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Not saying it's definitely the case but the conspiracy minded part of me can't help but notice the attack on the synagogue in Manchester was very conveniently timed around when the flotilla arrived in Israel. Could just be coincidence of course but we've seen what they're capable of making happen. This would be very easy for them. And this isn't to have any disrespect towards the victims of the attack, even if it was a false flag or whatever it doesn't make it any less of a tragedy. Plenty of Jewish people suffer generally because of Israel too

Edit: well guess I offended a bunch of people with this. Nice to see that we're being no different to reddit here and just downvoting people we don't agree with, even if that person isn't being shitty about the opinion they're expressing and isn't claiming it's true anyway, and not having an open discussion about the thing that's been said

Thanks for the advice and suggestions! I'll look into these and see how I go with them

True that! Yeah wasn't wanting to force myself or anything. Think I just hyped myself up too much for it and what I was expecting didn't line up with the reality. It's one of those examples of media where I'm like "I really feel like I should like this, but I just can't for some reason"

Hmmm yeah I do like a lot of dialogue/story-heavy games. One of my absolute favourite games is Disco Elysium, which is like 90% dialogue. One of the things that bothers me about most games nowadays, especially AAA ones, is that they don't put all that much into the writing side of things. I kinda get why but a lot of the time a poorly written game just ruins the rest of it for me

I've not played FF really but I've been meaning to give em a try at some point. I guess the closest I can think of gameplay wise that I do enjoy is Pokémon (lol) if that helps?

Opposites indeed! I'm curious though, what was it about ER that made you not able to get into it? If soulslikes just aren't for you then I totally get that. It's just ER isn't the one I'd personally go in with, I feel like if I'd started with it then I'd be pretty overwhelmed and confused a lot of the time. Though that's just me, of course

Also despite sharing most of the same style, they can still vary in gameplay a fair bit. Sekiro, for instance, is pretty unique amongst them. I actually had to install an easy mod on it (I know, sacrilege) to tone down the difficulty a bit as my brain just can't hack it on normal. It's very much a precise rhythm game in terms of combat. Whereas Bloodborne encourages you to charge in and just go berserk on enemies, something that my brain is much better with

As I say, if it's just not your thing then fair enough. You may already know everything I've said here anyways, just wouldn't want you to miss out on games you'd potentially enjoy, even if ER doesn't do it for ya

They'll go hoard all their wealth and not circulate it (something that a capitalist economy needs to "work") in another country

I'm very anti authoritarian and anti statist but this doesn't always happen. You can't look at say Burkina Faso with Thomas Sankara at it's head and Nazi Germany and say they're the same in how the government treated the people

I can say, having been a part of "non hierarchical" communities where women and afabs and have been like 90% of the members, that really isn't always the case

Helped the trees, now to smoke some trees

"The more time our officers spend reviewing CCTV... the less time they have available for patrolling railway stations and trains, investigating crimes which cause the most harm."

You mean like having them stand there in the station with dogs to stop people for suspected drug possession? Y'know, "harmful" crimes. I know that's not the only thing they ever do but they certainly do waste so much of their time with pointless stuff like that, at least in certain cities

Exactly what we need aswell, people being more discouraged to use bikes and forcing people even more into getting cars and making our already overcrowded and dangerous roads even more overcrowded and dangerous. Wonder if there's an easy solution to stop people taking bikes from the bike lock up areas? Like hmm maybe having them all be properly secure and the station employing one or two people to keep watch? Nah silly idea...

Yeah chimps are actually some of the worst right? Their lives are kinda like a constant warzone. They also even do assassinations

If we're going for the "good" apes, then gibbons and bonobos would be the best bet, from what I understand. Though gibbons aren't in the same category (I forget which taxonomy level it's at), they're "lesser" apes. The only species of lesser apes still living too, I think. Not as great as the rest of us apes, apparently

And that's me done showing off some of my very basic knowledge of primates