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The Raid system seems interesting and might make strategic bombers more useful beyond supply drops and the occasional paratrooper operation.
The special weapons project system has me curious, especially w/r/t nukes. As of now, nukes are piss easy to get as any country and are only really useful as tactical weapons against armies. Now, it seems like there will be an actual challenge in acquiring them and they can be an actual game changer diplomatically (they also mentioned late game content so it would be really neat to see the start of an early Cold War system).
Also, urban warfare is getting expanded to be an actual meat grinder (a la Stalingrad), but idk how much of that is part of the free update.
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In fairness, it means "Twilight of the Gods" and is a fancy byword for apocalypse. Funny thing is that the word is commonly associated with Nazi Germany's downfall in the last days of the war before Addy made his greatest contribution to humanity in the Fuhrerbunker.
Ironically, it was lifted straight from Richard Wagner's concluding musical act on the Nibelungenlied, which German nationalists used to evoke the "stab in the back" myth (specifically Siegfried's betrayal at the hands of Hagen).
*Dmitri, get the Pe-2s* On the plus side, you can avenge Rosa and Karl by turning Germany communist.  
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Songs of Conquest has been something I've been eye-ing but idk. Maybe someone here who has played it can get back to me.
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The enemy operates like Orks in W40K where killing the Warboss causes them to all turn on each other 
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Talking about "The Republic" the same way characters in Star Wars did about the galactic republic because it sounds cool, not knowing/caring how the republic ended up.
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This one NPC has more personality than entire holds in Skyrim.
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Just one more attempt at bourgeois democracy bro, it will work this time bro, it won't eventually succumb to the tightening contradictions of Capital I swear
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Anticommunism being a misanthropic death cult shouldn't be surprising but this one is surprisingly honest about it.
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I assume the light red indicates coups as opposed to outright military invasions (but even then, there should be a lot more of that in that case).
Also, border conflicts aside, China literally invaded Vietnam for the crime of overthrowing their puppet butcher in Cambodia. It also invaded South Korea, regardless of how justified that was or wasn’t. Not sure why that’s omitted since it’s still a massive discrepancy between China and the US.
SocDems are surprisingly casual about how they’d take barbarism over socialism every single time. Also, maybe it’s just me but r/propagandaposters has been more populated with shitlibs and Zionists as of late. [Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/1fqythn/the_face_of_the_sa_germany_1932_from_the_social/lp9c9pc/?context=3)
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AT-TE vs AT-AT be like
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Tolkien doin cartwheels in his grave
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I’ve never felt the need to watch a game stream until now.
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Temple of Dibella, you mean? Or maybe you meant the Witch Covens.
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People liked SAII for the "gritty" story but honestly I remember III the most for just going off the rails in a way that was unique from GTA.
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Game was a lot more ambitious (and lewd) on the drawing board. There used to be a "Prostitutes" faction that was canned (alongside other minor factions representing professions that the player could engage in, like Bards and such) but the sprites (NSFW ofc) were left in the final release in random locations just because. Some of them made sense (like in Inns and Temples of Dibella) but others were... just there.
I still love the Daggerfall we got (the later versions cleaned up on UESP and released in Unity particular) but I sometimes wonder about what could have been.
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You, cringe petit-bourgeois liberal: I hope the Polish Home Army kills more Nazis Me, well-versed in theory and understanding that it’s wrong to wish death on goose-stepping class traitor proletarian foot soldiers of settler-colonialism: okay fascist Crossposted from TDT since low-hanging fruit
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Kinda gross (and expected) to see libs turn into mask-off "Not Stolen; Conquered" ethnonationalists whenever they try to reduce this situation into a "war".
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Just save yourself the headache and get the Survivalist's rifle, smh.
If you loved FEAR or the newer Wolfenstein games like I did, you'll likely enjoy Selaco too. It takes after those games the most (and even bits of other 2000s FPSs like Half-Life 2) despite getting labelled as a "boomer shooter", being chock-full of secrets/references and running on GZDoom. The base price of 25 USD might seem a bit steep for an indie title and the game is still in EA, but this is the rare case where you'll get your money's worth in my opinion. The now-released first act (pre-update) is clearly an indicator that the overall design, gameplay loop and vision for the game has been nailed down to a T even if they still semi-regularly update it to tweak it further. From the updates, it also seems they actually have a plan for the next two acts to be released by this century (2025 and 2026 respectively). That all being said, the story elements (beyond visual story-telling and logs/emails) have been left out for now and there's a big story update coming in by the end of the year so you can also hold off until then. :dawn-salute: [Here's a review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uo3IWjKtqM&t=48s)
[Original Meme](https://twitter.com/Beardington/status/1803379664280297538) TIL, after years of playing Stardew Valley on-off, that Pierre apparently has quite the (well-deserved) hatedom. 
   For those of you who have been hearing about Selaco for the past few weeks: yes, it's as good as people keep saying it is, though YMMV since it's very much tailored towards people who like 90s/00s shooters and immersive sims (and modern indie games in the same vein). That said, it's oozing inspiration from other games like through atmosphere and music (Halo ODST, Resident Evil, etc), which all fit its somber tone relative to the usual boomer shooter fare. I could also say it plays like a more agile Wolfenstein TNO with ImSim elements which hits all the right notes for me.
It's funny to me how even in this game (Red Alert 1) where they portray the Soviets as back-stabbing, baby-gassing monsters using everything in le old Black Book and then some, they still can't get me to root for the Allies as anything other than a marginally lesser evil. Guess this line supports that. “Oh no, big bad Georgian mustache man is going to oppress the poor underdog Europeans? How horrible! Say, what’s going on in the rest of the world in *1950*…
By ground level, I mean games where the scope is of people on the ground (either an individual PC or party) rather than playing as an abstract nation or political party like in a grand strategy game. So nothing Paradox- or Kremlingames-related (though, Victoria 3 including little things like pop info is a nice touch). At first, Fallout 4 seemed to fit the bill with its settlement system but it's still very much within the bounds of capitalism and private property no matter how much I like to think the Minutemen are actually communalists or whatever.
> Game starts in 1337 instead of 1444 Pre-Aztec Mexico 
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For the first time, I know what it's like to get an Atlus game (albeit on sale) only for the updated re-release to be announced not too long after 
  [Link.](https://x.com/kin_machina/status/1751711206677569834?s=46) [Artist also made a template for other characters lmao](https://x.com/kin_machina/status/1751711206677569834?s=46)
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I've been debating to myself whether or not voting for a third party candidate (Either PSL's de la Cruz or Green's West, regardless of my criticisms for both) would be the most "effective" use of my time in election season this year. The argument for "not" is that maybe voting at all is bad because it legitimizes this system, even if a third party candidate getting a record turnout would grab more attention (and piss off Blue MAGA cultists) than simply not going since it's not like abysmal turnouts, even by this country's historical standards, are newsworthy at this point. So I guess I have to ask how you people rationalize voting or not this year? I fully understand that this is more symbolic than anything else and won't materially affect change for a while but it's still something to think about.
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I'm looking specifically for a historical text or comprehensive article that specifically connects the mass pilfering by European colonial powers to the development of capitalism and beginning of the industrial age in Europe, even in countries that (at least initially) didn't have overseas colonies like Germany/Prussia. I have a *broad* knowledge on this (particularly on how European markets interacted with each other) but I want to deepen it.
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I remember going to a “Mediterranean” chain regularly way back and enjoying what I thought was a normal couscous dish before I moved somewhere the chain didn’t exist. I didn’t learn it was Israeli couscous until much later when I tried making some Moroccan Couscous I got from a store. Even if the actual couscous was great, I’ve been feeling nostalgic for pearl couscous and was wondering if there’s any non-Israeli brand that sells it in the US. Or at least a pasta that’s “close enough”.
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