Fellow Tenno comrade!! That wasn’t what pushed me away. I don’t even remember if I grinded it to be honest lol. The last time I played I think I did some of the story missions, for the last 3 years or so I have only played the story bits too.

Maybe this time I’ll stick to it for longer. Thanks for the info.

What video games have you played recently?

Recently I played a little bit of Street Fighter 6 and finally got back to playing Breath of the Wild. It’s been a while since I last played it a month or so ago, so I’m still picking up pace, but I think I’m finally ready to continue playing it, I’m still very early but every second I remember playing it have been just an absolute joy, so I hope I continue it. I have also started playing Demon’s Souls for the first time (second really, but I didn’t go far the first time). Just beat the spider boss, it’s cool so far.

What are your favorite video game genres?

Souls games. Though also honorable mention to roguelikes too. I haven’t played a bunch of them actually, but The Binding of Isaac (this one I have played A LOT) and Hades are both amazing.

Are there any live-service games, such as Fallout 76, that you’re currently playing? Anything like Helldivers 2 or any other multiplayer games?

Not really, have been a while since I played a live service game. The last one I played would be League of Legends, but not only have I been playing it less and less for the last 3 or so years, I can’t even play it anymore since Riot started using Vanguard in League because I use Linux, so fuck them.

I’m feeling the itch to start playing Warframe again tho. I’ll probably just do some of the questlines that dropped since I stopped playing. I think I stop right before before The New War came out.

Youtube is usually pretty good in recommending me leftist content, but every now and then some bullshit like you’re describing shows up to me too, sometimes all the recommended to the side of a given video is full of right wing bullshit. I have the impression social media in general is going to shit. Twitter is full of fascists, Instagram (and Tik Tok to some extend) have some of the most vitriolic comments you’ll see, and are probably being infested with fascists too.

I haven’t seen a documentary about that, but the movie Judas and the Black Messiah is about the Panthers and Hampton’s assassination. I don’t know how accurate it really is because I still don’t know much about the Panthers, but I did like the movie itself a lot. It manages to not only show the Panthers in a very good light, but also shows how reactionary the US can be against those that truly fight capitalism.

You mean the one made by Boy Boy? They aren’t a couple despite everyone thinking they are, me included fora while lol. The other videos they do are just as good tho. Also Alex’s channel, I did a thing, has some of the most hilarious content I’ve ever seen.

Yeah, as a neurodivergent person too, I also faced bullying and it was fucking horrible.

I can see bullying still being an issue on the first generation of people living in a socialist society, but as the individualistic ideology starts fading in favor of a more collective one, it will probably become much less of an issue.

That being said, it’s probably a good idea for said society to actually teach people how to be parents, teach professionals how to deal with bullying at school, etc. I always found weird how school never teaches kids this stuff in my country. If we learned at some point in the educational system how to parent, it would probably lead to a much healthier family relationships in general on society.

There’s also other stuff that can and should be done, like teaching about neurodivergent people, about limits, respect, empathy, etc.

One thing is for certain tho, I cannot see bullying stopping under capitalism.

That’s the thing, you identified an issue, we constantly hear bad and scary stuff about China all the time, that’s western propaganda trying to turn China into the enemy so whatever the west, mainly the US, wants to do, becomes justifiable.

You don’t need to live there to know, at least partiatly, the reality of what goes on in the country nor it’s international relations. I’m not from the US, but I do know all those things I just cited in my last comment. All you need are good sources. You can start by studying how China handles its international relations. You’ll quickly realize that China doesn’t threat, embargo or invade other countries.

If you are genuinely interested you can learn a lot by visiting Lemmygrad and Hexbear, there are communities there to ask for information, and as long as you’re wanting to learn, you will be welcomed.

Also, Xi Jinping is not insane at all like the media likes to portray him. The statement is too broad for me to tackle any specific thing, tho.

I don’t think China cares about human rights very much. And I would not be surprised if people gets killed and made to disappear if they are inconvenient.

Again, very broad statement, what human rights and what you mean by this? This probably comes from more propaganda led disinformation.

Also, China is a massive country with 1.4 billion people. Do you really think we wouldn’t have proof of people being repressed, killed and disappearing? The people there aren’t isolated from the internet, they can access beyond the restrictions easily with VPNs which are common, it would be easy to show this stuff to the rest of the world.

Protests happen all the time in China and people critique the government, just like basically any other country.

If you want the perspective of a foreigner living there, I recommend the youtube channel Felipe Durante, he speaks Portuguese but the auto translate on youtube should be good enough, at least for english.

Fucking hell. This isn’t an opinion, it’s a fact that the US is the enemy of the world. The US funds coups, destabilize, install military dictatorships, invades and bombs countries and it’s the only country in the world to drop a nuclear bomb on people, and THEY DID IT TWICE.

Stop making “wHaT iFs” in your head and actually look at the reality of what China does. It’s not even comparable.

This fucker gets on my nerves, and to think I once agreed with something he said when I was a lib. There needs to be more leftists in the streaming/gaming space, specifically ones that are willing to take on this sort of bullshit and expose it for what it is to a broad audience. Every space we are not in is a space these privileged right wing grifters are occupying and shaping young peoples minds.

That’s awesome, I wanted to get a tattoo of the antlers too, but haven’t been able to yet, hopefully sometime in the future I get it.

Carmilla is that vamp novel that predates Dracula, right? Hope it’s a good read, I’ve wanted to read it for a while but always forget it exists until something reminds me.

Yes that’s the one. I’m only a few chapters in and besides one racist passage it’s been pretty good so far. It’s much more sapphic than I expected lol. Also the book is very short, I’m just slow to read at the moment.

I usually buy from bookstores when I go to the mall, but shit’s expensive and I haven’t gone in a while, so I’m mostly just sailing the high seas for now.

Right now I’m reading Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, still on the very beginning of the book, and I also started rereading Marx: An Introduction by Jorge Grespan, it’s very short and only available in portuguese I think, but helped me grasp some concepts I struggled a bit before.

What video games have you played recently?

Last time I think I said I was playing Lies of P, Elden Ring, Sekiro, Hollow Knight and Dark Souls III. Out of these I have finished Lies of P and started NG+, my plan is to get all achievements, but I haven’t played in a week, I hope to get back to it soon. For the others same thing, but more like 2 weeks without playing.

Other than that I got the platinum in Die in the Dungeon: Origins. Also, I started a new Bloodborne run and it’s the second time I actually play for real, I basically finished everything in the main game but the final boss. Right now I’m doing the DLC for the first time since on my first run, 4 years ago, I didn’t do it because I heard it was hard and waited until the end to do it, found out the worst way that killing the last boss throws you into NG+ automatically like DS1.

I’m also giving Chalice Dungeons a proper chance this time, since on my first playthrough I didn’t care about them. I gotta say, they are fun, albeit a bit repetitive, and the worst part is how separate it is from the rest of the game. The way Elden Ring tackled this is infinitely better by having it integrated into the world, it feels like just a detour for exploration instead of a chore like in BB.

Unfortunately I’m dumb and thought there was 6 depths instead of 5 and ended overleveling because of that, doesn’t help that the dungeons give you a shit ton of echoes, making you think that you need to keep leveling up. Right now I’m Blood Level 112 still on NG and while Dungeons get tough sometimes, the DLC is challenging, but the bosses are too easy at this level, I just beat Lady Maria first try and felt disappointed because of it. :(

I’ll have to play again to get the last ending for the platinum, so I’ll probably just stop leveling up and do NG+ on this level and see how hard the DLC is supposed to be since I should be around a good level already for doing it there.

What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating? Or games that are coming out sometime in the future?

Cuban indie game, Saviorless, that launched recently looks interesting, I want to give it a try sometime in the future. Other than that, Hades II, No Rest for the Wicked and Elden Ring’s DLC.

This video was tough to get through, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I really appreciate comrades Aleksa and Alex showing this bullshit for what it is, my only criticism is that they weren’t harsher on it. Still, what the actual fuck? How can the original video even be produced in the first place? From the racist thumbnail to the actual unhinged content on the video, it is just completely absurd. Fucking hell, homeless people aren’t even human to these guys, they are just content. And it has 7.5M views, I’m just gonna keep to myself what I think these guys deserve.

What aren’t they racist towards? Lol

The only issue I have with them defederating from grad is that I can still see their comments, but can’t tell them to fuck off :(

You say that with the moral presumption that “censorship is bad”, when in reality it is just a tool. Every single country does it, there is no value in the way you are treating it. The US wanting to ban TikTok falls into the same category. If Brasil, my country, decides to ban twitter in the coming days because Elon is trying to mess with us by not banning users that are breaking the law, it would be censorship, but it would also also be sending a message to Musk and the US that we won’t accept this kind of shit.

Besides that, like the person you’re replying to already said, VPNs are very common in China, the government does not give a fuck if you want to access the parts of the internet that are banned there.

Impressive.

Thanks! I realized I phrased it a little weird, I didn’t mean run like in a roguelike because it is not that, but meant that I finished the game 7 or 8 times now lol. If you like short fast-paced sidescrollers with outrun themes and a perfect soundtrack I highly recommend it, it’s a literal gem. Also, the later plot points are inspired by the Vietnam war.

Also, “ComradeTarnished,” nice.

The shotel and hammer I mentioned is supposed to mimic the hammer and sickle, I hope the build works out lol.

I’m trying to play a lot of stuff at the same time to see if the constant shifting keeps me interested in all I’m trying.

What video games have you played recently?

• Recently I started my second playthrough of Sekiro, I first played and finished it when it launched I think.
• I’m in the middle of my first Hollow Knight playthrough and this game is fucking amazing.
• I recently started a new Elden Ring character too, she is named ComradeTarnished and I don’t know exactly what build I want, but I want to try a shotel with parry and a hammer on the right hand, it probably won’t work well so I’ll most likely end up trying a Grave Scythe blood build, this is probably gonna be the character I do the DLC with when it launches, but I don’t know if I wanna do it in NG or NG+1.
• Yesterday I started Lies of P for the first time too, and while I’m still getting used to the movement, this game seems to be really good, at least on first impression, I hope it lives up to the hype surrounding it, I’m having fun so far.
• Today I tried an hour or so of the Archthrones mod beta for Dark Souls 3, I picked the starting class with a bandage in the head that looks sick as fuck. Besides a few things it’s really cool, can’t wait to finish the demo.

What are your favorite video game genres?

I think my answer above shows that its Souls/Souls-like lmao.

What game have you completed recently and what are your thoughts on it?

Haven’t finished a game in months sadly, the last one I did was Katana Zero, but it was like my 7th or 8th run. Still great tho, I gotta get around to finish getting all the achievements, there’s only two left.

They’re reactionary trots and politically irrelevant. UP and the PCB are the two decent ones.

Don’t just lie to me, I can just scroll up and see what you wrote and the order the comments were written in.

Lie my ass, I’m literally not the one that said that, at the fucking least look at the profile you are quoting for fuck’s sake.

They didn’t say that at all, go re-read the comment thread. They said ‘most Brazilian communists are unfortunately imperialists’. You read the rest into it, and you leaped to the assumption that your camp was within the “imperialist” camp immediately, which they never even suggested. Like you just knee jerk assumed you were being attacked by that comment, and if you feel that way maybe you should do some introspection on why because it’s a valid critique from what I can see.

Most communist parties in Brasil are alligned with imperialism, in part or as a whole. But PCO is grassroots communism, no academic bullshit or consessions for the burguersie.

You really never interacted with PCO militants have you? It’s always this same attitude of them being the correct ones implying everyone else is a imperialist dog, which this person did, while defending bullshit like this, and labeling everything “identity politics”. Maybe if they didn’t align with the far right so often, I wouldn’t come here with assumptions, assumption those that I was right about in this very post. Just look at the chain of comments I linked above, I literally provide proof for everything I claimed there.

I’m glad they were participating in some actual protests, that’s good. It cannot be denied though that they are run in an unprofessional manner if their website is down for 5+ months and they don’t update social media materials for 2+ years. Brazilians all have phones. They all have the internet.

Look at their Twitter and Instagram accounts, they are active all the time. Again, YOU are the one claiming their website is down for 5+ months. I don’t know for how long it has been down, it could be a few hours, a week or months, stop just claiming stuff without actual proof, how hard is that?

Here, I’m gonna link it for you: Instagram, Twitter.

being “the better party” you are using to bludgeon the party Freudian mentioned

I didn’t do that and never intended to do. The only one that came here boasting about a party being the “only good one”, truly antiemperialist etc., was that person you mentioned. I just called them out on their bullshit.

Now, for that protest I mentioned, here are two news pieces I found: https://averdade.org.br/2023/12/pm-fascista-prende-presidente-da-up-em-sp-por-lutar-contra-privatizacao-da-agua/ and https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2023/12/13/o-que-senti-foi-medo-militantes-presos-em-manifestacao-na-alesp-contra-venda-da-sabesp-falam-apos-soltura.

There’s also this video talking about it, but it’s quite lengthy. It’s all in portuguese.

I don’t know, I’m not from UP. When I search on google I get pages from the end of 2023. I get the skepticism, but you are making bold claims about them.