I think it's a good reminder that back when people were floating Budanov as the new leader of the war effort, everyone expected him to do a shitty job as army chief but for there to be an uptick of intelligence ops. So it's no wonder the 'ISIS' gunmen tried to flee to Ukraine.
CarmineCatboy2
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You mentioned that it's not a big deal to have pay-2-win in a single player game.
You misunderstand.
This isn't your average pay2win situation where you can ~totally~ earn your way to the important stuff. This is as if the Publisher told the Development team to put the cheapest healing potions from the first shop in the village ALSO for sale on the RMT shop. It's in bad taste, it's exploitative, but it's also hilariously irrational all things considered.
The reason why this became a PR loss is because they also removed the Start New Game button after your begin the game. So that lead to a belief that you gotta buy Art of Metamorphosis for 1,99. All in all it leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouths in the pettiest, least lucrative way possible.
I do maintain that they refrained from placing a New Game button there for a reason and that that reason is very stupid, likely predatory.
That said, a lot of people are straight up lying about art of metamorphosis yes.
'that's so gay' stuff in high school and even then it was commonly understood to mean silly and stupid
ngl thats kinda silly and stupid of you and it makes me think you weren't in on the 'joke'
Once I ran into a youtube video talking about Brazil's relations. It talked about how Brazil is hated by all of south american because in 1640 it 'seized half the continent'. Which was not only wrong (portugal and spain were united at the time and portuguese settlers just crossed into the west then) and insane (maybe the critical mass of brazilian landlords who control the paraguayan side of our border is a more pressing issue) but it gave me china watcher vibes.
That's a very fair point to make. I suppose the most this can be is some sort of 'straw that broke the camel's back', but even so the anti-zionist position of the ruling party and of Ireland would be evidence to the contrary.
I mean, would you really put 'serious manipulations' beyond the Americans and the Zionists at this point? Ireland is a tax haven for american multinationals. Even if the irish prime minister wanted to resist he probably couldn't.
Anti-Catholicism is on the Rise.
So I assume this is about all the ultras who think the pope doing the bare minimum and still rallying against 'the Gender Thing' is satanism.
No? C'est la vie.
Just to be clear, does this have anything to do with the irish prime minister making a pro palestine speech next to Biden?
Personally? Propaganda.
Take flat earth people for an instance. They maintain that the round earth is a concept which invalidates the bible. Such a thing doesn't even register in the average christian's brain. It's simply not a challenge to their beliefs in any way. However, someone can be born into a flat earth cult and be indoctrinated since birth, or fall into such cults and convince themselves that basic astronomy is a war against Christendom itself.
With LGBTQ+ people you have a fertile ground for hateful propaganda. It's centuries old and public opinion on even the most innoffensive gay white liberal person changed massively in just a few decades. But I maintain that people have to be mobilized to hate trans people - a concept that a lot of older people can some times barely understand - and ALSO to make it a core to their entire personality. Which is why anti-trans politicians are always on the lookout for ways to make it a relatable issue, like with fairness in sports.
Not at all. The usual pay2win scenario involves two things. First you actually get something. Second, that something takes a wild amount of time to acquire through normal means. When I said 'what if the first, shittiest health potion was also on a cash shop for some reason' I was not exaggerating in any way.
Cash shops have been normalized in an infinite number of ways. There are entire games built around selling cosmetic skins or characters. Capcom has consistently chosen the worst of all worlds with every single one of their games, selling nigh useless things that (rightfully) draw people's ire.