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So there’s this game called Arknights, which is set in a universe where they didn’t figure out the gunpowder, but they gave rocks that can be used to fuel the magic (and also give you magic rock cancer, go figure). So they have guns, but they’re basically only usable by one race of characters that are known for their innate talent for precise magic control, and everyone else sticks to crossbows and ballistas, or else more traditional magic.

Revolvers would work, surely. There’s zero electronics and an extremely simple internal mechanism. If door hinges work, so should revolvers

Soviet architecture being like that has nothing to do with socialism and everything with authoritarianism. Just like everything else they did.

This is completely unrealistic. The nutrition tablet goes up your ass (the effects are the same)

Political and scientific are not, in fact, mutually exclusive

[citation needed]

Is your last name Dresden by any chance?

Exhibit A of said manipulation:

Look at russia (and previously USSR) too. Seems the only way you can maintain the label of “global superpower” is by actively manipulating the populace to that end, no matter what social or economic system is promised to be achieved.

There’s also more widely known but narrower in scope Superb Owl