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  • themoken@startrek.websitetoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comDesires
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, not a tankie but the PRC and the USSR were huge in lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty and generally creating stability in parts of the world that effectively still practiced feudalism.

    Doesn’t make them anti-imperial or excuse their more disastrous/evil decisions either.



  • themoken@startrek.websitetoHistory Memes@piefed.socialThe Latinizing of Names
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    3 months ago

    Eh, as long as it’s just the proper noun, I don’t really care that much. Languages can have their own versions of nouns based on the cultural context at the time. Is calling Deutschland Germany a problem? Zhongguo China? Nah.

    You wanna call Shakespeare something different, go for it, it just means he was important enough to have a moniker in another language.







  • I really don’t have any problem with any of these types of achievements in general. Even the super basic ones that you get by starting a game are useful to determine what percentage of people who own the game have actually played it beyond the menu screen.

    The best achievements are ones you get for being clever, skilled, or dedicated. Or when it’s an unhidden achievement for something you didn’t even know was possible. Like the BG3 achievement for saving the goblin Sazza - just seeing it was possible made my next play through more interesting.

    I do appreciate long ending achievements, but only if they indicate a significantly different playthrough. Good ending vs. bad ending works when that’s the result of many decisions and not just an option you chose ten minutes from the end.