TheLepidopterists [he/him]

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Cake day: June 20th, 2021

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  • It’s the province. It’s like a state. This is like if you thought the US was genociding Hoosiers but didn’t know what “Indiana” meant and then when called out on it you said

    I looked it up, it’s a city in The Hoosier Autonomous Region. Please give me some links on how that’s relevant. I don’t like search engines for this stuff.

    It almost doesn’t matter what else you say going forward, you’ve been speaking from ignorance this whole time, which makes all your words seem like they’re in bad faith. We all know what Sartre says about antisemites fascists liberals leftists and words.









  • Ever since I was a kid. When I was very young I probably would have said because they tell better more (I wouldn’t have used this word, but it’s what I would have mean) focused stories than western RPGs.

    Now I think I can be honest and say that a lot of it is nostalgia. I still have trouble replaying some of the ones I grew up on, I’ve gotten to a point where I need to be making choices in games that don’t have realtime elements at least so “select attack until the boss, then Fire 2 until out of MP, heal as needed” is kinda boring. A lot of games have been experimenting with this lately though (Octopath Traveler, Sea of Stars, Star Renegades [technically a roguelike]) which is nice to see.

    Strategy jrpgs where you move around little dudes on a map hold up better I think.










  • I’ve seen a lot of nostalgic pro-Soviet content, but in a thread on the app where someone asked how they felt about the Soviet Union, there was a lot of sentiment being expressed that indicated that they’re still pretty sore towards the Soviet Union about the Sino-Soviet split.

    I even saw people suggesting that in its post-Stalin state it was better for the Soviet Union to fall.

    If I’m being honest, I was pretty shocked, but I held my tongue because it doesn’t feel like it’s my place to criticize.

    Edit: to be clear, my experience on the app has been overwhelmingly positive, and I love seeing the cultural exchange, because it has me very hopeful that one of the most important pieces of propaganda that the American ruling class has inculcated in its working class (China bad) will be broken.