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  • Ok but those Call of Duty games for the DS were always so interesting to me. The attempt to take such a bombastic console experience and squeeze it onto a handheld often produced janky results, but it was a charming kind of jank

    I was on a forum, back in the day, focused on weird, or otherwise niche DS ports, and those games were easily the most popular.

    They even had tournaments with the Developers, which was neat



















  • The DDR is such an interesting example of Socialism to me, because of the comparatively large amount of parties and mass organizations in its parliament relative to other eastern bloc states, and I often wonder why that was.

    I suspect it has to do, in part, with Germany having a more well established Democratic tradition, as compared to say, Romania, and that it wasn’t originally intended to be a socialist state, but a neutral liberal democracy like Austria, that later became a Socialist Republic