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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This Black Myths Pod episode in turn does a great job of deconstructing that documentary, acknowledging its strengths, and pointing out where it misleads or leaves out information.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Is that guys name actually Pony Ma?

Now, my mandarin is very bad, but Ma means horse, among other things. So is this guys name horse small horse?

Edit: his Chinese name is 马化腾. Mǎ Huàténg. So his family name is indeed horse, but Pony isn’t his name, just a nickname.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It’s irrelevant whether or not they were hamas. They could sit outside the doors and arrest them when they leave, but going into a hospital to kill people is literally the behavior of nazis.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All your enemies are judeo-bolsheviks. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be your enemies, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sure, here’s an updated link from what I knew even.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/10/6/illegal-overfishing-and-the-return-of-somalias-pirates

Hope you find it as interesting as I did just now, cheers!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Somalian Pirates were actually often protecting their territorial waters from foreign opportunists plundering in the collapse of the Somalian government. The framing as pirates only works in the sense that these weren’t state-driven fleets, but rather civilian driven in order to protect their livelihoods against corporate raiders.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Agreed with everything you say, and I don’t have any solutions you haven’t said. I would like to add, buy your nephews, cousins, kids, students, etc physical games. Buy them the games they want, too, not just the ones that you think they should have. Get them used to going to the store to look at games and game boxes. Take them to the retro game store and let them pick something out. Encourage gaming to be more than passive consumption, and try to instill more positive associations with ownership. Avoid lecturing, or trying to create negative associations with digital or subscription products, and just help them share in your passion, it’ll take you a long way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It might help if the US stops staging war games based on assassinating their leadership and invading the country. Like, maybe they could stick to defensive war games based on protecting SK, at least.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The spin off games are fun and popular with the kids around my 8 year old brother, which is who they’re intended for.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

China is a communist country, they purposefully repressed religion for quite some time, though that has eased up a lot these days. If that was why, it would have happened decades ago when people stopped being religious.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

You might look into repairing the joystick you have. I recently had a similar issue with my 360 controller after it sitting in storage for many years and a good contact cleaning got it working again.

If that doesn’t work, depending on your level of confidence, you could measure the pin pitch and note termination style and see if you can find a replacement joystick module to solder in somewhere. Maybe it used the same footprint as another controller, and you can drop it in and have it work.

Either way, good luck. I hope you succeed!

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