Recent content by Akka

1) If you think the EU has played tough on tariff during the Brexit, you must have listened too much to mindless Brexiteers. The EU has, on the contrary, been very lenient, and simply refused to give preferential treatment to the guy leaving the club compared to the guys still in the club, and...

Don't play dumb, it has nothing to do with US forces in Europe, it has to do with Trump's bullying on the tariffs, insinuating that NATO is a burden and Europe is on its own, forceful musing about trying to annex lands from allies, all the while groveling at Putin's feet. And you're perfectly...

That would require to treat friendly countries as, well, friendly, to begin with. The Trump administration so far has treated its enemies better than its friends.

Can you check wealth distribution and immigration numbers in the past 25 years ? I mean, obviously social media makes for easy echo chambers and ability to hide facts behind telling people what they want to hear. But there still is a bedrock of actual, real-world complaints that somehow have...

I guess it's easier to be in denial than to actually check facts I guess. And it also explains the whole problem leading to this very thread.

Nope, you didn't.

Maybe you should check again who is voting for populists then.

You seem to not get the whole point about taking the cause-effect backward.

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Of course, critique isn't censorship. Trying to cancel people and to force one's ideology through media, though, is certainly an attempt at censorship, and that's certainly something we saw a lot.

How exactly isn't it the exact same process ? In both case, it's about trying to enforce your ideology by censoring whatever you don't like.

When I was young, air conditionning was the sort of things I rolled my eyes at, the kind of useless display of wealth and exagerrated, well, conditionning of everything. Since then, a normal summer day has gone from something in the 24-26°C to something in the 30-32°C, with warm nights rather...

That's precisely the point about which I wonder if it's not a stealth parody.

I honestly can't say if this thread is a parody or an illustration.

I absolutely ABHOR level scaling. The very idea is a conceptual stupidity which only exists due to the lazyness of designers. Any kind of level scaling is already anathema to me. Also, it comes usually in hand with randomly-generated items, which makes everything the same (you can find, early in...