>>25407
A quick search online suggests they're on par, with both in the US$40-50 billion region.

As a side question, is the overall revenue of the gaming industry really a very good indicator of its quality and cultural worth? You hear it brought up a lot that the games market is rivalling film/TV for its income, but I always think a deeper dive and some other metrics need to be considered. It's like when Americans insist the US is a first-world country because of its high GDP, despite the absolute shitshow that their day-to-day life is.

>>25406
If this means that CoD games are coming to Game Pass, particularly on day one, this could be a very beneficial move for me. CoD games don't go on huge sales very often, and £70 for the cross-gen edition of Vanguard is ludicrous. If I can get them for a reasonable subscription fee, I'd be over the moon. The new Rainbow Six game is day one Game Pass, soon I'll never have to buy a game again!

>>25409
I've never actually managed to play Cod, but it seems a bit nuts to me that games I associate with my PlayStation childhood, like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Crash Bandicoot, are now owned by Microsoft.

>>25410
Yeah it's odd, but then you look at it and see Crash and Spyro have both been multiplatform for over 20 years. Their Playstation exclusive years were a small part of their overall history.

Asda are having a clear out of their old Switch bundles.

>>13037
I think I used to listen to this on GamingFM, that online radio station with about 4 or 5 channels of videogame music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv82_ZSwa4Y


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W41ClvHmWY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MESON_4z9eA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsCDsR1SBc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-2AqRD8io

https://petrolbastard.bandcamp.com/track/two-pounds-off-whisky-at-lidl-feat-petrol-hoers-boycott-the-baptist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB4gBtMpUIs

"Slave to the Rhythm" was actually written for Frankie Goes To Hollywood by Trevor Horn. The latter then decided at the last minute before he let FGTH have a go that it was more suited for Grace Jones. A ground-up reworking of the track then resulted in the swingin' little number that became one of the most iconic pop music singles of the mid-80s.

>>36187
What's Orwellian is trying to have a rulebook of the English language at all. When it comes to how to use the language we're not Frenchmen bowing before an Académie on matters of the langue française and we're not Oceanians bowing before a Ministry on matters of Newspeak. We're Englishmen and in English every man's idiolect is his castle. Simple as.

>>36188
I don’t think the mods share your radical new thinking.

>>36187

>Some deaf people describe themselves as Deaf with a capital D too.

That's a fantastically useful linguistic invention, providing a distinction between people who can't hear and people who have a different native language and cultural identity. You could use a term like "culturally deaf", but that has subtly different connotations to "big-D deaf" that make it a less useful identifier for the Deaf community.

The house of Lords voted down every (14) of the bits of the policing bill that they possibly could, last night.

It's too late for the gypsies (see earlier in the thread) but at least that can still be protested about.

>>36678
So they protected our freedoms and rights, but didn't protect gypsies? God I love the House of Lords. They are amazing and democracy is overrated.

>>31468
>I think (on /emo/ at least) we should try to give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to evaluating their own experiences.

You should never be a dick on /emo/, but that doesn't mean people should never have their views and experiences challenged or you're at risk of creating an echo chamber.

When other replies to this thread include "I was told I was making a lady feel uncomfortable and made to feel like a sex pest when all I did was treat her like one of the lads" I would say that a bit of introspection is necessary. Rather than blaming other people, say, it may be worth reflecting on how some of these lads come across. When there's posters here who think it's acceptable to be the older guys preying on drunk 18 year olds during freshers week I think it's not a stretch to say there's a fair few creeps on here who need to take a hard look at themselves.

>I don't often see the same happening with sweeping observations about men just wanting sex or being violent or struggling with expressing themselves emotionally or other broadly accepted stereotypes.

When are they ever brought up here, apart from the instances when you lads get too horny and spend hours posting about fat lasses and their robust chins?

>>31470
>You should never be a dick on /emo/, but that doesn't mean people should never have their views and experiences challenged

Very much agree. We created /emo/ as the kindest/safest space on the site, and we'll always make sure that's enforced - but this definitely isn't an echo chamber where people will automatically agree with you.

>>31470
>>31471

I agree that we shouldn't create an echo chamber, what I'm saying is that just dismissing someone's observations which they've got through anecdotal experience with another anecdotal experience isn't very convincing or helpful.

I also don't think it's fair to push the whole responsibility of a perceived problem back onto the person expressing it. I would think the same if someone posted, "I'm lonely, and I think the problem is x" and someone responded "it's you, it's easy to meet people", or if another thread went "I've only ever had bad relationships, and I think it might be for y reason" is not always a case of "it's you, you spend time with the wrong people".

>>31472
The person who posted >>31466 opened with "feel free to offer counterpoints or what have you" so I'm not really sure what your issue is?

>>31470

As the lad who posted in the first place and did indeed specifically say you're welcome to provide counterpoint, I will just say that I'm not at all miffed at you/whoever disagreeing with me. What does miff me is that it was really a pretty boilerplate response without much substance beyond empty contrarianism, and all it served to do is derailus into this kind of navel gazing nonsense. That's alright in a /news/ thread about BoJo's booze ups, but I do feel like /emo/ should be a place for good faith engagement.

>>14604
Going to uni isn't an achievement, you just give them 3 or 12 grand a year depending on what year it was when you were 18.

>>14605

I remember getting into a cuntoff with a lad in 2010 because I said that a Masters degree today was kind of equivalent to what a Bachelors was in the 90s and he was extra naffed off when the Professor agreed with me. I did a PhD and knowing what I know now I wouldn't have bothered going to Uni at all. It's a Cult, a Scam, or Finishing School for the better classes depending on your socioeconomic status and/or level of commitment.

If I somehow manage to defy the odds and become economically viable enough as a person in my 40s to have a family I'll be telling my kids to be hair dressers.

>>14605

>Going to uni isn't an achievement

It is for someone who grew up like I did. Being alive past 30 is also a significant milestone.

My Co-Op Jam Doughnuts have not just raspberry jam as is tradition, but also plum and apple. They can't keep getting away with it.

>>14885
Why are there not more purely apple doughnuts though?

>>449072
Proper old. Last year I informed you all of my ordeal with a rogue eyebrow hair after a lifetime of perfect zero-maintenance eyebrows. And just this weekend I realised I had nose hair that needed some attention, again after a lifetime of perfect zero-maintenance nose hair. It felt like it needed a good pick, but after a few attempts I realised it wasn't a bogie but a hair. Now I know why people have those little nose scissors.

>>449074 just wait for the ear hairs, they're annoying bastards.

>>449074>>449075
I've seriously thought about one of those ear/nose trimmers, but they look faintly barbaric and I'm scared it's going to end in a lot of blood.

Also, ears are fine, but pulling out nose hairs really really fucking hurts.

>>449074
Did you find a solution for the increasing eyebrow wildness? Mine are getting more and more mental as the years pass, I pluck out the odd one that decides to go full rogue but it doesn't seem sustainable.

I had an ex who used to use some sort of product on them and had a little brush, I don't think she'd appreciate a message asking about eyebrow maintenance though tbh.

>>449077

Turkish barbers m8. They'll sort out the lot - ears, nose and eyebrows.

>>36652
>Why don't you like the BBC

Face it lad, there's not much worth watching on the BBC. That's the real reason it has become a vote winner to scrap the tv licence and why so many people dodge the detector van.

>and what alternatives do you prefer?

Like otherlad I spend a surprising amount of time watching Youtube these days. I don't really need to have content curated to me by some central body and where I do I prefer more specialised content either to my tastes, what internet people recommend or what I stumble upon. Not HIGNFY taking clips off of youtube because they've long-since run out of ideas.

Think of television as like watching a 24 hour news channel, you might get some things you want but it's surface deep and buried under shit you don't care about to the degree that it actually makes you angry how little control you have.

>>36657
Are competition laws really the reason they don't do that? One reason I've always resented the licence fee is that despite the public funding old programmes, if they want to re-watch them they're still expected to buy a DVD or Bluray (at full price) rather than being made available freely or at nominal cost. That rather feels like double-dipping - get the public to pay for production costs, then rake in more cash on selling the finished product.

>>36667
>Are competition laws really the reason they don't do that?

I don't know chapter and verse, but I do recall about 10+ years ago this being a big thing; there was a general feeling that if the BBC had completely free rein to do what it liked online, it would stifle a lot of other potential websites - I believe the actual argument was over the "recipes" section of the BBC site.

>>36666
>I spend a surprising amount of time watching Youtube these days

Me too and I'm relatively late to the party - I am likely to replace the TV license spend with a YouTube Premium account.

>>36667

>Are competition laws really the reason they don't do that?

Not quite, but the BBC Charter (and how it is interpreted by the BBC Governors and Ofcom) has massively stunted iPlayer.

11. Market impact
(1) The BBC must have particular regard to the effects of its activities on competition in the United Kingdom.
(2) In complying with this article, the BBC must-
(a) seek to avoid adverse impacts on competition which are not necessary for the effective fulfilment of the Mission and the promotion of the Public Purposes;
(b) have regard to promoting positive impacts on the wider market.

Initially, Ofcom were reluctant to allow iPlayer to include whole series rather than just the last episode; box sets of old series were totally out of the question. Only in the last couple of years have the BBC been allowed to upload iPlayer-only content that hasn't been recently broadcast on TV. The BBC aren't allowed to just make the best streaming platform they can, but have to prove that any improvements they make won't harm their commercial competitors.

ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC wanted to launch a combined streaming platform in 2009, but this was blocked by the Competition Commission. BritBox was eventually allowed because of the rise of increased commercial competition from Netflix and Amazon Prime.

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>>6496
That's because those straps are made of composite leather. They will be layers of materials, of which most won't be real leather. Compared to an expensive leather strap that will made from one solid leather piece.

>>6491
Amphibias are great, especially for a sub-£100 automatic. I love how customizable they are.

Love the look of these too and they're quite reasonably priced.

Zalsach. It's a watch for blind people.

>>6499
They remind me of the puzzles you'd get in a Christmas cracker.

>>6498
This is a CWC SBS - the official watch of the SBS, Marines and Special Forces - waterproof to 300m. Nice looking watch, but not sure it's worth 600 quid more than the Amphibia.

Interesting story in the rags today about a sailor who got caught nicking them from Naval stores and selling them on eBay.

This is why they make you spend two years as a man in a dress before they'll cut anything off. Surely you both remember that this is part of the procedure.

>>70293
>IF A WOMAN WITH SMALL BREASTS WANTS TO PAY TO BE A WOMAN WITH LARGE BREASTS, WE'RE ALL FOR IT

How dare you.

But if a woman has deformed tits then that's fine in my book. I used to date a woman with tits like the woman in the guilty-would thread and as you can imagine it definitely impacted her life, not really so much on the outside because she had special cups and stuff (and I was just happy to be putting my willy somewhere) but she was insecure to the point of paranoia about anyone seeing her naked. I think that's fine grounds, like if you had a micropenis then it's not unreasonable to get a penis enlargement.

>>70272
>BUT YOU'D BE EVEN HAPPIER LIVING AS A WOMAN?
I'd be happier living as a 6'2 man with a straighter nose and a slightly better chin, but I'm not, and the only way I can get that is by faking it through surgery. I wouldn't be that thing though, I'd still be me underneath, even if my physical form felt like something I should be or wanted to be.

It would surely be better for me to try and become happy with what I am, if I don't have gender dysphoria, rather than cosplaying as someone I want to be when I'm obviously not.

But then I do wonder about in the future, when we presumably have mastery of the atom and can simply adjust our form on the fly. I think we're caught in an unfortunate inbetween where it's kind of possible to change yourself physically but you're still going
to be the person you were because we can't change that yet.

And it's so optical - many people seem to be saying "I feel like I identify more with things that are culturally masc/fem so I should be masc/fem and if I'm referred to as the opposite it's offensive" despite these things being completely arbitrary. Like denying that you have breasts because you associate breasts with femininity, but this being counterproductive in terms of normalising things like breast cancer in men.

>>70318

If you only need one tit doing, do you still have to pay full price?

>>70319

>I'd be happier living as a 6'2 man with a straighter nose and a slightly better chin, but I'm not, and the only way I can get that is by faking it through surgery.

Yes but you are presumably not a debilitatingly ugly lad at the moment, just somebody who thinks nature could have been more generous with him in terms of physical attributes.

I'm not saying that plastic/cosmetic surgery won't improve your self image, but unless you really have a remarkably wonky nose - or tit - that causes you considerable psychological suffering, I think a lot of people who get plastic surgery do so not because they objectively need it, but because they have never learned to accept themselves for who they are. Plastic surgery is a way for some of them to become somebody else. Because somewhere deep down, they have low self esteem or even had an unhappy childhood where nobody ever gave them a sense of self worth.

On the other hand, I'm sure you've noticed that people with the biggest self confidence who get shags left right and centre aren't always the ones who look picture perfect. Usually, they are somebody who likes and enjoys who they are and doesn't worry too much about their nose or breasts, and they then project that. Self confidence, in the right dosage, is a powerful trait that attracts both friends and sexual partners.

You can then still say, yes, but I'm really doing plastic surgery just for myself. To feel better about myself when I look in the mirror. And that's probably not unreasonable, but again, unless you objectively look shit, the more profound and long-term fix is quite often to accept yourself the way you are.

>>70283

Fun fact - a bassoon is called a fagotto in Italian. One of my Italian friends at uni whose English was a bit patchy when she first arrived here told me that her brother was an avid fagotto player back home. Which was a bit bewildering, and the hand gestures she was making to explain the word "fagotto" to me weren't helping.

>>70288
Well at least you weren't arriving to class late.

>>70288
WASN'T THAT A SOFT G THOUGH - FAJOTTO?

>>70311

No, it is pronounced "fagotto". The "g" only becomes soft in Italian when it is followed by an e or an i.

Lamborghini, on the other hand, is pronounced with a hard g, because of the h right after it. You can show some culturedness there.

>>70314
GRAZIE INSEGNANTE

>>70298
>ANYONE WITH A FUNCTIONING BRAIN CAN PICK APART THE BIAS AND SPIN
Right, but if there are important parts of the story which they actively leave out (for example, nobody else has to pay for Prince Harry's bodyguards; he will pay for them himself) then no amount of knowing they're lying will reinsert that part of the story. You'd need to read it somewhere else. Why not just go there in the first place?

>>70308
You're being a bit disingenuous yourself when there's nothing stopping him paying for security. What he wants is access to public security services with an explicit intention being intelligence gathering, justified because some paps followed him from a charity event.

You would be using police resources including manpower, Harry. You can't expect special treatment compared to other celebrities or that money magically makes it okay.

>>70309
You're being entirely disingenuous if your response to "they left some information out" is "you're wrong because here's even more information left out".

A bit like the implication that he's any more/less entitled to public money or services than the rest of the royals, made by arguing about him in particular.

>>70305

The venn diagram of their audience is very heavily overlapping. But it's not specifically /pol/, it's just that the Mail panders to an American audience nowadays, and therefore the majority of /pol/.

It's partially because it typically runs the kind of story that validates a lot of their right wing prejudices, and from an international perspective, even the more moderate yanks love a bit of that "Bloody hell Double darn dagnabbit, you can't even buy a spoon in sharia britain!" type outrage bait. It makes them more comfortable in the illusion of their own freedom to see other countries having silly laws and brown people, and they lap it up.

I'm forever telling Yanks on another forum I visit that the Mail is basically the real life equivalent of that mad one that prints barmy nonsense in harry potter, like alex jones in newspaper form. But they don't believe me, because they would genuinely, consciously rather believe you can't eat pork in manchester or whatever. they like it that way.

>>70308
When it's literally the second sentence in their article, how have they left it out?

>>42555

>>42556

I forgot this artist existed. Such familiar faces and vaginas, lol.
J Nalor comics are pretty good.

>>42549
>I have no objection to vanilla furry stuff.
>I have a number of objections to the stuff in this thread.
When you say vanilla, do you mean softcore? I can see nothing here that's not vanilla furry, apart from some possibly light BDSM (a few chains, a lead, etc)

>>42551
>It brings to mind the old received wisdom that men prefer visual stimulation, and women prefer mental stimulation. I'd disagree with that, because I'm firmly in the latter camp and I'm certainly a bloke, but I think that's basically the dynamic at play.
>(Unless that means I'm actually trans, but I don't think it does)
I call it 'concept porn' more about non-generic scenarios and worldbuilding. For better or worse it's really difficult to find anything worthwhile, although 'horror porn' seems to be a growing genre.

>>42564
>When you say vanilla, do you mean softcore?
Depends what you mean. I just know that nipples that look like plungers, the weird metallic sheen that others have mentioned, the lip-spreading of what looks like a sphincter, the unrealistic amount of fluid everywhere... none of it's a turn-on. Post some fuckin' Peaches and Cream instead or something.

>>42565

It's all very Tom of Finland.

>>5370
>with a painting of Tsar Nikolas II prominently displayed in the background.
Because he approves of the tsar or to imply he and Tutu were on the same wavelength? That is very, very confusing. Nicholas II makes Oswald Mosely look like a member of Labour Friends of Israel ffs. Dershowitz is such a freak and it's concerning he can just rock up for an interview no questions asked on the BBC. Someone at the Big British Castle is very out of touch these days and given my fondness and respect for the institution that's concerning.

>>5374
And thanks to the OJ case, we also ended up with the Kardashian clan.

>>5378

I'm usually very sceptical of the "Great Man" theory of history. But there are some cases where it's striking just how much evil really does come back to one person in the end.

Any of you lads seen 'the Scary of Sixty-first' (2021) yet?

>>5380
>After two mismatched roommates discover that their new Upper East Side apartment once belonged to the late pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, the pair find themselves compelled to uncover—and relive—the murky secrets of their domicile
What the fuuuuck

>>28076
It's a good question.

Personally I would think about buying a little M.2 drive and putting it in a USB case - that would rock.

Most decent-quality USB 3 flash drives will approach hard drive levels of performance, which may or may not be acceptable to you. Do be careful about where you buy from, because Amazon and eBay are full of counterfeits.

The better (but more expensive) option is to go with an external SSD. The Samsung T5 500GB is available for under £70 and has all the performance and durability you'd expect from a Samsung SSD.

If you've got an older laptop with limited storage, I'd recommend just installing a decent-sized SSD. It's not all that difficult, SATA SSDs are cheap as chips these days and you'll see a huge increase in responsiveness if you're still booting from a hard drive.

>>42558
Is this recent? If so, she is making some girl very happy.

>>42559
That picture is about six years old. These days her face is puffier from the drugs/booze/antidepressants; I know she went off the rails a bit and lost custody of her daughter to Klitschko.

>>42560
I for one think she looks better now. But knowing this place, is that really a surprise?

>>42561
Yeah, those cheeks are looking lovely and squirrely.

Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, would get it. Hoo boy. What a babe. She probably also disapproves of Vladimir Putin, as I do, so we might even get on and enjoy each other's company too.

Your mums a mysterious isochronous curve.

(This doesn't really seem like an /IQ/ thread though)

>>70252

i first thought it was a parody of kids science shows fromt he 70s and 80s but i've found out it was a real show

i thought some youtubers were making these videos today and making them look 40 years old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_CoSpZoXK4

>>95178

The Tory party is a loose coalition of people with very different ideological positions. There are certainly small-state libertarians, but there are also nationalists, populists and reactionaries. The party is and always has been irreconcilably divided on a multitude of issues; the main thing they have in common is a willingness to work together.

Covid hasn't caused the party to explode. The drawing to a close of Brexit did bring up a lot of internal divisions, but the party is remarkably resilient to that sort of thing. The leadership has collapsed, but that's a very different matter. CCHQ is still in fighting form and they've got half a dozen leadership candidates who could win an election. It doesn't matter which of those people become leader; the party will give them their full support (at least in public) and build a campaign around them.

>>95222
There's something about women's voices in general, I think. I remember having a 1980s voice simulator on the Commodore 64, and the instruction manual explained that the robotic voice was female because women's voices are easier to understand than men's voices. And indeed, all the voices on trains and things are nearly always women. So perhaps it's to do with that. However, I know a soft-spoken Southern lady with a genuinely retarded voice, like she properly goes "duhhhh" when she speaks, and I don't mind her voice because it doesn't really have an accent. Meanwhile, that BBC voiceover woman from Blackburn is fucking awful. Her accent is so deliberate, so forced, so obviously chosen by committee to sound "ordinary" and, most offensively of all, "just like you, you ignorant peasant". I could actually go to Blackburn and never once hear an accent as strong as hers. I hate her.

So it's probably the Northern thing rather than sounding like a moron. But then, I think a few of the posters here type like dickheads with your "cop wor lass's tits, aye" bollocks. Again, if you don't know anyone who talks like that in real life, it sounds so fake.

>>95228
Come to think of it, since I posted this, I have also remembered that I hate Danny Dyer and anyone with too much of a Bristol accent too. So I guess people (=me, the ambassador of all humanity) hate Angela Rayner because she has a strong accent, rather than anything beyond that.

>>95222

My only objection to this is that they have a pretty valid point and then they have to spoil it by going all "Ehhhr but the poooor woeeemmeeenn :( :( :("

Let's say I had a telephone interview, prior to a full interview, with some fancy City of London family company. Do you reckon I'd improve my chances if I covered up my thick Sarf Leeds chav drawl and pretended to be posh? Yes, the answer is definitely and unequivocally yes.

>>95237>>95232
Accent bias is absolutely a thing. Isn't it Brummies who are perceived to be the least intelligent in the UK according to accent bias? Least trustworthy at least.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/brummie-accent-ranked-least-trustworthy-19204313

>>95222
She's thoroughly up her own arse if she thinks this specific thing is about gender. It's mindboggling that one could even isolate it to that considering how massively obvious it is that 'working class' accents exist and 'northern' accents are looked down on, while RP accents are seen as a mark of quality and intelligence.

It must either be clickbait or complete self absorption.

>So it's probably the Northern thing rather than sounding like a moron. But then, I think a few of the posters here type like dickheads with your "cop wor lass's tits, aye" bollocks. Again, if you don't know anyone who talks like that in real life, it sounds so fake.
I remember the first time I heard a geordie say 'pal', and when I sounded it out it felt so wrong. A few years of living in the area and it's now completely natural and feels normal for me to say.

And you're going to find people hamming it up here, especially now they know you find it annoying.

>>25397
> I don't want to fall into typical boomerish nostalgia about how everything was better when I was a young 'un (even if it was), but if I was to try and look for a rational explanation I'd say it's because games are bigger money and bigger budget than ever before; as a result development cycles take longer, and there are fewer risks being taken by big publishers. Thus nowadays, there are maybe two or three truly high quality games each year, where we could have dozens in years gone by.

You're spot on though, it was massively better when things were worse.

1) Devs no longer have to deal with as many technical constraints, reducing innovation.

2) DLC means gone are the days of unlocking everything in the game through your own hard work/luck. Fighting games in particular have been shocking for this, considering the golden age around PS1/PS2 era was full of unlockables and rewards which are now paywalled.

2.5) The resulting slowdown in production of new titles/taking risks as you mentioned, Rockstar being the most egregious example of this with their ridiculous GTAV lifespan.

3) Market increasing massively with far too many casual gamer wallets dictating the direction of gaming, meaning low effort annual releases like FIFA/NBA/NFL, and CoD. Safe, very slight changes to formula at best between instalments, mainly just milking people.

4) Prepurchasing. Fuck prepurchasing.

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>>25401
I think I've complained about this before, maybe in this thread, but battle passes are to me the worst part of modern gaming (at least now lootboxes are dying out). I like the idea of unlocking stuff through gameplay. But with the battle pass I have to pay money to earn the right to unlock stuff through gameplay. So if I want the super shiny armour, I need to grind XP to level up to 100, and also drop £7 or whatever to unlock what I rightfully unlocked. Absolute madness. Stealing your time and your money.

>>25401
Modern gaming is an alien world to me, but have some genres completely vanished? I hear about FPSes and third-person shooters and sports games, and that's basically it. Does anyone still make strategy games? Or Dungeons and Dragons RPGs? There hasn't been a new SimCity for a while, or Baldur's Gate, has there? Are the entire genres extinct?

>>25403
Baldur's Gate 3 has been in early access for over a year, by the same devs who did the (massively highly rated and successful) Divinity Original Sin and its sequel. There was a D&D based action RPG last year where you play as Drizzt, it was shit but it exists. Sega do a lot of strategy games, like the upcoming Total War Warhammer 3, and in the last few years there's been lots of Total Wars, Humankind (very disappointing), Two Point Hospital. Age Of Empires 4 came out a couple of months ago. SimCity effectively died after the last big installment failed, but there's Cities XL and its many expansions to fill that niche. Also weirder city builders like Frostpunk and the one where you make a society of intelligent beavers.

>>25403
> Does anyone still make strategy games?
Strategy games I'm not too up on, if you mean RTS then I really don't know. Grey Goo and Planetary Annihilation were both released after SC2, but they're also more than a few years old at this point

> Or Dungeons and Dragons RPGs?
The RPG genre is doing very well, but D&D mechanics not so much. To a modern audience that's never played D&D the hidden rolls are a bit opaque, I guess. But as >>25404 points out, Baldurs Gate is, in theory and barring Kickstarter hell, going to continue.

> There hasn't been a new SimCity for a while
There was one, it was shit. Cities Skylines is the most recent Sim City like game that's highly regarded. Anno 2205 is more Sim City than Anno, though it's much simplified in comparison. But those two are also more than a few years old.

I think the city builder has been, at least in part, replaced by the factory builder, which is alive and kicking and scratches much the same itch.

>>95204

>Trotsky went around insisting the USSR was capitalist. Granted, Stalin evidentially didn't like that one bit.

As far as I can tell, nobody really liked Are Leon all that much. Not sure what the beef was mind you, because I'm not enough of a nerd to have read up on him yet.

>Lenin also argued positively for state capitalism in the earlier part of the USSR's existence.

I think Lenin was more towards that OG Marxist type of sentiment that communism has to come about as the inevitable end-point transformation of capitalism itself, or else it will fail. I tend to agree with that. The trouble with most communist countries throughout history is that they forced it in too soon, when those countries were barely industrialised before it.

>>95206
Stalin believed in "socialism in one country": if you can achieve glorious communism in your own country, all the other countries will follow suit when they see how good it is, so you don't need to go interfering in their business until then.

Trotsky preferred "permanent revolution": seize every opportunity to bring every country closer to communism, so that they eventually all become communist around the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_one_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_revolution

So yes, Trotsky sounds like he had the potential to have been even more of a madman than Stalin was, crazy though that seems.

>>95201

>it pivoted to state capitalism
>an extremely authoritarian capitalist state.
>China isn't communist. It is ex-communist.

State capitalism isn't a real thing though, it's a distraction. Capitalism is private ownership, communism is public ownership. State capitalism means the state (the public) in control of the capital. Essentially, when communism becomes authoritarian, call it 'state capitalism' so it doesn't look bad. As we did with that German politician from the 30s and 40s.

>>95196

The randy Scandi socialism thing is a bit of a myth, in part they're currently more free market than the USA. They did have a very socialist period in the 70s or 80s.

Some of these things are cultural and the overlap is weird. Sweden's response to COVID is more like that of a red-state, but people in Sweden are more compliant and trusting of their government as they're more collective culturally.

Somewhat ironic that this article was posted on the same week that a consortium of doctors and academics decided to try to take down Joe Rogan.

>>95208

>No no no, you see, words mean what they mean when I like what they mean, if nit then they don't.

Ah, well then that settles the issue.

>>5045

Dragon Dildo Den?

>>5043
I think he's right. Sometimes I find myself becoming randy when I need to take a piss or shit. It's like how you can wake up in the morning and masturbate but if you get up to pee first then you suddenly have others things on your mind.

>>5047
I think you both have prostate problems.

>>5048

On the contrary, our prostates are working exactly as nature intended. Yours must have something wrong with it if you don't get randy when you need a shit.

If someone has a near-death experience will they wake up to find that they've shit themselves or will they also have had a near-poo experience?