“Both sides are the same” Is an argument that frequently pops up whenever corruption and corporate ownership is brought up in regards to the Republican party, The idea being that the democrats are Also corrupt and corporate owned there for who you vote for doesn’t matter therefore your vote doesn’t matter. Aka political disengagement.
Not sure what you meant by the first part? Can you please show me where you see the correlation?
Russian bots do a lot more then just claim “russia good U.S bad”. They primarily echo the most extreme positions on both sides of any argument aka they also say “U.S good Russia bad” with the express goal of antagonising and polarising discussions.
They aren’t trying to brainwash you so much as make you angry and disengaged, their success in America for example wasn’t just in supporting right wing nutters (although they definitely invested more energy into bolster the political rights views) theu also posed as left wing nutters. Successfully shifting dialogue away from calmer more logical discussion and into the realm of extreme emotion.
This us also why “both sides are the same” is so problematic, it is exactly the result the Kremlin is looking for, they want people to be burnt out and convinced that nothing they do will matter, because then only the most politically extreme people will vote and conservative views consistently cultivate more extremists then progressive views.
Basically, no, more bots will not solve this problem. Adding more bots that are obviously anti murica and sound Russian would just be doing what russia is already doing. You would be doing half their job for them.
Rough day at school?
Won’t somebody think of the children!
This makes me jealous since I’m so isolated not even scammers message me.
Gonna need a whole lot of pee.
I feel like Mitch McConnell deserves a hefty dose of piss for his part in prepping the ground. He spent his whole career setting this up only for the silver spoon school bully to luck his way in.
Isn’t that what all DLC is? The The expansion you can buy right now is basically just pre-ordering the DLC in 2026, like a season pass.
Filling the Pokedex, not the actual contents.
I agree gen V had good writing, it’s a shame they forgot how to do that immediately after (This is part of why I fear them returning to turn based, they have back slid before)
Sure turn based has merits, even if you have to dig to find them, but it’s boring to me.
Board games being turn based are a completely different story, when you play a board game you are playing with a person, you’re talking to them, watching their body language and communicating the whole time.
Turn based in a video game is staring at a screen waiting until you have something to do again. It feels like a relic of a different time, when it wasn’t technically feasible to have live action Pokemon battles like the one in the show.
As for turn based being a tool, if course it is, but the setting and surrounding media and lore keeps claiming Pokemon battles are exciting and fast passed. You know, the opposite of turn based.
I disagree, to me the corr of the mainline games is the Pokedex and region, the actual battles being turn based has always just been a negative to me.
In my opinion saying the turn based battles are critical to being mainline is like saying the saccrin and frankly bad writing is critical, sure it’s always been there but that just makes it a persistent problem not a feature.
To be fair the “DLC” isn’t actually available until 2026, what they have released now is basically a pre-order, still scummy but not as bad as you’re implying. Edit:for clarity, they didn’t cut anything out of the game, they just have a pre-order for the DLC.
My only gripes with Pokemon Z/A is the lack of abilities and not being able to leave the city.
I’m also scared that since it’s a “Legends” game and not a mainline game we may go back to turn based.
To be replaced with a trump bootlick.
Or worse, they could be Australian!
Approves ceasefire *again. Israel is comparable only to Russia when it comes to violating ceasefire agreements (In recent history). Until there is a major policy and/or leadership change in Jerusalem any ceasefire Is likely to be little more then a prelude to more bombings.
I really hope this drives a solid wedge between the authoritarian regime and the military.
That and the fact that so few people died, murica and their guns…
Seems more like Americans always blame the democrats. It’s like the country just expects the Republicans to be reprehensible pieces of morally bankrupt shit.
40k This mech is a church.
All hail the dark lord Lootcifur!