Out of curiosity, why develop your own instead of contributing to RenPy? Not saying there can’t be good reasons, just curious what they are in this case.
The point is not that you need to unquestioningly think that China is the most evil country on earth. The point is that there absolutely are a notable subset of leftists (just wander over to .ml if you want to find them) who will dismiss literally any criticism of China as “Western propaganda” and basically act like they’re absolute paragons of good. Those are the people being called out here.
They couldn’t have provided a more obvious example of whataboutism even if they literally wrote one for a textbook.
Except the actual MMO depicted in SAO fucking sucks. Like, once you remove the whole “Oh my God it’s like I’m really there” hyper-advanced simsense VR aspect, it’s a really shitty game. The only possible builds are DPS and Tank, there’s no magic, no ranged, nothing to make stealth viable. You can go into crafting but that’s about it for any other skills. The whole “unique skill” mechanic is basically just pure “Fuck you” RNG and would be impossible to balance. Loot gets handed out based on last hits so fuck cooperation. It’s a mess. If you made an MMO with modern tech that perfectly recreated the mechanics of SAO, no one would play it.
This is the real trap of the Iran war. Trump either has to commit to a deeply unpopular invasion, or he has to be the first US president to openly defy AIPAC.
Reminder that it’s now public knowledge that the US had to warn Iran - through back channels - that Israel was going to attempt to assassinate their negotiators in a deliberate attempt to sabotage the peace process. It wasn’t a subtle attempt either; Israel sent jets into Iranian airspace to shoot down their plane.
Israel is openly working against the US’ interests. They’re basically an enemy nation at this point. And y’all want to hand them more resources and access to all your secrets. OK, sure, good luck with that.
The issue is that everyone thinks computers operate on magic, so they just ignore the idea that there might be practical limitations on doing the things that they want to do.
In reality there is no means of age verification that isn’t also a form of identity verification. And if you asked people “Should everyone have to hand over their government ID to private companies in order to use the internet”, you’d see much lower numbers of positive responses.
What is even the point of this? If it’s satire, what’s the joke?
Pity. One of the only good ideas that government has ever had. But of course, even when they’re right, they’re too corrupt and incompetent to actually get anywhere.
Jesus dude, you didn’t need to sweeten the deal, I was already for it!