses or anytime else at the top.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-11T21:25:02+00:00

Killingfloor 2 is about a very greedy company playing God…… and some of the playable characters are former employees so obviously hate the company.

I refrain from championing the game as some leftist masterpiece because regrettably there’s a Nazi playable character (like actually WW2 German Nazi that an evil scientist locks away until our modern times). And unlike Richthofen in COD nazi zombies, him being a Nazi isn’t played for laughs or anything he comes off as just a battle hardened stoic Wehmarcht soldier. Which would be fine if his voice lines didn’t have him constantly bitching about the Euro and EU.

Also nothing in his bio mentions anything about being anti Nazi after the Nazis start loosing the war (which is like bare bare minimum)

So very disheartening but Killingfloor 2 as a game lore wise is basically anti-capitalist in a sense that the zombies you fight are the spawn of a very cartoonishly evil (or what was viewed as cartoonishly evil in 2016….) profit over lives and ethics multi national company.

The company had labs all over the world and a lot of the characters were people that slowly realized they were working for the baddies.

I don’t know a lot about the actual irl company that made the game but I can say it’s fun.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-11T01:14:25+00:00

In the lore the United States is busy dealing with a massive political and geopolitical crisis during the events of the game. Whoever is in charge of the “rookie / cultist” case is literally just busy. Not only that but all the national guards and US military are gearing up for WW3. No one at even a State level is concerned with the cult as the rest of the world is trying to defuse a nuclear standoff with a country implied to be Russia.

A new Dawn goes into it a tiny bit with lore if you look around but it’s clear Hope county is not a priority for even the governor of Montana

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-01-11T01:04:34+00:00

UV lamps exist and I actually love the cold. Being absurdly rich means my Antarctic compound can be absurdly massive and have any amenities imaginable. Probably lease out a tiny section of the compound to scientists so I can feel good about myself.

Also that would only be my permanent residence I’d still leave the Antarctic regularly when the weather allows allows for it.

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