Apparently the enhanced editions of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy released today removed the Russian audio track and edited/removed certain references to the USSR - Lemmy.zip
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From what I’m reading, these changes were already present in the console ports released last year, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 also doesn’t have a Russian dub.

My first months on Lemmy were spent on Lemmy.world, which was the biggest instance at the time. I had no experience with Hexbear because .world had defederated that instance. I sometimes saw it being described as a “tankie” instance, but it was nothing specific.

After I moved to .zip, I came across !games@hexbear.net, which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk, so I subscribed to it and occasionally made comments related to gaming.

Today I made multiple comments to a post about an article on the STALKER game developers having removed the Soviet symbols and the Russian audio in the remastered edition of the game. I would argue that in the thread, there were no comments from me that could be construed by a reasonable person as defensive of Nazism, fascism, or even hinting at it. For example, in one of the comments, I linked a Ukrainian law that prohibits the use of Nazi symbols, though I highly advise looking through all my ten comments as to avoid any misunderstanding or false impressions.

Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

The thread containing all of my untouched posts is still available via lemmy.zip. My comments are also available for viewing via my user page. They are not available on hexbear due to the ban.

  • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Honestly the actual socialist states, the Scandinavian ones. Tend to be some of the happiest and highest rated on the planet. Consistently even. Generally the authoritarian ones regardless of where they pretend to be economically are often the worst.

    • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
      52·
      3 days ago

      Honestly the actual socialist states, the Scandinavian ones

      Dude, Scandinavian states aren’t socialist, they run on a capitalist economies. Who told you that they are? Where’s the source of these claims?

      • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Technically we are both correct. But you’re still wrong. Not surprising since you cannot actually accurately describe what capitalism, socialism, or communism is.

        • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
          24·
          2 days ago

          That article describes basically every EU country. (High taxation, strong employee protections, benefits financed from taxes) You’re conflating socialism with welfare state.

          Real socialism existed between 1945 and 1989 in central EU and it was awful system, thankfully it’s forever gone.