It's worth noting that the book Joker grows out of his obedience to the empire and gets to know and relate to the people he has come to Vietnam to kill. The movie doesn't explore the second book of the duology (despite borrowing some imagery from it), where the consequences of serving the empire come back to bite Joker in the ass and, ostensibly, make him a better person.

All in all, I like the books a whole lot better.

The indie sector is also keeping it mostly lean. No other game has made me cry like Signalis did, and it's less than a gig.

Fake news?

As soon as I finally move to Russia and settle down, I'm planning on taking the trip there with my SO. It's going to be great.

They believe that the good guys always win, and they also believe themselves to always be the good guys. Hence the mental gymnastics.

You're pretty much spot on.

Thank you, I've almost retched at the idea.

The tea is absolutely the superior drink.

I don't know what's going on, but I'm glad to hear a comrade feels better!

We're physically well, but mentally exhausted. Both of us can't wait for this war to be over.

Puts my shitposting here in perspective

Sometimes it's easy to look at the world events and say "yeah, this is horrible, but in the end it'll lead us to the better world", and kinda forget about those swept up in these events. I do this too, because the only other option is a complete burnout.

You can't get out legally if you're an adult male. You'd have to pay an exorbitant amount of money to get smuggled through the border, and it's still very risky.

Usually it involves a long journey through the wilderness with non-zero chance of being lost, starved, frostbitten (at the colder times of year) having dangerous encounters with wildlife and even more dangerous ones with the customs.

Thank you, comrade... I'm just really hoping that the war will end soon, and I'll be able to move away. I hate this place with a passion.

It was an unironically horrible year for a tankie, stuck in Ukraine, while my SO is right over the eastern border. I'm so tired... It's hard to imagine normal life now.

He was a comedian, but not a stand-up comedian.

I giggled all the way through both EA episodes. It's just... Lovely? Not sure it's the right kind of word for this, but I certainly loved it. But I'm an unrepentant gorehound, so your measure may wary.

The titular duo are complete monsters, but they can be cute and endearing at the same time. They're just really well written. In a way, the game reminded me of "Devil's Rejects" by Rob Zombie: the central characters are vile, unrepentant scum, but the camera bias and their good characterization makes them kinda sympathetic. They're still scum though, and the movie doesn't pretend otherwise. The game is similar, except when "Devil's Rejects" is extremely brutal in its approach to violence, this game is quite cartoonish... For the most part, anyways.

As usual, the worst part of this is gonna be the fanbase. I've already seen nazi shit involving the characters.

Sadly, libs will hust brush it off, since they're used to constitution being more of a suggestion.

Still, very based.

We in eastern Ukrain don't want it either, tbh...

Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

I bloody hope so. I can't take it here anymore.

I'll be getting out of this hellhole as soon as the borders are open. As much as it saddens me to see my country reduced to this, I'm not going to stick around and try fixing it. I've come to hate this place with a burning passion.