Slab_Bulkhead

wait wasn't Uriel was the guy to start the whole Morrowind ban...sigh

i can see them now, fatman 3D printed bomber drones with there trusty escort stick "jousting" drones.

i mean they were right about Portugal, Switzerland and sorta the UK

uh no.

for me the decline started with the introduction of boss fights in Halo 2. CE blew my mind with zero 'supervillain' level boss fights most games that i played at the time resorted to. i really liked the concept that the three big antagonists were an advanced civilization of never ending zealots hellbent on ending the universe for their religion, then there's the hive mind of mindless swarming parasitic alien lifeform hellbent on eating/becoming the universe aka its own religion, and the ancient remnants droids that watch over it all like an endless production line metal monks guarding and maintaining said remnants like a religion...

anywho by the time of 5 the "villains" were so Marvel level of cheese/boring i was willing to press halo's big red button and just be done with it all.

Hegel's concept of "recognition" (or Anerkennung in German) is central to his philosophy, especially in his 'Phenomenology of Spirit'. It refers to the process by which individuals come to see themselves as self-conscious and free through the recognition of others. For Hegel, self-consciousness is not something an individual can achieve in isolation; it requires acknowledgment from another self-conscious being.

Hegel argues that human self-consciousness is inherently relational. A person does not come to understand themselves simply by introspection. Instead, they need to be recognized by another self-conscious being. This recognition affirms their own existence as a self-conscious subject.

Hegel ultimately sees genuine self-consciousness as arising from a form of mutual recognition, where two or more individuals acknowledge each other’s autonomy and subjectivity. This process allows individuals to overcome alienation, as each person is not merely an isolated subject, but is recognized by others as a free and self-conscious being.

Recognition is also crucial in Hegel's views on ethics and society. For him, the state and social institutions are vehicles through which mutual recognition can be institutionalized. The individual's freedom is realized not in isolation but through participation in these social structures, where recognition is an ongoing process. This can be seen as laying the groundwork for later political theories, including Marx's ideas about class struggles and emancipation.

meanwhile Washington's like...

well they were "sold" at the Yalta Conference imo. but don't worry this Stalin guy seems like he's a strong trustworthy guy "because the Russians had greatly sinned against Poland", "the Soviet government was trying to atone for those sins" you know by completely controlling it as a buffer defense zone for WWIII

"And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chu—"

dis sums it up.

Andor was a surprise... mando was fun... and the rest never happened...

"sigma one going ALL CAPS"