I feel like the gameplay itself fundamentally refuses to accept spiteful/selfish players and they filter themselves out within a few hours of playtime

You have to play the team game, even if you’re the one. You cant outplay 4 people focusing you lol as long as youre clearly trying and not spamming everyone usually gives each other grace

Oh so youre actually just a propagandist, damn okay then. Im not engaging with you on made up terms and a belief that time doesn’t move forward. I hope you get clowned in the debrief for this dogshit agitprop.

My state literally made pornhub illegal today please stop doing apologia and/or propaganda

China has always banned porn, if that is an issue or you oppose this woman being arrested for producing pornography then you should probably take efforts in america to prevent these exact same laws from being passed in your state (something that is already being done whether you choose to pay attention or not)

Arguing against anything I said wouldve been more productive and more interesting than promoting an abject lie that american states arent currently implementing the same authoritarian restrictions on legally produced pornography as the CCP with the list of states doing so ever expanding.

You’re welcome to sleepwalk into authoritarianism but I will continue to call it out in spite of people who choose to plug their ears or derail the conversation away from the growing surveillance state in america. Americans cant influence Chinese internal politics, so when something is wrong there they should look at what they can do to prevent the same thing from occurring here instead of just braying about how bad china is for doing what we will be doing within the decade. Why even come here just to be pithy and wrong?

More like porn is illegal, just like in half the US. Give it two years we’ll hear much worse about gay erotica artists being arrested in Texas and held without trial

Its definitely hard to pick up and get good at controlling the ball and having spacial awareness. My issue is that regardless of having just picked up the game they try to learn the mechanics while 2v1 at midfield.

When I started I played back and let the game unfold until I had a plan of attack. Passing the ball around, jumping in to goalkeep, covering the open man, basic stuff. Im level 30 now and every time I’ve got level 1 teammates they basically throw the game trying to do rainbow flicks and juke out the entire defense while I’m standing in goal wide open. YOU ARE NOT HIM!

Having even the most basic understanding of actual soccer makes you a god in this game just about. I have been loving it so far. I just hope people trying it out get good teammates to show them how great the game can be.

I’m glad more people are pointing this out, its horrifying

Is this the Monday aid shooting or this another new shooting at an aid site today?

I dont think its insensitive, but I do think you’re missing the forest for the trees a bit with this part

the greatest enemy… is division itself

This was sortof poorly communicated on my part because its such a long winded concept but basically my original comment was an acknowledgement that the division was indeed the enemy but more specifically that the ruling class and those in power have consciously and intentionally placed these divisions with deadly accuracy in order to protect the meta interests at play.

For example, libya was a country in Africa mostly useless to america and had no real geopolitical weight in the global arena. When Syria sent suicide bombers to take down a commercial airliner the american government commited to a worldwide obfuscation of this fact because they were collaborating with Syria in military actions against other countries in the Middle East and needed to keep their appearance of impropriety at bay while they were publicly allied. So, at the behest of the american government, libya took credit for the bombings in order to create confusion around the investigation which was very clearly showing no evidence of Libyan involvement and extensive evidence of Syrian involvement. The original reporting of the bombing accused Syria of being the perpetrator, but due to America’s pressure campaign the findings were decried as inconclusive.

Decades later, while Syria was committing a genocide and no longer a public ally of the US, libya once again became a subject of the spotlight. Why? Because america was welcoming them into their alliance of course. Libya had “given up their WMD’s” (which they never even remotely came close to having) in exchange for being brought into the fold to fight the “evil regimes of the middle east.”

Now, one might wonder at this point: what about libya changed in those intervening decades? The leader of their terrorist state was a dictator named qadaffi, and the noble nation joining the coalition was lead by… the same guy. Objectively nothing about their government or country had changed except the fact that america now saw them useful to their perception management operations.

This is, again, a very poorly explained way of saying that what you percieve as division are actually carefully crafted splinters deliberately used to shatter the ability of anyone to accurately understand and describe the world around them. We are so constantly bombarded with sci-fi level propaganda and unconscious manipulation of narratives about the world around us that almost none of the things that divide people are even real in the first place.

Anti abortion politics was a manufactured astroturfed movement thought up by the highest levels of government and society in order to force a fascist resurgence within the country to destabilize the working class. The tea party movement was a manufactured astroturfed movement funded by billionaires in order to foment a fascist resurgence within the country to destabilize the working class. Illegal immigration is a direct result of american foreign policy destabilizing governments around the world and creating refugee crises that are so large no other country could afford to absorb them and the anti immigration panic is a manufactured astroturfed movement designed by the highest levels of conservative power structures to manufacture consent for holocaust style death camps. These are all factually proven right wing psyops that have successfully destabilized the country and created all the division that is so visibly causing our society to collapse.

In all of these scenarios, there are specific actors and groups directly responsible for and consciously in control of the supposed divisions no matter what they may be. Left or right is a burlap sack over your head that you cannot remove but can turn 180 degrees in between waterboardings. Take the sack off and look at who’s holding the hose. It’s capitalists every time. Doing something that is inherently destructive to society and the world at large specifically with the intent of profiting off the now destabilized workers, state, or country.

This is long enough so I’ll try to wrap up. The real solution to divisions in society is by reducing inequality and the way to reduce inequality is by forcibly divesting capitalists from their capital and returning it to the people who produced it. All the divisions, all the wars, all the economic failures come from a single point and their entire game for the past 400 years has been to obfuscate that single point behind an led screen of shiny new things to get mad about instead of the people exploiting all of us for their own gain.

(The reference to libya is an example given in the documentary “hypernomalization” by Adam Curtis if you’d ever like to hear the story unfucked by my frantic desire to get this comment out lol Here’s the link if you’re interested )

despite being controlled by democrats

As a direct result of it, in fact.

It goes beyond literacy and education, the reality that people experience is completely manufactured. Hypernormalization of everything. Governments manipulating public perception of events and history has rendered most of the population incapable of even interpreting their own experiences much less the world around them. This is a problem much larger than reading levels or education, people are sleep walking.

Edit: russia being part of this conversation is not a coincidence

Im glad this was what stood out in my comment lmaoo

Are people here being deliberately obtuse or are these reddit shills also operating on lemmy bc who tf cares this much about defending arstechnica? Every comment has like five downvotes. Who cares enough to downvote this and go through the comments to downvote every comment?

It’s very clearly true that reddit is using their platform to boost stories by websites with ownership of reddit. Who needs this explained to them in baby English? It isnt that hard to understand or accept, this is also why people are here instead of reddit.

You dont understand its actually really important that I be able to ignore the genocide and operate as if it isnt happening otherwise youre purity testing me and I cant accept being called a bad person for handwaving it away. This is why “the left” is so divided, too many people hung up on the genocide. What happened to imperfect allies! /s

You see, we built this to bring jobs. The people in this community need good jobs and that’s why we came up with the idea of constructing a natural gas extraction plant here, for the community. They need good paying jobs and I think we succeeded in bringing them here. Yes there was a leak.

Strange. Does the press not have freedom in israel? The government controls their media entirely?

Weird way to end the article honestly

Look lady if you want people to have access to weapons as guaranteed by the second amendment the number one roadblock are weapons manufacturers who have used their monopoly on production to make firearms a luxury item. “Ghost guns” are a democratization of self defense and, in a time of rising fascism, to stand on a soap box and say “I want arms even harder to aquire” is active disenfranchisement of the working class who will have to fight their way out of this without the support of their military.

The middle class should be mass producing this stuff right now on clandestine supply chains and distributing them to various cells across the country. Anyone with access to a 3d printer should be getting as much of this stuff out as possible before this even gets a vote. Pass around schematics on flash drives like its cod3 in your computer class in high school. We need to be organized now more than ever, they are showing a unified front against workers and this is just one step towards absolute censorship and surveillance. Take them at their word when they tell you who they are. If Luigi is the enemy here then let me tell you: you’re not on their side.

Snow is god scratching his dandruff onto us and rain is him pissing 😌🙏 hope this helps

Lotta propagandists on lemmy weren’t good enough to be on the reddit/Facebook teams I’ve noticed

All great, no notes. Kill Tories is even better than up hamas imo