The SNES through PS2 days were the golden era of JRPGs imo. FF4-FF10 plus FF tactics are all legendary titles I’d highly recommend even in spite of their age. When I played the FF10 remaster sometime ago I was blown away by how fleshed out and complete it felt compared how most games today. I never owned a Switch however so there is no doubt a lot of good recent JRPGs out there I missed like the Fire Emblem games and such.

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Capitalists paywalling their own propaganda, some problems really do fix themselves.

I worked in a plastic factory for a few days…yeah it was absolutely soul crushing. I was placed onto a machine where the speed required to keep up with the bottles felt like a sadistic prank, and the shifts where 12 hours long. I was left on it by myself my first day being on it and it got to a point where all the bottles where falling off the machine because I couldn’t. Then the lady in charge came over and told I’d be sent to that office if it happened again.

On top of that, the place was filled with plastic fumes and particle and didn’t provide any breathing masks that I saw. Another lady there told her husband got fired because he got cancer and they want didn’t want the liability.

Yeah, not the best experience.

Ehh I’m not really sure I’m following the gambling comparison. Common sense for most people is that gambling addictions are bad because it actively drains massive amounts of money out of people’s bank accounts, not because slot machines waste people’s time. Addictions are just problem amplifiers rather then problems in of themselves.

I don’t want no gubbermint taking my guns.

And that’s a good thing thankfully, it would be pretty alarming if there were.

The US’s usual Democratic™ allies are really not happy about the tariffs it seems.

Respectfully, I don’t think telling people that want to generate images of Darth Vader riding a Sloth that they can’t because it doesn’t qualify as true art would be the path forward. AI art will lead to decline a traditional art talent, yes, but I think the massive increase in accessibility and convenience to the masses still easily make it a net positive overall. AI art existing doesn’t totally prevent people from still being to able create art traditionally, while an AI art ban would for the people who enjoy using AI art.

The only major issue I personally see with it are the fakes/deepfakes. The quality is still pretty subpar right now yes but that’s something that will get better over time, just like computer graphics have over the last few decades. Being against AI art just because it’s easy seems like a rather reactionary take to me, Marxists shouldn’t be in favor of intentionally gatekeeping things behind innate ability or years of expensive study.

As for the deal with artists, ideally there should be a fine distinction between personal and commercial use that empowers indie artists while holding large corporations accountable for theft.

So everything that matters basically, China already largely shifted away from low level manufacturing.

I said “somewhat” neutral. I think the American ruling class ideally wanted to keep passively away chipping at Russia where possible while avoiding open conflict. Poland however is more even more rabidly hostile towards Russia then even the US and I think Poland played a pretty large influence in things turning out the way they have.

Honestly I think a decent chuck of the American ruling class would of preferred to maintain somewhat neutral relations with Russia and focus on China instead, but Poland insisted that the rest of NATO follow it’s warpath against Russia.

Health consciousness in America is about as equally as low as people’s class consciousness and requires a similar sort of de-programing that you need to become a socialist. Recently I started learning about the carcinogenic garbage that they put in commercial soaps and now I’m going to be sticking to more natural stuff from now on.

The majority of rock songs just sound like noise to me honestly and don’t elicit any emotion.

I know it really doesn’t matter but I like to think that my 25% Ukrainian ethnicity gives me special lib disproving powers.

Sometimes it’s hard to tell how many of these people are braindead MSM zombies who don’t even know what the black sun is and who created it, and how many are people that know full well what it is.

“Biden is making things easy for China”, “Trump tried to weaken NATO”. They always find a way to divert the focus to Russia and China even in internal disagreements.

They don’t need soil because they already succeeded in taking plenty of it 150+ years ago, unlike Nazi Germany which failed.

In the US, politics basically boils to down to each side competing to convince people that the other side is more communister.