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Could you elaborate on the last part? I know you’ve talked at length before about how western economics have sort of “eroded” attitudes towards marxist schools of thought, especially among policy makers. Is this still true, or even worsening due to the intensifying inequality or are there still policy makers who fall into the “damn times are getting tough where’s my little red book” crowd (if I understand your post correctly)

I know you get a lot of flak here sometimes, but I find you analysis fascinating and your explanations pedagogic. Please keep posting!

He doesn’t actually miss “old idubbbz”, he misses being 14 and the “being an arrogant shitbag” social free pass that offers (white) boys that age.

Damn capybara was my next guess

Hare?

Yeah margarine works great too tastes the same and is usually easier to spread right out of the fridge

Ngl I will never recover from learning that Americans don’t use butter as the foundation for all sandwiches. You fucking freaks put mayo or whatever on it, or just rawdog a slice of (probably awful) cheese. Demonic and horrible.

Flashpoint comes with these “collections” that are like hall of fame type stuff. That sounds like what you’re after?

There’s that legendary SigMarxism post about the thermian argument and all that. It’s probably what you’re looking for?

I big problem afaik was simply the lack of computational power. The USSR was notedly slow and even unwilling to respect and adopt digital computers as a technology. It turns out that planning a complex economy (more or less) by hand is really hard and leads to mistakes!

Quote source? I swear I’ve seen it before

Serious question, asking in good faith here as a non-mandarin speaking westerner:

If mainstream, policy-guiding economics is so overwhelmingly western (neoclassical), why is China on such a wildly different economic trajectory compared to the contradictory hellscape of the west? Is it the applications of these horribly unmarxist economics? Is it the remnants of mao-era policies? I’m very ignorant on this, but i’d love to learn more

How, uh, “grounded” does it feel? Not as in setting or story, but how your character feels in the world. Are the NPCs fully static? Are there settlements? Crime? Can you pick up forks and other clutter? I’ve been following the game for a while but can’t make heads or tails of it in terms of immersion

I had no idea! Exciting!

Already played wotr (twice). What really impressed me about RT was more the mechanics. Writing and all was great too (better than wotr imo) but the mechanics are truly excellent

Finished Rogue Trader recently, shit goes so incredibly hard. Going back for my first real BG3 playthrough since release and while it’s still great, it REALLY highlights the strengths of Rogue Trader

This made me snort laugh

I’m sorry to keep NL-posting but there’s a reason he’s like the only youtuber/streamer with emotes on here. He’s simply the GOAT of being a nice well-rounded person who is also actually funny.

Is there a source on this, especially globally?