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  1. Comment on My doomed career as a North Korean novelist in ~books

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    I can think of plenty. The key point is it's not punishable by death if you don't do it. Way to miss the point 🙄 I must have missed when the last president made us all put his photo in our house...

    I can think of plenty. The key point is it's not punishable by death if you don't do it. Way to miss the point 🙄

    I must have missed when the last president made us all put his photo in our house and wear a pin of him everywhere under threat of bodily harm. I mean give me a break! These are WILDLY different things.

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  2. Comment on My doomed career as a North Korean novelist in ~books

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    I don't think there's much complexity of argument on the fact that North Korea is one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet. I think the author was pretty generous with their depictions...

    I don't think there's much complexity of argument on the fact that North Korea is one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet. I think the author was pretty generous with their depictions even. I'm not sure quite what your point is with this comment. Yes we should be skeptical of claims we read online. But I'm not so sure NK gets much benefit of the doubt anymore? I can take everything in this article at face value from decades of depictions painted by liberated people and human rights watch groups.

    I think the fundamental difference in referring to that mural vs the Lincoln memorial as propaganda is one you can criticize. Mock. Protest in front of. And the other you can't. If a piece of state sponsored architecture or work is immune from criticism and conversation it is absolutely 100% propaganda.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_cult_of_personality I mean , we don't do this in the USA. Places with free people don't do this. It's beyond different. We are so much more free than them it's hard to compare.

    My heart weeps for the people exploited by the tyrannical government of NK. I encourage you to read the stories of survivors, I think it would change some of your sentiment.

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  3. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes (Android version) is open for alpha testing on the Google Play Store in ~tildes

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    Amazing!!! Commenting from Three Cheers now. I feel so at home coming from RIF ❤️

    Amazing!!! Commenting from Three Cheers now. I feel so at home coming from RIF ❤️

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  4. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Agreed on the praise. It's always awesome to see a small studio pull battlefield player numbers. I just grabbed it a few days ago. I find it oddly refreshing after years of unengaging FPS. If you...

    Agreed on the praise. It's always awesome to see a small studio pull battlefield player numbers. I just grabbed it a few days ago. I find it oddly refreshing after years of unengaging FPS.

    If you expect it to be a mil sim and everybody working perfectly to capture objectives you're going to have a bad time.. It is fun, dynamic, and chaotic. That's the point.

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  5. Comment on What's your favorite video game? Why? in ~games

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    Going by my steam top played my favorite games would be warframe, watch_dogs, and borderlands 2. Warframe was damn fun meeting new people in clans and grinding levels out together. Made so many...

    Going by my steam top played my favorite games would be warframe, watch_dogs, and borderlands 2.

    Warframe was damn fun meeting new people in clans and grinding levels out together. Made so many friends in that game and there is such a massive variety of how you can play.

    Watch_dogs was quite the controversy but I had a ball playing it. It is a beautiful and large open world, the story was fantastic to me, and I loved the game-play and hacking mechanics. It definitely has its flaws, but that being said I have played the campaign to 100% completion three times. It is an awesome game and does not deserve the hate it gets.

    Borderlands is a MASSIVE game after 300+ hours I am not even close to 100% completion. It is an over the top experience with so much depth and different game-play mechanics. Plus the cel shading makes the whole thing look like a comic book! awesome game.

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  6. Comment on In the lab with Xbox's new Adaptive Controller, which may change gaming forever in ~games

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    I agree. This is a really really cool thing that Microsoft is doing. I take care of two brothers with cerebral palsy and this could change how one of them plays games. Always excited to see big...

    I agree. This is a really really cool thing that Microsoft is doing. I take care of two brothers with cerebral palsy and this could change how one of them plays games. Always excited to see big companies making niche products for the disabled community :)

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  7. Comment on Whole Foods starts discounts for Amazon Prime members — but only in Florida in ~finance

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    Interesting concept. I'm not super surprised they're starting to mesh the two businesses as time goes on, but I am jealous they're not bringing it to my state yet.

    Interesting concept. I'm not super surprised they're starting to mesh the two businesses as time goes on, but I am jealous they're not bringing it to my state yet.

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