I love the word communism, for me it expresses the desire for a free COMMUNITY perfectly. However for many people it does not, it just ignites some neural fury instigated by a century of propaganda, fear , and ignorance.
I don't think all the eastern europeans who hate communism do so out of ignorance, it's the exact opposite actually.
The sentence wasn't necessarily unclear, you just have to have a good grasp on how the rules of English grammar establish the subject and object of the sentence, and you need a good sense for how context clues work, and enough cultural context to know what errors the writer is making so you can correct for them. As with many things, we can blame the French for this.
The CG elements are lit from different angles with different color temperatures, it looks like the movie version of making collages by cutting pictures out of magazines
Because it sucks and the 3.5mm jack is better. Manufacturers should be forced to include it or pay a punitive fee calculated to far outweigh the savings of not including the jack, perhaps $5,000 per individual unit manufactured.
You gotta pick your battles, you know? The game still has content in it from 2001. The same company still makes the "regular" version of RuneScape alongside OldSchool, and while its graphics are more sophisticated, they're also more inconsistent and have a tendency to look cheap—and regular RuneScape is filled to the brim with microtransactions. On desktop you can play OSRS using a third party client called RuneLite, which does have some graphics improvement plugins, most notably the 117HD plugin:
I dream of jobs that exist in a non-scarcity post-economic society, because those are wholly voluntary and fulfilling jobs that benefit the worker and society. And because I want to be in Starfleet and rail Orion broads on Risa.
Membership is $12.50/month and drastically increases the amount of content you can play
There's tons of stuff to do in general and the writing, especially in quests, is charming and fun
The in-game events are generally flavor events like Halloween, Christmas, and special game modes. There aren't any "double XP weekends" or shit like that
The only microtransaction is the membership bond, a token redeemable for two weeks of membership for those who don't want to buy membership directly. You can buy bonds from the developer for $8, but you can also trade or buy them from another player using in-game money. This means you can technically "pay to win" by buying bonds and selling them for gold, but a high-level player can make gold more efficiently than that anyway so it's a waste of time
Players who have membership are elegible to vote in the content polls, where the developer proposes game content updates and only implements them if 70% of the voters approve. For example, the game is getting a new skill, Sailing—but only because adding a new skill was approved by members and then Sailing beat out the other choices in the subsequent round. The devs do still put through unpolled updates for "game integrity", like bug/exploit fixes and necessary technical changes.
Has easily the best wiki of any video game period, and an in-game "look this up in the wiki" button.
Cons:
The developers (mostly when ordered to by their parent company) occasionally try to sneak enshittification into the game once or twice a year, till the players riot and threaten to cancel membership
There is always some kind of drama going on, currently the drama is that a J-mod (one of the people on the Dev team) was temp banning every player who crossed a girl he wanted to impress
The player base is pretty toxic by modern web 3.0 standards. However, as someone who's played both games, it's basically Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood compared to the League of Legends community.
Modern gamers might find much of the gameplay, especially skilling, to be grindy and monotonous. In other words, you might find it boring. There are ways to liven that up, but I also just enjoy a good grind sometimes too.
It's low-poly and ugly, though the players actually like it that way (and I do too)
I understood the meaning of your meme in totality, and moved beyond it.