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Hey what the gently caress the PRC doesn't have universal healthcare? What's next, the Soviet Union didn't either?
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Oct 26, 2017 12:52
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Civ struggles so much trying to create a gameplay-based, "organic" solution to ICS, when they should instead directly forbid building cities less than 2 (or even 3) spaces apart. It's like the Americans trying to build a space pen with Soviet Russia just used a pencil yes I know it's not true
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Oct 28, 2017 03:03
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Typo posted:more expansion is always good makes for bland game play style, also not all that realistic: plenty of empires in history fell because of overexpansion Civ has been historically not good at depicting internal unrest. That's not really a dig at the game being "bad", just that poo poo is abstracted / gamified enough on Civ's end that it never really comes up besides managing happiness.
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Oct 29, 2017 02:10
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rudatron posted:4x's are fundamentally war games. Half the gameplay is combat mechanics, and they're designed to make the tactics/strategy of combat as part of their appeal. The driver for conflict, is expansion. Without expansion, the game is just click best building->click next turn. It's the most boring poo poo. My dad still plays Civ 4 with custom games starting at the WW2 tech level and plays it like a wargame, with naval blockades, grand amphibious assaults, aerial bombardment campaigns, and armored spearheads.
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Oct 29, 2017 05:54
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city-based unit support still kinda sucks
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Oct 29, 2017 07:51
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What are Miriam's strengths, if you're playing her faction?
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Oct 31, 2017 00:04
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Cross-posting from the Philippines thread in D&D Back in April 2016, Alibaba bought a controlling share in Lazada, an e-retailer like itself, except operating in Southeast Asia. In Jun 2017, Alibaba sunk another 1 billion USD into Lazada. https://twitter.com/jcmaningat/status/925198290823479296 quote:Contractor nets P174,000 for a three-week production of 100 bags, while worker earns only P7,205. Worker has to work 14 hrs/ day
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Nov 1, 2017 06:47
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Yandat posted:lal is obama weak-kneed moderate that gets his poo poo pushed in by even the slightest aggression, checks out
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Nov 2, 2017 08:24
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Recon Rover Rick is fake news
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Nov 2, 2017 11:33
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rudatron posted:Lal also runs a pocast that only lanyards listen to, called Palling Around - With Pravin Lal Keepin' it 4.367 Lightyears Colony Pod Save Planet
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Nov 4, 2017 03:38
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does China's actions in Africa and the Spratlys constitute imperialism? If yes, is there a wing of leftism that acknowledges this, the way they do, say, American imperialism? I'm wary of jumping to conclusions insofar as handwringing about dredging ships creating new missile bases in the South China Sea is almost exclusively a right-wing talking point
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Nov 11, 2017 15:00
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Planned economies are almost always better in strategy games because there's an actual plan to be pursued (that is, to win the game). It makes sense that it'd be less useful than letting private enterprise gently caress off and do whatever because you need that industry to be focused.
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Nov 16, 2017 02:40
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Typo posted:why is state property good cuz it let's you boom pop? Removing distance-based maintenance costs is critical for having a large empire, which you will eventually have anyway if you're playing to win. Adding a hammer to every Workshop and Watermill is a huge production boost.
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Nov 16, 2017 03:27
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Typo posted:wut about corporations? Civ 4 should have stopped at Warlords.
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Nov 16, 2017 04:26
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Dreddout posted:Holy gently caress, imagine the kind of person that has this take. Age of Wonders Shadow Magic
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Nov 16, 2017 18:49
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I just bought a couple more EU4 DLC expansions despite never having spent more than an hour with that game. What the hell is wrong with me. (what's the easiest way to ease into EU4? I didn't even know there was a Cradle of Civilization expansion until just now)
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Nov 22, 2017 14:09
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obviously the answer is to have China conquer Europe
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Nov 23, 2017 06:33
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I really liked Reigns for how utterly playable it was, and wish there was a Paradox-type game that hewed closer to that level of "make a broad choice out of two to three options" ease-of-use, but with a more historical grounding and a map to paint with your results.
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Nov 23, 2017 09:44
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Oh, I get that. I was agreeing with you in the sense that I do wish there was a sort of game that let you "DO THING" far more directly rather than the billion soft nudges implied in Paradox's sliders, percentages, and point-spends.
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Nov 23, 2017 10:57
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Typo posted:I like my games being games and not literal soviet gosplan planner simulation There was a game that was specifically this, where the goal was to have an industrial base big enough to resist the German invasion in 1941, but the harder you pushed industrialization, the more people you killed through famine and failures of collectivization and suppression of dissent.
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Nov 24, 2017 03:04
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https://twitter.com/guardian/status/935361935679410177 poo tape is real
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Nov 28, 2017 05:19
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iPhone with Chinese characteristics
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Dec 1, 2017 02:50
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https://twitter.com/thinkprogress/status/936595770488303618
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Dec 1, 2017 15:02
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Dec 6, 2017 11:43
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 Happy birthday Gnolam Chomsky
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Dec 7, 2017 13:57
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Sri Lanka hands over running of Hambantota port to Chinese company Sri Lanka formally handed over commercial activities in its main southern port to a Chinese company on Saturday and received US$292 million out of a US$1.12 billion deal, Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera said. The deal, signed in July, will see China Merchants Port Holdings, handling the Chinese-built Hambantota port on a 99-year lease. The port is near the main shipping route from Asia to Europe and likely to play a major role in China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”. “Today we received US$292 million as the first tranche of the Hambantota Port joint venture. This is but the first step in realising the true commercial value of the port after seven long years,” Samaraweera said. The US$1.5 billion port opened in 2010, but was incurring losses due to lack of commercial activity. Ports Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said the government would receive a further 10 per cent, or about US$100 million, in a month and another US$585 million in six months. An initial plan to give the Chinese firm an 80 per cent stake triggered protests by trade unions and opposition groups, forcing ministers to make some revisions that limit China’s role to running commercial operations while the government retains oversight of broader security issues. Both sides then agreed to redraw the deal and the Chinese firm will now hold a 70 per cent stake in a joint venture with the state-run Sri Lanka Ports Authority, part of a plan to convert US$6 billion of loans that Sri Lanka owes China into equity. Sri Lanka said the Chinese firm would invest an additional US$600 million to make Hambantota port operational and US$1.12 billion from the deal would be used for debt repayment. Government and diplomatic sources told Reuters that the United States, India and Japan had also raised concerns that China might use the port as a naval base. India is in advanced talks with Sri Lanka to operate an airport near Hambantota port.
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Dec 11, 2017 03:05
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https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/939832896604565505 https://twitter.com/alvarombedoya/status/940348649044881408
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Dec 12, 2017 08:00
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Rand alPaul posted:WHOA what C&C Generals mod is this?? the hard-hatted engineer and the truck makes it look like a Red Alert 2 mod
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Dec 12, 2017 08:38
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zeal posted:
"The second standalone is better" is a truism at this point, whether you're talking about Napoleon, Fall of the Samurai, or Atilla
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Dec 14, 2017 03:49
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Dreddout posted:Good to know your parents are tankies I guess this but unironically
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Jan 9, 2018 10:04
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Xelkelvos posted:Fascism is probably the wrong word, but it's definitely Authoritarian as gently caress bingo
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Jan 13, 2018 04:19
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honest question - what is the distinction between authoritarianism and totalitarianism?
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Jan 13, 2018 15:10
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I can sort of see where Pener is coming from that if we accept that Capitalism Is Bad, then why would we welcome the presence of Capitalists in the political representation of a socialist state? I mean, we already accept that, ideally, we shouldn't give Fascists a platform for speech and political representation even in current democracies, so why would Capitalists, heck, even Monarchists, be any different? You're just going to make them vote all they want in committees and legislatures while hoping that they never gain enough seats to threaten your agenda? I just don't know how you reconcile that with the idea that banning political parties and forming a one-party state is also not good either. EDIT: okay, so apparently per rudatron's post above mine, you really should "trust the process", that people should be free to "vote themselves back into Capitalism" if they want to.
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Jan 14, 2018 03:18
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Typo posted:yes the US and Venezuela are exact same thing as proven by the ruling party jailing its political opponents on a regular basis lock her up!
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Jan 14, 2018 07:14
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Jizz Festival posted:just as you have decided that capitalism is inherently violent and tyrannical. who in this hypothetical socialist society hasn't already decided that capitalism is inherently violent and tyrannical? like, okay, I get it, people in the now aren't convinced of that, but if we're looking at this through the lens of a body politic that's in a position to ban non-socialist parties (or to not), I think it's pretty clear that we're not talking about The World As Of January 2018.
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Jan 15, 2018 10:41
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Jizz Festival posted:They should be tolerated because people should be free to disagree with each other, so that they can freely discuss and decide things. The only way they're a danger is if they take specific actions. Until there's a strong correlation between espousing pro-capitalist views and actually taking harmful action, most people would view suppression of pro-capitalist elements as an unnecessary infringement of their freedom. we're not talking about "thought policing". The original argument was about banning political parties. Why should people be allowed to politically agitate for a return to a model of economics and society that we know is harmful?
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Jan 15, 2018 12:15
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rudatron posted:the thing i wanna pin is why it's regarded as necessary, long term - it's not technically illegal to make some protest movement for the return of feudalism right now, but it's not really possible for it succeed anyway, because no one wants it, and the process of production has advanced far enough to make the entire idea nonsensical. if we are to regard socialism as a similar dramatic advancement over capitalism, wouldn't the same logic hold? Capitalism is going to make itself seem sensical and productive for far longer than it needs to kill us all. I get what you mean as far as nobody wanting a return to feudalism because it's completely outmoded, but Capitalism is somewhere between isn't and really good at convincing people it isn't, and it's not going to be outed as outmoded quickly enough.
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Jan 16, 2018 00:43
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https://twitter.com/vicenews/status/955410904442687488quote:Beijing jumped all over the U.S. government shutdown Sunday, claiming the impasse exposes the “chronic flaws” in western democracy.
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Jan 22, 2018 13:18
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it's difficult to imagine a unified China under the Nationalists. Warlordism and balkanization would probably result, with at least one of those becoming Communist anyway and some others being Western puppets.
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Feb 4, 2018 17:39
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Whataboutism rules and isn't done enough.
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Feb 27, 2018 03:08
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