jabrd

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

You can't explain starfield's narrative weakness without citing operation paperclip. Not correctly, anyway

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Honestly this plus "Skyrim-in-space" make me feel pretty confident that this game is going to have staying power just because we know how good the modding community is for bethesda games. Skyrim was panned up front as genre generic fantasy with a pinch of viking magic but has been played continuously for a decade plus because it made for such a good blank slate to add onto. Also I guarantee every current UI issue already has modders working on it. Starfield script extender just dropped and the game hasn't even officially been released

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Suck off me

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Germany's green energy push was secretly propped up by outsourcing fossil fuel needs to Russian natural gas. The war in Ukraine and America subsequently blowing up the Nordstream 2 pipeline means Germany will need to find new alternatives to feeding their energy needs. One could hope this results in a speed up of green tech development as it becomes more of a pressing necessity than just, you know, the right thing to do. And hey speaking of knowing the right thing to do and then not doing it because of the perverse economic incentives for ignoring it, it's funny to note that the global leader in green tech is China but due to this new cold war the US is brewing and due to Germany's newly-humbled-into role as Jr Junior partner to the US there's no way there will be the necessary cooperation there between national tech sectors

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

To corroborate your point you can just look at life expectancy in rural communities to see that it rose steadily throughout the Maoist period and then froze during the Dengist reforms

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Deng literally introduced market reforms to do so. This is not the own you think it is

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Historically you have to campaign as being against the war but then promptly set about the business of creating a war once in office