it is a well known industry standard design philosophy.

“At the time, a console title cost something in the realm of $100 in today’s dollars (or over €85-95), which made each game purchase an investment requiring long consideration and thoughtful planning. At that price, every game needed to last weeks, if not months, to justify the investment. Most games achieved this with the good old “Nintendo-hard” philosophy: Brutal challenges make a relative dearth of original content last longer.”

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/too-much-of-a-good-thing-mourning-the-slow-death-of-the-retail-game-store/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_hard

When an MMO launches it normally has little content and uses difficulty to pad playtime, especially subscription MMOs like WOW and pre-one tamriel ESO. Typically an mmo reduces difficulty of old content over time, when new content becomes available.

I do agree that the effect is much more pronounced the more popular a game is. LoTRO at least added some of the overworld challenge back with an optional difficulty slider after community backlash, and I’m not sure that a less niche game would have bothered.

Games made in the early 90’s were made for cartridges and floppy disks with limited memory and couldn’t contain a lot of content so difficulty was used to increase playtime.

Jews did not have equal rights in the Jerusalem Sanjak until the Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856.

Before that you had things like the 1847 ethnic cleansing of Jews in Jerusalem, or the 1834 looting of Safed.

Do you believe Putin when he says ukraine is committing geoncide against Russians in the donbas?

if not, then I’m not sure why you would believe hamas when they claim that israel is committing genocide against palestinians in gaza.

There is zero logical reason to treat Russia and Palestine differently.

The only apartheid is in palestine. There are literally more Arabs on the Israeli supreme court then there are jews allowed to live peacefully in palestine.

imaging thinking palestine is not dictatorship run by fascist billionaires.

Remind me what year jews were granted equal rights in palestine?

SO for anyone keeping sore at home : Israel is evil fasicsts for agreeing to the cease fire which will keep hamas in power, but also Israel is evil fascists for having invaded gaza trying to topple hamas in the first place.

Sounds like maybe OP thinks Israel is evil fasicsts and is working backwards from that assumption.

Meanwhile palestine is a literal fascist dictatorship run by billionaire kleptocrats, who’s government is officially listed as pan-arabic national socialist.^___

The founding father and first president of Palestine, Raj Amin Al-Huseni, was a member of the richest land owning family in palestine, a family who earned it’s wealth by being given the throne of jerusalem in a wedding present when the patriarch of the al-huseni clan, Husayn ibn Ali married the profit Muhammad’s daughter Fatima.

The profit Muhammad owned the throne of Jerusalem after migrating from the Arabian Penninsula and conquering it from the natives.

Oh, Raj is a title. It comes from the Sanskrit word ‘raja,’ which means ‘prince.’

Raj Amin Al-Huseni was an islamic royalist, and next in line to inherit the kingdom of jersuem to rule as a king.

Source : The Rise and Fall of the Husaynis, 1840-1922 (part 1)

https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/78111

“In one instance, a prisoner in his 40s was handcuffed and forced to bend over a desk while a female soldier inserted her fingers into his rectum.”

TIL a cavity search is rape now.

Reminds me when the report came out that 98% of palestinian women were sexually abused in IDF captivity; a UN investigation discovered that according to islamic law lifting a hajib is considered sexual assault so every time a palestinian women was searched for explosives they considered it the same as rape.

After subtracting all those instances the IDF was show to have the lowest percent of rape in the entire world, so of course the palestinians used that as proof that Israelis were so racist against palestinians they didn’t even want to rape their woman. They literally flip flopped from “IDF rapes us too much” to “IDF doesn’t rape us enough”.

That was the exact moment I began to question the palestinian narrative.

the State of Palestine would need to be acknowledged as a bona-fide state and Hamas recognised as the government of that country.

The State of Palestine is acknowledged as a bona-fide state and Hamas recognised as the government of that country, by 145 states - more nations recognize Palestine then Taiwan.

If October 7 was indeed a genocidal attack (as it clearly was under international law) then the israel’s actions are not genocide, they are a response to genocide, as the intent of the Israel-Hamas war is not the destruction of palestine but the destruction of the genocidal organisation Hamas.

The original chant In Arabic is “Min al-mayyeh li-mayyeh, Filastin arabiyyeh” which means “from the water to the water palestine is arab”.

Here are protestors at Columbia University chanting “Filastin arabiyyeh” while waving palestinain flags.

https://x.com/ShaiDavidai/status/1755728329339007011

genocide has a very specific definition under international law and “tortured and terrorized” is not genocide. It is torture, and terror.

Do you consider Hamas’ terror attacks and torture of civilian hostages to be genocide against Israel? Of course you don’t. Why? Is it the lack of effectiveness of your genocide that makes you OK with it?

In order to consider it genocide I would say there has to be a risk of actually finishing genocide.

Do you consider palestine’s attack against civilians on oct 7th genocide?

If the attack against the music festival was worse, you’d be happy to consider it genocide? How many people does it take for a murder campaign to pass your “genocide” barrier? Is that in whole numbers, or as a percentage of population?

Maybe the billionaire islamo-fascists dictators who rule palestine with an iron fists have incentive to lie about genocide. Do you also believe former Republican state representative and grand wizard of the KKK David Duke when he says that zionists are committing genocide against white people in the Americas? Do you believe Putin when he claims zionist ukraine is committing genocide against russians in teh Donbas?

So it’s only genocide, if you redefine genocide to mean “crippling the sovereign functionality” instead of “destroying the people”.

Typical fascist doublespeak, the enemy is both too strong and too weak. They are strong enough to do genocide, but too weak to actually do genocide so they have to do a hidden conspiracy super secret slow motion genocide which means will literally never actually finish the genocide they started.

80% of American jews self identify as zionists.

Are you honestly arguing that american jews who have never been to israel and have never served in any military are valid targets to be killed by the palestinian ‘resistance’?