Been there, hope you can stick through it and make it out on top

Wizards of The Coast, they own the D&D brand

So so. Life is more stable but it seems to have come at the cost of a less active social life. Back when I was in turmoil I somehow was seeing people more often and out and about more. Now I’m busier and have a stable home I find that’s beginning to dwindle. Can’t have it all it seems.

It shows up as DZ on some browsers, why is DZ the shorthand for Algeria?

Khrushchev and Chernenko too. And depending on how you see it, Trotsky too.

Sorry to hear it comrade, hope it gets better.

How’s everything going comrades? I’m feeling good for the first time in a while.

no worries, its just a friendly jab at your CPUSA membership, thats all.

Wonder if he succumbed to the most common method of suicide for US whistleblowers: two gunshot wounds to the back of the head.

Good to see you back, and the apology is appreciated, I hope you’re forgiven. I remember you from the video game related posts you’d make each week. And the “AmAs” that you left under each weekly thread.

Tell me American, how does it feel to be back?

Not enough white men burned themselves in protest that time, clearly.

The only indicator for this is the idea that he might get the US out of Nato, but this seems like a pipe dream.

Or just leave the Indian names as they are because that’s in some cases literally the only remaining indication of the original inhabitants of that land, sadly.

I have met people from the US (in person!) who genuinely think along the following lines:

• Them: The election is coming up and I hate Trump, so I’ll probably vote for Biden.

• Me: But Biden is just as bad as Trump, and is facilitating war and Genocide.

• Them: Yeah maybe, but Trump is way worse for AMERICANS domestically, because he wants to take away LGBT and minority rights, so he’s the greater evil

• Me: Why vote for evil at all? Why not pick a third party with better policies overall?

• Them: Because that’s unrealistic and they have no chance.

I don’t understand how they think that they are bastions of democracy and morality in the world when they rationalize voting for literal warmongering genociders on the grounds that at the very least the genocide is happening abroad and they don’t have to care about it so long as they themselves have their social justices intact. And what tf sort of democracy do they have when the most basic concept of people choosing their leaders is done away with so easily that they resign themselves to one of two options because they cannot be bothered to take part in their politics beyond choosing red or blue instead of attempting to build some sort of opposition to them.

Ah right, well theres probably over 200 million of them by 2024, which is why I was confused.

Also to be clear, those 200 million shouldn’t be considered “Residents” they are every bit Indian citizens as any other Indian, and should be referred to as such, which is something the current government is trying to alter the perspective on.

What do you mean by 172 million residents? Are there really that many Muslim refugees from their neighboring countries that won’t get citizenship now? Or are you just referring to Indian Muslims generally?

What I don’t see many people talk about is how in my part of the world, and plenty of others, the film was actually censored to remove all of the nudity, so I didn’t actually get too bad of an experience in that regard. But the way it was done was bizarrely technical, to the extent in a film that put so much effort into practical effects, that the heaviest amount of CGI used in the film was applying clothing to nude actors, pretty funny.

Theres a scene where Oppenheimer is invited to attend a party hosted by some communist friends of his brother. He has some silly conversations with them where they talk about abolishment of property and ownership, mainly making a lot of smugness all around. Tough to explain but it just feels off, try and find a clip of it if you’re curious.

I saw the film when it came out, apart from the cringe inducing communist house party scene I thought it was alright, pointing out how cold war hysteria reached absurd levels in the US.

In the UK, All Royal family reporting is pure theatrics, similar to when the US starts randomly pushing UFO stories. In both cases theres usually something actually important they don’t want people to look into.