BynarsAreOk [none/use name]

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Cake day: March 16th, 2021
  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]@hexbear.nettogames@hexbear.net•Hideo Kojima says most Death Stranding playtesters told him 'it was a terrible game,' and he's a little bummed Death Stranding 2 is testing way betterEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You’re not wrong perhaps fundamentally as yes MGS itself got some very messy writing, retcons and shit, but I also feel like “movie standards” seems like a strawmen at this point after about 15 years of capeshit, disney shit, sequels and reboots most of which are still extremely profitable and somewhat successful have just lowered those standards significantly.

    People like Nolan have achieved legendary success with barely above average quality overall so I’d put him a possibly like a Nolan tier below at the start, definitely above with experience. If the average person can say the love Nolan shit then Kojima would be more than fine. Standards are just as much about what the audience is willing to call good or bad.

    Sure I’d agree the best movies in history are on a completely different level of what he could possibly achieve, this is undeniable but you don’t need to reach that level.

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from May 12th to May 18th, 2025 - Nuclear War Averted (Hopefully)!English
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    2 days ago

    You should have a listen to Norman Finkelstein as IMO he is by far the only correct(western) authority on this. His latest take is Palestinians will leave eventualy(the last 10 minutes here) because there is realy nothing left except rubble and a pile of corpses. Pragmatically speaking they’ve been through a lot but as he says its dangerous to portray them as if they have some sort of superhuman strength to resist pain and suffering.

    By all metrics and the historical record of Israeli offensives so far, this is an order of magnitude worst than ever before given e.g the amount of rubble that needs to be cleared for reconstruction to even begin.

    So why is this the one? Maybe not this plan specifically, but all the indication is that they’ll succeed one way or the other. I don’t want to say it as it sounds like heresy, but relocation is still far better than the real alternative i.e refusing to leave and even more deaths as a result.

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Merz: Germany will build strongest conventional army in EuropeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Good post. Looking at the two options you mentioned I wonder if there is a third one.

    Namely if I could bet on smaller and historicaly based European nationalism to bring them to fight among themselves again. Granted the historical reasons are very different, colonialism played a big role and ultimately it was indeed America’s WW2 victory that finaly put an end to any hopes of a local EU supremacy fight.

    Yet I think this threat still lingers. Look back at the 2008 crisis specificaly and the fallout from Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland and others, but specialy Greece. I wonder how the EU would have reacted if Greece had indeed taken extreme measures to get the fuck out of the EU and if that could have led to others following. The whole point of the troika was to impose German supremacy to begin with.

    Later there was Brexit too but it seems it was far more of a reactionary UK self contained issue rather than a real fight between EU elites. Yet it once again proves the EU is not a sacred concept under certain circunstances.

    Historicaly speaking, all major EU countries were at war with each other practically at one point or another. Those old catalysts do not exist anymore obviously, as none of these countries have realistic hopes of (re)building an empire.

    Yet I look at climate change as a possible big catalyst. Yes as you note EU and German fascists have it easy by blaming immigrants but I wonder if this will remain as easy if these immigrants are Italian or Polish, heck even Spanish.

    I wonder if the next catalyst will simply be the friction between the current EU neoliberals who rely on the concentration of German economic power and dominance over the other members, those who still want to play by the rules of “civilization” while far right starts to look at the EU itself with skepticism and as yet another land to be conquered so that they can be in charge of closing of the borders.

    Its why I mention the historical roots because, the modern “western” identity is fickle at best and Germans, French and English have been at war for centuries. I’m not sure how much actual faith there is on true European “unity” as is enforced by German/France under US leadership at this point, this unity and even such concept is an extremely modern concept to begin with and if the EU leadership starts to look increasingly weak and dependent on US leadership than certainly this may well fuel reactionary forces regardless.

    On that aspect I don’t think the US “management” of Nazism is the only way out either as an escape valve to blame the Rest of the World(immigrants, Russia etc), the historical precedent would put all these white Europeans fighting each other for centuries earlier too.

    So yeah basically for now German’s army is basically just to fuel NATO but in the long term I would grab some popcorn and watch out for future intra-European fighting like the good old days too.