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Post by Tophatical on Mar 6, 2022 15:04:06 GMT -5
Theres a lot of Russian geometry dash players that use steam, including dolphy. This could negatively effect geometry dash. This is not a political thread. I personally don’t want steam to do this but there a private company and they have the right ![](http://i.imgur.com/2NsgSdB.jpg)
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Post by Bagley on Mar 6, 2022 18:50:11 GMT -5
doesn't seem like this would accomplish much tbh. banning their international sports teams would put pressure on their government because the russian public does derive a good deal of national pride from sports. but they don't really care much about competitive gaming. seems like a waste of effort to me.
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Post by Jayflight on Mar 6, 2022 20:23:24 GMT -5
Tophatical moved to the lounge as it seems more appropriate for discussion about more real-world topics
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Post by Storm on Mar 6, 2022 23:54:24 GMT -5
I feel like this is getting out of hand. Should we really affect all Russians for the acts of one man? This is seriously getting out of hand.
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Post by mmmaster on Mar 7, 2022 3:49:31 GMT -5
We need to punish the Russians until they stop ceasing all out war on the Ukraine.
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Post by Jayflight on Mar 7, 2022 9:58:50 GMT -5
We need to punish the Russians until they stop ceasing all out war on the Ukraine. Not all Russians are in support of the war, so it would be rather xenophobic in a way to do this. Even if it wasn't, people will remember what happened, and a country's history often comes back to bite it in ways it did not perceive at the time.
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Post by Storm on Mar 7, 2022 10:58:43 GMT -5
We need to punish the Russians until they stop ceasing all out war on the Ukraine. Yeah I’m going to have to agree with Jayflight there, not all Russians support the war, some of them think their leader is going crazy. I feel like using “punish the Russians” isn’t a good thing to say. If your world leader was doing some crazy bad stuff, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t feel nice if everyone was saying “punish everyone in your country” even though some people in your country had nothing to do with what your country’s leader is doing. I feel like that term shouldn’t even be used as a synecdoche. There are some kids in Russia who probably play games on steam to help with mental health. But they keep getting attacked all because they are Russian. They didn’t start a war, they just live in a certain part of the world, and because of that they are going to get attacked whenever they log into a game. I feel like this is racism on many levels. It kinda is racism. No I don’t support what Putin is doing, but I don’t think we should attack every single Russian person because of what their world leader is doing.
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Post by Storm on Mar 7, 2022 11:00:51 GMT -5
Theres a lot of Russian geometry dash players that use steam, including dolphy. This could negatively effect geometry dash. This is not a political thread. I personally don’t want steam to do this but there a private company and they have the right ![](http://i.imgur.com/2NsgSdB.jpg) Genuine question, is this a valid site, or is this a bunch of crap that’s just going to start spreading a rumour?
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Post by mmmaster on Mar 7, 2022 11:54:51 GMT -5
We need to punish the Russians until they stop ceasing all out war on the Ukraine. Not all Russians are in support of the war, so it would be rather xenophobic in a way to do this. Even if it wasn't, people will remember what happened, and a country's history often comes back to bite it in ways it did not perceive at the time. I think we need to take these measures to let Putin know that what he's doing is not okay and his citizens will get upset with him. I understand that they mostly don't support the war but maybe they will begin to hate Putin for causing this war in the first place.
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Post by mmmaster on Mar 7, 2022 11:56:30 GMT -5
We need to punish the Russians until they stop ceasing all out war on the Ukraine. Yeah I’m going to have to agree with Jayflight there, not all Russians support the war, some of them think their leader is going crazy. I feel like using “punish the Russians” isn’t a good thing to say. If your world leader was doing some crazy bad stuff, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t feel nice if everyone was saying “punish everyone in your country” even though some people in your country had nothing to do with what your country’s leader is doing. I feel like that term shouldn’t even be used as a synecdoche. There are some kids in Russia who probably play games on steam to help with mental health. But they keep getting attacked all because they are Russian. They didn’t start a war, they just live in a certain part of the world, and because of that they are going to get attacked whenever they log into a game. I feel like this is racism on many levels. It kinda is racism. No I don’t support what Putin is doing, but I don’t think we should attack every single Russian person because of what their world leader is doing. I apologize if it came off that way, I simply just mean that if we do not give Russians access to the world, maybe they will begin to hate Putin which will make him angry. Theres a lot of Russian geometry dash players that use steam, including dolphy. This could negatively effect geometry dash. This is not a political thread. I personally don’t want steam to do this but there a private company and they have the right ![](http://i.imgur.com/2NsgSdB.jpg) Genuine question, is this a valid site, or is this a bunch of crap that’s just going to start spreading a rumour?
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Post by Storm on Mar 7, 2022 12:18:31 GMT -5
Yeah I’m going to have to agree with Jayflight there, not all Russians support the war, some of them think their leader is going crazy. I feel like using “punish the Russians” isn’t a good thing to say. If your world leader was doing some crazy bad stuff, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t feel nice if everyone was saying “punish everyone in your country” even though some people in your country had nothing to do with what your country’s leader is doing. I feel like that term shouldn’t even be used as a synecdoche. There are some kids in Russia who probably play games on steam to help with mental health. But they keep getting attacked all because they are Russian. They didn’t start a war, they just live in a certain part of the world, and because of that they are going to get attacked whenever they log into a game. I feel like this is racism on many levels. It kinda is racism. No I don’t support what Putin is doing, but I don’t think we should attack every single Russian person because of what their world leader is doing. I apologize if it came off that way, I simply just mean that if we do not give Russians access to the world, maybe they will begin to hate Putin which will make him angry. That’s like saying your sibling did something bad, so your parents cut off all of your entertainment so you get mad at your sibling in hopes your sibling changes.
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Post by mmmaster on Mar 7, 2022 13:32:34 GMT -5
I apologize if it came off that way, I simply just mean that if we do not give Russians access to the world, maybe they will begin to hate Putin which will make him angry. That’s like saying your sibling did something bad, so your parents cut off all of your entertainment so you get mad at your sibling in hopes your sibling changes.
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Post by Bagley on Mar 7, 2022 14:04:42 GMT -5
Not all Russians are in support of the war, so it would be rather xenophobic in a way to do this. Even if it wasn't, people will remember what happened, and a country's history often comes back to bite it in ways it did not perceive at the time. I think we need to take these measures to let Putin know that what he's doing is not okay and his citizens will get upset with him. I understand that they mostly don't support the war but maybe they will begin to hate Putin for causing this war in the first place. Yeah I’m going to have to agree with Jayflight there, not all Russians support the war, some of them think their leader is going crazy. I feel like using “punish the Russians” isn’t a good thing to say. If your world leader was doing some crazy bad stuff, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t feel nice if everyone was saying “punish everyone in your country” even though some people in your country had nothing to do with what your country’s leader is doing. I feel like that term shouldn’t even be used as a synecdoche. There are some kids in Russia who probably play games on steam to help with mental health. But they keep getting attacked all because they are Russian. They didn’t start a war, they just live in a certain part of the world, and because of that they are going to get attacked whenever they log into a game. I feel like this is racism on many levels. It kinda is racism. No I don’t support what Putin is doing, but I don’t think we should attack every single Russian person because of what their world leader is doing. I apologize if it came off that way, I simply just mean that if we do not give Russians access to the world, maybe they will begin to hate Putin which will make him angry. Genuine question, is this a valid site, or is this a bunch of crap that’s just going to start spreading a rumour? "I think we need to take these measures to let Putin know that what he's doing is not okay" yeah that's the logic behind other decisions like banning them from international sports tournaments which do put pressure on putin, but do you really think that putin (or the russian public for that matter) really cares about international gaming competitions? I doubt it
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Post by mmmaster on Mar 7, 2022 20:36:04 GMT -5
I think we need to take these measures to let Putin know that what he's doing is not okay and his citizens will get upset with him. I understand that they mostly don't support the war but maybe they will begin to hate Putin for causing this war in the first place. I apologize if it came off that way, I simply just mean that if we do not give Russians access to the world, maybe they will begin to hate Putin which will make him angry. "I think we need to take these measures to let Putin know that what he's doing is not okay" yeah that's the logic behind other decisions like banning them from international sports tournaments which do put pressure on putin, but do you really think that putin (or the russian public for that matter) really cares about international gaming competitions? I doubt it Just think about it, the russians will not support the war and will be angry at Putin because of his actions. The morale of the enemy will be low because of this. They will be forced to become Chinese. “No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Post by Bagley on Mar 7, 2022 22:41:42 GMT -5
"I think we need to take these measures to let Putin know that what he's doing is not okay" yeah that's the logic behind other decisions like banning them from international sports tournaments which do put pressure on putin, but do you really think that putin (or the russian public for that matter) really cares about international gaming competitions? I doubt it Just think about it, the russians will not support the war and will be angry at Putin because of his actions. The morale of the enemy will be low because of this. They will be forced to become Chinese. “No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of Warok look dude, I don't claim to be any sort of foreign policy master, I'm just a dumbfuck who plays a 2d square game and so are you. just because you can write in giant text and you can copy and paste irrelevant war strategy quotes doesn't make you an expert on diplomacy. global politics is a very complicated field and it isn't always as black and white as "make the russian people angry and then putin will withdraw his troops", and even if it was, banning russia from steam would have basically no effect on it, as much as I might wish otherwise.
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