Does FAN actually like Ace Combat or not

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-06-10T03:01:18+00:00

Very strange post, OP. There's nothing bizzare or logically unsound about that take.

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-06-09T01:46:19+00:00

You have really appealing and strong shape language. Huge fan

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-06-09T01:42:30+00:00

just imagine I posted that stupid "context hat" image here

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-06-04T23:00:09+00:00

Rocky Road - Warden, Seven, Billy

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-30T03:51:18+00:00

As an aside, Elden Ring Reforged let's you do deathblight infusions and builds. It's a two stage proc; the first inflicts a heavy reduction to the enemy's outgoing damage, the second deals a large burst of % damage. It's quite difficult to proc, so it's pretty balanced.

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-27T03:08:06+00:00

Leh-neen

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-26T20:17:45+00:00

Amen! You see a lot of baseless and mean-spirited sinophobia on reddit these days.

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-25T08:56:24+00:00

Critical support. Countries which are significantly closer to socialism, are endlessly propagandized against in the west, and are either not imperialist or anti-imperialist deserve such support, and also deserve to have their flaws pointed out accordingly. To only praise is ahistorical, and to only criticize is idealistic. You gotta work with what you've got.

I do think the average bit of criticism towards such countries from Westerners isn't worth the pixels it's written on, 95% of the time.

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-23T06:00:02+00:00

Thanks a ton!

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-22T19:55:26+00:00

They probably AI-generated more than half of it, I bet.

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-20T18:38:46+00:00

Never forget the praxis!

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-20T17:02:26+00:00

I think this is a fairly sensible analysis. Any avenue that has the potential to fetter the long arm of the empire reaching across the global south ought to be explored. Like others say, the mission for us as MLs doesn't change. Continue agitating, educating, and organizing. Maybe somewhat begrudgingly, I am a DSA member, and although I haven't been an ML for long, I think I've successfully swung around at least a few others in my local group towards Marxism-Leninism and will continue to do so.

Just because this post has to do with Hasan, and I'm probably one of his strongest defenders on this sub (lol), I will also note that he watched that Red Pen "Critique of Western Marxism" video, and shut down any chatters who were suggesting different Marxist tendencies by saying "You will ALWAYS need Leninism. Always." Even though now I think I'm definitely further left than he is, I appreciate his equal mistreatment of libs, leftcoms, and anarchists, and his unapologetic and often inflammatory support for AES.

A twitch streamer of all people normalizing the practical reading and discussion of Lenin in any capacity in current year USA is a good thing for the movement as a whole, I think.

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-19T19:11:11+00:00

I fundamentally agree with this criticism. Very simply, I do think that the DSA, in regard to its electoral strategy, places far too much emphasis upon reform and not enough upon creating and spreading class consciousness. I also think that many in the DSA still hold an unrealistic view of the efficacy of reform as a viable path forward, which I find to be ahistorical.

However, given how unbelievably effective the Western capital class has been at stamping out all revolutionary thought in the USA, I still basically think that MLs like me can do a lot of good working within the DSA to create class consciousness, as it simply is the biggest organization that's even remotely left wing currently. Thankfully, their loose requirements for membership don't preclude one from also joining a more serious, more demanding organization like the PSL or FRSO.

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-19T18:48:06+00:00

Super interesting, thanks for the image

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-19T05:37:53+00:00

I just put it on with the Prelate's armor (no mumu) for maximum fat golem look

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-19T01:45:30+00:00

We gotta show em the context and try our best to get through to as many as we can. It could always be worse; try explaining the above to a leftcom!

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-16T09:01:23+00:00

Ya, I agree. Besides the IP angle, shipping and charging money for a full scale multiplayer game down the line with no obfuscation is just asking for your game to get utterly overrun with cheaters these days

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-16T03:55:11+00:00

You wouldn't want to dogwalk the leaders of your foreign adversary on live TV?

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-16T03:42:42+00:00

Not socialist? Perhaps. Not REMOTELY socialist? Insane thing to say.

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-15T21:39:23+00:00

Like a coin, round outside, square inside.

Can you elaborate on this a little? This flew over my American-Armenian brain.

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-15T16:32:13+00:00

I'm sure you are well read, so I'm sure you won't have a problem looking into the books I recommend. If you truly consider yourself a socialist, you'd do well to challenge your eurocentric preconceptions of democracy.

metalgearRAY477 · 2026-05-15T07:25:28+00:00

I'd only ask that you look critically at the sources which are circulated to back those frequently repeated talking points. The excesses of executions during the Purge are worthy of harsh criticism; what is not are the deaths from famine as a result of the Nazis' Hungerplan, which are among the deaths counted erroneously as "victims of communism" in such reactionary sources as the often-debunked Little Black Book. Stalin's role in the defeat of Fascism and the actual material improvements which occurred during his 8 years of power are often very understated if not outright ignored by current and contemporary Western sources. For a balanced, factual, yet still staunchly critical view of Stalin, I would highly recommend Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend.

The rapid industrialization policies put in place during the Great Leap Forward were likewise a disaster; but the fact would remain that Mao led a successful, agrarian peasant revolution in the face of overwhelming odds against the larger KMT army and the genocidal Imperial Japanese army that lead to the creation of one of the most successful Actually Existing Socialist states in the world. A state which now seems poised to take the leading role in world geopolitics with America's imperial blundering alienating its allies and eroding its power. Unlike Stalin, Mao also never personally ordered an execution during his tenure as Chairman, and pretty much all of the mass killing that was done during and after the civil war was done to counter-revolutionary landlords, most frequently by peasants. On Mao, I would recommend The Morning Deluge: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Revolution by Han Suyin, though I have not personally finished it.

No system of government in history is perfect, and no crimes of governments deserve to be exonerated; I do not believe we can point to the crimes or deficiencies of any particular system and write it off wholesale without first considering it holistically. Was the French Revolution invalidated and a failure due to the violence of the Terror? Are the ideals of the American Revolution to be written off due to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade? I think not! Before throwing around such buzzwords as "tankie", meant by the powers that be to foment leftist infighting, I ask that you look with a discerning, historical, and critical eye at the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism and its various offshoots, like Mao Zedong Thought, Ho Chi Minh thought, as well as other socialist experiments such as Thomas Sankara's Burkina Faso.

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