@luithe@ChristiJunior@MeBigbrain@TornadoOfTerror it's the dev replacement theory, same thing happened with Respawn between Titanfall 2 to Apex Legends. these studios have the same name and prestige while all the talent gets picked out and replaced with diversity hires.
@MeBigbrain@TornadoOfTerror I still think it's beyond retarded how the devs of a first-person singleplayer game devoted that much time and energy to fucking character creation cosmetics, given just how many aspects of their game were either broken, rushed or unpolished.
@TornadoOfTerror "Hehehe customize your character however you want, you can pick the size of the dick on your female character, isn't that awesome AAAAAHHHHHHHHH WHAT ARE YOU DOING, REMOVE GUN-TOTING CHILD!"
During Covid, they still swallowed the narrative, with heavy lockdowns, pro-vaccine propaganda spread by the government, mask mandates, quarantines with the police checking up on you and forcing you to send selfies to ensure you're actually at home. And that's enough for me to bury Poland as "based", but let's look further.
There is still the stupid schooling system, advertisements everywhere, etc.
I think the /pol/ types imagine Poland as "based" because it's 99% white people, but that's beginning to change. Poland was stlil forced to accept tens of thousands of immigrants by the EU several years back.
Oh, and pro-Ukraine "Putin bad" war propaganda is all over the place. Now two million (maybe more now) Ukrainians have been taken here. It's not the nationalist paradise that /pol/ types imagine it is.
The Polish government is also using Facebook to share important information, funnily enough.
Oh, and recently I've read news about how the Polish police is spying on cyclists using drones, and fining them for rule violations even when they aren't hurting anyone. So the last free style of transportation is being attacked.
Hospitals work horribly and will kick you out with a really serious issue. That is if they don't kill you in the first place.
There is still CCTV spying on you everywhere. Cash is being slowly attacked etc.
@digdeeper@ChristiJunior@MeBigbrain@TornadoOfTerror@luithe@thebleedingphoenix Also, there are rumors going around of them wanting to turn Poland and Ukraine into a new IsraHell and Palestine for the New World Order. Though it's coming from the same people who fear mongered about "vaccine shedding" which to this day they can't manage to even prove to be true.
@digdeeper@ryo@ChristiJunior@MeBigbrain@TornadoOfTerror@luithe@thebleedingphoenix As much as I love my country, I must agree with you on the most of things... During the pandemic everyone lost their fucking mind. Main narrative was pretty much that if you're not gazillion times vaccinated you are a threat to others. It was damn awful (although not as bad as Australians who have been on 2-week lockdown for consecutive 36 days). Of course with Ukraine war starting the virus mysteriously vanished within two weeks and everyone got pretty quiet about it.
Unfortunately the "putin Bad" propaganda is also very true. I mean I don't think that what is he doing is good but everyone suddenly just fucking LOVES Ukraine and if you dare to speak for example about many fuckups within their army's main command you're instantly called russian troll. Also so-called mainstream media articles about the war are... very enthusiastic to say the least. They sometime sound like if Ukraine was about to not only win the war within hours but then conquer whole Russia xD. When Germans attacked Poland in 1939 whole narrative in Polish newspapers was pretty similar- like if we were to beat Gremans in no time. No need to say: it went a liitle different and although we had some great, heroic achievements at that time, eventally we were obliterated.
Polish government is no different than any other - incompetent, greedy, dumb and with some CCP-like aspirations. No matter if left or right is currently at power it all stays the same.
Poland is often portrayed as based because of it supposedly being conservative and with some traditional values. That's true in comparison to western Europe or the USA but lemme tell you, the decay started here as well, it just hasn't spread that far yet (hopefully it won't).
BUT poles truly have some potential in them to become based. They sometimes are VERY stubborn and many still have that beautiful mentality of generally not giving a fuck about many dumb artificial laws and prohibitions produced by the government and doing whatever they want anyway. It's hard to explain but for example: if in some of western EU countries you have a speed limit of 60 km/h the people there will generally drive below that limit because "it's bad to drive faster because it's against the law". In Poland it's more like: "LMAO don't look at that , drive however you want and just don't get caught"