Lurker > Fenriswolf

That's the Malaysian flag LMAO

s0nicfan posted...

But apparently you do, since you're still arguing that Vietnam's claim is illegitimate but China's is totally valid.

I was really trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but after all that nonsense about reading comprehension it seems that you really, actually failed to understand that sentence.

I didn't claim that they had extended their boundaries beyond some prior claim. What I said is that China's claim extends far beyond the internationally recognized distance at which countries are allowed to claim ownership of territorial waters. The EEZ.

Here, here's a better picture to help you with reading comprehension. The dotted blue line is what part of the South China Sea owns by right. The daft red line is what China is claiming above and beyond that.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/24cdc7be.jpg

You mean the same map that was drawn up in 1947?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8b46e6fd.jpg

And I like how after I pestered you about Vietnam's claims, you instead found a map that removed their claims because it poked holes in your argument. Why don't you show a map of ONLY Vietnam's claims?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0f14f9f8.jpg

Foppe posted...

Putin: Hello new friends, do you need some ammo?

Hilarious considering that Bibi sees Putin as a personal friend, and Russian immigrants are among the biggest supporters of Likud.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-04-05/vladimir-putin-gives-his-friend-bibi-netanyahu-a-campaign-gift#xj4y7vzkg

s0nicfan posted...

I don't have to prove another country's claims are legitimate in a discussion where my assertion is that China's aren't. I haven't made a single assertion about Vietnam's claims, valid or not, anywhere.

But I can say with certainty that YOU believe that Vietnam's claims are invalid but China's are. So the only person who's openly declared any kind of double standard is you.

Both China and Vietnam are parties in the same dispute, so I have every right to bring up Vietnam's claims, and you don't get to pick and choose which ones are legitimate or not.

You falsely claimed in post 50 that China's trying to EXTEND its claims, when in fact it was simply following the claims made by the ROC which fled to Taiwan:

Well China is the sole party trying to extend the internationally recognized territorial waters boundaries far, far further than every other country in the region which is creating the dispute in the first place.

Yet facts demonstrate otherwise, and China had made concessions to Vietnam in the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line

Beginning in 1952, the People's Republic of China (PRC) used a revised map with nine dashes, removing the two dashes in the Gulf of Tonkin. The change was interpreted as a concession to the newly independent North Vietnam; the maritime border between PRC and Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin was eventually formalized by treaty in 2000.

Does this also apply to Zionist settlers promoting violence against Palestinians?

s0nicfan posted...

You seem to have caught some of the reading comprehension problems I must have, because you keep bringing up Vietnam over and over again even though I keep talking about the illegitimacy of China's claims.

But hey, good on you for recognizing Taiwan as an independent nation that makes its own rulings.

LMAO prove that Vietnam's claims are legitimate. You don't get to accuse China's claims of being excessive then ignore Vietnam's claims.

The fact that ROC and PRC agreed on the same maritime boundaries demonstrate that they have the same origins. It's hilarious that you brag about Taiwan's sovereignty then ignore their maritime claims when it's convenient.

s0nicfan posted...

I just consider it free bumps for the topic so more people are aware that China is yet again having a practice invasion of an independent nation. If Fenris wants to keep spouting nonsense and keeping the topic bumped, that's fine by me. Nobody is going to take what he says seriously and every single post he makes is working directly against China's interests by letting more people know how aggressive they are.

Remember when Vietnamese nationalists responded by enraging in riots against factories supposedly owned by Chinese businesses, but turns out the majority were not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vietnam_anti-China_protests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/22/vietnamese-authorities-detain-hundreds-riots-chinese

Edit: it's also fun to watch fenris screw up on his propaganda in real time, like when he accidentally acknowledged Taiwan was a country and then in the next replies switched back to using three letter terminology for the governments.

How does that change the fact that you falsely claimed that China "expanded its claims", when evidence demonstrated otherwise?

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/ffac19d0.png

Can't accept the fact that the Nationalists started the civil war and got the tables turned?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_massacre

Imagine still believing in "social credit" memes in 2024 that even US media outlets are finding it to be fake. And how's your credit rating again?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpe3z/china-social-credit-meme

s0nicfan posted...

You seem to have caught some of the reading comprehension problems I must have, because you keep bringing up Vietnam over and over again even though I keep talking about the illegitimacy of China's claims.

But hey, good on you for recognizing Taiwan as an independent nation that makes its own rulings.

So you're denying the fact that the PRC inherited its maritime boundaries from the ROC back when they ruled the mainland? You falsely claimed that China "expanded its claims" whereas facts showed that they actually decreased the ROC's original claims. But of course keep defending the Vietnamese claiming the entire western half. And the PCA ruling itself isn't even binding LMAO.

loafy013 posted...

Don't see anything about limited pro-palestine content. They just don't want Hamas posting stuff on their services.

Suurree. Accusing Palestine supporters of being Hamas supporters is a common gaslighting method of Zionists.

s0nicfan posted...

See... The the problem with you linking to Wikipedia is that I have the ability to then click on that link and read all the stuff you cut out:

LMAO that selective quotation. Since when did the PCA stated that Vietnam's claims are somehow valid? It says a lot when Taiwan also rejected the ruling and they also abide the same claims.

s0nicfan posted...

See that giant red line that extends so far from China that you could fit multiple countries inside of it? Your visual acuity must be as bad as my reading comprehension if you can't see it spreading all the way down along every other countrys' coasts.

Time to stop lying. China has followed the same line since 1947, back when most of the other countries were European colonies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line

In December 1947, the Ministry of Interior of the Nationalist government released "Location Map of South Sea Islands" () showing an eleven-dash line. Scholarly accounts place its publication from 1946 to 1948 and indicate that it originated from an earlier one titled "Map of Chinese Islands in the South China Sea" () published by the ROC Land and Water Maps Inspection Committee in 1935. Beginning in 1952, the People's Republic of China (PRC) used a revised map with nine dashes, removing the two dashes in the Gulf of Tonkin. The change was interpreted as a concession to the newly independent North Vietnam; the maritime border between PRC and Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin was eventually formalized by treaty in 2000.

So the line was drawn up by the ROC which the PRC simply follows, and its claims actually decreased under the PRC. Oops.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8b46e6fd.jpg

s0nicfan posted...

Well China is the sole party trying to extend the internationally recognized territorial waters boundaries far, far further than every other country in the region which is creating the dispute in the first place.

Source: you made it up. See that blue line in your own map? You think Vietnam's claims are internationally recognized?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a03b93b9.jpg

And of course, the tensions escalated when Obama initiated the Pivot to Asia program to confront China after a decade being bogged down in the Middle East, and China responded LOL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me#Counter-claims

Apparently much of Spurlock's symptoms are caused by alcohol abuse rather than solely the McDonalds diet. Other people tried the same experiment as him and showed no symptoms.

s0nicfan posted...

Oh, so then you fully acknowledge that China is actually trying to claim islands all over the South China sea. You just took issue with somebody saying that Japan was included in that giant list of territorial disputes?

LMAO tell me where is Japan involved in the South China Sea dispute?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_South_China_Sea

Funny how you try to depict China as the sole party in claiming the islands but it's okay when Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Vietnam do it.

s0nicfan posted...

You're literally watching it happen in real time. Each of these drills is getting larger, more sophisticated, and they're able to do it more rapidly.

I like how US nationalists never study history, as if Deng Xiaoping never had the same policy towards Taiwan, and that US warships were never deployed in 1996 when Jiang Zemin was the leader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis

And I was talking specifically to Revelation34 who falsely claimed that China is trying to claim Japan. Reading comprehension helps:

Revelation34 posted...

China also thinks they own every island including Japan though.

WingsOfGood posted...

What bible are you reading? Jesus was dirt poor. They go weaning in some other dudes grain field to eat. This wasn't stealing but the Law of Moses said you leave part of your field for the poor.

Joseph is a carpenter, so they're the equivalent of the middle class of that era.

s0nicfan posted...

And also, you know, most everything in the South China Sea:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a03b93b9.jpg

LMAO reading comprehension too hard for you? I was talking about China and Japan.

Hilarious that you map managed to show that China's not the only part in the South China Sea dispute. But of course the hypocritical US government has no problem with Vietnam claiming the entire western shelf.

Slave master

Revelation34 posted...

China also thinks they own every island including Japan though.

BS. Nobody in China has ever claims that Japan is part of China. The only islands in dispute are the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, which Taiwan also claims as part of the their territory. Oops.

My favorite part of the Bible is when a group of boys mocked the prophet Elisha for being bald. Instead of giving the boys an ironic curse like making all of their hair fall out as well, God sent a hungry bear to kill 40+ of the boys.

Revelation34 posted...

Remember when you defended China over them trying to bully the Philippines out of the Spratly Islands?

Since when did the islands belong to the Philippines, especially considering that both China and Taiwan recognize the SAME maritime borders?

And remember when the US media and politicians stopped talking about Marcos Jr's corruption after he changed Duterte's foreign policy to be more pro-US?

Mearcstapa posted...

We still owe China some payback for what they did to us in Korea 70 years ago.

Why don't you join the military then instead of talking crap on the internet? Or better yet fly to China and fight your fantasy war on your own.

Chances are the runs are fake and the streamer sees through a special blindfold.

https://youtu.be/OTLfU4ysKHg

AsucaHayashi posted...

putin wins in ukraine, trump becomes president, israel gets to continue their genocide without resistance.

if all those pieces fall into place then it's guaranteed taiwan is next.

Remember when Azerbaijan successfully drove away all the ethnic Armenians from Artsakh last year and the USA just watched?

s0nicfan posted...

And while you can argue doing so isn't in China's best economic interest, "the party" is more interested in control and legacy, and the fact that the original Chinese government is still right there being a successful independent nation right in front of them is eventually a reality too harsh for them to tolerate.

LMAO tell me who started the Chinese Civil War

teep_ posted...

Here it's 25 cents for most bottles, 8 cents for cans and 15 cents for small glass bottles

Nice. If you manage to find 4 million bottles, you'd be a millionaire.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

I can't wait for the next Sony handheld that's rumored to be coming out. Going to be the GOAT way better than the Nintendo 3DS.

Not going to support them any further after what they did with the Vita. First proprietary memory cards and then dropping all Western support when it didn't sell.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f3e1f744.jpg

Here's an example. What the hell is this doing here?

Serves you right for watching RLM

GameFAQs_lover posted...

Interesting. According to this map pretty much all of Eastern Europe (except for Greece and North Macedonia for some reason?) Recognizes it, but, except for Sweden, those 3 countries are the 1st ever western Europe countries to do it. So that is still a major step. Hopefully more Western European countries will follow suit. Personally I expect the 1st major western power to recognize it would be France.

Most of the recognition were carried over from the Cold War era. Nowadays many Central/Eastern European governments like Hungary and Poland are heavily pro-Israel due to their right wing shift in the last decades.

ssjevot posted...

Weren't they saying the Mario movie was woke because Peach teaches Mario and then once it became the top grossing non-Disney animated movie they tried to claim it's anti-woke?

Same thing happened to The Mandalorian. When the Cara Dune character was revealed the alt right crowd was calling her woke. But after Gina Carano got fired they're now claiming that she's a strong character who's anti-woke.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/788700da.jpg

GameboyTroy posted...

I also think the term is true.

LOL you mean Baldur's Gate 3 being one of the most acclaimed and successful game of 2023 and is full of LGBT romances?

Not just the USA but in the UK and Australia too. Murdoch used his media outlets in Australia to sway elections and still have undue influence there despite Murdoch renouncing his citizenship decades ago. Sky News Australia is pretty much a Fox News clone. And unlike the US where there are rival outlets that aren't as far to the right, there are very little of them in Australia, which is why there are many politicians like former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd calling for a government investigation into the outlet.

DrizztLink posted...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (1 or 2, don't remember) has the level Karachi.

In that level, all the signage is in Arabic.

Karachi is the capital city of Pakistan.

Pakistan speaks Urdu as a national language.

My favourite is CNC Generals where the Chinese faction has multiple over the top weapons like tanks with miniguns, EMP cannons, and nuke launching MIGs...and the basic infantry are Red Guards dressed up in 1960s attire.

Too bad France is completely mishandling the situation in New Caledonia against independence protesters.

Sony fanboy logic:

This is a flop:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b86c540f.png
This is GOTY:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bfe426f4.png

GameSpot mad that they couldn't play it on PS5 LMAO

Smashingpmkns posted...

Everything after the first act is mostly boring. Especially coming off of Ratchet and Clank which was 100x more fun and engaging.

Pretty much. Insomniac had recycled the same map twice now. I wonder where did the $300 million on? The license?

LonelyStoner posted...

I find it embarrassing for every Kid Rock fan in the south to know he came from money in Detroit, Michigan. If Webster put a picture next to the word phony he would be right there.

Same with Larry the Cable guy who grew up in Nebraska.

I'll always hate him for taking the riff of Werewolves of London and ruining it.

LonelyStoner posted...

Do people in Australia actually care what these swimmers think? This makes Rinehart and those swimmers look like a major dumbasses.

Nope. And the Swimming Australia boss is now backpedaling after the portrait went viral.

LonelyStoner posted...

How would professional swimmers get that portrait removed?

It's mostly out of loyalty they contacted the gallery to petition it to be removed, and obviously it isn't successful. Rinehart is pretty much the main sponsor of Australian swimmers and spent tens of millions on their Olympics campaigns, paying the top swimmers a generous salary.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/22/gina-rinehart-portrait-removal-saga-australian-swimmers-olympics

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LeoRavus posted...

I know nothing about this woman but someone had to make it as fucked up as they could get away with on purpose. Looks nothing like her. Imagine being immortalized in a museum and 1000 years from now someone finds your hideous portrait and laughs about it all over again.

Well Rinehart isn't exactly a popular person in Australia and she's frequently seen as the Trump of Australia. She inherited her fortune from her father, a mining prospector who once infamously said Aborigines should be sterilized and doesn't deserve rights. In recent years she used her fortune to purchase media outlets to promote climate change denial and other right wing causes. She's also a generous sponsor of Australian athletes, and used the swimmers she sponsored to pressure for the particular portrait's removal. She previously withdrew from sponsoring netballers after he father's racist comments, for which she never owned up to, were called out by Aboriginal players.

I still remember the furore by the Gamergaters idiots over the fact that the Baldur's Gate expansion has a minor NPC who is trans. "Transpeople shouldn't exist in a world where sex can be changed instantly via magic!" they say.

https://www.ft.com/content/6700a246-e0cd-49d8-b5ef-d2379e86290f

And who are the people trying to sanction the ICC for doing their jobs? Not the tankies LMAO

Biden administration signals it will support push to sanction ICC
Move to censure International Criminal Court a sign of US anger over request for arrest warrants for Israeli ministers

....

Blinken told the committee that while the devils in the details, the Biden administration would consider Republican proposals and take it from there.
We want to work with you on a bipartisan basis to find an appropriate response, Blinken said.
The administration of Donald Trump in 2020 sanctioned top ICC officials in response to their efforts to investigate alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan. The sanctions were lifted by the Biden administration in 2021, although at the time it said it was opposed to the courts actions relating to Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories.

Shadow_Don posted...

Stay made tankie lmfao

Yea this one passes me the fuck off. Some family members are in denial about the rape, which sometimes happens with grieving families who are in denial. The parents say she was raped.

Crazy how they left the second part out no? Get a fucking refund for your shitty ass journalism degrees.

Says the one posting on a video game website LMAO. Maybe you should examine the background of the investigators in the NYT article, one that doesn't actually have journalistic experience?

https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/

ANAT SCHWARTZ HAD a problem. The Israeli filmmaker and former air force intelligence official had been assigned by the New York Times to work with her partners nephew Adam Sella and veteran Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman on an investigation into sexual violence by Hamas on October 7 that could reshape the way the world understood Israels ongoing war in the Gaza Strip. By November, global opposition was mounting against Israels military campaign, which had already killed thousands of children, women, and the elderly. On her social media feed, which the Times has since said it is reviewing, Schwartz liked a tweet saying that Israel needed to turn the strip into a slaughterhouse.

Violate any norm, on the way to victory, read the post. Those in front of us are human animals who do not hesitate to violate minimal rules.

The New York Times, however, does have rules and norms. Schwartz had no prior reporting experience. Her reporting partner Gettleman explained the basics to her, Schwartz said in a podcast interview on January 3, produced by Israels Channel 12 and conducted in Hebrew.

Shadow_Don posted...

Guy on the left is a full blown fascist

Guy in the right is a journalist whose spent most of his recent time trying to debunk claims that Israelis were raped on Oct 7

Nice ad hominems. How does that justify Blinken's own words?

https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2024/04/29/journalism-professors-urge-new-york-times-to-re-examine-accuracy-of-october-7-report/

Wasn't the term Eurogamer censored on this website a decade ago due to fights between its users and the NGG board?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/21/gina-rinehart-portrait-national-gallery-of-australia-removal-ban-vincent-namatjira-ntwnfb

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1aea051d.jpg

Last week, media including Guardian Australia reported that Australias richest woman had demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove a portrait of her. The painting by the artist Vincent Namatjira is one of numerous portraits on display at the Canberra gallery in Namatjiras first major survey exhibition.

But the NGA rebuffed her demands and news of her request has meant the portrait has been seen by many more eyes than it would have otherwise.

Rinehart appears to have fallen victim to the Streisand effect, a term coined after Barbra Streisand launched a lawsuit in 2003 to try to remove an aerial photo of her California beach house from an online collection. Streisands attempt to suppress the image led to almost half a million people visiting the Pictopia site to view the photo within a month.

A similar thing seems to have happened with Rinehart. The NGA told Guardian Australia in a statement that there had been a noticeable increase in visitors to the national gallery as well as its digital channels over the past week.

Google trends has also given us a sweeping indicator of the worldwide gain in traction of the search term Gina Rinehart.

Before 15 May the day the first stories about Rineharts portrait demand was published interest in Rinehart on Google was at roughly 0, meaning there was not enough search data on the term.

But after the news broke, search interest picked up, with Gina Rinehart hitting peak popularity two days later.

Rinehart and her portrait even got a mention on US talkshow The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

A billionaire has called for the removal of an unflattering portrait of her, Colbert said in a segment on The Late Show. I mean, come on. How unflattering could this portrait possibly be, he starts, before taking a look at the painting.

OK, Ive got to say, um, Im no art expert, but in this portrait, I believe the artist really captured her expression at the moment she saw this portrait.

Crimson_Corsair posted...

It is fucking wild to me that people continue to hold water for Hamas. Do you honestly believe the political leader of fucking Hamas is engaging in good faith peace talks? You can't possibly think that.

You think Bibi is having good faith? This is the same man who deliberately funneled money to Hamas to keep the Palestinians divided.

No thanks Ubisoft. I prefer my games to be historically accurate, like that time Nobunaga and Cao Cao teamed up to fight Orochi.