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I guess I’m skeptical. First: it seems pretty random ecks dee, so I don’t think there’ll be much emotional significance to finding your daughter when she’s old when you got there with the “Ebony Rooster that shoots bouncy eggs.” Second, it’s easy to say that every choice matters but the proof of that will be in the gameplay: will it be very limited evolution of the world or will it be a crazy simulation like Dwarf Fortress? Either has pitfalls, I suppose.

The EU desperately needs its own infrastructure, starting with banking and IT. And probably needs to start blocking the sale of companies to the US.

Given he was sanctioned in August, I guess not.

Because you were neutered as a kitten!

This is very disappointing

I do believe and agree that there are a bunch of people who are lost causes. But I don’t think that makes truth unimportant. There’s a bunch of people still who do care about whether people are lying, who do think less of the left for this and would think better of it if the left, collectively, were more honest. I’m not American so I don’t know how many Trump voters this applies to (people would have you believe “none”, of course) but there are also swathes of people who think “both sides are just a bunch of lying bastards.” Well, we can try to tell them that, no, both sides are not the same. But also we can not be a bunch of lying bastards.

Fundamentally, I don’t think anti-fascism wins by throwing away the principle of truthfulness. Aren’t we supposed to be better that?

You say something perfectly reasonable, but I don’t think it’s what you mean. Or if you do, this is not the context. I’m not playing devil’s advocate, I’m saying we should be careful about the off-hand accusations we make. We absolutely ought to be being honest when accusing people of doing wrong stuff - including the far right. Getting it wrong, especially with a casual disregard for the truth, does not help. You don’t combat fascism by just throwing more accusations around with the justification, “weeelll they’re bad people anyway, what does it matter if we accused them of something they didn’t do?”

Making incorrect, baseless accusations damages the credibility of all similar accusations. So no, I’m not going to “advocate” for the SVP and ask “what if they’re actually a bunch of stand-up guys,” but I am going to challenge what look like unlikely accusations. And judging by the couple of replies so far, this absolutely was intellectually vacuous mudslinging. The OP should do better.

Yes. And then someone pointed out that 6×9 = 42 in base 13. To which DNA replied, “I may be a sorry case, but I don’t write jokes in base 13.”

No I get they’re racist fucks, but do they express disapproval when others go to court over defamation like this? Because the line above was not “the SVP are racist” but “they can’t take a joke.”

Actually Frankenstein is the Bell; the clock tower is called Mary Shelley.

Or something.

From etymonline:

The slang sense of “hit, sock” is 1941, originally Australian, probably from earlier slang clock (n.) “face” (1923).

So probably not.

Hmm. Do you know that party in question has been doing that, or are you just assuming that they do based on association with those right-wing figures you know of who do?

Because the latter is… pretty bad.

Man, you never know the names of most important people in game studios. Like besides carmack and Gabe I don’t think I know anyone’s. Kind of a shame only to find them out when they die.

There is a line in an email that refers to “trump blowing bubba”.

It’s not clear who “bubba” is, but it’s one of Clinton’s nicknames.

More importantly though, it’s not clear that the line is intended to be taken seriously. Obviously a lot of people want it to be true though.