Is the author a tankie or something? What’s wrong with Company of Heroes 2? I enjoyed it, and the main complaints I saw were from Russians unhappy with the game taking a shot at the Soviets and bringing up things like Order 227. Even so, the game didn’t even portray the Soviets as the bad guys.

Edit: And it’s not just me. The game is currently rated Very Positive on Steam.

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nightreaper2 is free to claim as well.

Can’t speak specifically to Cuba, but at least some of the countries glorified by tankies are nice only for a privileged foreigner on a short vacation. It’s not like they’d protest against the government there to get arrested, and if they do, their country will be very focused on getting them out. They likely won’t speak the language to understand what’s being said in the media day to day. They also wouldn’t live the life of the average citizen able to feel the weight of lower incomes and other quality of life issues associated with the government taking too much for itself and leaving little for the people. If they’re a minority and they can keep it to themselves, they probably will “out of respect”, thus no consequences. It also doesn’t help when they’re a tankie who thinks there’s no problem with China or Russia isolating themselves from the rest of the internet for example, but even so, it’s relatively easy when it’s brief, not something you inescapably put up with every year.

Edit: I’m also reminded of Hasan visiting China but then comically asking “can I be out with this Chinese flag?” or something like that, as if his subconscious was telling him that even something as trivial in the West could get him in trouble there. It’s evident he was being very careful, if not self-censoring.

Precisely. Even when he didn’t appear to be full-on MAGA yet around 2022 or whenever he first tweeted about Ukraine, it was a pro-Russia take.

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Are you saying someone could keep their account even if their ATProto instance goes down? On Mastodon, you’d still get to keep the migrated followers, right? The instance maintainer would just have to announce closure in advance.

I liked the Tux!

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I don’t think Trump has any real interest in Ukraine as a country. He likes Putin and he likes business opportunities. There’s nothing more to it.

Regarding that “secret deal” part, an update from Sean Hollister explains it:

“Why have you jettisoned the very heart of the injunction that you argued so forcefully for?”

Judge Donato says he just doesn’t get it.

Here’s Epic’s lead attorney Gary Bornstein to answer:

“We love those remedies, period, full stop. We like them, we asked for them, we like them the way we asked for them. Now we have another option that’s on the table that’s the result of a negotiation with Google. We got something through this negotiation that was not on the table before.”

“The only reason Epic is here is because Epic believes this set of remedies in totality will provide longer-term sustainable competition,” says Bornstein. He says holding out for something like this is “the reason Epic didn’t take payoffs back in the day” from Google’s Project Hug and similar.

And indeed, considering Google opening up the store globally isn’t a deal offered only to Epic, this is consistent with Sweeney previously saying they don’t want that kind of deal.

Still a win for everyone on Android, as Google would have to keep the platform open until 2032.

Epic used Gemini to power its Darth Vader, so it might be related to AI indeed. To add to that, Epic has introduced an AI chat for Unreal Engine developers, acquired the AI asset tagging tool Loci, and enabled AI for its support system to handle requests before a human operator steps in. I also believe they use AI as a screening tool for its new text chat feature (and maybe its new forums), but I have no proof for this part.

From Kyiv to Donetsk, the lowest temperature this year is roughly 10 degrees Celsius lower than this month last year, so yes.

Keeping Charlie Kirk alive in spirit.

Wolfenstein is so political 🤢

Immediately going for their point 3 in their reply. It couldn’t be any funnier.

That Slop post already has 172 comments, more than any other on that community’s front page. Must have hit them straight in the heart.

They don’t praise. They go straight for the boots. 😆

It would be weird if it were the only time he’s called out the Google and Apple monopolies and their control over apps, but it’s been a running theme for him (and his legal battles). Two examples from a quick lookup:

• His tweet where he calls out Apple for removing privacy apps at the request of Russia, and for allegedly threatening to remove Twitter in 2024.
• His tweet on Apple removing the Russian social media app VK following the US sanctions related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Personally, I see no issue with platforms removing content they deem to be problematic, and I’m sure Sweeney agrees, given that the Epic store prohibits pornography for example. However, as he’s said repeatedly, Apple in particular is unique in that it removing an app means there’s practically no way for an iPhone user to access it, since there’s no sideloading.

If it were an app dedicated to CSAM, I don’t think anyone would take issue, but his argument is that removing the app would deplatform all of its 500M users, most of whom are probably not pedos. I’m critical of people being on X, but it’s also undeniable that despite the far-right leaning and CEO, there are still leftists and people belonging to minority groups who are on it, for whatever reason. Are they pedophile and Nazi enablers too? I’m inclined to say yes, but I don’t know how many people would agree.

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