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by trackflak 3y ago
3000 was just a modernised and polished expansion of 2000. Maxis had plans to do a successor to 2k that was fully 3D but they kept hitting frustrations and setbacks. So they just stuck to what they knew and made a faithful successor.
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by trackflak 3y ago
Again, I asked how the wish of 1/2 of your countrymen to leave the EU relates to 'fascism'. Yes, I was slightly in jest because there are many reasons why one might be sceptical of the EU. One could even compare the EU to pan
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by trackflak 3y ago
> Brexit is an opportunity for fascists. I'd be curious to hear how exiting the European Union relates to the doctrines of Benito Mussolini.
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by trackflak 3y ago
I'd be surprised if the state didn't utilise its network of media contacts to discredit him.
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by trackflak 3y ago
I don't like the anti-English animosity that seems universal in some circles. There is some room for ribbing but a lot of the time I wonder how much of it is merely and sincerely 'in jest'. And that is another fear I share fo
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by trackflak 3y ago
Likewise, thanks for your time. You've given me a few things to think about. I'll concede that the Finnish presidency sounds like a fair option, with some of the benefits I see in the monarchy. Longer term, but ceremonial and elec
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by trackflak 3y ago
> On one side you claim it's a powerless family that would get replaced by a worse elected person, on the other side it turns out it's a very influential family that prevents authoritarians from taking the power. That's ex
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by trackflak 3y ago
Not to forget the engine Charka: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore The only bit of the old Edge that had its source emancipated. It was/is? quite performant.
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by trackflak 3y ago
> Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race I'm amazed that a book with this title was published. Some people disagree with the cynical 'everything western is evil' narrative for entirely plausible reasons.
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by trackflak 3y ago
I had a scan through it recently. A lot of its clauses apply to 'free men', not just barons and aristocrats. It places a lot of limits on arbitrary punishments and other actions by the state, as well as limiting debt collectors. E
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by trackflak 3y ago
> Nothing is going to change until the country becomes a republic Aren't you holding that up as a bit of a silver bullet? There are many republics in this world and I'd not want to live in them. Changing the head of state from
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by trackflak 3y ago
There is a Bible verse that says every deed done in darkness shall be named in the light. At times like these, I wish the deity who inspired it was a little more proactive.
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by trackflak 4y ago
In case you hadn't noticed, this is hackernews and not /r9k/
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by trackflak 4y ago
A wiser choice under his circumstances. He knows the political climate in Russia.
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by trackflak 4y ago
I wasn't fully aware of how the US law would apply in that situation. Thanks for the clarity. I don't think the ability for the state to act arbitrarily is a good thing either. It is a morally ropey area when you're law enfor
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by trackflak 4y ago
Directly infiltrating one of these groups is easier than the other, depending on your skin colour. And I'm not certain it can be called illegal if it is an agent of the law acting under legal authorisation.
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by trackflak 5y ago
It's a good enough reason for me. My language is older than American slavery and it will probably outlive the memory of it; I am not American and I do not relate to the history at all. I won't surrender my language and speech to l
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by trackflak 5y ago
Master has a history in English long before the Transatlantic slave trade. The original sense in English meant "teacher": https://www.etymonline.com/word/master#etymonline_v_9692 It is very disengenous (and A
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by trackflak 5y ago
That's probably what makes me uncomfortable with these mandated word changes. I could argue the linguistics, and the racial connotations never occoured to me then and don't convince me now. But what really makes me uncomfortable i