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bruh you can't speak like that anymore

I was very happy when the band of goblin singers and dancers I had recently admitted to live in my fort (to entertain the patrons in my tavern, which was of some repute locally) turned out to all be werebadgers. This caused the whole attempt to fail in a cascading manner, as at first I thought the problem had miraculously resolved itself once my guards had killed all hostiles, and I failed to provide the necessary precautions for an epidemic of lycanthropy (not that I would have known how to, anyhow); only to witness the carnage return about a month later, after which the fort consisted of one wounded, elderly dwarf as a leader and a dozen or so children. Most of these I saw transform back to dwarves, so I abandoned the fortress to ruin.

Anyway, that was the first time I actually played Dwarf Fortress as-intended instead of just fucking around and losing interest. It took probably around a hundred hours across multiple versions, but I really recommend Dwarf Fortress nonetheless. It's kinda like Rimworld as a story generator, and also DF doesn't have a win-state (losing is fun), so it isn't the gameiest game ig? And also the mechanics run deeper than dwarf can dig, and the UX might be a hurdle (though the Steam version improved on this significantly, as it also has a tutorial).

Werebadgers made my fort tore itself apart. 6/5 best game ever

The ongoing battle against online privacy is a symptom of capitalism, the EU is a capitalist state. The only thing the EU would ever do against US-based capitalism is to gobble up those capital gains for themselves. It doesn't matter if it happes or not, the privacy-issues for end-users would never be alleviated by the EU.

Thankfully I haven't had to use any Meta products for a while now, and as far as Alphabet is considered I'll turn 126 years old on 01/01/2026 and live where my country's parliament building is. Because fuck them, that's why.

I know you did, I've actually shared it forward with some friends irl recently! Yeah I needed to go and look up these meanings for the quiz, which is something I generally like to do and often end of going down rabbitholes on wikis so no harm in that.

I've never even heard of "council communism" tbh, but then again I'm only just learning about all this. Looking up the meaning and stuff for "democratic centralism" made me realize how little I actually know, but in a positive way if that makes sense?

Well said.

Hey I get you. The great northern birdsnest I still call home has taught me since childhood that everything coming out of Russia has been, is and always will be bad. Just your standard rascism, "ryssä on ryssä vaikka voissa paistais" type of shit you know? "We weren't actually nazis despite what we did with who in the war" and other collected denialisms on top of that. Unlearning the capitalist indoctrination is difficult, but I have learned to lend my critical support for the Russian state in the fight against western imperialist hegemony as my understanding of the world increases.

the european nations who previously plundered the global south with their literal empires being imperialists still? no, surely you must be sharing russian (because you mentioned ukraine) mis- and/or disinformation!

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capitalism i guess

Because it's often real fucking scary? My every past (often futile and misguided) attempt at forming a (stricly monogamous cishet) relationship ended for one reason (me) or another (the other half). I have been hurt by myself and others, by my own feelings or the other's or the lack thereof from either. Now I live together with an incredible woman who gets me and I get her and our futures have so far seemed well aligned and stuff and I never have to fear to be judged or ridiculed by her unlike in previous attemps and I know she trusts me (and I trust her when she says so) as well. And yet still I find myself fearing: what if she'll just stop loving me because of xyz? Because everyone else has left so far (sure I might have personally driven away a few because of my fears and insecurities, and maladaptations or other toxicities, but I've grown from those times emotionally). It's real scary to open your shell and be at your most vunerable, but it is also required. Not everyone can be expected at any point to be able to do it just like that.

That's my two cents.