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• Egotrippi: Matkustaja
• Scandinavian Music Group: Vieläkö soitan banjoa?
• Kalush Orchestra: Нумо Козаки
• Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung: Der Tod
• B3nte, JulleMeck, Amero: In The Hall Of The Mountain King

It also has a certain other, rather more precisely defined, meaning.

If you start feeling that everyone is a crazy tankie, switch to an instance that has defederated from the Tankie Triad.

Possible but unlikely.

The net result is positive all the same.

Apparently about 300 billion per year is what would be needed for ending extreme poverty.

I’d say we should.

Not everyone on this planet is poor. I don’t need that money. But maybe roughly 2 billion people do. And “not even a thousand dollars” is two years’ salary. In this case we’re talking about a quarter of the world’s population, so you “not even a thousand dollars” becomes “not even four thousand dollars”.

And that means: “Not even the salary for 8 years. Possibly only 5 years!”

I mean, the money is enough to completely eradicate poverty from this planet. That’s all that really matters.

In a lot of countries 10 000 dollars is the salary for about 5 000 days. Or in other words, far over 10 years. And you were talking about several tens of thousands, which means several decades of life when distributed among 300 million people, about a decade per person if distributed among a billion people.

A being more relevant than B does not mean B is not relevant.

Yes.

A lot of stuff here does look odd to a European such as I am, and I am sure the people writing it don’t understand that they’re assuming all the world works like their own nation does.

But that is not the point of this post. If you want to ask about my experience on Forumverse, then create a separate post for that.

You’re essentially hijacking a conversation here.

This is something that can be found out, actually. For example, large monasteries that have existed for a millennium or longer are likely candidates. Though, maybe some airport loo generates enough turd per day that they can cover that monastery’s monthly turd production in a day?

That would mean that they are able to turdify our seas in half a century as much as the large monastery can do in about 15 centuries.

What toilets have a constant queue 24/7, decade after decade? There aren’t that many of those.
We can do this. We just need to put our heads into it!

Are there… Ulterior motives to this post?

Some literal translations of the books’ names into English. They are unlikely to correspond with the real English titles, but might be enough for guessing what books these are in other languages.

Das ABC der Rollenspiele – The ABC of role playing games
Die göttliche Komödie – The divine comedy
Liegt die Antwort in den Sternen? – Does the answer lay in stars?
Eine kurze Geschicte des Universums – A short story of the universe
Der Außenirdische ist auch nur ein Mensch – Even the extraterrestrial is just a human
Ihr habt keinen Plan - darum machen wir einen – Youse have no plan - that’s why we’ll make one
Kosmologie für Füßgänger – Cosmology for pedestrians
Was hat das Universum mit mir zu tun? – What has the universe got to do with me?
Sieg der Blödigkeit – Victory of stupidity
Unberechenbar – Unreliable
Die Zukunftsformel – The formula for future

From their perspective, you are in an aquarium. Air-rium?

They are watching the bipedal mammal.

Interesting… Historically the prefix ge- has meant doing something completely. For example, there used to be the verb winnen, which meant “to fight victoriously”. In German it’s nowadays “gewinnen”, constructed from meaning “fighting victoriously all the way until finish”, or more shortly: “to win.” And in English the it has lost the infinite form’s ending “-en”, and is nowadays just “win” (or “to win”).

And then in German a device with -ge in front of its name means it’s assembled out of several parts that somehow function together. So, I’d say based on this that the back three quarters of this … animal? … either technically consists of an amount of hogs, or are several independent components that together form a hog. And do that without having a head.

If you add a he(a)d zu dem Gehog, it becomes a full-fledged animal capable of both locomotion and thought. And spikety-spike-spiky pokey things.

Of course it could also be that “gehog” does not have the prefix “ge” at all, but is instead “geh” + “og”. That would again be German, and would mean “an og that walks”. And an “og” would probably be the same thing as the Dutch “oog” and the German “Auge”: An eye. So, if you take a walking eye and add a hed to it, you get a hedgehog… Ouch.

…of its own choice.

I believe at the point they have already become tankies, no good goal exists anymore. They only seem to work to defend what they have already achieved. And that is oppression.

I’m not sure socialism or communism can ever be made to work, but at least Marx and Lenin made it much more difficult to ever get there by demandinfmg we do the opposite of the goals of communism in order to get communism. People who are okay with cleansings and repression will cleanse and repress.

You don’t really go through the chore of reading Capital without really wanting to change the society for better. And because Marx, the death of communism, preferred violence and is convincing with his way of argumentation (at least if you’re a bit stupid), those who read the book until the end, end up forfeiting all good goals and will go for repression.

Tankies are people who used to want good things and fairness. And then they converted from that into tankies.

A strong leader will always lead you into a Russia. Into a quagmire.

I completely agree.

And now, when writing this… Argh. Uyghurs. You absolutely cannot compare it to what Nazis did, but if you compare it to what other fascist countries died then yes, that’s quite some consequence.

I still would not write an equal sign between fascists and tankies, though.

In the end, tankie is a type of a socialist, and one becomes socialist through a will to do good. Being a tankie is some EXTREMELY fucking ill-advised way to do good, because the result is indeed very very bad. But you don’t really become a fascist in order to do good. You become a fascist because you think you are worth more than others.

I think being a tankie is about the goal being more important than the means – all the way to an extent where the means completely obliterate the goal. And being a fascist is about deciding that being limitlessly selfish is okay. One is at least trying to have a good goal. The other one is just… “Everything for ME and MY TRIBE, all others should DIE!” But in the end, what’s being done to Uyghurs is just horror. Being thrown into a concentration camp and being subjected to various inhumane experiments is already on a very high level of evil to have to experience.

It has several transgender characters that are properly fleshed out and not just tokens that are put in the game in order to fulfill some specific criteria. And they are presented as “just another npc with lots of interaction”, and you need to talk quite a bit with them to notice they are trans.

It is often considered to be the game with the best transgender representation among all mainstream games out there.