Yeah the gameplay definitely didnt match the tone. Killing was the only option for most of the game. In the cutscenes, she was portrayed as a survivor or whatever. Then in the actual gameplay she was a stone cold killer.
Same problem with the harry potter game. It’s supposed to be about the school, but then you end up wandering the world murdering 100s of people
Because I don’t trust anecdotes from individuals
[proceeds to trust some random patreon website and some youtube travel influencers…]
anyway. it was a fun afternoon of earning capitalist value tokens while pretending to add value at work… thanks all for the discussion
the claim is right there in the OP’s meme… “…china is oppressing uyghurs”. i don’t know why you keep demanding “claims” when it’s right in the meme that i was responding to.
the meme suggests that the only evidence comes from some fucker named adrian, whom i’ve never heard of, and RFA and falun gong.
i merely suggested that first hand accounts from my friends might actually be valid… maybe at least something to think about… but apparently listening to actual uyghur people and talking to my actual family in china is just western propaganda… so discussion is already non-starter
anyway. it was a fun afternoon of earning capitalist value tokens while pretending to add value at work… thanks all for the discussion
it’s a family i know here, who left china due to oppression… nobody said anything about violent genocide.
i really don’t need to type out their whole family situation because why waste my time getting instantly downvoted? you’ve all already decided that talking to uyghurs is fake news…
Clearly you can see that my point is that some criticism is real and some is not, right?
no, it’s really not clear what the criteria is for real criticism, vs. not real… seems pretty arbitrary when looking at two very prominent examples of china oppressing cultural/ethic minorities
“Critiquing” China based on exaggerations and atrocity propaganda is bad. LGBTQIA+ rights fall into the former category, the overwhelming majority of allegations surrounding Xinjiang fall into the latter.
i still don’t understand why you think that oppression of LGBT is real, and oppression of uyghurs is exaggeration and propaganda… why is it so OBVIOUS to you that the uyghurs are flourishing, but LGBT people are actually being oppressed?
i KNOW actual uyghur people and i KNOW at least one actual gay person in china… i am chinese and i have family there… i don’t understand how weird internet white knights can wave away the hardships of one group as OBVIOUSLY FAKE (despite likely having never spoken to an actual uyghur person, or even someone from another muslim minority in china), while just arbitrarily believing that china oppresses LGBT people?
by your logic, there are openly gay chinese youtubers who haven’t been executed yet… therefore, there is no oppression and it’s just western propaganda warping your view of china.
the uyghurs i know are not rich people who fled the country and hate china because communism took away their stuff (that would be my taiwanese relatives who DID lose all their bourgeoisie privilege to the communists…) why would they be making shit up about what is happening over there? and why would you be so inclined to dismiss what they have to say just to white knight for china?
while there’s very little evidence of a supposed genocide in Xinjiang.
again, nobody is saying china is doing an israel genocide on uyghurs… read the original meme post… it says oppression
while also believing China has a long way to go on LGBTQIA+ rights
why do you believe this? i heard that china is amazing at supporting gay/trans people… anything else you heard is just reactionary, anti-communist, western propaganda… you see how that works?
Right now you’re doing the bit where Zionists say queer people shouldn’t support Palestine because groups like Hamas are anti-LGBTQIA+
no, i’m doing the bit where a bunch of woke white people are strangely acting like china has zero credible criticisms… while also strangely admitting that china has a long way to go on LBGTQIA+ rights
the problem with how Xinjiang is portrayed is that it’s the most reactionary, anti-communist people that are pushing the genocide theory the most.
so just because reactionaries/anti-communists are pushing the narrative to support their own ends makes the issue fake/invalid?
so if neo-nazis started supporting palestinians to push an anti-semitic agenda, that makes their oppression fake/invalid?
The idea that China is pushing out non-Han ethnicities is wrong, China’s NPC has great minority representation, ethnic minorities are well protected, and Uyghur culture is flourishing.
lol, again…100% non-chinese telling us how great it is over there (for non-han minorities). how do i know most of you aren’t even chinese?? ZERO actual chinese people, even the most woke ones, announce their preferred pronouns…
i’d love to see all you “they/them” folks try actually living in china…
btw, not making fun of pronouns… i support… i’m just pointing out the irony…
i really don’t understand all these people on .ml (who clearly aren’t chinese) bootlicking for china
look, i’m a “communist” as well… i hate capitalism, blah blah blah… you guys are right about so many things. china is great, the west fucking sucks. i 100% agree…
but i don’t understand why it has to extend to, “ALL criticism of china is invalid”… china has a clear objective of unifying the nation and the culture. and that means pushing out the non-han minorities such as the uyghur people.
is this achieved through extreme violence? of course not. that’s barbaric and not-subtle.
china knows how to play the long game. decades if needed. the west doesn’t see anything beyond a 4 year election cycle…
Nobody ever accused china of bombing cities and murdering children. You’re thinking of israel.
Genocide can take forms other than bombing and starvation.
Residential school system in Canada is considered a form of genocide on the native population. We dont have to literally bomb them out of existence to be considered a bad thing
I’ve never heard of any of these western sources you’re citing…
I do have uyghur friends though. Are they fake too?
Wait… what is mildly infuriating here?
fake linus? Or the fact that real linus doesnt know who elon musk is?
Omg! Proper grammar, spelling, and sentence structure! And a vocabulary higher than a grade 5 reading level!
MUST BE AI!!!
[eye roll emoji]
I’m curious, in your opinion when does something like this become an ad? Is it an ad if they they pop it up mid-show every hour? No? How about every 10 minutes, is it an ad then?
If you’re getting paid to promote someone else’s shit, it’s an ad…
If you’re promoting something related to your own businss on your own propery and not getting paid by an external party, it’s probably not an ad…
When you use an app from big tech, you’re on their property. They can display whatever they want on their app. They can promise “ad-free” and break that promise if they want… or in this case, most people will agree it’s not an ad
Again, my explanation of our enshittified reality is not an endorsement… hence i choose to avoid big tech where i can and opt for free software.
I welcome you to do the same instead of demanding that amazon follow your view of the world
Marketing departments attempt to bend reality and public opinion to benefit their company. Their efforts have obviously been effective with at least one commenter on Lemmy.
lol, you’re making judgements on people trying to explain reality to you while you’re the one actively giving money to facists
Then cancel your amazon…
I’m just telling you how the world works and why what you’re seeing still counts as “ad-free”
i agree it sucks. So cancel your sucky service and don’t try to compare me to a child abuse apologist
In the advertising world, it’s not advertising, it’s a promotion
For example, if you go to the grocery store, there is a difference between hearing/seeing something that says, “bananas are on special today” vs “go buy [specific brand] of cereal today!”
still sucks though
TIL: i’m colourblind
It’s always saudi in philadelphia
I have a great seeding record, but cant find any private trackers to join…
Where do i start?
i only re-started my torrenting activities in the last few years since the streaming landscape has become a hellscape
I’ve never had to manually delete kernels.
Apt autoremove automatically takes care of older kernels
Maybe try reinstalling your default stable kernel linux-image-amd64 (or whatever architecture)
Typically, no need to specify specific kernel versions like 6.12
What makes you think chinese firms wont also jump on the AI bandwagon?
someone with an actual CS/engineering background feel free to correct me, but i feel like the only way out of this for gamers is if someone finds a better type of chip for AI work. GPUs just happened to be the best thing for the job when the world went crazy, they were never designed specifically for these workloads.
If someone like tenstorrent can design a RISC-V chip for these LLM workloads, it might take some demand off gaming GPUs.