there's no question, it's putin.Question remains, who is the aggressor? NATO with its east expansion or Putin with his army moves?
there's no question, it's putin.Question remains, who is the aggressor? NATO with its east expansion or Putin with his army moves?
The aggressor is the one ordering a military invasion of another country. Not rocket science.Pattern repeat, no surprise since Georgia etc.
Puzzling that the EU has not found any base for discussions with Putin other then threatening with sanctions. Question remains, who is the aggressor? NATO with its east expansion or Putin with his army moves?
I don’t get how people can talk about games either. That fucking psycho is one NATO country away from turning this into destruction for humanityeven though the world is a shitty place and there are horrible things happening in a lot of places every day.
it feels kinda weird talking about video games when this shit is happening in Ukraine.
Whoa, let's not get TOO crazy here!perhaps now they can develop, I don't know... 2 games every ten years...
Hopefully lightening the mood a little, a PokémonDirectPresents is on Sunday. Hoping they announce Legends Arceus DLC.
You gotta be bonking my goblins if you think I'm getting up at 9 AM on a Sunday for that though
Gonna echo this: Your mental health is much more important than forcing yourself to read/engage with awful world events. Unless there is something direct you can do to help, such as donate, even a small amount, make sure you take care of yourself. You might not be able to make the situation better over there, but you can make your situation better here at home, and that counts for something.make sure not to doom scroll too much
Pokemon Day, celebrating the release of Red/Green in Japan in 1996, is February 27th.Sunday? That's a first isn't it?
I think, at some points, you got double the gold coins for buying it. But the actual monetary value has never dropped and judging by how many third party character licenses that game has to be paid for, and for how many copies that game has sold AT full price, I doubt it would make much financial sense for it to ever go on sale.I was trying to find out the cheapest way to buy Smash Ultimate digitally in the UK, and I looked at its price history on Deku Deals.
Has this game never been on sale on the eShop even once? Do people just cough up the £60? I haven't paid that much for a game probably ever.
Fuck Putin and glory to Ukraine. But also, make sure not to doom scroll too much, it isn’t healthy. Donate what you can but don’t mindfuck yourselves into defeatism.
The issue is that not being in the know feels both selfish and impossible. Maybe it's the way I work but if there's something that I feel needs my attention I find it incredibly fucking difficult to simply look away. I could force myself to stop looking or go on a break somewhere else but that feels like some privileged white-person bullshit. Fuck, I don't know.Gonna echo this: Your mental health is much more important than forcing yourself to read/engage with awful world events. Unless there is something direct you can do to help, such as donate, even a small amount, make sure you take care of yourself. You might not be able to make the situation better over there, but you can make your situation better here at home, and that counts for something.
Ukraine hasn’t even been offered a NATO membership (there was a plan in the 00’s but that fell by the wayside) and there hasn’t been any official eastward expansion of the alliance since 2004.Pattern repeat, no surprise since Georgia etc.
Puzzling that the EU has not found any base for discussions with Putin other then threatening with sanctions. Question remains, who is the aggressor? NATO with its east expansion or Putin with his army moves?
The question I always try to repeat in my mind is "what will be the result of this thinking", echoing @Derachi's sentiment about making your actions count for something. Because, you can flip what you said around as well– i.e. that's it's equally privileged to sit and stress about something that doesn't directly impact you and not actually take any action. Of course, I'm not saying that, just highlighting how I understand that it can be very difficult to get your mind on track in a situation like this.The issue is that not being in the know feels both selfish and impossible. Maybe it's the way I work but if there's something that I feel needs my attention I find it incredibly fucking difficult to simply look away. I could force myself to stop looking or go on a break somewhere else but that feels like some privileged white-person bullshit. Fuck, I don't know.
I think I'll donate when I get paid next week anyway.
I think making a difference where you can is important, and while I totally get where you're coming from, the only real difference you can make here other than a donation is to your own mental wellbeing. And please understand: taking care of your own mental health is not "privileged white person bullshit." It's important. I don't want you to think you HAVE to suffer out of some socio-mental obligation. What's going on sucks, I do not deny that one iota. But you have to prioritize making a difference where you can and your own mental wellbeing does not get exempt from that.The issue is that not being in the know feels both selfish and impossible. Maybe it's the way I work but if there's something that I feel needs my attention I find it incredibly fucking difficult to simply look away. I could force myself to stop looking or go on a break somewhere else but that feels like some privileged white-person bullshit. Fuck, I don't know.
I think I'll donate when I get paid next week anyway.
Hey, I read your post from yesterday. I'm really sorry to hear about your situation. I genuinely hope it improves.This will be my last post for a while.
The invasion of Ukraine has little or nothing to do with NATO. You only need to listen to Putin's speech to learn how he feels about Ukraine and the rest of Eastern Europe as individual countries and peoples. He could not accept that USSR split apart. Remember that this all started because the Ukrainian people ousted his puppet president in 2014. Then the rebellion happened after that. It just so happens that these rebels are Russian citizens who also just happen to be part of the Russian military and also just happen to come across Russian tanks and weapons on their way to "volunteering". Russian soldiers have been coming back in body bags due "accidents during training". It's Russian soldiers with Russian AA weapons that shot down that airliner in 2015.
The only reason why there is even talk of Ukraine joining NATO is because Russian invaded the country in 2014. With these latest attacks, Putin proved every Eastern European nation that joined NATO were correct in their suspicions about Russia. They knew Russia would never recognize them as nations of their own. They're all just clients and lesser subjects to the people in Moscow.
Lol you think this is NATOs fault and not Putin's?!Pattern repeat, no surprise since Georgia etc.
Puzzling that the EU has not found any base for discussions with Putin other then threatening with sanctions. Question remains, who is the aggressor? NATO with its east expansion or Putin with his army moves?
Lol you think this is NATOs fault and not Putin's?!
Sound similar to what happened to California or Texas earlier, way that maybe too long ago that noone remembers.
Then how was Ukraine defined as a country and with what intentions? What about the pro Russian areas in Ukraine? What about the promised by the West in the 1990ies?
I hate what's happening, and I think it's partly because noone want's to understand the other side.
The black and white novell of Putin is a paranoid luniac and the west is only about peace and harmony is not helping to find a peaceful solution. This only contributes in strenghtening the conflict which is shit.
You mean in the 19th century? What does this have to do with an invasion today?Sound similar to what happened to California or Texas earlier, way that maybe too long ago that noone remembers.
What are you referring to? One agreement in the 1990s - signed by Russia, the US, and UK among others - agreed that the territorial intergrity of Ukraine should be respected by all signatories, in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons (which it did). How's that square with what's happened over the last 8 years? As for pro-Russian areas, do you mean the areas Russia flooded with paramilitaries, mercenaries, and weaponry in 2014, in response to Ukraine's people ousting their pro-Russian president? You do realise the current Ukrainian president was backed by an overwhelming majority of the popular vote, across all regions of the country, standing on a platform for Ukrainian sovereignty and peace with Russia?Then how was Ukraine defined as a country and with what intentions? What about the pro Russian areas in Ukraine? What about the promised by the West in the 1990ies?
You asked whether NATO or Putin is the aggressor. Which entity is currently mounting a full-scale invasion of a country? Did you see Putin's speeches this week, where he denied Ukraine the right to exist as a sovereign state? Where he described the country with a Jewish President as being ran by Nazis? Where he argued that Lenin's acknowledgement of Ukraine as an autonomous state over a century ago was a historical mistake that needed to be corrected? That anyone who aided Ukraine - with financial or humanitarian aid, let alone weapons or military support or sanctions - would be met with punishment they'd never felt before? And that Putin alluded to Russia's nuclear arsenal when he made that threat?I hate what's happening, and I think it's partly because noone want's to understand the other side.
The black and white novell of Putin is a paranoid luniac and the west is only about peace and harmony is not helping to find a peaceful solution. This only contributes in strenghtening the conflict which is shit.
I know it's supposed to be space flavored, but the more I think about it, the more I think that s'mores are sometimes heavenly. So maybe they are on to something.Wow, Starlight Coke absolutely tastes like s'mores, it's wild. Dunno that I'd get another bottle of this, but it's certainly an experience.
Seriously y'all are amzing on this forum. I can't even figure out how to load a picture on here, but posts like these just amaze me and put a huge smile on my face. I wish I could art like all of you, but I'm just thankful that everyone else is good at it. And now if they ever release something like this and this isn't the box art, I will be extremely disappointed.someone mentioned there being a trademark for something called "Tekken Memorial" (presumably a collection of Tekken games) in another thread (the one about what fighting games are missing on Switch) and so I made this
I will laugh my ass off if whatever Gex is something internally made by Square instead of another Forever pick
Yeah I am just trying to hold it together for the sake of my mental healthWell hey, there's a Nintendo acquisition! Though that hardly feels like news today.
Great thing about CT is if you beat it and still need a distraction, there are 13 or so additional endings you can replay it for.Yeah I am just trying to hold it together for the sake of my mental health
I am hoping ti beat Chrono trigger this evening. Game has been a nice distraction
This remaster is sounding like it took too many liberties in my book.