Time flies when you’re having fun 😎

Kim Il Sung’s On Cinema (you can find the PDF online) and the Soviet montage theory I think would be two starting points. And then watching marxist movies I think.

They say that there’s never a reason to use a pie chart, but they are wrong. This is the one.

I’m preparing a reference list for these treaty terms in English that people can quickly link without going through the entire essay. It’s very easy to find from françafrique websites (once you know about it), but not so much in English.

Also looking at translating works from Touré since I heard they’re not really available in English.

Unfortunately not yet but we’re playing around with the idea

or https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Category:Crit's_absolute_beginner_reading_list

Of course fitness is related to politics 🤨

It’s a dialectical meaning. If there’s no solution to a problem, then you have something other than a problem on your hands. An impossibility or a fatality. You must thus reframe that impossibility until it becomes a problem so that a solution for it exists.

In practical terms: I’m hungry on this desert island and there’s no food around me -> being hungry is not a fatality, I can find food -> finding food becomes the problem, how do I solve it? -> I’ll go walk around the beach and look for coconut trees.

Side note I originally uploaded the wrong URL and I’m very glad Lemmy allows us to edit titles and links so that I could fix it!!

Al Jazeera said Lebanon not Hezbollah, I’ll have to open the nyt article later

neat

I figured that might be the case 🤦‍♂️ indian outlets at the top of search results usually seem to be.

7 wasn’t as impactful as I expected it to be though. I guess first person horror games already existed. But it was really cool, same as 8. For most of its history Resident Evil had tank controls. It was groundbreaking when it came out on the PS1 but by the time of Code Veronica on the PS2, which I tried to replay some years ago, they still used tank controls and fixed camera angles and I was surprised. I think people at the time didn’t really like it either.

I never played 4 but I think that’s when they started updating the formula. Then 5 and 6 happened on the next gens in-between several offshoots on portable consoles and mobile, and for a time people really thought the series was dead for good. I even remember this song from the time of RE6 lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LrVou1Jo7w

And then Capcom said “you know what? fuck you. we’re gonna put you first person in unreal engine” and everyone lost their shit. But it didn’t really leave as much of an impact as I thought it would afterwards. I played a bit of 7 and the chase sequences while you were trying to solve puzzles were almost too much lol. I haven’t seen many games pull that mechanic and I didn’t expect a major release would do something like that. Mind you I don’t even play them otherwise, I just watch let’s plays. I hope they don’t disappoint with RE9.

Did you play 7 too? That’s really where the renaissance of the series started. I’m glad they ditched the RE5 and 6 model it was getting ludicrous.

Just played it. I died on an explosive cockroach lol. The gameplay is very similar but I find the climbing much easier than Peaks of Yore, although sometimes the route you have to take seems a little bit unclear but I guess that’s the point, you have to make your own route up.

I wonder when the demo ends because the levels are apparently randomly generated and you restart from the beginning each time.

Not yet, but I might. I just started Jusant but it’s so much easier than Peaks of Yore once you’ve played the former. The gameplay probably opens up later. It’s very similar but much more narrative.

There is a similar game called Albatroz that came out recently though that one was more inspired by the new Zelda games mechanics.

I would love a game where you actually chart and plot courses to try and reach the other side. Death Stranding was kinda like that but not quite the same either. I love the climbing mechanic in Peaks of Yore, I wish it was a ‘fuller’ game (not more fleshed out, it’s plenty fleshed out and has tons of content) where you alternate between course plotting, making your way to and through the mountains and climbing to reach a destination and chart it.

I am very, very glad that Putin is a reasonable person. He’s the only one who has some sense in this entire thing.

What a good coincidence that I’m opening this thread randomly to see what came out of it and see your comment made only 16 hours ago.

I would suggest this order

• Dash the red (I’m keeping it first because I haven’t read it)
• On Contradiction
• On Practice
• Elementary Principles
• and then the last two in any order

I say that because On Contradiction is a great primer before getting into Politzer’s course as I find Mao’s explanation stronger. Politzer’s book is a whole course so it will get you up to speed on idealism, materialism, metaphysics and dialectics. He also references Lenin’s Materialism etc. a lot so you’ll be able to get into that one later with some starting material.