🏴Akuji

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  • Ouh la, ça doit faire 10~15 ans que je n’y ai plus touché. Je faisais pas mal de role-play par forum avant, et on échangeait nos idées, plus ou moins poliment, entre joueureuses sur Skype.
    Et il y a eu Hordes.fr. Vous vous rappelez les jeux par navigateur de Motion Twin, bien avant Dead Cells ? On se coordonnait pour rejoindre une partie au même moment, en espérant tomber sur la même ville. On planifiait les expéditions dans le désert alentour, les bâtiments à construire, les gens à envoyer à la potence… C’était l’bon temps 😛
    C’est surtout ça que je retiendrai de Skype.



  • Je ne saurais pas dire quel age j’avais exactement, mais j’étais tout pitit et pas encore capable de lire le moindre mot. On m’avait offert une Atari 2600 avec une cartouche pirate. Pour moi, la grosse liste de noms défilants, c’était du mandarin. Donc j’appuie sur un nom au hasard, et je me retrouve à contrôler un triangle en plein milieu de l’espace, avec des gros pâtés moches qui lui arrivent dessus et qui deviennent plus petit quand on leur tire dessus. “Diantre fichtre dieu, ceci est bluffant de réalisme !” m’exclamais-je 🙃

    Donc ouais, mon premier jeu, c’était Asteroids.








  • I must have failed to convey what I meant. What bothers me is actually framing the report as what it isn’t, not how close to the truth it is. Honestly, if you said something like “the CIA was already collecting comments on what life under Stalin was in the fifties”, I wouldn’t take issue with it.

    I’m genuinely too pooped to entertain you any longer, but beware, I’ll be there next time 🤓



  • Sorry to reply so late, the flu launched a surprise attack on me yesterday.

    I know that it’s difficult to make people read, and they’re not always to blame. At the end of a day struggling for bread, they’d rather have games, the machine works perfectly.
    But it’s not a valid reason to manipulate and misinform them. I’ve been reading your comments for some times now, and I’m inclined to believe that you seek to make comrades out of those you interact with (and also the bystanders); such a relationship must be based on factual informations and honesty. Otherwise, you take the risk of seeing those you’ve convinced cast into question your truthfulness about other topics should they take a look into the nature of that report; worse, it could push them away from socialism…
    History books might be less efficient than pointing at the enemy and saying “look, even they admit [thing]”, but it’s factual and difficult for an honest person to attack.

    The CIA’s later report seems to more be the “official line” rather than genuine analysis IMO.

    Be it toeing the party line or genuinely believing it, they weren’t able to poach someone from the politburo (in the fifties at least, as they admit; counter-intelligence in the USSR was impressive at the time), they had no first-hand information on which to base their opinion.

    I guess the grammar and coherence of this comment is subpar, but, erm, second language + flu = this 😞


  • For Stalin, the CIA didn’t think him a dictator.

    I’m once again nitpicking on this because it prodigiously bothers me: the CIA collected and compiled comments from an informant. This is the nature of the document you have linked, not their opinion on the matter, not a statement from them, nothing of the sort.
    Please, you have a bunch of books from reputable historians to mention and take quotes from, stop using this “unevaluated” information report as a proof of the CIA thinking this or that.

    Edit:
    Here’s what they had to say about “stalinism” two years after the linked report in an analysis (Titoism and Soviet Communism):

    This term is used to denote the teachings of Marx, Engels and Lenin as dogmatically interpreted by Stalin, and as imposed by him on the International Communist Movement.
    The term denotes in particular the theory and practice connected with Stalin’s personal dictatorship – “one man rule” – over the CPSU, the Soviet State, and – under the guise of “the leading role” of the CPSU – over the International Communist Movement as a whole.

    As a matter of fact, the CIA did think him a dictator at the time.


  • 🏴AkujitoForum Libre@jlai.lu[Fedivers] hexbear.net est à vendre aux enchères
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    23 days ago

    Soyons mesquins deux secondes : quand tu préfère passer ton temps sur tes alts à lancer des concours de claques plutôt que renouveler ton nom de domaine 😝

    On dirait qu’iels ont une solution de secours (chapo.chat), mais petite pensée sincère pour celles et ceux pour qui hexbear représente un soutien psychologique voir financier, et qui se retrouvent malgré tout isolé·e·s faute de le savoir…