Kerotan
Member
You don't know what I'd do and thousands of regular Russians do stand up to him. The problem is too many people have your attitude.
Instead of 200k protesting in Russia, if 20 million had the same courage they could force real change.
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Ukraine calls on PlayStation, Xbox to stop supporting Russian markets
Instead of 200k protesting in Russia, if 20 million had the same courage they could force real change.
alucard0712_rus
Member
Man, please!
Gran Turismo was a game I've always enjoyed. This game is pure beauty! I will be missing this game badly. Glad they've managed to stay among the top and still make a game they wanted.
Really want to play this game even if I've consumed by Elden Ring. That's very beautiful situation when you can play two great games without interfering each other. GT7 will be my number 1 relaxing game.
(We here cannot buy a PS5 now. It costs like a used car) lol.
(And yes of course I'm against any war, or whatever it's called. Same as anybody I've talked past week)
Gran Turismo was a game I've always enjoyed. This game is pure beauty! I will be missing this game badly. Glad they've managed to stay among the top and still make a game they wanted.
Really want to play this game even if I've consumed by Elden Ring. That's very beautiful situation when you can play two great games without interfering each other. GT7 will be my number 1 relaxing game.
(We here cannot buy a PS5 now. It costs like a used car) lol.
(And yes of course I'm against any war, or whatever it's called. Same as anybody I've talked past week)
Russian don't need videogames. They need to ponder about the place they live in. No videogames, more time to think about serious issues.
Also videogames, like many arts, are made by many cultures, are possibile because the partnership of different countries and people. This is valid even for a game like GT which was made mostly by japanese.
Forget this and act like other people and countries have no rights, and you will have no rights to benefit from their work.
Also videogames, like many arts, are made by many cultures, are possibile because the partnership of different countries and people. This is valid even for a game like GT which was made mostly by japanese.
Forget this and act like other people and countries have no rights, and you will have no rights to benefit from their work.
driftshake
Neo Member
In a fair world, yes. I just don't see how that could happen because of the extact questions you asked.
MikeM
Member
Loxus
Member
I agree.
The man leading is still only human.
He has no super powers to stop the people (including the military) from overthrowing him.
Interfectum
Member
lol what
We are given two false choices for President and no real change ever happens. In fact things are getting worse.
The only thing that is going "pretty well" are the rich decision makers are getting richer. So if you are one of them, good on you I guess.
Microsoft suspends new sales in Russia - Microsoft On the Issues
We are announcing today that we will suspend all new sales of Microsoft products and services in Russia. In addition, we are coordinating closely with the US, the EU and the UK, and we are stopping many aspects of our business in Russia in compliance with governmental sanction decisions.
blogs.microsoft.com
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saintjules
Member
wrong thread.
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karasu
Member
There has to be a hate-based cognitive bias that's making people think this way because I have NEVER seen anyone blame the citizens for actions of the government like this. We've been blowing shit up for over twenty years and there was never any massive movement by outside countries meant to get our attention and wake us up from the Bush, Obama, or Trump propaganda. Nobody ever came after our avocadoes, heroin, or curly mustache balm to get us to protest drones or overthrow the president or whatever. It's a pipe dream.
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Haggard
Banned
The only "fucking moron" here is you for not understanding that there are more ways of getting rid of a government besides rockets and guns. You need history lessons....
Pushing a populace to the brink of revolution by making it as uncomfortable as possible is not exactly a new tactic.
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Bojji
Member
Every person born in Poland knows instinctively to hate Russia (country, not people). They always were the worst cunts around. Hitler was terrible AF but his rule only lasted for a few years, Russian motherfuckers were like that for centuries...
They ought to hate the west more now! This will surely work!
saintjules
Member
Dr.Morris79
Member
Well, whatever side you all fall on all I was saying is that it's total hogwash to alienate normal people for things out of their control. It's just a shitty, not thought out thing to do. We've just had two years of this ourselves what with this suddenly vanishing pandemic and our own people turning on each other.
If you honestly think stopping a ten year old Russian kid accessing the Xbox or Sony store will stop the nutcases at the top, well.. are you really in a postion to say whats wrong or right in the first place.
If you honestly think stopping a ten year old Russian kid accessing the Xbox or Sony store will stop the nutcases at the top, well.. are you really in a postion to say whats wrong or right in the first place.
Dr.Morris79
Member
And dont touch Snowrunner. I like the Russian trucks.
ToTTenTranz
Banned
Ukranian citizens are getting their homes and themselves blown up by bombardments from the Russian army, an event that was enabled by the fact that Europe + USA weren't tough enough on the madman dictator's regime beforehand.
And now that the civilized world is applying a less-than-proportional response to Russia's genocidal war through economic sanctions, neogaf users feel sorry for the Russians who can't buy a videogame.
Look at where "worrying about Russian kids not buying videogames" took us. There's a real threat of a nuclear war in Europe.
Have the brave Russians take out the madman's internal support. That's all he has at the moment.
And now that the civilized world is applying a less-than-proportional response to Russia's genocidal war through economic sanctions, neogaf users feel sorry for the Russians who can't buy a videogame.
Look at where "worrying about Russian kids not buying videogames" took us. There's a real threat of a nuclear war in Europe.
This is honestly our best hope.
Have the brave Russians take out the madman's internal support. That's all he has at the moment.
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TheGrat1
Member
Yeah, hit 'em where it hurts the most!
2019 GDP Per Capita: $11,400 god damn.
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Bojji
Member
They should disagree on the streets around Kremlin.
They live in a dictatorship, so easier said than done. Videogames and all entertainment should have been removed from American gamers because of illegal wars in Syria and Iraq as well right? Did we ever find those WMDs? Can't forget murdering Gadaffi and destabilizing Libya.
Bojji
Member
In Poland when people were oppressed by the government they went on the streets and fought it:
Poland’s Solidarity Movement (1980-1989) | ICNC
Summary of the political history, nonviolent strategic actions, and ensuing events of Poland's Solidarity Movement from 1980-89.
www.nonviolent-conflict.org
Same for many more countries in Europe and Ukrainian people too.
What sanctions are trying to do is to make people finally go against this bandit government in Russia, I doubt it will happen personally but least there is hope...
I won't defend wars made by United States but usually they were fought in countries with dictators and/or authoritarian regimes and Ukraine is no such place.
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TheGrat1
Member
1. The UN has no real authority, especially amongst the major nations of the world. It is basically useless outside of distributing aid in emergencies.
2. UN General Assembly votes are non-binding. Basically just a bunch of nations stating for the record how they feel on a particular topic.
3. No nation needs the UN's approval to sanction anyone.
4. Security council votes are the closest the UN gets to actually having real power and it can be completely neutralized by one veto vote. 5 nations (America, UK, France, China, Russia) are permanent members of this council and can not be removed. Essentially, Russia can nullify the UN taking any official action against it and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
TL;DR The UN can be completely ignored by any significant power that wants to do what it wants to do. Israel's settlements have been declared illegal for decades and yet they are still there.
Honestly, Sony and (especially, due to Windows and Azure) Microsoft have a better chance of affecting Russia than the UN ever will.
John Wick
Member
So everytime this has happened it's the innocent who suffered. You only need to look at Syria and Libya as an example. How many millions killed? Are the countries better off?
TheGrat1
Member
Lol those votes matter now? I guess Argentina can stop complaining about the Falklands now, and if the Confederates wanted to leave the Union Lincoln should have just let them.
If the Crimeans want to be Russian so badly they can just move there. Russia is right next door and there is plenty of space. They can pick a time zone.
The links go deeper than you can imagine:
Xbox were the real Kingmakers the entire time.
Oh, so the military went after their enemy where they were instead of where they were not. Is the reason why seriously a mystery to you people?
Al-Qaeda had no significant physical presence in Saudi Arabia, why invade a place where your enemy is not? If national bloodline of the perpetrator determines where you plan retaliatory attacks then lots of European countries would have been attacking themselves a few hundred years ago due to intermarriage. It other words: It is something no serious person considers.
They killed Bin Laden in Pakistan which is right next door to....?
They already annexed part of it, 8 years ago. Where have you been?Plus one of Putin's boys got so flustered he slipped and all but admitted they are going to annex parts of Eastern Ukraine (timestamped 0:32):
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Putin has killed what once was a wealthy country.
VN1X
Banned
Microsoft suspends new sales in Russia - Microsoft On the Issues
We are announcing today that we will suspend all new sales of Microsoft products and services in Russia. In addition, we are coordinating closely with the US, the EU and the UK, and we are stopping many aspects of our business in Russia in compliance with governmental sanction decisions.
Hey, are they still selling those products in China as well? Is Google still enforcing censorship on behalf of the CCCP as well?
Or is all of this just moral grandstanding from spineless corporations that only care about optics?
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Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
Russia doesn't need Playstation at all, on the contrary... Playstation needs Russia.
And more than his console sells too little due to the pandemic and the component crisis.
And more than his console sells too little due to the pandemic and the component crisis.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Theses very countries are still buying oil from Saudis who are still bombing Yemeni civilians. But who cares, it's in the desert doing desert things, right?
If we are being morally consistent, ofc. Let's see if the same energy holds up if/when China seizes Taiwan, since the Uyghurs sure doesn't move the needle. Hell, you have sports CEOs coming out and saying they don't care about what's happening to them. Money talks. Your morals and ethics are based around what our wallets tell you to.
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