It may have lost its grip on the Middle East, but it’s had major gains in the West, where the far-right parties and candidates backed or financed by Russia have had significant wins. In Africa, the Wagner-backed president of the CAR was “re-elected” just last month.
He was on the list, but I couldn’t find him in any of the photos or videos from the event. The CEOs of Nvidia and OpenAI were indeed present and shaking hands though.
Commenting on the very article from the OP, he called the content disgusting.
Funny how even that article essentially concludes that the war in Ukraine stands in the way of Russia taking it to Europe and that the Ukrainian people need support. Of course that had to be omitted from a community called “Death to NATO”. Still, even on the tankie instance, a top comment from another tankie instance user is “Its from a sensationalist rag though. I can trace most of the dumb shit my uncle tells me back to them.”
Trump’s peace in Ukraine promises are like Russia’s 3 day war.
Putin has a long track record of killings, persecutions and rights violations over more than two decades of fascist leadership. Neo-Nazism has been state-sanctioned under Putin, with powerful and wealthy allies like Prigozhin not merely espousing the ideas but quite literally torturing and murdering people in Syria and Africa, both to further Putin’s political goals and to act on the Wagner members’ internal hatred of non-white people. If anything, people like Nikitin, his friend Tesak, and many others of that scene, were also a product of Putin’s Russia, where street-level neo-Nazis were financially supported by the government and used for political reasons in the early 2000s, when racially motivated hate killings were on the rise. Nikitin’s neo-Nazi ideas or even hate-fueled brawls in Europe were like child’s play compared to the actual fascism of Russia under Putin.
Same here. I play strictly solo and it feels like about 70% or more of my encounters are with friendly people. Occasionally, people stab in the back or I get shot and killed on sight, then next game do the latter to someone else to mentally make up for the losses, but that’s not too common.
Same as NATO in that Russia has already attacked NATO countries via sabotage operations, having drones, planes and missiles in their airspace, and hacking, among other things, but never been met with any equal response.
Resorting to the damsel in distress trope in 2025. 🤦 But hey, it’s Capcom.
But Vlad said they have no cards!
Fortnite is much more than what non-players see it as though. There are now separate games within Fortnite, which play nothing like the Battle Royale. Lego Fortnite is like Minecraft but with Lego characters. Rocket Racing is an arcade racing game with cool tricks from Rocket League, kinda like what I’ve heard of Trackmania. Fortnite Festival is a rhythm game from the creators of Guitar Hero, featuring countless licensed tracks. Ballistic is Epic’s take on Counter-Strike and Valorant. And so on.
The number of crossovers in Fortnite is also unparalleled. If nothing else, I’d be interested in it for The Matrix, Terminator, Alien, or Star Wars crossovers. You could play as the Terminator with a Star Wars backpack. Quite fun and unique, IMO.
As for Kill Bill, there are quite a few comments saying Tarantino did it for the money, but isn’t the same true for everything? Every top-tier filmmaker makes films in part for the money and wouldn’t do it if they were barely paid. That doesn’t mean they agree to anything or that their vision isn’t in the product.
The IMDB score is meaningless, as it’s very easy to abuse. I’ve read a story of a person creating countless accounts just to manipulate a score on Metacritic. Even if the platforms had a strict verification system so it’s one account per user, they’re still subject to review bombing from people who just disdain anything Fortnite, like Steam fans who hate Epic or Linux users who can’t play the game. It’s not like an exit poll of those who have actually watched the short film.
Steam is the one with monopoly power, and the Horses developer has said that publishers didn’t event wasn’t to publish the game if it cannot be on Steam. This argument isn’t applicable to Epic, let alone Humble, which ended up reinstating the game within the day.
To start with.
Yep, they’re already doing this in the occupied regions. The men there are sent to the same war.
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CNN reported on that article as well.
My favorite part is non-aggression having to be written into Russian law. Putin changed the constitution to rule forever, so why would the law have any meaning? Even if it literally said “Russia will never attack Ukraine”, which it won’t, they’d just use the same old self-defense excuse as they already have with Ukraine and Georgia.
Technically no PR. Their MO has been to let others do the work. Their games come from hired modders, with many skins made by the community. Their localizations are from the community. The game devs and publishers have to moderate their own spaces on Steam. The players do product promotions by using the social network of Steam. Valve is practically unreachable for the press, and their actual press releases are the rawest I’ve seen: infrequent, featuring no images and little information. Their press account is run by Kaci Aitchinson, the local Fox News host who was originally hired to present The International for Dota 2, but ended up doing a bit of everything, like many at Valve.
Epic used Gemini to power its Darth Vader, so it might be related to AI indeed. To add to that, Epic has introduced an AI chat for Unreal Engine developers, acquired the AI asset tagging tool Loci, and enabled AI for its support system to handle requests before a human operator steps in. I also believe they use AI as a screening tool for its new text chat feature (and maybe its new forums), but I have no proof for this part.