In which Russian village does nobody have relatives or close friends living in Moscow?

Won’t happen. Not with that people. Those twelve that have not been successfully brainwashed have emigrated long since.

Bungee jumping is not dangerous, though.

Yeah, didn’t recognize it for first, but now I am sure. Thanks!

I’ve been trying to find this game for the last two decades, because it’s the best game I’ve ever played in its genre! :)

You’re awesome!

I wonder if it could still be the same game. Let’s actually use the spoiler tag for talking about an actual spoiler:

(There was a spoiler here, but I removed it. You don’t need to know anything precise about the game’s ending.)

You wouldn’t know the name of the Series60 game where you would turn into a cockroach and try to find out what the hell happened to your wife and kids? I played through the whole very unsettling game and fell in love with the story. And then I forgot what the heck the game was called :/

Why the bidirectional veins?!

Okay, so transgender people are not included in LGBT then?

Or are thagomizers always transgender? And vice versa?

Just came by to say that these two fit together very beautifully!

Hah, I hadn’t even remembered the self-created obstacle I have, that I’m trying to stop buying anything from the US-based Steam and buy all new games from (Polish?) GOG instead.

And Forza Horizon is not available there.

But, I’ll mention here under this post that my brother gave me a good recommendation: The Flatout series. Flatout 2 is available on GOG, and looks like something I’ll surely be playing a salary day or two! I already tried Flatout 4, (or: “Fl4tout” 🤣), which ran as a very beatiful slideshow on my computer. Flatout 2 might be what I’m looking for.

The new ones are extremely different in level design. They are just cities where you drive around.

What I like is when a racing game is built in a way that the scenery around is placed so that it conveys a specific atmosphere, even if the resulting composition doesn’t really make much sense. You cannot do that if you also want to give a sandbox atmosphere of “drive freely wherever you will”. As the races force you to drive along specific ways all the same, I feel that the player loses more than gains in that kind of “freedom”. A “roam freely in the city” kind of game has more realism, but less fun.

And write the r in org.

What’s wrong in a nostalgia bait?

Shattered PD is so good that there’s unfortunately no sense making another one. Thanks, @00_Evan@lemmy.world , BTW!

…if you already have some understanding of what is being explained. This did clarify it a bit more to me!

What mod actions are you referring to?

Lets hope that eventually Belarus and Russia will rejoin the European family.

That will take time.
The Russia is now politically about where Ukraine was around year 1970. And it took Ukraine until 2008 to start seriously becoming democratic, and even then it seemed to keep regressing again and again. Only the aggression by the Russia in 2014 stabilized Ukraine’s path towards democracy. This took Ukraine altogether about 40 years and the Russia won’t be able to be faster than that. The couple decades of extremely immense propaganda have taken their toll. If the propaganda somehow ends this year or the next, then the children born now will still be imbued by it because of their parents’ thinking, and the children of the children being born now are going to be reasonably okay, already. But still not really ready for EU. But the grandchildren of children being born in 2026 might really be able to feel European. So, when those are adults, then maybe. If the Russia ends the propaganda now.

But the Russian propaganda is something that has existed for several centuries and from conversations I’ve had with Russians in Russian language, I don’t really get a feeling that they will be letting go of that anytime soon. A Russia without Pushkin… What would that even be? Such a huge part of their literature is so toxic that whatever they try to achieve, their old literature will pull them back into what they have been for centuries.

We can always live in hope, but I really don’t think the Russia can become anything humanely thinking anytime in the next two centuries at least.

Conservatism means wanting to keep the society as it is. It is the antonym of being progressive. And that’s it.

A party that wants things to to just remain stable as they are is a conservative party. A party that wants to make dramatic changes is a progressive, or maybe also regressive, party. But absolutely not conservative.

Yes, in USA some people have started using the word “conservative” in a different meaning. That doesn’t alter what the word really means. Those who want to conserve what exists.

(And in USA the Democratic party has taken the conservative role, whereas the Republican party has taken an anti-conservative role, driving radical changes to things. Changes to a direction I see as very damaging for everyone, but changes all the same. Wanting such huge changes makes you an anti-conservative.)