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| Topic | Fight Club did not age well |
| ssjevot 01/26/21 6:48:06 PM #69 | A lot of the book's themes are distorted or just not represented in the movie. If you thought the stuff at the end about blowing up some buildings to magically erase all the debt was nonsense, not only was it nonsense but it wasn't in the book. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Back when you were in school were you popular? |
| ssjevot 01/26/21 6:28:33 PM #20 | I wasn't in the cool kids clique, but certainly I had a lot of friends and few if any enemies. I was the funny guy, so that probably provided some kind of social benefit. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | FF4 (DS) Playthrough topic |
| ssjevot 01/26/21 5:24:08 PM #39 | Garioshi posted... FF4 was huge in Japan; it was arguably their FF7. Not really. NHK poll of most popular Final Fantasy games (easily the largest poll of this sort ever conducted) places it at 8th (with VII in second place). https://www.nhk.or.jp/anime/ff/ranking/index.html Sales numbers are showing 1.44 million sold in Japan on the Super Famicom. Not that impressive, since FFVII sold 3.27 million in Japan. And of course Dragon Quest was consistently outselling all of them. Either way, FFVII was the FFVII of Japan. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Noam Chomsky, on liberals not seeing US as a "leading terrorist state" |
| ssjevot 01/26/21 4:52:45 PM #85 | ZeroX91 posted... Don't no true scotsman this, communism is a leftist ideology. Authoritarianism isn't exclusive to the Right. China doesn't even claim to be communist. The regime is established by a political party called the Chinese Communist Party, but they officially claim to be practicing state capitalism. That is their official line. They claim starting in 2070 (used to be 2050, changed it last year) they will begin transitioning to socialism. And of course the reality of their system is it is largely unregulated capitalism with the rules that do exist favoring corporations over workers and owners/landlords over tenants, healthcare requires you to prepay (if you can't afford it you can't get it, no crippling debt option like the US), there is little to no welfare, income inequality is greater than the US with the most millionaires and billionaires in the world. The justification is usually along the lines of needing to build the "material conditions" for socialism to become possible. There is of course no evidence socialism will ever happen and besides the famous in the West pro-democracy dissidents, actual communist and socialist dissidents exist too and are also oppressed. Advocating actual socialism or communism in China can get you banned from social media all the way to imprisoned. It's really just Westerners on the internet (and in general Westerners make up a ton of bullshit about China) who claim it is socialist now. If they actually went to the country it would be obvious to them it's just rampant capitalism. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Noam Chomsky, on liberals not seeing US as a "leading terrorist state" |
| ssjevot 01/26/21 6:49:28 AM #77 | Yeah, as far as I am concerned here in Japan the Japanese Communist Party is left (and no they aren't bullshit tankies, they opposed the Soviet Union, and oppose the PRC now), and the Socialists are actually Social Democrats. Most other parties range from center left to center right, but the largest is a big tent right-wing party that includes some fairly far right individuals. If someone told me the Constitutional Democratic Party was left wing I would think they were being ridiculous, but compared to America probably even the aforementioned right-wing party is farther left than the Democrats in America. Since the variation is so great by region I prefer to think of left as simply actual socialists/anti-capitalists. I don't consider social democrats part of the left rather than advocating the most generous form of welfare state capitalism. The differences between capitalism and socialism are too great to simply suggest some capitalists are leftist because they believe in a more generous welfare state. Things like nationalism, opposition to workers' and human rights, persecution of sexual and ethnic minorities and authoritarianism also strike me as incompatible with leftism, so I can't in good faith consider tankies leftists since they have all that and support capitalism to top it all off. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Has any government attempted to hold China accountable for this pandemic? |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 10:28:47 PM #20 | kelemvor posted... I think I heard this from a right wing source, I'm not sure if it's true. But I heard China shut down domestic air travel once they learned about the virus, but freely allowed international flights in and out of their pandemic infested cities. I know first hand this is completely false. We tried to leave Wuhan for Japan for weeks. Our flight was literally 3 days after the lockdown was declared and was cancelled. We spent so much time trying to get out. I had to leave my wife in Wuhan when I evacuated because we couldn't go on evacuation flights to Japan since we aren't citizens. We also tried a variety of other countries like Indonesia, Vietnam, etc. I also couldn't get a normal flight to the US, where I have citizenship. We have residency and couldn't fly out of China, there is no way in hell tourists were able to. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Has any government attempted to hold China accountable for this pandemic? |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 10:24:28 PM #14 | You can definitely argue they mismanaged the beginning but governments could have responded in time and clearly had enough warning. Some places like Taiwan took tough measures early on and never saw more than a few dozen cases. A lot of East Asian countries in general took it seriously early on and adhered to guidelines and never saw the mass death many Western countries that didn't take it seriously or ignored and outright mocked the measures seen in East Asia early on. Remember when people on here used to make fun of masks and say they didn't work? We had articles published in Nature showing they worked back in early February. The CDC and many other Western organizations continued to insist masks didn't work (as well as the WHO). There was also a campaign against travel bans for quite some time. People would say they were racist, didn't work, etc. I was in Wuhan when it went down. I lived in the lockdown for weeks before being evacuated. And when I did get evacuated I was in disbelief at how little the CDC cared about it (they told us in quarantine we didn't need masks, could hang out in groups, and never tested any of us) and the complete lack of any countermeasures happening in the US. When I finally returned to Japan I felt some semblance of normalcy with people wearing masks and basic countermeasures occuring (though Japan has not been as strict as they should have been and we saw an upsurge recently, but nothing compared to the West). --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | If the Trump presidency were a video game, which game would it be? |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 9:05:23 PM #18 | Came in to say Big Rigs. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | FF4 (DS) Playthrough topic |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 7:42:40 PM #4 | I am pretty sure you have to play it at least twice to get everything. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Noam Chomsky, on liberals not seeing US as a "leading terrorist state" |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 7:36:55 PM #58 | Broseph_Stalin posted... Ah yes RT will put many off but here's this tankie vanity magazine ran by a trust fund kid who dresses like The Riddler. Current affairs is not a tankie magazine and the Editor in Chief is a libertarian socialist who specifically criticizes tankies (Marxist-Dictator). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_J._Robinson Tankies aren't actually socialists, so using them as a bludgeon against people that are promoting socialism isn't a compelling argument. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Noam Chomsky, on liberals not seeing US as a "leading terrorist state" |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 12:40:46 PM #52 | Shablagoo posted... As far as a powerful, global, leftist influence? China is probably the best bet. Closer to an independent utopia? Maybe Kerala or Cuba or Vietnam or the Zapatistas. China isn't leftist and you need to stop lying about it. I posted so much relevant information and articles and you just ignore them and keep pushing this state capitalism is socialism tankie nonsense. Yes, liberalism promotes a capitalist economy. Actually leftists (the US conflates liberalism with this and tankies claim state capitalism is leftism) promote worker control of the means of production, not private ownership. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Biden is apparently not being pushed left on healthcare??? |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 9:45:44 AM #55 | onedarksoul posted... I wonder when the Trump deflecting will cease as a method to cover Joe's inadequacies, to put it mildly. Maybe 4 years is enough time. Obama couldn't do anything for 8 years even for the period where Democrats controlled all 3 branches because of Republicans according to his apologists. So expect a repeat of that, because they have less control now than they did then. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Noam Chomsky, on liberals not seeing US as a "leading terrorist state" |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 9:42:43 AM #45 | scar the 1 posted... I don't see a lot of introspection about US war crimes from allegedly liberal media sources either, though, to be honest. No one is really saying that the US is a terrorist state, for example. Heck, you'd be hard pressed to find coverage of Venezuela or Bolivia that isn't very pro-coup. You can find quite a bit of media and articles on American "liberal" networks/sites that are critical of US foreign policy but it's almost always after the fact and usually white washes the Democrats to the extant that they can (Vietnam, that was Republicans right, oh, well just don't mention that part). They will lose their shit about war crimes, human rights, etc. while a Republican is in office but as soon as they get a Democrat in there it's time to stop caring again. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Noam Chomsky, on liberals not seeing US as a "leading terrorist state" |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 9:39:41 AM #43 | thronedfire2 posted... oh, yeah. I know liberal in the US is right wing everywhere else. Thought he was going by the US uses It's not quite that simple. Liberalism has a range of ideologies from social democracy in the left to laissez faire capitalism on the right. Liberalism is mainly defined by specific ideological cornerstones such as liberty, private property, etc. The economic ideology can vary quite a bit but everything from relatively laissez faire Hong Kong to Social Democracy Sweden falls under liberalism. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | SMT IV has a terrible fucking story |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 9:29:16 AM #10 | Illuminoius posted... the final dungeon is the worst Play SMT If... That has to be worst final dungeon I have ever played. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Noam Chomsky, on liberals not seeing US as a "leading terrorist state" |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 9:27:46 AM #39 | thronedfire2 posted... When has it ever been liberals that think America is some great world police? Thats republicans too.. I believe he is using liberal under the actual definition and not the one used in American politics. Look up liberalism on Wikipedia (and maybe also socialism while you're at it). --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Biden is apparently not being pushed left on healthcare??? |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 9:25:09 AM #47 | Everyone in the US talks about insurance when the issue is the costs. When I first moved to Japan I didn't have insurance. I paid $50 for a full physical that included blood work and a chest X-ray. Having insurance for everyone may be a step in the right direction but I know for a fact even people with insurance pay a co-pay that is massive. There is no reason for the costs to be so much higher in the US than other countries. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | SMT IV has a terrible fucking story |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 9:14:08 AM #6 | I actually liked IV the best of the mainline stories. II is pretty fun though. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Remember when Trump said Obama committed the worst crime ever? |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 6:49:50 AM #26 | UnfairRepresent posted... Erm... Uh, no it wasn't specifically. You are thinking of Animal Farm specifically for that (well Marxism-Leninism). 1984 critiqued all totalitarian regimes with a cult of personality, not just Stalinism. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Remember when Trump said Obama committed the worst crime ever? |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 6:41:05 AM #23 | I feel like the Obamagate was one of the most 1984 made real moments in the history of politics. It was so blatantly obviously not real and yet they ate that shit up. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Noam Chomsky, on liberals not seeing US as a "leading terrorist state" |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 6:30:40 AM #22 | scar the 1 posted... Chomsky is what, 90+ years old? I doubt he has a deliberate plan of communication at this point. Heck, he will reply to literally anyone who emails him. Try it and see. I bet he would reply in good faith if you asked him about why he agreed to an interview with RT. I might even ask him myself, because I'm curious.I should clarify that I don't think he is a bad actor here, I think he appears as one and harms his message getting out to the people who need to hear it due to the source. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Noam Chomsky, on liberals not seeing US as a "leading terrorist state" |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 6:22:13 AM #19 | The_Creep_2020 posted... Although he did think reports of the Cambodian genocide were propaganda. A lot of people (like the TC), think that because America bad anything against America must be good. It's very hard to see things in gray instead of black and white. Chomsky fell into that trap because it's hard not to. A lot of people right now feel like they have to be China bad or US bad without realizing both bad is a valid option. Though acknowledging shades of gray is also important. You don't want to be one of those people who think there is no difference between Biden and Trump. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Noam Chomsky, on liberals not seeing US as a "leading terrorist state" |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 6:15:35 AM #16 | Chadwick69 posted... Who is? There aren't good guys. There are various shades of gray playing geopolitics, but nationalism is a hell of a drug and can convince people their side is the good guys because tribalism is a core part of humanity. It feels good to know you are part of this great tribe and that your tribe is good and righteous. Invading Iraq to spread democracy and freedom and happiness feels a lot better than acknowledging your government is sending your troops to die to kill other people to advance geopolitical goals that benefit the elite in American society. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Noam Chomsky, on liberals not seeing US as a "leading terrorist state" |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 6:09:32 AM #12 | pinky0926 posted... I doubt that tbh. Noam Chomsky is about as much as a "liberal" as Rush Limbaugh is. Also he's not exactly in it for the twitter likes. So if his target audience isn't American "liberals" who is his audience? Trumpers don't bother with RT anymore now that they threw their messiah in the trash. People who don't like the US already read stuff like RT or China Daily to get their propaganda that conforms to their world views, and actual leftists won't read shit like RT to begin with. You would think his goal is to reach out to the Bernia Sanders style liberals that think they're leftists because Sanders doesn't know what the word socialism means and think Social Democracy is Democratic Socialism. He has quite a movement that people like Chomsky could tap into to introduce leftist ideas to them. But those people also largely hate Russia now because hating Trump is practically their core identity. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Noam Chomsky, on liberals not seeing US as a "leading terrorist state" |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 5:56:48 AM #10 | scar the 1 posted... Yeah this is weird. On the other hand, he's been on stuff like CNN etc and I would guess that he thinks they're about as much bad actors as RT. He's not very fond of the media class in general so maybe he just doesn't care to distinguish. RT spent so long promoting Trump and his supporters wild delusions. I would say it's equivalent to him going on FOX News. I realize RT had also promoted the US Green Party as well, but that was clearly also in support of Trump, and the end goal of damaging America. I like a lot of what Chomsky has to say, but publishing in RT will alienate his target audience (American "liberals" hate Russia now thanks to Trump), and is knowingly supporting a bad actor. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Noam Chomsky, on liberals not seeing US as a "leading terrorist state" |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 5:42:52 AM #2 | Why is he publishing his stuff in Russia Today? It makes him look like a paid stooge even though he makes excellent points here. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Eating sushi is offensive |
| ssjevot 01/25/21 3:14:36 AM #21 | Some of the most popular sushi in Japan is westernized sushi now. I get salmon sushi at least once a week, and yes it's called salmon sushi, not sake, because it was popularized in America. We do call it sake when talking about sashimi or onigiri, but the sushi is almost always called salmon. It also usually comes with cream cheese, another American sushi ingredient. The truth is Japan largely doesn't care about or understand cultural appropriation and their only concern is if the food tastes good, not who made it or how. I eat Japanese versions of Western food all the time, it's an entire genre of food here called youshoku. I should also mention that both Korean and Chinese food have Japanese style versions as well, an example of Japanese Chinese food is Tenshinhan and Japanese style Ramen, and Japanese Korean food would be Kimchi Nabe. Most people just assume these foods are from those countries though and don't realize they're a Japanized version of them. My Chinese wife likes the Japanized Chinese food, but we get real Chinese food more often, I don't think she would understand what cultural appropriation is even if I tried explaining it, but she certainly has never complained about Japanized Chinese culture and that's like a significant chunk of everything in Japan. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | I am not having fun with Mega Man Zero. Wtf is this difficulty. |
| ssjevot 01/24/21 5:05:10 PM #40 | https://megaman.retropixel.net/mmz/1/cyberelf.php That has everything you need to know about them. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Mobius Final Fantasy music appreciation topic |
| ssjevot 01/24/21 10:19:58 AM #7 | I like a lot of the things that game tried to do. The battle system was very interesting. But I never paid for anything and eventually didn't want to grind anymore. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Why can you take a piss or a shit, but you can't "take a fart"? |
| ssjevot 01/24/21 1:32:40 AM #15 | Trumble posted... "Showered" in the past tense yes, but not in the present or future tense. I haven't lived in an English speaking environment for years, but I definitely feel like people often used it in present and future tense. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Why can you take a piss or a shit, but you can't "take a fart"? |
| ssjevot 01/23/21 11:14:44 PM #9 | You never here people say I am going to shower or I showered? It's normal English now. American English is famous for making nouns verbs and vice versa, so it might be weird if you are from another English speaking country. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Why can you take a piss or a shit, but you can't "take a fart"? |
| ssjevot 01/23/21 11:03:05 PM #6 | Fart doesn't require an auxiliary verb it already is a verb, but in modern English so are piss and shit. Same with shower. You can use take or just use shower as a verb. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | I am not having fun with Mega Man Zero. Wtf is this difficulty. |
| ssjevot 01/23/21 8:00:54 PM #38 | A5modeu5 posted... Ive never used a cyber elf before. I think this is why you are struggling. If you want the S rank, then yeah you don't have a choice. But you can always do a second playthrough if it's too frustrating now, especially if you haven't been going for S ranks. The permanent upgrade ones are really strong and the boost ones are great for hard areas. I went straight for S ranks in the other ones, but they are much easier because of the subtanks not being elves and in the case of 3 and 4 being able to equip some without penalty. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | The film Rubber looks like one of the strangest films ever made. |
| ssjevot 01/23/21 9:46:10 AM #9 | There is a music video of clips set to Psycho Killer on YouTube. Watching that is better than seeing the actual movie. There were only two scenes I thought were good that were missing from that music video. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | I am not having fun with Mega Man Zero. Wtf is this difficulty. |
| ssjevot 01/22/21 9:35:23 PM #27 | I think if you try to play 1 for the don't use any cyber elves S rank it's the hardest. You can't get subtanks without using them. I think you can use some right at the last boss and not lose S-rank but it's been a while. I think all of the games are pretty easy if you don't care about the ranks and just want to beat them. Just use cyber elves. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Do you guys even know what is the difference betw. facism and communism? |
| ssjevot 01/21/21 12:03:44 AM #93 | You also seem to be conflating geopolitics with economics and that is causing you to group Vietnam and China together. Vietnam is in the US sphere and buys weapons from the US and has fought a more recent war with and still has ongoing territory disputes with China. The US doesn't give two shits what your government or stated economic system is, it just cares whose side you are on. That's why Saudi Arabia can be a close ally and Iran a hated enemy. Thinking of the Cold War as a battle of ideologies ignores why the US chose to work with China to oppose the Soviet Union during the latter part of the Cold War (and even earlier chose to provide aid the Yugoslavia in 1948 after they split with the Soviets). The Soviet Union was defeated but now China is the geopolitical rival so suddenly the US is friends with old Soviet ally Vietnam because they oppose China. It's all a game of geopolitics. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Do you guys even know what is the difference betw. facism and communism? |
| ssjevot 01/20/21 6:35:56 PM #92 | Shablagoo posted... Have you ever been to Vietnam, or China? Half my family lives in China. Do you not read my posts? I have been there multiple times for lengthy periods. I was in Wuhan last year during the lockdown for a month and half (most of it under lockdown). China has largely unrestrained capitalism and a massive consumer economy with large inequality. You should go to China. That's the single best way you could finally realize it isn't remotely communist. https://jingdaily.com/whats-behind-the-rise-in-inequality-and-consumerism/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/survey-suggests-china-may-be-most-materialistic-country-world/356199/ --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Hong Kong democracy activists confront their Trump dilemma - Jan. 15th |
| ssjevot 01/20/21 8:55:21 AM #66 | I want to say that was 100 people, in Tokyo, a metro area of 35 million, the largest in the world. I could get 100 people to show up for anything I want in Tokyo. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Do you guys even know what is the difference betw. facism and communism? |
| ssjevot 01/20/21 8:53:01 AM #88 | scar the 1 posted... I suppose it could be debated whether the policies they have right now are "because of pressure from capitalists" or "because of crony 'fake' socialists" but it's definitely not a good look either way. And I'm not sure that distinction necessarily helps. Yeah that's the problem I have with the argument they present. Let's say it isn't their fault and it's the capitalist countries' fault. How does that help the actual people? With most leftists they seem to generally care about workers and equality. But with tankies it often feels like all they care about is the aesthetic and feel a need to defend the system no matter how bad it is for the actual workers. Let's even pretend China is for real and in 2070 they will start transitioning to socialism. How is that helpful to workers suffering now? They will largely be dead or retired by then. Why should they have to suffer for an alleged future? And saying it's the capitalists fault doesn't explain why they have to suffer under brutal conditions compared to the capitalist social democracies. If they have to have capitalism for now, why can't it be of the more humane variety? --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Do you guys even know what is the difference betw. facism and communism? |
| ssjevot 01/20/21 8:32:42 AM #86 | Shablagoo posted... Neither. Vietnam has rebuilt itself extremely well after the mass (and human-rights-defiling) destruction caused by the U.S., but it is transitionary and has not yet achieved full-on communism. I highly doubt that it is transitionary. That is a tankie buzzword that has no meaning in reality since no state that proclaimed that has ever gone in any direction other than more capitalist. I watched the earlier talked about video and it was hard to reconcile that with official government police of 48 hour works weeks, low minimum wage, most people being employed informally, no ability to form labor unions, and the presence of many international corporations factories which have no shortage or articles accusing them of using child labor, unpaid labor, and terrible working conditions. Though the farms at least appear to be collectivist and their are some price controls in place, but it's debatable what value those actually add to the system (who cares if prices are controlled if you have to work overtime during an already 48 hour work week just to get by). If you want to convince me a country that says it is socialist actually cares about workers or is "on the path to socialism", the workers should at least be doing better than the poorest workers in the EU. If you aren't doing better than welfare state capitalism (social democracy), what is the incentive to embrace the "Marxist-Dictator's Name" system? If you lose your rights and have to live in a single party state run by a dictatorship that is allegedly for the proletariat shouldn't you at least get some basic workers rights and good living conditions? And yes what the US did in the past to Vietnam was terrible and cannot be justified, but now they're basically allies with Vietnam (in opposition to China), so it's kind of an inconvenient narrative to explain the modern situation. I think Vietnam has a chance to become yet another capitalist state with decent quality of life for workers, but I don't buy this road to socialism stuff at all. At least it isn't sitting at the most millionaires and billionaires in the world unlike their Northern neighbor. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Did you enjoy the Final Fantasy VII remake? |
| ssjevot 01/20/21 5:58:41 AM #8 | The last thing I wanted was a straight remake so I was glad we got what we got. FFVII is already fine the way it is, so I am glad they decided to change things. It would be different if the original game was some unplayable outdated mess, but it's not (especially the modern versions with the increased battle speed option). --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Do you guys even know what is the difference betw. facism and communism? |
| ssjevot 01/20/21 5:36:15 AM #84 | scar the 1 posted... Agreed. You probably know a lot more on the subject than I do. Yeah hook me up. I like hearing from the source. No one in my family even tries to claim China is communist because they don't care if it is or isn't. They're either nationalist or not and don't really care about the underlying economics. Some of them are landlords and business owners so I guess it gives them incentive not to want to think too much about what is or isn't socialist. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Do you guys even know what is the difference betw. facism and communism? |
| ssjevot 01/20/21 1:25:37 AM #82 | Do workers control the means of production in Vietnam or are they forced to work in terrible conditions for little money for the benefit of corporations? That should answer the question. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Demon's souls |
| ssjevot 01/20/21 12:06:21 AM #19 | Romulox28 posted... Prob a mix of me being used to melee builds from previous dark souls games and me enjoying being able to take a hit or two now, maybe I can get a little magic on the knight as a backup I would go miracles. Some truly busted stuff there that works well with melee. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Demon's souls |
| ssjevot 01/19/21 11:37:03 PM #17 | Romulox28 posted... I decided to reroll my character and now Im having a much easier time as a knight Wow. I am surprised. Royalty, and magic in general, is completely busted in that game. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Do you guys even know what is the difference betw. facism and communism? |
| ssjevot 01/19/21 6:20:15 PM #80 | Gwynevere posted... Vietnam is a socialist republic Vietnam is extremely capitalist and it's a one party state where you don't get to vote for who runs the party. So a lot like the PRC. Countries that call themselves socialist but in practice are entirely capitalist, aren't socialist. Just like calling yourself a democracy but not having actual elections doesn't make you a democracy. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thoughts on Capitalism: |
| ssjevot 01/19/21 6:05:58 AM #2 | This is a good topic. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Tried the 999 sequel (virtue's last reward) . Does this game get better? |
| ssjevot 01/19/21 5:41:27 AM #21 | I like the story in VLR better but the gameplay in 999 better. Both are great though. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | TAMU Professor says she'd hire less students if she had to pay them $15 per hour |
| ssjevot 01/18/21 10:05:39 PM #56 | I did unpaid RA work, I had unpaid RAs when I was a grad student, but I pay my RAs now because Japan requires it. But it's surprising she was paying them to begin with in America. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
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