Thank you! This went viral on twitter and I found the name of the project, it’s the ragwon offshore fishing farm. With this I was able to find more pictures, going to see about making a page for it on prolewiki
There’s a LOT more pictures on google but I won’t saturate the grad’s server with them lol
what a next week huh? captain it’s saturday
leave paragliders to the pros Felix
Why do games “ought” to be anything? Games can tell incredible stories through the very medium of interactivity
I think the trap is putting such an emphasis on stories x) when this is not what makes a game different from a movie etc – that is, telling a story is not where the medium shines. Any story can be told through literature, cinema, theater, painting (comics), audio, etc. several have been adapted over the years in these various formats even.
This is actually my principal point, that amounting games to their storytelling is restraining what the medium is capable of and what sets it apart. What drives the choice of a medium over another when starting to craft a story? I write because it’s easy for me to do so, I only need a keyboard and my imagination to start typing – and actually I think a trap writers fall a lot into nowadays is to imagine their stories as movies in their head and then write that on paper. But the paper medium is capable of telling things in a very different way that a movie can.
Is a story really the principal drive to make a game? Does chess have in-universe lore? Would the experience of playing Tetris be improved by introducing each piece as a character with their own backstories? I think the medium has lost a lot of uniqueness over this, as if games needed to have a story on par with the best to be considered a success (not in terms of sales but more in terms of acceptance as a valid medium).
I don’t even think cinema needs a story to count as a movie either tbh. You could show me a sequence of cool shots and I’d love that just on its own haha. Kojima does a lot of cool photography stuff (the way of setting up your camera) and he is inspired by cinema in his games, which is cool, I just kinda wish he also remembered to make a game around it. Because I can also look at cool camera angles in any movie!
In a roundabout way (I cut out a lot and actually rewrote the first review in the OP because it was so long lol), what I’m saying is that what gives meaning to a medium is what sets it apart – its uniqueness compared to other medium. The camera, for example, was for a long time unique to cinema: the way you set it up to capture a scene, how you tone the colors, crop things out of frame, angle it, travel it, etc. With the advent of 3D games the differences started to blur, and so it’s natural that game studios, when experimenting with their digital cameras, took to cinema for inspiration. Likewise early on in the history of cinema (very early on), movies were shot as if it was photography, with a static camera that captured the entire stage, and there was also very little editing done in the overall film.
I agree undertale benefits from being a game, but I think we could make the argument that even for undertale, the game comes before the story. In this case, it would be difficult to tell the story successfully using another medium. I didn’t play undertale a whole lot, I played more of Spec Ops and while I love what they tried to do, I have to admit the fourth wall kinda fails when the game tells you you could quit at any time… after you bought the game for $60 on release. But that’s for another time lol.
It’s even worse because if you remove China from the World line, world poverty is actually going up…
please tell me there is HSR
Okay I wasn’t aware you could just buy them lol! I didn’t know anyone was selling those
Do you have a source for the latch mechanism? I don’t see it on the pictures but I’m having trouble finding good pictures of the model.
My understanding is usually this is something they 3d-print completely aftermarket (at least in Ukraine they did).
I’m more interested in seeing people join Pal Action to sabotage Elbit factories (and the factory in the US that produces these Autel drones too!) than seeing them take to social media to criticize China to an audience of liberals who already went through 4 years of HK riots-Uyghur ‘genocide’-South China Sea claims cycle. Priorities.
Mostly Ukraine from their wording imo
The only mention I could find of the drone used in the attack being a Blowfish is from friendlyjordies, and I have yet to watch his entire 45 minute video just to find this mention.
The drone was described by eyewitnesses and matched to the Blowfish afterwards. It could also be an “Israeli” Golden Eagle, which looks similar:
Blowfish for comparison:
Despite Indonesia’s policy on Palestine they still acquire “Israeli” tech, such as the IAI drone, through middlemen.
I reiterate what I said in the OP, that our countries are the ones enabling genocide. The attack was carried out by 4 helicopters, one of which was Airbus, one drone (the one in question), and used Serbian-made Krušik mortar shells and French Thales rockets. Indonesia is confirmed to possess at least one blowfish, but whether it was used at Kiwirok is another question, and we also don’t know at this time where exactly the got it from and in what condition.
She’s now at CHRD and learned her lesson because CHRD doesn’t divulge any information about itself. All they have is a collection of articles they get from other places.
Yet just a few days ago the Guardian wrote:
According to data gathered by Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a US-based NGO, between 2017 and 2019, there were 29 cases of law firms or lawyers having their licences revoked or suspended, compared with nine cases between 2014 and 2016.
Which means this no-name, opaque NGO is able to investigate this kind of stuff. Who pays for it? Like I get doing a labor of love but I also doubt people like Sophie Richardson don’t have a source of income.
In a way it makes them glow even more because you have to wonder how exactly that no-name NGO with a website made in 2008 counts as a job. This is the only job she has listed on her linkedin, along with her previous title at HRW and a one-year stint as a ‘visiting scholar’ at Stanford in-between the two.
CHRD on linkedin itself has only 2-10 employees; this is filled in by how many people list them as their employer. They have a “Team associate” living in Hong Kong… unfortunately, their profile is private. CHRD is based in Washington ostensibly as it lists two employees in washington, one of them being Sophie.
OSINT is a joke but sometimes we can still use a bit of it lol
Some people use totanota but imo it’s kind of all the same. Email is not designed for privacy because of the protocols it’s based on which are super old. Assume all email can be backdoored.
Thank you everyone. The circular pipeline basically goes like this:
CIA does the actual heavy lifting and finds the documents, maps, testimonies, etc. -> they are sent to journalists or NGOs to base a story on -> the state department uses the resulting articles to make policy -> the journalists receive an award from a state dept. NGO to deflect criticism of the “investigation”.
OSINT is a lie, it’s the CIA all the way down, philanthropy isn’t real.
One more thing because I know a lot of people use proton. In 1970 a longstanding company based in Switzerland, Crypto AG, was found to have been owned by the CIA. An investigation found that the swiss intelligence services benefited from this relationship for years. Today, Proton Mail is based in switzerland despite not being owned or founded by swiss nationals. in 2024, they ran a raffle fundraiser and the first beneficiary of the raised money they listed was fucking freedom house. There is now a clear link between proton and the state department through freedom house.
Does your browser allow javascript to run?
Added a progress bar, in lieu of having page numbers
This is the type of content I log on for 🫡
likely paid for by white people lol, I love how even in their fantasies they’re not sure
non-editors can edit content pages or even create them now on ProleWiki (it just logs your IP), however you can’t upload pictures but you can use them if they’re already uploaded. I just need to get around to uploading a bunch of pictures about it on PW and then anyone will be able to add to the page. If you google ragwon county offshore farm a lot of information comes up so there’s plenty of sources to pick from.