"Germany Must Perish!" is a crazy fucking book, but it really comes across as "What if the Nazis were all just jews", because that's how looney it actually is.
It's basically the worst of Nazi rhetoric, from a jew, directed at non-jewish germans, because Nazis are bad...?
Literal eye-bleeding, foaming at the mouth, hysterics.
It's so crazy I do wonder if it was intended to be satire.
I don't think that's fair.
The point is that there was no social experience for anyone if you couldn't pre-arrange it ahead of time, sometimes in physical space, or by having someone smart enough to build a server.
LAN parties were fun, but they were an egregious amount of work and co-ordination.
Matchmaking allowed people to play games with others, rather than with no one at all.
All of what's in OP's post can still be done, but it still requires a level of co-ordination or time dedication that most people simply do not have.
(don't ever play that game at night, alone in a house in the middle of nowhere, lmao. I did that for an hour, on a PSP for crying out loud, and I was paranoid the rest of the night)
That age where you go from "I need an adult" to "I need a gun because I'm the only adult left".
Maybe it's my age, but I don't have a problem limited lives and game resets. At a certain point, there has to be a "get good scrub" mechanism that punishes players for failure.
I would just pair that with a difficulty slider and competent enemy design so there never feels like any "cheap" deaths.
You weren't. People bought into the hype of the technology being inherently better for years while the graphics slowly improved. PS1 games are not as popular as PS2 games for a reason.
One of the best games of that era really was just Mario 64, and that was (again) from art direction.
Honestly, that's true for many old games, but the problem with early 3D is that it actually doesn't look good on anything.
The issue is that it was such a major technological achievement for home consoles that everyone just assumed that it was a universal good, because it looked more advanced.
But it aged very, very, badly.
Final Fantasy 7 is unfortunately one of those games stuck in that transition period in the 90's where it really is unplayable to any modern pallet for graphics. It really would have been better in 2D, otherwise it had to get a remake.
This is because technology kept improving at an exponential rate, so 10 polygons to 100 was a feat. 100 to 1000 was amazing. 1000 to 1000 was a major improvement... so on and so forth. But not it's really getting to a point that 100,000,000 polygons isn't much different 1,000,000,000 polygons for the purposes of gameplay. And games can just look good. For 2 decades or so, technology was more important than art, and it shows how fleeting that mindset is when I still think Fable 1 looks good, and most of the other games of it's era look very dated.
I still remember someone telling me that Halo CE looked fucking horrible to the point of being unplayable while I was playing the MCC edition.
Best Art Design > Best Graphics > Most Graphics
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six for me.
One of the many CCP crimes against humanity:
"Control your soul's desire for freedom"
九亭家園的居民朋友們，在疫情風控期間，請嚴格遵守市政府相關防疫規定，控制靈魂對自由的渴望，不要開窗歌唱，此行為有疫情傳播的風險。
Residents and friends of Jiuting Homestead [i.e., "Nine Pavilions Gardens"], during the epidemic control period, please strictly abide by the relevant epidemic prevention regulations of the municipal government, control the soul's desire for freedom, and do not open the window to sing. This behavior has the risk of spreading the epidemic.
True. Like a lot of Boomer-Cons, he wants to go back to the Reagan Era with cellphones.
Vance is literally a millennial. Not even Gen X as far as I'm aware. We all want to go back to the 90's, but we've seen so much permanent damage, and come to realize that a) the 90's can't come back, b) the 90's were an exception to how the left normally behaved.
Instead, what's really happened is that the Progressives and Neo-Libs are trying to redo the 1970's in both Mainstream Stagflation and Progressive Terrorism. The Boomer-Cons hope we're getting another Reagan, but the rest of us Millennials, Zoomers, and Alpha know that we're not going to get the 90's and repeat the cycle. We actually have to permanently break something to end it.
The problem is that we're not educated, refined, or experienced enough to cultivate a new world from scratch for the future; we're just trying to stop the Neo-Liberal Order from killing all of us.
The absolutely craziest part of that is that it was one of the first things they ever did.
"People are sick?!!! Quick! MURDER THE PUPPIES!"
They weren't being made crazy by months of propaganda. This wasn't cops watching thousands of bodies being burned outside hospitals because the morgues are overflowing. The initial reaction was murder the puppies with guns.
Not "confiscate the puppies", not "force everyone to take a covid test when they pick up the puppies", not "threaten the owners with arrest", not "force the store to refund the purchases". Hell, not even "take them to a kill shelter and dispose of them like we would with other dead puppies". No. The first thought was: gun the puppies down like you're the fucking punisher.
The initial reaction was eye-bleeding, mouth foaming, pants shitting, extreme cruelty, wild maliciousness, and unnecessary violence intended to terrorize the general population.
The government starts a lockdown and screams "I'M NOT LOCKED DOWN HERE WITH YOU, YOU'RE LOCKED DOWN HERE WITH ME!!!"
This is why I said to Australians on Reddit, "I wouldn't be surprised if 50,000 people die in Covid camps, due to overpopulation spreading disease, causing detentions to extend indefinitely, and simply burning the bodies to dispose of them rather than 'risk contaminating quarantined sectors'." The level of callous disregard for humanity was extreme and immediate.
And you can usually tell which was which because the ones with traditions that solved a problem usually became extremely powerful.
I don't agree and my example is the problem. That tribe has been doing that for as long as anyone in their tribe can remember.
Yes, some traditions will stand the test of time, but if you don't scrutinize them, there's a good chance you're not gonna know which ones are the ones you should stop doing. Worse, some problems no longer exist, and you're carrying an erroneous tradition that solves nothing.
And the Vikings had a tradition of taking the ash of their ancestors when they were burned on a pyre and adding the ash to their weapon so that they could carry their ancestors into battle. Ash is carbon. Congratulations, you just reinvented steel when everyone else is using iron.
I feel the need to interject on this because yes the Vikings made steel. Shit steel. Shit steel that most civilizations didn't use because it wasn't much better than high quality iron of the time period. Perhaps "slag". High-grade steel that starts getting used in the middle ages needed better practices than that.
It's because he's not a white nationalist that thinks the ghost of Adolf Hitler can save him.
We need a change of elites, you harping on identarian arguments help no one, but it does work to kill populism, so good luck with that. Gotta protect those banks somehow, right?
JFC
I felt that burn from here.