Zombiepirate @ Zombiepirate @lemmy.world

Proud anti-fascist & bird-person

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They literally don't care. All they want is to win an argument against leftists in the moment; they actually see it as a weakness to be beholden to facts.

They're playing a different "game" entirely, one where rhetoric is more important than reality.

From They Thought They Were Free, the Germans 1933 - 1945

[...] "I gave them French and English literature, more so than before, although to do so was one of those vague betrayals of the ‘new spirit’; still, it had not been specifically forbidden. Of course, I always said, to protect myself (but I said it in such a way that I hoped the students would see through it), that the foreign works we read were only a reflection of German literature. So, you see, Herr Professor, a man could show some—some independence, even, so to say, secretly.” “I understand,” I said.

“Many of the students—the best of them—understood what was going on in all this. It was a sort of dumb-show game that we were all playing, I with them. The worst effect, I think, was that it made them cynical, the best ones. But, then, it made the teachers cynical, too. I think the classroom in those years was one of the causes of the cynicism you see in the best young men and women in Germany today.”

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"Tell me, Herr Hildebrandt, what about [Shakespeare's]Julius Caesar?”

He smiled very, very wryly. “Julius Caesar? No … no.”

“Was it forbidden?”

“Not that I remember. But that is not the way it was. Everything was not regulated specifically, ever. It was not like that at all. Choices were left to the teacher’s discretion, within the ‘German spirit.’ That was all that was necessary; the teacher had only to be discreet. If he himself wondered at all whether anyone would object to a given book, he would be wise not to use it. This was a much more powerful form of intimidation, you see, than any fixed list of acceptable or unacceptable writings. The way it was done was, from the point of view of the regime, remarkably clever and effective. The teacher had to make the choices and risk the consequences; this made him all the more cautious.”

These dumbasses really think capitulation will make the fascists go away? That's never how it works. Now you've emboldened them to go further, you utter idiots.

They want to promote the heirarchy that puts them on top.

That's all that matters to Nazi shitbags like Donald J. Trump, Elon Musk, and those who venerate them.

At the risk of giving unsolicited advice, I find that you get a lot of people willing to discuss things if you post in a general community related to the topic.

For example instead of posting in an empty sub for a specific video game or sports team, there's /c/gaming or /c/baseball that have people who are happy to chat.

You're absolutely right! Thanks, edited.

Bro needs to learn to slice the pie and check those corners.

Her dad, Polonius, is hiding behind a curtain to spy on Hamlet for the king, because Hamlet is pretending (?) to be crazy to make himself seem like less of a threat.

While Hamlet is yelling at his mom for marrying the king (who also killed Hamlet's dad— the old king), he hears Polonius behind the curtain and stabs him to death. Afterwards he realizes that he killed his girlfriend's dad.

It's a great play, I highly recommend reading a synopsis and then watching it.

I was hoping someone would mention the disc launcher!

We used to play the shareware version on the school computers whenever we had free time. Shazbot!

Undeniable classic. Not much more satisfying than hucking a file cabinet at a group of people who don't see you yet.

Also, the trip mines were fun to use in smaller games (just like the Duke3d ones).

The graphic design looks so much like Spelunky. Cool!

I don't know if it was their SDK or what, but Epic's sound design in this era was so good. Jill of the Jungle still stands out to me for that.

Augury was a Greco-Roman religious practice of observing the behavior of birds, to receive omens. When the individual, known as the augur, read these signs, it was referred to as "taking the auspices". "Auspices" (Latin: auspicium) means "looking at birds". Auspex, another word for augur, can be translated to "one who looks at birds". Depending upon the birds, the auspices from the gods could be favorable or unfavorable (auspicious or inauspicious). Sometimes politically motivated augurs would fabricate unfavorable auspices in order to delay certain state functions, such as elections. Pliny the Elder attributes the invention of auspicy to Tiresias the seer of Thebes.

We used to play Sky Roads on the school computers all the time. Great game.

That sounds fantastic, I might have to give it a shot.

It may just be nostalgia, but Soul Caliber 2 is still my favorite "traditional" fighting game.

The music is just as great as you remember.

Oh I'd forgotten about Subspace; what a classic!

Oh, I just remembered Castle of the Winds, too. What a great era for games!