My kidneys couldn't produce enough piss in a lifetime to adequately saturate all the graves I yearn to piss upon. Regardless, I'm still happy to have another gender neutral urinal with this fascist's name on it.
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It's Hollow Knight as BeanisBrain said, and it is the original game that Silksong is a sequel to. Here's my little mini essay to answer your question:
It was a little indie metroidvania released in 2017 that fairly quickly ballooned in popularity, building up a surprisingly large fan base, becoming something of an indie sensation. Hollow Knight is now widely considered to be like the quintessential modern metroidvania, the name that always comes up whenever the genre is discussed. Even people who don't really play MVs tend to know about Hollow Knight. Personally I think it's a little overhyped myself and feel that there are other MVs just as good, on occasion even better, but it is undeniably a fun, addictive, and well-made game, with good reason for being considered a new classic.
The studio that created it announced that they were making a sequel to the game in 2019, naming it Silksong and saying they had intended it to be a DLC at first but that as it grew they decided it needed to be a standalone sequel. They included some impressive gameplay footage in that 2019 announcement, which made it seem like the release wouldn't be too far off. Because Hollow Knight had become such a massive viral success, the hype for Silksong was unsurprisingly immense. But as the years went by with no word from the studio about progress, a lot of fans started getting frustrated and there were jokes and rumors that it wasn't real, that it would never be released, that it was the new Half Life 3 (if you know about that saga). The "Silksong when?!" memes and vocal anticipation became almost as legendary as the original game.
Then just back in August, the studio put out the release trailer and gave a September 4th release date and people went nuts. A bunch of other games that had been slated for a September launch were postponed, their studios openly stating that they did not want to compete with Silksong and that magnitude of hype. The hour that Silksong released, Steam along with all of the console stores crashed from too many people trying to download the game. But now everyone who tried to download it upon release has it. And so e'erbody be playin' it. Those who aren't playing it, are playing the original, either as a replay to refresh their memories and prepare for playing the sequel, or for the first time, so as not to miss out or to learn why it's the sensation that it is.
You're not missing anything. I shouldn't have included the pic but I had just seen it minutes before reading the post and it felt like it fit. The one simple trick is what you said: eating the rich.
In addition to what MattsAlt said, the people in possession of those things still rely on you and me to meet all their wants and needs. So a crucial first step before they become edible is for us to stop meeting their wants and needs. Exactly who "possesses" what starts to become a little more ambiguous when that happens.
Beat inflation at the grocery store (and everywhere else) with this one simple trick. Capitalists hate it!
China is indeed moving in the right direction. That doesn't mean I think China is a force of good in the world.
Then what would? If the fact that China is doing good in the world is not enough for you to think "it a force for good in the world" then what does it need to do? Oh, I forgot, you think "all nation states are bad by definition" and unironically believe that the more people a government represents, the more evil it is. So in order for China to be "a force for good in the world" China simply has to cease to exist. Got it. Nope, that doesn't align with US interests at all.
It's a nation state and should be subject to criticism. And all I'm saying is that there are people who will religiously dogpile you if you try to do that, and I call those people tankies.
Literally no one on lemmy has ever said China is above criticism. I dare you to find a single instance of that ever happening.
lmao. I unironically believe this though.
The more you concentrate power, the harder it is to keep bad actors from abusing said power.
What makes you think the power over those billion+ people is all "concentrated"? Could it be (gasp!) that the power is largely distributed among those people who overwhelmingly support that government? This is just capitalist-realism-brained misunderstanding of how communist parties work.
Most Americans approve of capitalism. Does that make it good too?
No, but that's certainly not what makes it bad.
China is a government that rules over billions of people. That is, by definition, evil.
Funny how 95% of the Chinese population approves of and rates favorably this terrible "ruling over" they are being subjected to.
New theory just dropped, everyone: The more people a government represents, the more evil that government is.
Anyone who uses the term "tankie" unironically to disparage other leftists is a lib. Anyone who uses the term ironically to make fun of those who don't is a leftist. But you're right, conservatives don't know what it means, they also don't know that they are libs as well.
but it also removes human bias element from the equation
That is not possible, and to pretend that it is is itself a significant bias.
Like so many others who get their understanding of events from mainstream western media, you really don't have a clue as to what's going on. Here are some things for you to consider.
The fascist Ukrainian leadership is gang pressing civilians on the street into unmarked vans to be sent off to the front lines to die as cannon fodder. This is well documented and is open knowledge. Forced conscription is rampant and even many of those civilians in Ukraine who are against Russia (and not all of them are by any means) are now actively sabotaging the Ukrainian military. (see more on that below).
All along, the US and NATO have demanded that this war continue, despite the fact that Russia has offered reasonable peace terms numerous times, and despite the fact that it was never winnable for Ukraine. NATO (the US) does not give a shit about throwing Ukrainian people into a meat grinder if it means they can take out a few Russians too and continue the grift of enriching western arms manufacturers while plundering the country by privatizing every public asset that once existed there.
What you call a Russian invasion was actually Russia entering into a civil war that was already in progress, a war where the Kiev regime (that took power via western-backed coup by the way) was shelling the Donbas (eastern part of Ukraine), murdering civilians, burning trade unionists alive in their union halls, and trying to ethnically cleanse the Russian-speaking populace that lives there. Most of eastern Ukraine did and still do see Russia as coming to help liberate them, and are fighting against the Ukrainian regime as they have been long before February of '22, but since then have been doing so alongside or as part of Russia.
Ukrainians are dying because the (literal) nazis in control of Ukraine along with their masters NATO, will not allow the war to end so long as any Ukrainian with the ability to fight still lives. And it's not just Russian weapons and military that is what ends up killing them, regardless of the fact that it is the interest of western imperialists that is ultimately responsible for sending them to their deaths. Ukrainians who refuse to fight have been getting killed from the start by Ukraine, some of them literally shot in the back as they try to flee, or bombed in train stations as they tried to get out of the country. And now children, many of them the children of parents who were already killed, are doing things like sabotaging Ukraine's military vehicles. And guess what... these kids are getting executed on sight for doing so:
Resistance to military conscription deepens in Ukraine as leaders talk of role as a mercenary power
Every day, across the country, police are reporting arson attacks against Ukrainian military vehicles. Military personnel in the rear are increasingly wary of leaving their vehicles on the streets overnight, instead parking them near police stations. But even this does not always help.
Those detained by police for these attacks have mostly been teenagers between 12 and 18 years of age, according to governor Oleh Sinegubov of Kharkiv Oblast (province), writing in early August.
As a result of such attacks increasing in number, Oleh Romanov, commander of an anti-tank unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), has declared he has given permission to shoot on sight those who set fire to military vehicles in the rear. "In coordination with higher command, using military immunity, I give verbal permission to my fighters to shoot those things on the spot. Such traitors must be eliminated on the spot, considering wartime conditions." His unit is the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, formerly a unit of the neo-Nazi 'Azov Battalion' now fully integrated as an autonomous unit of the regular army.
So the commander of what is today a regular Ukraine military unit is openly claiming that he has issued orders to shoot without trial civilian youths should they be caught in the act of damaging military equipment… or be only accused of doing so. Ukrainian authorities are not denying that many of the attacks against military equipment are carried out by teenagers, nor do they deny that orders to shoot perpetrators are being issued and are bypassing the formal, decision-making of the country's government and armed forces general staff.
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The "twisted world we're living" in is the real one, not the propaganda-spun fake world you mistakenly believe to be reality. Pry your head out from under the propaganda spigot and look around, you might even then consider joining us in understanding what is actually happening in the world.
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The image in OP is what is toxic. Fostering a kind of echo chamber where the people who disagree with the prevailing narrative and bring reasoned arguments that contradict it get written off as "foreign agents" is extremely toxic, also nationalistic, and often borderline racist. It's also childish. Pointing out how childish it is to tell someone "you're just a RuSsIaN bOt!" because you don't like what they have to say is definitely not toxic, quite the opposite.
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What a laughable deflection. Politicians give a shit what the voting public in aggregate does, dipshit. If they don't give a shit what you think, why are you advocating for one half of them? Why are you trying (and failing so bad it's funny) to argue that people should vote for one team of them that you think are "less bad"?
but I'm not so far up my own ass that I don't care about the consequences of my actions.
Like, do you really not care that you completely contradict yourself from one comment to the next, or hell, from one sentence to the next?
More people will die if Trump wins, and that is all that matter to me.
Meanwhile Biden & Harris fund a literal, undeniable genocide. You are such a clown I'd think it was impressive if it weren't so disgusting.
If you think that's supporting genocide then you can take you sick bizarro logic and shove it up your ass.
Yeah, refusing to vote for genocidaires is "sick, bizarro logic" but sending them your approval by voting and stanning for the genocidaires is "fighting fascism." Nah, you can take your sick, twisted, fascist-apologist illogical rationalizations and shove them up your ass, you sycophantic loser.
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And serious, how can you not understand even after RvW that doing nothing is still better for you than what the Republicans will do.
The republicans do it anyway!! The republicans do what they want, the democrats allow them to while raking in donations by telling everyone how mean the republicans are! It's not that the democrats are better because they don't do bad things but republicans do, it's that they are both parts of the same machine that does these things, playing their respective roles! How can you be so fucking blind as not see the blatant "good cop/bad cop" routine for what it is?? And yet you are calling other people morons (ableist language by the way, asshole) for trying to get this very obvious reality through to you!
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Doing other things than voting doesn't stop you from voting. It takes 5 minutes every couple years. It is literally the least you can do
Voting for someone abetting a genocide (Biden, Harris) is endorsing that genocide. If the democrats win an election after funding a genocide, what kind of mesage is that sending all politicians, whether you like them or not? It's telling them that they can commit genocide without repercussion, they can commit genocide and still have the support of the voting public. Voting for genocidaires (let alone defending them and trying to get others to do the same) makes you complicit in the current genocide as well as the ones that are sure to follow due to green light given to those who perpetrate them. You're telling Democrats and any other politicians "as long as you give lip service to the things I care about - no need to follow through on them btw - then you can go ahead and murder entire nationalities and ethnic groups the world over, it's ok, I'll still vote for you." Fucking disgusting.
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There will be more after Trump and Netanyahu, and I will fight them as well. I will fight every fascist at every opportunity every time.
Why aren't you fighting the other half of the exact same fascist machine then? Instead you insist on carrying water for the fascists that put on a civil facade. That's not fighting fascism, that's aiding it.
Why won't you?
Oh fuck OFF. Nakoichi just fucking told you they have been doing REAL work to fight fascists for over 2 decades, but you completely ignore that. Such obvious bad faith.
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Sorry for the late response, but I would recommend Aeterna Noctis over Hollow Knight. When I said there are other metroidvanias on occasion better than HK, that's probably the only one I would firmly plant there. There are many more that I think are just as good and may be arguably better, as in they're better in some ways and Hollow Knight is better in other ways, but Aeterna Noctis is just in its own category for me. It's definitely one of those games that is not for everyone though. I love it so much because of the platforming design, some of which is extremely difficult, but brilliant. If you don't like difficult platforming, then you probably won't gel with Aeterna Noctis. In many other ways it's fashioned after Hollow Knight, like you can really feel how much HK inspired the mechanics of AN, though AN is even bigger, on a more grand scale than HK. Other games that are up there along with Hollow Knight in my opinion are Ender Lilies and Ender Magnolia, more so the latter. I would say that Grime is up there with Hollow Knight. The original Castlevania: Symphony of the Damned for sure. Possibly The Last Faith, maybe. Since BeanisBrain mentioned it, I agree that Axiom Verge is up there. Blasphemous is great too, like Frivolous_Beatnik said but I'd put it below Hollow Knight, and I would put Blasphemous 2 below the original (edit: they are also right that Silksong is harder than either Blasphemous game, by a mile). I would say I enjoyed Salt and Sanctuary as much or more than I enjoyed Hollow Knight, but I wouldn't try to argue it's better. There are plenty more I could recommend that I don't think get the credit they deserve, but aren't necessarily in the running with Hollow Knight.