The thing about survival games is that the busy work is the point. Participation in it at first and finding ways to get around it as your base gets more complex is part of the fun. You start from nothing and eventually through effort and planning get powerful. The busywork is the obstacle for the player to overcome.

Without the busy work survival games become some kind of BR. Which has its appeal but scratch fundementally different itches. A pizza and a burger are quite different even though both have bread.

I really don’t think Pals are a dogwhistle for humans. Its just a monster collection game where you can make the monsters do stuff. Its legitimately not that deep. Its not like a game is saying slavery is good or anything. Like sure, you can be mean to the digital puppets if you want, but really a lot of stuff is just head cannon. Are they working for you because they are scared or because they live in some communist utopia and work as a choice? Up to you. Really I think its just a way to put them to use for more than just combat. Plus it means you can focus on tasks you find fun instead of some of the busy work of survival games. Seriously, every game has things like this. You can take any idea and if you intentionally read it in a negative light that will be what it looks like. Does pokemon promote dog fighting? Ofcourse not. Even if it really is just digital dogfight simulator. Does Disco Elysium promote drug use because drugs have useful effects in it? Does Skyrim promote capital punishment as a good thing because guards will try to kill you for committing crimes and you can kill bandits for the government? Irl crime is caused by disenfranchisement of the poor, is Skyrim proposing we kill them all? No. Skyrim wanted an easy low level enemy you could deal with to learn the game and make some early money. In fact, any game that involves killing anything can be construed in such a way if you like. Ofcourse this isn’t to say games can’t carry messages, but I don’t think this one really does. I think the devs just saw they could do some edgy marketing and went for it.

Better than nothing. Like any org, local chapter is the most important thing. There are green party chapters with MLs in charge and there are PSL chapters with sex pests in charge. Try and see what they do in your community. If they do work you agree with, great, if they are inactive or you don’t like the work they do, find something better. Can’t hurt to check it out though. Maybe great, maybe terrible, but you’ll never know if you don’t show up and see for yourself.

It won’t. What it will do is allow successful revolutions to have a large trade partner to help develop their country. But China isn’t in the business of spreading revolution or defending allies like the USSR was. If Cuba got invaded by the US tomorrow I highly doubt China would do much more than try and coordinate with the UN to stop it or something. Perhaps they may secretly fund Cuba or whatever but again, I doubt anything directly. Not hating on China or anything. Its perfectly reasonable to look out for yourself first as a country. Even if it seems a bit, nationalist (because it is), its a reasonable approach.

Most of those are quite business as usual for capitalism though. Calling it fascist while good for drawing a parallel isn’t entirely true. Its peak capitalist settler colonialism which is pretty close but not entirely fascist. Communist parties are still legal, people still have some civil protections (not many, but far more than you’d have in Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy). The US is basically diet fascist. Not quite fully there, but doing as much as it can to get close to it.

Like I said, if the left actually got its shit together then the US would happily fully implement fascism but really that is the only reason it hasn’t fully done so.

About as fascist as any other capitalist nation. Which is to say if there was any threat to the Russian bourgeois by their working class it would be. Probably the only reason the US isn’t full fascist yet is because leftism is so dead in this country that the capitalist class doesn’t need to worry about such things.

Thanks for answering for me. Haven’t been on Lemmy in a bit.

I mean, days of the year is fine as is because that matches seasonal cycles which is important for agriculture and the like. Ofcourse along the equator lunar calenders were historically used because they don’t have different seasons but a calender used by everyone keeps things consistent for trade and the agricultural trade is still one of the most important things for humanity so it best remains a solar calendar.

As for time, 60 and 24 and in general multiples of 12 are great units because they can be easily divisible in many ways. This is why they were established as such in the first place, because Babylon had a big thing for what is called “extremely composite numbers” which are basically just a number that has more factors than any previous and equal to all subsequent ones (until the next extremely composite number) and all multiples of 12 (as far as I know) fall into this category. This means that units that are multiples of 12 both easily divide into each other (making it useful for changing between units) and easily divide into many other numbers making it easier to schedule a day as you have nice clean boundaries.

Where did they get their figure for great depression earnings? When I looked it up the average wage was $821 in 1933. Putting that through the inflation calculator gives $19,418.18.

Yooo, I wish I was Canadian.

Since when do the opinions of regular people decide government policy under capitalism? Maybe I’m just used to the US where the average citizen has zero voice but is that not the same across all capitalist countries?

Is it? I feel like fascism is adaptable to basically any society if given the right conditions. Not to say Russia is fascist (it isn’t) but to say its anti Russian is odd. Especially when again, if they do truely care so much the, why now and not when the coup first happened?

I think we all know Russia does not care about fascism in Ukraine. Otherwise this shit would’ve happened ages ago (like, right after Euromaiden). Its a capitalist war for capitalist reasons.

Honestly, only 18.5% isn’t that bad. Means most like it there. Probably because they can go on TV, say anything bad about NK and get 200k all in an afternoon. Honestly I’m surprised anyone regrets it with how easy it is. If they cared so much about their homeland they wouldn’t have left it so its not loyalty or anything like that stopping them.

Badly. Its ran by reformists and is extremely revisionist. Not to say much bad about the rank and file, a lot of them are based but that is also a huge issue with them, I’m willing to say the majority of the membership is quite based but they become succdems the closer to leadership they get. Indicates to me that something is structurally wrong with the party as the views of much of the rank and file are not reflected by its leadership. Took the democratic out of democratic centralism.

US btw.

Damn, I thought Cali was supposed to have better public education than the rest of the country. No water, no air, and no education? Surprised people still live there at this point.

Really fun game. I’m surprised though, I raised the entire world to a high standard of living, fixed climate change and ecological issues, even raised happiness to max level and it still said I failed in making the world better when I guarantee it was. Regardless its a very fun game, thanks for the recommendation.