Maybe stop doing business with Russia then.

I feel like we’re playing word games now but maybe I just misinterpreted you. Are these topics censored on the Chinese internet or not? That was the whole point of my original comment.

Chinese people aren’t afraid to discuss the Tiananmen riots

I never said they were afraid to discuss them. Just that they were banned on the Chinese internet.

smug online Westerners

Ad hominim ad nauseum. This just makes it seem like there is no substance to what you’re saying if you keep resorting to ad hominims.

So your response to my comment pointing out that you’re just attacking me, posting from a script and not engaging with the discussion is to what… Attack me, post some scripts and continue not to engage? If you just want to monologue, maybe make a separate post.

I pointed out the irony in your original reply and you’ve yet to address it except to make the courageous claim that there is no censorship in China. When I show counter examples it’s back to ad hominims. Can you address the specific points of censorship please? I That’s what we are talking about. “Addressing” two points as you have done gets you nowhere to defending your original claim that there is no censorship in the China.

Also another obviously dishonest point you added in your edit. Clearly your side has nothing to do with where your born, I don’t know where you’re from or who you are mate, it’s about selective criticism where you only criticise one side and never accept criticisms of another side. I am happy to criticise any ‘side’. I’m critical of the country I was born, of the US, the CCP and everyone in between.

This is the problem with these conversations, you don’t honestly engage at all and instead resort to ad hominims, irrelevant tangents or even in this case straight up lying. Copying and pasting from scripts that fail to address the point is not doing you any favours.

It’s not a football match. You don’t have to pick a side and defend it no matter what. You can and should be equally be critical of immoral actions regardless of where they come from. By playing the whatabout game to ‘defend your side’ all you do is normalise these things by implying that it’s fine because everyone does it.

I think the point of the comment you’re replying to is that those topics are banned on Chinese internet.

Your post can be published on US servers without fear of censorship so it’s just kind of proving the original point even more.

I should have read your comment before I replied. Couldn’t agree more. Going back to a PC from a laptop soon and pretty excited about it.

PCs. I’ve been living overseas for a couple of years and using a gaming laptop. I can’t wait to start using a PC again.

Laptops can be good but in my experience for demanding games they can have thermal issues pretty easily. I’m not an expert though and maybe it depends more on the individual laptop.

Also the repairability and upgradability are huge things as well. I think desktop PC plus steam deck is my dream combo for all my gaming needs personally.

If only every journalism team was as honest and tenacious as the Gamers Nexus folks no matter what the subject matter the world would be a much better place.

Huge respect to them for consistently calling out bs and using their platform to advocate for customers and hold these companies to account.

Here let me preempt the comments:

But whatabout X unrelated thing someone else did.

Something about Russphobia

Accusing OP of just posting a “Russia bad” post regardless of the contents of the post.

Something something racism.

Four o’clock. If it’s a workday then it’s almost done but on a day off it’s early enough that you still have time to relax.

We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it - Adhocretes.

Do you mean man bat or bat man?

This is the kind of progress that can only happen once a game has been in the hands of a multi trillion dollar company for a decade.

Outlook

Outlook (New)

Outlook (Newer)

Outlook (Newest)

Outlook (Newest final)

Outlook (Newest final V2)

Ageing

The world is my expense

The cost of my desire

At my workplace we are only allowed to sell stocks within certain windows, usually it’s a brief period immediately after we publicly release earnings. I think for higher ups it’s even more restrictive.

No war but the class war.

Oh shit I remember this. This was one of the things my parents said and I had no idea where they got it from.

No amount of logical explanation or showing James Randi testing past claims from “human magnets” helped.

This is one of the many reasons why I advise people never to buy anything directly from Google and always go through a retailer. You basically have zero recourse with Google. If a retailer screws you over you can at least charge back as a last resort but Google has your account hostage. What can you do if they just decide to pull some bullshit like this?