[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

My favorite memory of the two Pathfinder games, and I mean this unironically, is doing that infamous quest in Kingmaker right near the start where you have to fight swarms. Level 1 combat against enemies immune to weapon damage – you have to actually consider your options and possibly accept turning down the difficulty. That interplay of character options and enemy immunities is, in my opinion, the core gameplay of CRPGs.

[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago

I was about to say that this account cannot be real, it's obviously fake for hitting so many stereotypes and controversies at once, and then I saw that she's posting videos and everything. Sometimes reality is crueler than our imagination.

[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 64 points 1 month ago

What, do you have something against homosexuality?

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Lynn, who died in 2023, was a professor at the University of Ulster and the president of the Pioneer Fund, a nonprofit foundation created in 1937 by American Nazi sympathizers to support “race betterment” and “race realism.” It has been a primary funding source of scientific racism and, for decades, Lynn was one of the loudest proponents of the unfounded idea that Western civilization is threatened by “inferior races” that are genetically predisposed to low intelligence, violence, and criminality.

Lynn’s work has been repeatedly condemned by social scientists and biologists for using flawed methodology and deceptively collated data to support racism. In particular, he created deeply flawed datasets purporting to show differences in IQ culminating in a highly cited national IQ database. Many of Lynn’s papers appear in journals owned by the billion-dollar publishing giants Elsevier and Springer, including Personality and Individual Differences and Intelligence.

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"We don't know who the leader is, it's like this anonymous Brazilian," Dorsey said.

That anonymous Brazilian is Giovanni Torres Parra, a developer who has also built at least two webpages devoted to disseminating the work of the far-right conspiracy theorist Olavo de Carvalho. Before he died in 2022 after contracting COVID-19, de Carvalho — known as Olavo — praised Brazil's military dictatorship, claimed that Pepsi-Cola was flavored with stem cells of aborted fetuses, preached that tolerance for homosexuality was "incompatible" with democracy, and had an office in Virginia decorated with portraits of Confederate generals.

[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 53 points 3 months ago

Some time ago, the Guardian had a positive article about the Tories making HRT easier to obtain without prescription – for elderly (implicitly, cis) women. It's such a neat contrast.

[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago

Someone needs to do a socio-linguistic study on Internet German, because it's the most grating way of writing I can imagine. It sounds like someone talking to a bureaucrat, a police officer and their close friends all at the same time. It's a policy paper crossed with a teenager. "Should the instance be blocked, users would lose access to a great amount of content. And I'm just wondering to myself, how can you solve issues like that?" How can anyone, let alone a whole country, stand this style of text?

[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 57 points 5 months ago

I've just seen an unsourced statistic online that a third of the people arrested for antisemitism in Germany as of late are Jewish. Obviously, I can't find anything on this in the media or on Google, though I regularly hear of individual cases. Does anyone have a real source on this or is it just a rumor?

[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 45 points 7 months ago

See, this is what happens if you don't ban people based on their transphobic votes on posts and comments. Now I know there's 13 accounts on there that are absolutely rotten with brainworms. Uphold Transcomrade69-thought!

[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 57 points 7 months ago

Remember "people of NATO"? lmao

[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 55 points 7 months ago

Are we just pretending not to notice that this is a copypasta, is that the joke?

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(it's the old flag of Iran from the times of the Shah, very popular among "dissidents" lol)

[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 55 points 8 months ago

I think right-wing propaganda, like TV shows watched by children that tell the viewer climate change isn't real, trans people are monsters and it's okay to use homophobic slurs, is much more heavily responsible for the rise of Trump, actually

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[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 87 points 10 months ago

The mod over there trying to rein in the misgendering has multiple downvotes. Who put all this transphobia in my anticommunism?

[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 79 points 10 months ago

Another despicable historical distortion going on in those comments is about the treaty of Versailles. American liberals like to go on about how it was so harsh that the rise of Nazism was a perfectly rational reaction. That's not only historically highly dubious – it was much less harsh than most anything the German Empire did to the losers of its wars (see Brest-Litovsk) – but it's also, like, only two degrees away from the stab-in-the-back myth (Dolchstoßlegende). That is to say: The Nazis liked to claim that the horrible economic state of the Republic was due to the "traitors" who gave up on WWI and signed the treaty, causing all of Germany's economic problems (never mind the Great Depression). No one should be agreeing with the Nazis on any part of that idea.

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