Pentiment was neat.

I wear socks that go above the ankle even in summer because the smaller ones have my shoes chafe the skin on my Achilles’ tendon, causing small but uncomfortable marks

The game actually is Eastern European. The devs are from Eastern Slovakia.

80 year old semi-senile guy vs 80 year old semi-senile guy vs 70 year old guy who literally had brainworms

I don’t know, but it has Italy written all over it.

Yeah, some through the Belarus-Poland border, which made Polish nationalists go wild and go full fortress Europe.

Just as expected really. It’s like a chud’s wet dream come true - finally! an invasion! time to KILL!

Oh hey, my family did this back in early 2010s Italy. The local gold and silver dealership proudly displayed a copy of L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics near the counter, that was fun.

The funny thing is that the 2% goal isn’t even binding. It’s been claimed that it is by the media and government, because it aligns with the state’s goals, but it’s basically militaristic propaganda.

From what I hear from people IRL?

No. Not even because of a belief the west will win. Lots of people seemingly don’t care if they die.

Ah, them. I’ve seen some of their videos already. There’s also Retcon 404 who does old Mecha reviews, I just remembered.

Oh yeah Hazel, forgot about them but they’re definitely a low output, high quality channel. The latter sounds interesting, I’ll check some of these videos out.

Ignoring no smoking signs is actually something I saw locals do fairly often on my trip to Japan

The war in Iraq and Afghanistan are ongoing thanks to American adventures abroad, Western Europe is having neoliberal reforms across the entirety of the continent and Socdems are starting their terminal decline. There are coups in Haiti, Ukraine, as well as the war in Darfur. Terrorism is thriving and will continue to do so for the next 14-years-ish and of course there’s the huge earthquake in Indonesia. Not to mention the popularity of communism was in the same terminal decline it’s still in today.

Because most young people were completely oblivious and more interested in what good video games came out that year (which is a constant, most people are libs), doesn’t mean it didn’t suck too.

I got offered a two week unpaid trial period. Since I otherwise don’t have anything else recent for the CV, I’ll take it.

It’s 2 PM smh. It’s job interview day. No idea how it’ll go.

The counter-revolution of 1989/1990, market reforms and associated recession and unemployment, Nazi gangs forming out of poor youths attacking leftists (“baseball bat years”), the Party for Democratic Socialism (SED successor, later known as the Left Party after merging with a left-SPD splinter group) getting into coalition governments with social democrats and supporting neoliberal policies leading to a loss of credibility, pro-Russian foreign policy sympathies that only the AfD openly supports, nationalism being seen as the answer to social problems and, of course, racism.

I think there’s a lot of people in a similar situation to mine and yours, probably a lot more than we realize because it’s embarrassing to even talk about

2 years for me, though I started an employment program funded by the Employment office recently. I get a basic subsidy of a couple hundred Euros and like 3/4 of the time there is wasted and/or mind-numbingly boring, but it’s an income and they’re helping me look for a job, write applications, etc. - even if it’s just to escape the boredom.

I know you’re probably American and the state probably doesn’t care much about such stuff, but it might be worth looking into something like it, even if it’s just to force yourself to get used to the horrid rhythm of the 40 hour work week and have something recent on your resume that looks good to the bourgies you have to beg for work to.

there’s actually a German section thereof - I once met one of them who tried to recruit me in Berlin (in English) lol.

As good (writing): Morrowind, Fallout New Vegas, Shin Megami Tensei II, Deus Ex

As communist: none.

Sakaki clearly wasn’t interested, and that’s okay. But Kaorin deserved better than what ended up happening to her in the later part of the show.