PonyOfWar

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Like the other comment says, "they" already exists in English.

So I'll answer for my own language, German, which actually doesn't have a gender-neutral pronoun for people. Personally, if people wanted to start using such a pronoun, I wouldn't have a problem with it. I also think, however, that this sort of language change can't be forced and if the majority of people don't want to use it, there's nothing to be done about it. So far, any attempts to establish such a thing were widely ignored, so I don't think there is much demand among the population to have one.

As a sidenote, it gets really awkward when German translators have to translate a non-binary person's pronouns into German. There is a scene in Star Trek Discovery where a character comes out as non-binary and in the German dub, they're using a combination of the English "they" and the German plural form to address them. Sounds extremely strange and stilted, most Germans were probably quite confused by that scene.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're mainly interested in PVP or resource gathering, New World.

If you want better PVE, more interesting storylines and better more varied world design, Guild Wars 2.

Personally, I quit New World as a mainly PVE player after playing for around 30 hours. It was just too mind-numbing killing the same 5 mob types over and over even after getting to a new area. Even reading all the quest texts, I never got very interested in the world or (barely existant) storyline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I quit playing after Mordor though, game just got too pointlessly difficult, even on landscape, lost all the fun I had with it.

Pretty sure they significantly balanced the difficulty down at some point after its release.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The ones I've been playing on and off over the past few years are Guild Wars 2 and Lord of the Rings Online.

GW2 is a really nice game to just pick up and play without needing huge time investments. It has a fun gameplay loop and well designed zones to explore. Haven't gotten around to playing the new expansion yet, but I hear it's pretty good.

LOTRO is great for that traditional MMO experience. The community is very friendly and surprisingly active. It has a nice atmosphere. They are also frequently giving away the expansion packs, so you get a lot of content for free.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some typical lunch dishes for me:

  • Curry/vegetable rice
  • Potato casserole with broccoli
  • Jacket potatoes with green sauce
  • Ramen (using Kurata vegan ramen soup stock)
  • Lentil curry
  • Various pasta dishes
  • Spinach lasagna
  • Ratatouille

Coffee and croissant for breakfast, bread with various spreads for dinner.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've been a vegetarian for about 20 years now. Other than that, I don't actively restrict my diet as I never got close to being overweight. My main meals are mostly healthy I'd say, but I do probably consume too much sugar.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

HeartGold and SoulSilver improved upon gen 2 in almost every way while staying faithful to the originals. For me those are the perfect Pokemon games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Some kind of black and white Motorola
  • A cheap color Nokia phone
  • A (I think) Motorola camera phone
  • Palm One Treo 650
  • Samsung E1150
  • Wileyfox Swift
  • Motorola G5S Plus
  • Pixel 4a

I only have fuzzy memories of the first couple phones. I got into the smartphone game pretty late in 2016 (unless you count the Palm, which I bought used and which broke very quickly). Actually my main motivation for getting a smartphone was to play Pokemon Go.

As for browsers: Only got mobile internet with the Wileyfox. Used Chrome on that, switched to Firefox at some point when I had the Motorola.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Now im not one to nitpick, but I don’t think thats something a commie would do right? I mean capitalists winning is supposed to be worse right? Am I thinking of this correctly? I mean thats one of my questions, like yall hate bigwigs but bigwigs are good when they fight the evil commies?

I'm a Democratic Socialist and I hold the "Democratic" part higher than the "Socialist" bit. A Socialist economy is not worth it, if the price for it is oppression and genocide. Socialism must come from the will of the people, not conquest and murder.

okay now im nitpicking but didn’t you say youd defend a capitalist country against a communist one, but critique when someone else defended a capitalist one?

I'm saying it's even worse when people calling themselves communist defend not only communist dictatorships, but also capitalist ones. It means they're just in favor of dictatorships, period. Or they're just incapable of any critical thinking and defend anything as soon as they see a hammer and sickle.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

The problem with Tankies is their authoritarianism and their "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" mentality. I could never support a movement that supports horrid dictatorships of any kind. Even as a socialist, I'd always defend a capitalist democracy against a communist dictatorship. If NATO defends a small democratic country against an invasion from its large and powerful neighbor, I'm all for it, even if I'd rather have a European military alliance instead of NATO.

It's also absurd how they defend countries like China, which has perhaps one of the worst forms of capitalism, because they're nominally communist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ethnicity? Race is primarily based on (arbitrary) physical characteristics.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Biologically speaking, there are no races. It's ultimately just an arbitrary classification that can change entirely on people's preconceptions. For example 100+ years ago, Irish people were often seen as not white by Americans.

...Not trying to say it's racist to say you're white though. That's a ridiculous idea.

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