Tankies want to talk a bunch of big shit. Then when you shut them down with a single comment they cry like babies and run for the mod buttons.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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Socialism to authoritarianism in 3… 2… 1…
It's so quick and easy when you start at the authoritarianism part already
So does anyone know good leftist instances that aren't predominantly cantankerous tankies? Besides slrpnk, those guys seem cool.
Slrpnk thinks that the only way forward is communism. I'd side step them too.
They seem to be banning anything anti Russia just based on your modlog, buy you also have a hard time following their rule2: be nice. So I can kinda see where they are comming from as well.
Tbf, "Rule" 2 has an unwritten clause at the end, it's actually "Be nice, unless you're a tankie shill then you have the power of the mods/admins enabling you being a giant fistula to ~~liberals~~ anyone who disagrees with you in any thread."
Yes, Rule2 look very much like a "agree or be banned"-rule.
This was not a common item in 1996 Russia, I think. In the 1990s, TV-based games weren't catching on in the East nearly as much because it was too difficult to create SECAM color video as opposed to NTSC or PAL. (This is part of why most of the East calls them "computer games", along with the rarity of non-computer consoles à la Pong or Magnavox Odyssey. The only ones I know to have been called "video games" were imported arcade cabinets in trailers that would travel from town to town. Known as "videoherna" (video game room) in Czech, they were rare and loved by "weirdos". I imagine they were quite lucrative for the handful of people skilled at smuggling and repairing monitors without original parts.) Lucky kids would play on IBM-compatible PCs or Game Boys, less lucky ones on Atari 8-bit computers, ZX Spectrum clones or this:
This game is Nu pogodi from the Elektronika IM series, a legendary toy in the Eastern Bloc. Manufactured in 1986-1993, it used a chip design stolen from the 1981 Game & Watch Egg game. They didn't even update the clock to 24 hours, the preferred format in Eastern countries.
In the US, the state will find you for illegally copying Nintendo games.
In Soviet Russia, you'll find that the state has been illegally copying Nintendo games all along!
In the 1990s, TV-based games weren’t catching on in the East nearly as much because it was too difficult to create SECAM color video as opposed to NTSC or PAL.
I'm really glad that the digital video era ended the standard fragmentation around the world.
Now if only codec patents could fuck all the way off.