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2024-07-20 at 10:31 PM UTC in any of you think Japan
Originally posted by Elbow They were basically the only country in Asia to industrialize in the 19th century. If not "advanced", the Meiji restoration shows a capacity for forward thinking far beyond that of their peers. Consider that Chinese people are still eating bird nests and drinking 3 penis wine for medicinal effects in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty four. As regressive and backwards as Japan may be, they are leagues ahead of their neighbors.
I don't know about "empire", but had they played their cards slightly differently during the second world war (ie "not done a cheeky sneak attack on pearl harbor and been nuked into submission for it"), there's a solid chance they'd have a few more holdings in the pacific. Might have even held onto a unified Korean peninsula.
That's true, and it's impressive that Japan managed to rapidly go from a feudal society into an industrial one without the rampant corruption and general dysfunction that almost always comes along with exposure to western technological heroin. But remember that what we're being impressed by is that Japan went from feudal society to what Britain had already been for a hundred years, which they managed to do with the introduction of western ideas and science. That doesn't say "more disciplined and advanced (than Britain)" to me, since the very thing we're talking about is an act of catching up to English industrialization.
Originally posted by Warcry Maybe I meant culture wise and militarily supposedly in a very short time span after being isolated foe centuries they took on industrial power nd steam engine and other tech guns and were able to start dominating Asia.
Saying one group is more "culturally advanced" is pretty whack, but even if you really drink the western liberal democracy koolaid, Japan is still like half a century behind on the social trajectory the western world has followed. They may give amerifats a run for their money on the shiteating consumerism front, they're pretty advanced there in the same way stage 4 cancer is advanced, but I'd still say us yanks take it.
In terms of military... they have none, they're functionally a vassal state of the US. In WWII they did pretty good running over still-industrializing regional rivals, but got steamrolled by the US. American discourse around the bomb is pretty telling, then and now American victory in the pacific was assumed and the argument for splitting the atom on them was that a ground invasion would have a higher death toll than nuking a civilian population. There was never actually a military contest, just a matter of how expensive American victory was going to be. -
2024-07-20 at 7:01 PM UTC in any of you think Japan
Originally posted by Warcry Yea they to me are and always have been more advanced nd disciplined
The dominant mode of medicine was basically witchdoctoring well into the 19th century and they couldn’t consolidate power within a tiny island nation without stimulus from the west. Japan is cool and all but I’m not seeing the “advanced and disciplined” thing -
2024-07-20 at 2:29 PM UTC in ElbowIs it though?
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2024-07-20 at 2:23 PM UTC in Systematic review of rectal foreign bodies in older men: humanistic care and a novel challenge for society> Patients who had used sexual objects were mainly non-Chinese and those with a high degree of education.
Hah, dildos are literally bourgeois -
2024-07-20 at 1:11 AM UTC in Top 3 Failures on this Website XXL Edition
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2024-07-20 at 12:16 AM UTC in Kamala is the only choice Dems have if they boot BidenUBI STRAIGHT TO THE DOME!
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2024-07-20 at 12:03 AM UTC in Top 3 Failures on this Website XXL Edition^an earlier version of that post read "nog, nonce, and..." but I couldn't think of a good N word for a limey
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2024-07-20 at 12:02 AM UTC in Top 3 Failures on this Website XXL EditionRIP Bill Krozby, you got cuck'd by a pom, a pedo, and a person of color
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2024-07-19 at 11:53 PM UTC in Kamala is the only choice Dems have if they boot BidenYANG GANG '24 OH YEAH BABY, WE NERDCORE NOW
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2024-07-19 at 6:20 PM UTC in Donald Trump just got shot
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2024-07-19 at 6:13 PM UTC in How big are u
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2024-07-19 at 4:40 PM UTC in Donald Trump just got shot
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2024-07-19 at 4:21 PM UTC in Crowdstrike anti-malware breaking Windows PCs this morninglol crowdstrike. Honestly most large outfits in the security space are basically cargo cultist chimps with keyboards imo. I worked for a mid size security company for a while, all the brains in the org were in the c-suite or sales (shocking, I know) who outsourced everything to vietnam supervised by a handful of onshore people who either didn’t know what they were doing or had given up trying to do anything more than make the sales material not be sufficiently untrue so as to open the company up to litigation
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2024-07-19 at 1:20 PM UTC in Yemenis hit Tel Aviv with a drone(head)
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2024-07-19 at 1:14 PM UTC in How big are u
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2024-07-19 at 1:09 PM UTC in The Witcher 3 is on sale
Originally posted by Elbow And I uhh… I hate to say this, seeing as it's magical to you, but I dropped The Witcher 2 when I ended up playing it too, much like I did the third game. Couldn't even tell you why, really. I want to say it had something to do with it feeling like it was made for consoles, and maybe I ran into some mild bugs? I don't know. My memory is dogshit. If I'm being honest, I probably just didn't have it in me to power through another long ass game hot on the heels of ~100%ing the first game (especially with the promise of a third, much longer game looming in the horizon), and allowed mild irritations to crush my will to keep going.
I get it, 2 is far from a perfect game. It's a narrative heavy slog with a pretty uneven difficulty curve and gameplay that's... well it's better than skyrim but worse than darksouls, so if want an action RPG from the era for gameplay just go souls. I want to say it's darker than 1, not that 1 was sunshine and flowers, but it had a kind of whacky levity to it and 2 was more srs bsns. So I'm not sure I would even recommend going back to it unless you just want a good solid witcher story and some context on the sate of things at the start of 3.
A meth feuled witcher run would be poetic though, something about ingesting toxic chemicals to enhance your combat abilities. -
2024-07-18 at 11:28 PM UTC in The Witcher 3 is on sale
Originally posted by Elbow I mean there's a reason CD Projekt Red got to make 2 sequels and Cyberpunk 2077: they made a good game, and it paved the way for their future successes.
The Witcher 3 is undeniably very good though. I don't know what it is about the first game that I found so charming, and found so lacking in the much acclaimed third installment. I want to say "the first game knew it was a game, and it had no pretentions about being anything greater" but that just sounds good to me, and I don't how true it really is.
What order did you play them in? You said you didn't play 1 on release, but did you play it before 2 or 3? I started with 2 and it still holds some magic for me. I suspect a lot of the appeal of the series is in how different it from the rest of the WRPG genre, and it's kinda jarring initially but definitely a change of pace from beth-style games where a silent protagonist emerges in their early 20s with about 3 sentences of history at best and proceeds to be an empty vessel to be filled by the player's ambitions.
I spent a lot of W2 confused about what was going on, then after going back to 1 I realized it wasn't because I missed a game but rather because "here's a bunch of characters with elaborate backstories we're not going to tell you" is kinda just how witcher stories go. I think W3, with its aim of mainstream success, dropped some of that. I mean you do kinda show up and all the kings and busty ass sorceresses already know you but they actually explain it sooner than later. You end up learning a lot of things as Geralt does, rather than having this weird disconnect where the character you control is constantly saying stuff that you as the player didn't know.
And I think that was part of what made it unique. Like if you want to geek out about witcher stuff you say "Geralt did this, Geralt did that" as much as "I did this or that". You control the character in combat and some of his choices but he's got his own thing going on and no matter what you're not going to turn him into a moral crusader or total villain. I distinctly remmeber in W2 being really gungho about want to side with the elves and not _really_ being able to take sides and feeling like the game was shoving it's grey/grey morality system down my throat. But in a good way! 3 kinda had this going on, G-dawg would bashfully grumble in his sexy baritone if you tried to be too good of a guy, but you could swing pretty far out of character in terms of being charitable, supporting political causes, etc. -
2024-07-16 at 1:26 AM UTC in Jesus Christ
Have you ever been misunderstood or offended by a humorous comment online? How did you handle it?
damn, am I going to have to get you niggers trauma counseling now? I mean Kafka could clearly use help developing techniques to deal with people having a sense of humor, she clearly doesn't know how to deal with it now -
2024-07-15 at 3:07 AM UTC in Donald Trump just got shot
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2024-07-14 at 6:44 PM UTC in Question to hts
Originally posted by Warcry So again explain the f whores like all those cam whores on the dark web?
FUYS?! Do you think brown people like getting waterboarded? Do you think electrocution turns them on?
No?
Then how do you explain all those videos from guantanamo bay?
Fuqin checkmate non-prdophiles! #WREKT <air horn> <air horn> FATALITYYYY
