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| Topic | It's fucked up that a Subway footling is 15 dollars now |
| ssjevot 03/04/24 12:15:29 AM #63 | Glob posted...
Didnt go to any fast food chains during my trips to Japan, but I was pleasantly surprised by food costs. Id been warned that theyd be really high but I don't think they were for the most part. I keep hearing Americans say that food prices in Japan are high and I think it's another one of those stereotypes from a different time like the unusually long work hours and high suicide rate. It was true decades ago, but it's certainly not true now. But in general I think fast food here in Japan is overpriced and certainly not worth the price. This is because you can get quality food at a real restaurant for as less. Just not much incentive to spend more for some junk. China is even worse. McDonald's and KFC is like a luxury meal there, total waste of money. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Why DID Nintendo wait this long to go after Yuzu |
| ssjevot 03/04/24 12:07:55 AM #3 | They have pretty much ignored all the emulators because everyone seemed to be under the tacit agreement not to explicitly tell people how to pirate games or to ask for donations for better compatibility with newly pirated games. Yuzu did those things. They aren't going after other Switch emulators that don't do those things. This is sort of uncharted legal territory, because the previous case was an emulator that explicitly could not be used for piracy.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Has anyone ever seen the anime movie "In This Corner of the World"? |
| ssjevot 03/03/24 8:59:48 PM #3 | Yeah I saw it. I thought it was alright.
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| Topic | Dune part 2 ruled *no unmarked spoilers* |
| ssjevot 03/03/24 8:29:05 AM #24 | Necronmon posted...
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| Topic | Kid tells teacher to shut the fuck up... AT SCHOOL FUNCTION |
| ssjevot 03/02/24 3:52:07 AM #156 | ssjevot posted...
People in Japan are largely non-religious, hitting kids is illegal (including slapping and spanking), and this type of stuff doesn't happen. Maybe this behavior isn't due to a lack of "God" or beatings. TC, why did you ignore this? If hitting kids and religion is so important why are Japanese kids so well behaved? --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Best Veggie topping for Pizza? |
| ssjevot 03/01/24 8:47:26 AM #6 | Mushrooms are good, but I didn't think that was considered a vegetable. Onions are my favorite vegetable.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | REMINDER: In order for Trump to do everything people are afraid of him doing, |
| ssjevot 03/01/24 8:36:16 AM #10 | Man remember how people kept telling us he couldn't do X, Y, and Z because it was illegal and then he did those things and so people have been telling us for years he will go to jail and yet nothing has happened? Yeah, that's how this feels.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | GOP kills IVF protection bill for fear of creating ''human-animal chimeras'' |
| ssjevot 03/01/24 1:20:31 AM #13 | HylianFox posted...
How often is the word "chimera" used in daily life that it has different pronunciations A lot of words have different pronunciations in British and American English (and between different accents within each). Sometimes the spelling is different too. And in general loanwords in English are often not pronounced the same as the language they came from. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | GOP kills IVF protection bill for fear of creating ''human-animal chimeras'' |
| ssjevot 03/01/24 1:05:49 AM #11 | HylianFox posted...
Oh and by the way, Senator Hyde-Smith, it's pronounced "kai-meer-ah" British and American pronunciation are different on this actually (though both are incorrect compared to the original Greek, but that's what happens). You posted the British pronunciation. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ja/pronunciation/english/chimera --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Go woke go broke |
| ssjevot 02/29/24 10:06:00 AM #60 | creativerealms posted...
I was told Japan is anti-woke and Forspoken was made by a Japanese development team. It was a bad game. Japan is only anti-woke in the sense that the culture war just isn't a thing really here. Trans people existing doesn't really bother an appreciable number of people. If NHK programs were in PBS in America it would probably get called woke liberal brainwashing since they have entire shows about being LGBT or a minority, but here it's only a very marginal far right that actually cares (literally 1 elected dude in this party called the anti-NHK party). I would describe most Japanese as politically apathetic and not interested in any politics that might cause trouble. A lot of themes in Japanese anime and games get a pass in the West despite being woke for reasons I don't really understand (like everyone loves Gundam and Metal Gear Solid for some reason). --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | It's fucked up that a Subway footling is 15 dollars now |
| ssjevot 02/29/24 1:21:11 AM #17 | I went back to America for a week last year in November to attend a conference. The price of food is truly nuts. I don't think I would eat out anymore if I still lived there.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | which video games are you legit good at |
| ssjevot 02/29/24 12:48:00 AM #65 | I was the best 3rd Strike player in Seattle area when I lived there. So I am pretty good at that probably. I played a lot of BlazBlue and Persona Arena as well, but wasn't the best.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Go woke go broke |
| ssjevot 02/29/24 12:20:22 AM #23 | ButteryMales posted...
Looking at the 5 year of Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV - ADR it's stock price is steady from 2021 - 2024. When did the stupid protest even start? Last year. There is an entire Wikipedia article on it and it absolutely did harm Bud Light, but many of them switch to other AB brands, because the people who would boycott a beer brand over a transgender influencer aren't known for their strong reasoning abilities. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Go woke go broke |
| ssjevot 02/29/24 12:04:38 AM #10 | I think the Bud Light thing is the only example I can think of where that happened. But that's basically due to their target demographic being exactly the type of people who would say go woke, go broke to begin with. I think when it's a mass appeal product like most movie or games, it's probably not very relevant. It's very dependent on what the demographic for your product is.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Kid tells teacher to shut the fuck up... AT SCHOOL FUNCTION |
| ssjevot 02/28/24 10:25:21 PM #91 | People in Japan are largely non-religious, hitting kids is illegal (including slapping and spanking), and this type of stuff doesn't happen. Maybe this behavior isn't due to a lack of "God" or beatings.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | What's going on with Bitcoin |
| ssjevot 02/28/24 10:31:02 AM #19 | TotallyNotAGirl posted...
And how many times has it died now? Based on the topics I see here gloating about it being dead everytime it drops? Too many to count. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu |
| ssjevot 02/28/24 1:56:23 AM #45 | Killmonger posted...
So in this case, would Ryujinx be safe? Not exactly the same thing, but Atlus attempted to shut down RPSC3 (which also had a Patreon) and failed. I think the biggest thing there is that they don't tell you how to pirate right on their site. There was this sort of understanding everyone had of we all pretend we're just legally archiving our games or playing indie games or whatever and things were pretty chill. But Yuzu just decided to go blantant and tell you how to pirate. Bad move. The Patreon often used promises of being able to play a new game with a supporter only build to generate more revenue. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu |
| ssjevot 02/28/24 1:53:10 AM #44 | JimmyFraska posted...
Well what gets me is one of the very first things they say is that the purpose of the emulator is to facilitate piracy. I think the issue here with Yuzu, and why they're getting sued and not the other Switch emulator, is that they make it pretty obvious that it's for piracy. Ignoring the theoretical you can actually legally dump your own games and BIOS (99% of people aren't doing this), they provide you with instructions on how to not do that and to instead pirate. That's the big mistake they made that other emulators largely haven't. I don't know how this particular case will play out but I don't think anyone needs to worry about Switch emulation disappearing since we already have at least one other emulator and it's better than Yuzu a lot of the time. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu |
| ssjevot 02/27/24 10:46:34 PM #25 | ssb_yunglink2 posted...
If nintendo would rerelease old games so that i can easily access them i wouldnt emulate their shit. Oh they released some old games. And I bought some on a thing called Virtual Console and then they shut those down, on the Wii you cannot even redownload them anymore, surely 3DS and WiiU will follow. Sony still letting me buy and download old PS1 games. Same with Microsoft (though there are still some classic XBox games I want that aren't available). --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | The Shogun remake starts tomorrow |
| ssjevot 02/27/24 7:20:13 AM #26 | sfcalimari posted...
You do realise there's like 10,000 Japanese historical drama series and movies about the sengoku jidai right? And a lot of video games. Yeah, it's ridiculous how many you have to choose from and the length of many (Taiga dramas are one episode almost every week for a year). --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | The Shogun remake starts tomorrow |
| ssjevot 02/27/24 7:18:20 AM #25 | I watched the first episode last night on Disney Plus (nowhere else to see it in Japan as far as I know). My wife didn't care for it, but I thought it was alright. I will probably watch the rest. The NHK Taiga Drama last year was about Ieyasu so I think she might just be burned out on that period (and also the replacement names and fictionalization made it confusing for her to follow). I am curious if this will be popular in Japan, haven't heard anyone talking about it.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Remember gun-kata from Equilibrium |
| ssjevot 02/27/24 3:13:35 AM #2 | A friend of mine saw that and got super obsessed with it and wanted to learn it in real life. It was a really cringe time.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Does the military intentionally target poor or low income neighborhoods? |
| ssjevot 02/27/24 1:43:09 AM #21 | Aloc posted...
What r ur opinions on Israel and Palestine You already know, since you have asked me in multiple topics and then make up weird bullshit about me anyway. Palestine deserves to be a state, Israel's committing war crimes, the US is complicit for continuing to provide them aid, etc. I also don't support Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Houthis, or any other terrorist or right wing groups. I am opposed to war crimes, killing civilians, etc. Feel free to ask me again in some other topic. Or just make up some bullshit. Your choice. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | The "ideal" woman requirements goes VIRAL. Sparking backlash |
| ssjevot 02/26/24 11:50:45 PM #23 | I tend not to like conservative or religious people in general. Definitely not my ideal woman. My wife also has a lot of male friends. Doesn't bother me because I don't spend my time worrying about infidelity or whatever the insecure dude who made that was worrying about.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Does the military intentionally target poor or low income neighborhoods? |
| ssjevot 02/26/24 11:22:04 PM #18 | Honestly the military can be a good path out of poverty for some people. Me and my best friend grew up on a dirt poor reservation in Minnesota. I went to college and eventually got a PhD and now work as a research professor in Japan. He joined the Navy and became a nuclear technician on submarine and is now working for a Japanese company that makes essential parts for semiconductor manufacturing. He never even got an undergrad degree, but he makes four times more than I do. I am not advising anyone to join the military (and he wouldn't either, he hates the US government and the military), but it is a path out of poverty for some people.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Hasan got destroyed by a bot X page |
| ssjevot 02/26/24 6:09:27 PM #190 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote]
Boy, I wouldn't say he repeats progressive talking points. He's way too sympathetic to dictators for that. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Hasan got destroyed by a bot X page |
| ssjevot 02/26/24 5:31:00 PM #180 | hereforemnant posted...
I had to work afterwards I'm not gonna sit & write a wall about the tenets of socialism & worker coops & unions bruh haha. If you want me to write you a letter about socialist policy I can, but that's not what this topic is really about & I don't like writing paragraphs for no reason. I mean you could read the intro to the Wikipedia article on socialism and have a better idea what it is than that post where you just called it regulated capitalism. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Hasan got destroyed by a bot X page |
| ssjevot 02/26/24 4:45:37 PM #176 | hereforemnant posted...
Socialism is capitalism but heavily reined in & regulated, in fact, most of the only good guard rails the USA has are democratic socialist policy Man it really is wild that America has done such an insane job of political "education" that people really think that socialism is government doing stuff. Even the advocates for it. I mean even Bernie Sanders called social democracy democratic socialism and here is another user thinking socialism is just welfare and government regulations. Literally don't even know what a means of production is or know what it means to control it. You guys literally fight each other over how to capitalism and think you're debating economic systems. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | How bad is the craziest person you've known, and how were they crazy? |
| ssjevot 02/26/24 8:03:00 AM #9 | I dated a girl who was violently jealous and would lose her mind if she saw you literally talking to anyone else, not even other girls, your male friends, classmates, anyone. Why would I put up with that? Absolutely the best sex I ever had. No contest.
Honestly she wasn't that bad a person, but it was impossible to rationalize anything with her. And she knew. She would say I know I'm unreasonable but I can't control it. When we broke up she completely cut me out of her life, so no idea what she is up to now. Oh and she was super into alien conspiracies. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons IP rights explanation is fucking asinine |
| ssjevot 02/26/24 6:58:57 AM #22 | Ricemills posted...
That's what i said tho. Except they don't have the rights to those Macross designs in videogames and miniature games which is why Battletech gets to use those (and Dougram and Crusher Joe) original designs and derived designs still. They tried suing over that Hairbrained Schemes PC Battletech game a while back but they lost. Battletech games are weird here in Japan in that you can buy them but they aren't translated. Like even on PS Store they are listed but English only. So I don't think they have a design rights issue here, but I have only ever seen the miniatures game in import stores. There actually was an official Japanese version of Battletech back in the 90s with designs by the Macross team, but they didn't use actual Macross designs (or Dougram or Crusher Joe, but those are different studios). --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons IP rights explanation is fucking asinine |
| ssjevot 02/26/24 6:46:58 AM #19 | Ricemills posted...
Didnt JP just give HG total control of the rights outside JP a few years ago? No. Harmony Gold absolutely still has rights over toys and the anime overseas. They can't even sell those toys in Japan. Like there is a really cool licensed VF-1 cockpit figure I was interested in. Have to import it from Hong Kong because international rights don't allow it to be sold in Japan. Even says not for sale in Japan on the site. https://www.kidslogic.toys/products/st18 Says licensed by Harmony Gold right on the website. My understanding for the videogame rights and miniature games is the rights are the same as always and there were just some dumb lawsuits by Harmony Gold to try to get those rights too but they failed. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | This is fucked up. |
| ssjevot 02/24/24 10:20:47 AM #19 | ultimate_reaver posted...
That is the fakest of the fake story subreddits Yeah we are supposed to believe he has this wife with impossible to meet criterion to have sex but she also won't allow him the masturbate and also instead of just hiding his masturbation he apparently got a prescription to make him not want to have sex (which is also not allowed but he decides to stand his ground on this apparently)? It's just a ridiculous scenario designed to make her out to be the most unreasonable person to ever exist (and probably doesn't even actually exist). --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons IP rights explanation is fucking asinine |
| ssjevot 02/24/24 8:34:28 AM #5 | I think the most insane IP rights thing I have ever read about is Macross. Robotech (Harmony Gold), Battletech (somehow like five different companies), the original Japanese studios (two of them), it's a huge fucking mess.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Lara is back. Tifa is back. There's a pattern here >_> |
| ssjevot 02/24/24 8:28:04 AM #117 | I checked and as far as this particular instance goes there are some ResetEra users with unhinged tanks (one person said she looks like a 10 year old and claims others agreed with them in real life) and a few people say they won't buy the game because of the swimsuit or jiggling game, but the overwhelming majority of users there appear to be hyped and excited to buy the game. The internet allows you to find basically any hot take you want posted somewhere and yeah ResetEra has some bad takes because it's this weird echo chamber community with a very specific "progressive" outlook you have to adhere to, but even in that community literally just a few people are melting down over this. The vast, vast majority don't care or are just talking about how excited they are to play the game.
Oh and all this shit about Tifa's boobs ever having got a reduction is fake and always has been. SE has had her measurements officially published and they stick to them throughout many games, the movie, etc. The original PS1 game has horrible looking Lego Block characters that it's impossible to get measurements from. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | But what if Trump wins? |
| ssjevot 02/23/24 6:19:01 PM #44 | trappedunderice posted...
Remember when people claimed they were going to leave america if trump became president in 2016 and got called out I left America. Still gone. Never going back. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Dune: Part 2 is certified fresh, 97% Rotten Tomatoes score with 88 reviews |
| ssjevot 02/23/24 6:50:38 AM #50 | C-zom posted...
Etc. My biggest gripe with Part 1 was basically "Here are the Houses, this is Spice, this is Arrakis, Paul has dreams, stay tuned for Part 2." Yeah I am honestly super confused about all the praise it got. Have you watched Part 1 with someone who never read the books or saw the old movie (or Sci-Fi Miniseries)? They literally have no idea what is going on because nothing is explained. Why aren't there computers or AI? What's the deal with the witches? Is the religion real? Barely anything about the setting is explained and I guess somehow we have to believe Part 2 will fix this? --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Having kids are a trap right? Being kid free is the way to be. |
| ssjevot 02/22/24 11:56:14 PM #60 | Arcanine2009 posted...
Japan has one of the biggest decline birth rates, so it's no surprise there's a huge elderly population that is hard to take care of. It has the highest birth rate in East Asia. About double that of South Korea and significantly higher than Taiwan or China. About the same as Italy or Spain. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | The Imperium of Man is a terrible and terrifying concept |
| ssjevot 02/22/24 6:52:44 PM #26 | It's stated humans living in the Tau Empire have a better quality of life on average despite being hostile aliens to the Tau. The Imperium will genocide any alien, whereas the Tau will welcome them into their empire. And the Tau aren't good people. They're comparable to any extreme authoritarian government with heavy propaganda, it's just the Imperium is so bad, those humans living under the Tau end up having a better quality of life. Then you have truly independent humans like the Leagues of Votann (squats) that are if not good guys, are morally neutral and just want to live long and prosper. The only humans worse off than Imperium humans are the ones living on Chaos planets (usually as slaves or worse). The Horus Heresy era even gives us examples of humans living under relatively liberal systems of government only to get wiped out by the Crusade of the totalitarian Imperium (and we even have humans aware of, and less susceptible to, the forces of Chaos).
The Imperium is bad, the lore makes it obvious they are bad, and it's crazy that people keep trying to justify them. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Why is Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann bigger than the universe? |
| ssjevot 02/22/24 12:38:00 PM #7 | NhojAnec posted...
Do you have a video of that? I gotta see this. I recommend the whole series it's amazing. And to spoil why it's that big --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | 1000 years, in a museum is a game disc of the game that changed the world |
| ssjevot 02/22/24 12:33:55 PM #25 | Bloodborne.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Was Hitler far-left or far-right? |
| ssjevot 02/22/24 9:06:49 AM #86 | I am going to actually talk about this based on right and left in their European meaning. So economics. As in means of production in capitalists' hands (right) versus workers' hands (left). Social issues have nothing to do with it and it's a very American thing to make government policy or social issues analogous with unrelated economy issues (like thinking vegetarian is left wing somehow, Modi is a right wing leader in India and a vegetarian, as are much of the right in India, and many left wing parties outside the US are very socially conservative). The Nazis appealed to left wing people (working class laborers) using populist rhetoric. But importantly he primarily blamed Jews as the capitalist class responsible for their exploitation. However many people in his party were quite left wing in their economic views. To gain power Hitler planned to align with the right (the wealthy capitalist class who naturally have a lot of power). This required him to purge the left wing elements from his party in order to gain power, which he did (killing even people who he considered friends). Then of course once in power the capitalists had free reign to continue exploiting workers.
Hitler had no interest in anything other than power, and the left wing rhetoric on economics was simply a means to gain a base to gain power. But Americans want two boxes called left and right that literally every issue gets crammed in. It's not how the world is and it's not relevant to Hitler because all he cared about was having power. He had no interest in who controlled the means of production as long as he was ultimately in power. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Women really just are not allowed to like anything |
| ssjevot 02/22/24 7:34:36 AM #31 | I feel like a lot of stuff in here isn't hated, isn't for teenage girls, or both. 50 Shades was obviously not targeted at teenage girls. Taylor Swift has been around so long I don't know how she could possibly be for teenage girls alone, she's also one of the most popular acts ever. I remember everyone liking her when I was in grad school.
--- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Having kids are a trap right? Being kid free is the way to be. |
| ssjevot 02/22/24 4:37:32 AM #30 | Arcanine2009 posted...
If you are involved in your kids lives and take care of itself, that won't be an issue. I live in Japan and it's not uncommon for old people to live alone or be in homes. In China it is more common, but that's due to a lack of welfare or social security and an actual legal obligation to take care of your parents. My Chinese wife wants her parents to stop living with us and get their own place. It's very stressful for her to live with them, and I doubt it will get better as they get older. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Having kids are a trap right? Being kid free is the way to be. |
| ssjevot 02/22/24 3:27:01 AM #23 | Lonestar2000 posted...
It's fucked up and selfish to force some one into existence so they can be your caregiver. I have kids and I agree. I hope they throw me in a home and enjoy their lives. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss |
| Topic | Here's one for the "are the straights okay" pile |
| ssjevot 02/21/24 1:23:01 AM #29 | This is a "that happened" where it may have actually happened but the hyperbolic exaggeration pushes it into still being fake.
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| Topic | Effect is the noun, affect is the verb |
| ssjevot 02/21/24 1:08:45 AM #4 | Except when they aren't. Effect a change. Psychological affect.
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| Topic | Did you play Bravely Default? |
| ssjevot 02/21/24 1:07:36 AM #9 | I liked it, but the sequels are better.
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| Topic | Jon Stewart on "The Interview" |
| ssjevot 02/21/24 1:06:31 AM #62 | I remember multiple Targets in Seattle having the cart escalator and that was a decade ago.
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