Anyone else constantly forget that Luis Suarez played for Atletico Madrid or just me

Sadly all 4 quadrants are just regular liberals if not worse from my experience

You have to be stupid to even become a cop these people don’t understand optics, they’re true believers

I so badly miss playing TF2 in the first few years it came out, still back in days when custom servers were king and you’d make friends with other random people who always played on the same servers. Games just don’t feel like that anymore smh

Any time I’m in a sales meeting at work this is basically all that’s going through my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VhlSmPNsDA

Big fan of this term going to keep it in mind

Jackmerius is a fucking killer name and I won’t hear otherwise

I feel like Messi is just objectively the best professional football player of all time. CR7 is up there for sure but the shit Messi did is not normal, I don’t think its disputable that he is the best of all time, at least in the past 30 years. Cristiano Ronaldo is probably second honestly but Messi is just clearly out in front of everyone else.

Garnacho couldn’t even make the squad for the Manchester derby yesterday apparently so his opinion is irrelevant imo.

I love Lorde so much, this album blew my mind back when it came out

It is referencing the Juche calendar which beings with Juche 1 in 1912, Juche being essentially Marxism-Leninism with Korean characteristics, an application of Marxism specific to the Korean condition from my understanding but maybe someone more knowledgeable can chime in I’m not well versed there.

It’s a tradition to refer to the date in the Juche calendar from the old reddit r/GenZedong weekly discussion sticky that carried over to here as far as I am aware

Just about finished up playing Assassin’s Creed Mirage, was waiting for it to come out on Steam. Have definitely enjoyed it a lot, was nice to play a new AC game thats closer to the originals in style, as I like the stealth gameplay. They did a super good job recreating 8th century Baghdad, clearly a lot of care went into it. I love little details how like if you go to the market area you can hear foreign traders speaking their own languages. The attention to detail in the city is really good and the place feels very alive. It makes me really want to see them do another game in this style focused on maybe 2nd century Rome, as I still have yet to see a game properly tackle recreating Rome at the height of its wealth and power. If anyone can do that justice its this team as they nailed Baghdad.

As much as I enjoyed the game it also made me realize that I kind of like the more sprawling RPG direction games like Odyssey and Valhalla took. It makes me excited for the new Japan AC next year. Ubisoft gets shit on a lot for good reason but I really like the open world games they make, I have a lot of fun with them.

I didnt watch The Game Awards but I saw some of the announcements, definitely interested in the new Turok and Okami games. Nothing else really stuck out for me, Witcher 4 looks cool of course but for whatever reason I’ve always bounced off of the Witcher games, tried all 3 at various points and have never been able to enjoy them. Maybe this one will be different who knows.

2024 I actually played a lot of games, probably more than I should have. None of them were games released recently really but I had an absolute blast replaying Fable Anniversary and Zelda Wind Waker HD this year. Also played through Dark Souls remastered for the first time this year, extremely good remaster of a great game. I also played 2 and 3 again this year but after playing them all in quick succession I think DS1 is my favorite. Such tight level design and atmosphere, and the game suits my preferred playstyle of hiding behind a shield and smacking people with a mace.

Liberals can’t make any media about resistance to exploitation that doesn’t do both sides bad.

Played Assassin’s Creed Mirage recently and the whole time the game was trying to make me think the rebels who wanted to free all of the slaves are actually kinda bad because they do violence sometimes. It’s not relevant to the main story really at all but they still shoehorn it in at every opportunity. Good luck convincing me that former slaves who want to kill their masters aren’t based.

Onson Sweemey has some pretty weak takes on China but I will chock it up to his old age, most of his stuff is well worth reading

I always have respect for people who have a hobby they really enjoy

Second for totalsportek and papahdlive. I wish I could unstream that Arsenal v Everton match though rough watch

Imagine walking across fucking Antarctica for 80 days just for the hell of it (and to see a nice statue of Lenin of course). So cool.

Also love the tidbit from the article AcidSmiley shared in other comment that mentions all of the buildings at the camp at the pole of inaccessibility have long since been buried/destroyed by the elements yet Lenin apparently remains unharmed and fully visible. Really makes you think.

I feel like this was coming with the media angles taken past while. Hate this country so much

Totally fine, comrade @Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml does a really good job moderating and sharing content there. Easy to avoid if you don’t want to see that sort of thing, no need to change I would say.

Typing this out took me back to 2022 2011, when the Ukraine Libya movie was being presented as going well for them,

I am also limited in my understanding but I think there is a lot of animosity towards Assad government in Syria and also other places such as Lebanon and Gaza due to his perceived and verifiable inaction assisting the resistance. Other specific reasons for animosity I’m not knowledgeable enough to speak on but I’m aware they exist so it isn’t unsurprising to hear that some or many Syrian people are happy that he is gone.

I think, and really I am trying to grapple with stuff and learn about things as well so I’m not too sure, but I think biggest issue with Assad gov being toppled is that firstly and most importantly it will once again bring great instability and surely violence to the Syrian people, but will also greatly reduce the capacity for Hezbollah to be resupplied who I understand are in a pretty critical state after hot war with the Zionists. In addition to that you have factors such as Russian footholds in the region being compromised which I’m sure will be abused by US/zionist forces in ways I have not yet thought of.

It remains to be seen what HTS does and how things play out with the other factions but I do not see any way that this is a good thing. I find it hard to believe that HTS are not aligned with the americans/zionists, but hopefully at least they are reasonable with the Syrian people and as few suffer as possible.