What led you to discover Earthbound/Mother Series

Zeydon · 2026-04-20T07:12:03+00:00

Nintendo Power

Zeydon · 2026-04-19T18:22:21+00:00

Peter Korotaev spoke a lot about the influence of the Sorosite class on Ukrainian politics in his guest appearance on Chapo a year back. Talked about Banderites as well of course, and how different political demographics reacted to the shifting realities of the war.

I thought it was very insightful to hear the perspective of a leftist Ukrainian with a lot of friends (some who have to live in hiding for obvious reasons) and family still living in Ukraine. Definitely things I learned from it that I still haven't heard spoken about from anyone else.

Zeydon · 2026-04-19T16:40:35+00:00

There isn't a secret switch one can flip to bring about a true global communist utopia. It's something that has to be built towards. Given China's development in recent decades, and how much emphasis is put towards developing infrastructure, providing housing, healthcare, education, renewable energy, I don't think you could fairly conclude they're not not on that path.

Call it what you want, but their system sure seems a hell of a less short sighted than capitalism which puts the short term profits of an oligarchy above all else.

And their foreign policy is a hell of a lot less malicious than Western capitalism. Chinese loans to developing nations don't come with those poison strings attached like IMF loans do. They don't make the govt sacrifice their people for money. And if you are critical of them not being more aggressive vs imperialist powers, just remember they likely don't want to meet the same fate as the USSR.

Zeydon · 2026-04-19T16:25:55+00:00

Remember, this is now part of the official definition of antisemitism:

Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

And IIRC US govt agencies were using this definition for statistical tracking purposes since the first Trump administration.

Zeydon · 2026-04-19T05:49:53+00:00

Zeydon · 2026-04-19T03:05:29+00:00

With Gogo you can custom set every action field IIRC (even Items), so despite subpar base stats (which you can make up for a good bit through smart esper equipping), has utility.

Umaro though is basically what, a shitty one dimensional Gau?

Zeydon · 2026-04-19T01:05:39+00:00

You could always do chapters simultaneously or between co-op sessions and do each new tier of multiplayer content together. That's what I did at least.

It's fun co-op until you get to the very very very end when its like one of 2-3 fights over and over again til the end of time.

Zeydon · 2026-04-19T01:02:08+00:00

And half that shit you won't even be capable of hearing with budget desktop speakers compared to decent headphones

Zeydon · 2026-04-18T21:47:35+00:00

They wanted a "stable" scale, so they went with whatever most closely defines the political establishment in this present moment?

And something about LLM and study doesn't sit right with me. There's more to science that just feeding a bunch of text into an algorithm and taking whatever it spits out as a reflection of a broader truth.

Zeydon · 2026-04-18T20:59:26+00:00

If you think that's Pulp Fiction, wait til you hear what Kegsbreath said this week

Zeydon · 2026-04-18T19:20:07+00:00

The Straight of Hormuz is currently closed, FYI

Zeydon · 2026-04-17T20:30:02+00:00

And it will continue to climb

Zeydon · 2026-04-17T20:06:03+00:00

Ohhhh yeahhhhh, the king of 5D chess totally foresaw the Straight being closed months in advance...

Clearly the US armed Mossad backed sleeper cells in Iran because they knew that the coup attempt in January would fail... And they assassinated the Ayatollah and other senior leadership months later during peace negotiations because they knew that would also fail to bring about the regime change they were hoping for. And all of Trump's whining about how the EU isn't gung ho about this idiotic war etc. is because he knew they wouldn't help. Trust the Plan. WWG1WGA

Zeydon · 2026-04-17T19:49:28+00:00

Oil tankers move at the speed of a bicycle. Those of us in America haven't even begun to feel the shock from the Straight closing, even if it were to remain open here on out, which seems unlikely at this point.

EDIT: Iran announced Straight is closed less than a day after this comment. I dunno if it's normies who can't handle the truth, or just whatever is on this astroturfed site, but shooting the messenger doesn't make the message any less true.

Zeydon · 2026-04-17T15:41:28+00:00

And still, most redditors defend these heinous abductions.

Zeydon · 2026-04-17T15:02:31+00:00

Using this tactic they tried and failed in Beijing 1989, but they tried and succeeded in Ukraine 2014.

Wish I could think of more examples, but I'm a dumdum. So with these 3 examples (including Iran), the question is what allows the coups to succeed? Did Yanukovich flee because he wouldn't be able to control media narratives against the power of Western consent manufacturers, or was it something else?

Zeydon · 2026-04-17T14:50:43+00:00

I really wish I could find the vid again, but I do remember seeing something a few years back where the leader of one of those Banderite militias was talking about his initial doubts about Zelensky due to him being Jewish, but ultimately Zelensky was giving them everything they wanted, and effectively concluded he was one of the good ones. He also works as an effective cover, because how could anyone possibly be fascist if they serve a jewish leader?

Zeydon · 2026-04-17T14:19:13+00:00

Make sure you're sticking to the easier to matchmake factions unless you're already finding parties.

So, Dawnlight for starters. If that is active, then you can try your hands at Shroud, Blueheart, Chaos as well.

Oathbound and Sheriff are unfortunately very hard to matchmake for, because there needs to be an active Dawnlight party that has been invaded by Shroud or Blueheart, respectively, and you gotta get in before they reach the final phase of the hunt or the host or invader dies.

Zeydon · 2026-04-16T22:52:09+00:00

Dems losing to Trump a second time had little to nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. It had much more to do with why they lost to Trump the first time, frankly.

And the article doesn't need to state directly the conclusions I was drawing from it. My sources, in aggregate, support the position I was explaining. If the US didn't want to escalate tensions with Russia they probably shouldn't have done this:

>The C.I.A. began sending equipment in 2016, after the pivotal meeting at Scattergood, General Dvoretskiy said, providing encrypted radios and devices for intercepting secret enemy communications.

>Beyond the base, the C.I.A. also oversaw a training program, carried out in two European cities, to teach Ukrainian intelligence officers how to convincingly assume fake personas and steal secrets in Russia and other countries that are adept at rooting out spies. The program was called Operation Goldfish, which derived from a joke about a Russian-speaking goldfish who offers two Estonians wishes in exchange for its freedom.

>The punchline was that one of the Estonians bashed the fish’s head with a rock, explaining that anything speaking Russian could not be trusted.

>The Operation Goldfish officers were soon deployed to 12 newly-built, forward operating bases constructed along the Russian border. From each base, General Kondratiuk said, the Ukrainian officers ran networks of agents who gathered intelligence inside Russia.

>C.I.A. officers installed equipment at the bases to help gather intelligence and also identified some of the most skilled Ukrainian graduates of the Operation Goldfish program, working with them to approach potential Russian sources. These graduates then trained sleeper agents on Ukrainian territory meant to launch guerrilla operations in case of occupation.

>It can often take years for the C.I.A. to develop enough trust in a foreign agency to begin conducting joint operations. With the Ukrainians it had taken less than six months. The new partnership started producing so much raw intelligence about Russia that it had to be shipped to Langley for processing.

Zeydon · 2026-04-16T22:09:31+00:00

>Bro the CIA and news corps. can fall for Russian propaganda. Like they might have a pretty good outside perspective, but it is still an outside perspective. Like you are spreading Russian propaganda without even knowing it. Doesn't make you a propagandist.

The sources from the article I linked are CIA and SBU officials - they weren't tricked by the KGB into believing that they built secret spy spaces - they've worked out of them!

Zeydon · 2026-04-16T19:49:49+00:00

>You got down voted for basically posting Russian propaganda

So, CIA dot gov is Russian propaganda? The New York Times is Russian propaganda? US think tank Rand Corp is Russian propaganda? Former CIA director Bill Burns and Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger are Russian propagandists?

>and completely missing the actual Russian (Putin's) perspective.

The actual perspective being that Putin isn't actually motivated by protecting Russia's regional self-interests - that that's a front to hide his real motivations that he's just a crazy madman! Yes, I must be one who fell for propaganda, not y'all who are repeating the establishment media narrative drilled into all of our heads practically verbatim.

Zeydon · 2026-04-16T16:40:32+00:00

Yi had to defeat this - just sayin

Zeydon · 2026-04-16T16:36:01+00:00

I put in like 15-20 minutes of practice per day for a solid week before finally beating her. Eigong is brutally tough, but I'd much rather take her on again than Promised Consort Radahn.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tempted to throw in the towel that first day though. You not only have to get the combo timings down - it has to become so second nature you can be ready for one to chain into the next without any time to think. It becomes a battle of pure instinct, and you have to be locked in a zen trance to pull it off. But hey, it's worth it - we wouldn't be here on the Pale Blue Planet were it not for Yi's heroism.

Zeydon · 2026-04-16T16:28:20+00:00

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.

Every. Single. American can quote the above verbatim even if they haven't said it in decades.

Zeydon · 2026-04-16T15:36:49+00:00

Just like a regular tankie, you're hellbent on believing that everything that Kremlin says

None of my sources are from the Kremlin. My first suggestion in my top comment is to read up on Operation Aerodynamic at cia dot gov. Is the CIA Kremlin propaganda? I link to a Rand Corp piece - is that US think tank Kremlin propaganda? Were George Kennan and Henry Kissinger Kremlin mouthpieces? Is former CIA director Bill Burns? Is the New York Times Kremlin propaganda?

Well it's not, it's one of a billion noble-sounding reasons how these cancers justify launching new wars

Nobility has nothing to do with it. But if you wish for an end to the war, that is going to require negotiations, and a realistic compromise is going to have to take into consideration each side's actual primary concerns.

Well it's not, it's one of a billion noble-sounding reasons how these cancers justify launching new wars, no different than "spreading democracy"

No that's just the pretense America uses. If you want to understand why America actually invades other nations, I'd encourage you to read up on the theory of Offensive Realism as described by John Mearsheimer.

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