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  • Best update all your files with some trash first and let it sit for a couple months to hopefully overwrite any backups, there's no guarantee that "deleting" it from your account will actually remove it from their servers.

  • Here is an archived version of an imgur album with a lot more pictures, including the days leading up to the attack on the protesters and some descriptions of the historic and cultural context.

    All of the above warnings about graphic content apply: violence, gore and death.

    Everyone reading this needs to understand, when a modern-day tankie describes someone as a 'liberal', a term which they use pejoratively, it carries the same meaning as "bourgeouis liberalism" in this quote:

    Before the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was desperate to quash what they saw as “bourgeois liberalism,” a broad phrase suggesting several kinds of resistance to the government’s strict and repressive political doctrine.

    These tankies would applaud the same kind of treatment for 'liberals' today as was given to the protesters in Tienanmen Square by the CCP in 1989.

    The group of protesters remained steadfast, even in the face of annihilation. Shots rang out, innocents were struck, and people began to die. Nonetheless — there was power in numbers, and solidarity that allowed them to find courage — and thousands joined hands as bullets flew. “Students linked arms but were mown down,” wrote Donald. “APCs then ran over the bodies time and time again to make, quote ‘pie’ unquote, and remains collected by bulldozer.”

    As if this wasn’t atrocious enough, the government’s criminal and brutal activity that day got even worse. With no regard for the families of these victims, not to mention their identities, what was left of them was disposed of — in an unspeakably callous manner.

    “Remains incinerated and then hosed down drains,” Donald wrote.

    These protesters were mostly college students and teachers who had the gall to object to the CCP's authoritarianism.

    Let them not be forgotten.

  • I'm not sure what most people were expecting

    People were expecting the game that was promised in all the lead-up marketing.

    CD Projekt has been building up expectations, previewing intriguing scenes and customizations that never came to pass.

    It went to promise real-time AI that would grant over a thousand NPCs a variety of roles and actions that, complete with a day/night cycle, was designed to change up their routines. But as fans began playing, they quickly discovered this wasn't true.

    Then, there are the gameplay and AI issues that hinder the experience. A game like Cyberpunk 2077 runs on crime, and CD Projekt promised realistic interactions with the police. One would fully expect officers to come running if a crime was committed out in the open with witnesses, or even in a remote alleyway. Sadly, there is nothing realistic about a bunch of cops spawning unexpectedly around the player with guns firing -- especially if no one even witnessed the crime.

    Basically all of the marketing turned out to be lies and the game that CDPR promised never existed.

    "Masterpiece" is a real stretch

    Be sure to watch part 2 where they show pedestrian & vehicle pathing.

  • Friendo, published by Vault Comics.

    Leo didn't have much as a kid. But now he has his best friend, Jerry, who wants Leo to have all his heart's desires, no matter what it takes. Except Jerry isn't real. He's augmented reality marketing software, and he's completely insane.

  • Last I heard, federal grants were like 2% of their annual budget.

    Apparently it's even less now:

    On average, less than 1% of NPR's annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from CPB and federal agencies and departments.

    So uh... I guess they already are surviving on their own?