Red29

Well that's a fair point. Can I also say that I thought your first comment was beautifully written (I'm being honest here).

Anyway, I don't have time right now right now to provide evidence. So that does weaken my case. I looked into this stuff years ago. I also am aware that my position might be hurtful to Chinese. That is not my intention either (but it may have happened - and I'm sorry if that did occur). I could try and provide some links Tomo.

Just to repeat I know the Japan invasion of china was horrific. Their treatment of British Soldiers was awful too.

But how this event has been portrayed by the Chinese, relative to other awful historical events and the impact that has had on them is something I feel needs consideration. Anyway I'm just repeating myself.

I think it's problematic to isolate historical events without considering the surrounding history and can inflame tensions between communities/nations. In terms of The Japanese invasion of China, this event has often been magnified by China in comparison to other brutal events that occurred after and before it. Taken in isolation it is indeed horrendous. But zeroing in on this event downplays the brutality of the other events within China, both by other Europeans and by various Chinese over the past 200 years. Its a distortion of history. To give an example for a number of decades in china there have been 1000s of films about Japan's invasion of China. How many have there been on Britians cruelty to the chinese? Encouraging a demonising of a nation is not something I can support.

So based on a limited pool of my Chinese friends and work there I have never experienced any resentment towards the British. Nor do the Chinese show anger towards Koreans who made up a significant proportion of the Japan imperial force. I'm aware of the history of China. It's telling that it was the USA after the war that played up Japan's aggression in China. Now the invasion was bad, but was it unique in its brutality? The 1850s civil war in China was way worse.

Why the lack of focus on Europeans not apologizing for what they did in Asia/China? Why the bombardment of films about the evil Japanese invading but not the Europeans?

I've seen anti-japanese posters in China never seen anything on Europeans.

So the point is, is that there were many horrific incidents that occurred in Asia, and China sadly. I think it's more useful (and reasonable) to look at all the brutality. The 1850s civil war in China btw was arguably the worst of the lot. An insane level of brutality there but it seemingly goes unmentioned.

The west did horrific things in Asia. I'm really curious why the Chinese don't have the same level of resentment over the British given how barbaric they treated them in the 1800s.

Don't forget it was USA that forced open Japan. They didn't ask to be open to the world.

I mean it's a complex piece of history. America bombed to bits Japan and nuked it twice. Should USA not be remorseful at all? Or how about the European colonisation of Asia? I don't recall Brits feeling bad about the opium wars. Or how about China invading Tibet or its horrific "cultural revolutions"?

Netrunner (the card game) is what drew me to it. I don't think the interactions in the game are interesting. The AI awful. I don't find the game play interesting - but I like 'old man' games (Detroit I loved for examples). Just an opinion

Honestly, I found Cyberpunk really underwhelming and basically stopped playing. Apart from 1 or 2 moments (spider bot is cool,hotel theft job alright.)

It's just very run and gun. And uniteresting. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I'd love it to be a mix of syndicate (if you know that game), Detroit, and something like a point and click game. Something with a ton of interaction and only a bit of fighting.

Netrunner - card game. Can play online at 'jinteki'

Yes. I have been doing improvisation now every week for past 3-4 years. And impro is definitely the best book I have read on the subject.

I deeply regret writing my novel. It took an agonising 8 years when I was desperate to get it out as soon as possible. The issue was that I wanted a certain level of quality. I ended up self publishing on Amazon :/

I try not to think about what I could have done with the time: study math, programming, do stand up comedy etc. etc.

It is what it is I guess.

That can happen. But in a significant (the majority?) number of cases of patients diagnosed with Schizophrenia there is no difference between their brains and 'normal' people when comparing MRI scans. Note this is with early onset - the "medication" provided for schizophrenia is well known to cause large structural changes in the brain.

Totally Agree. I think everyone should go through a 6-12 month period of not reading newspapers and see how you feel. I did that and I felt much happier, and more knowledgeable (instead reading science,math, literature).

The problem with newspapers (even high brow newspapers) is that they encourage negative emotions (anger, fear, envy), are irritatingly political / full of identity politics or are full of repetitive facts (another uniformed brexit article etc.) or plain old hot air gossip.

Instead of daily newspapers take a long term view and look at the news once every quarter or two from a quality publication such as the Economist/ financial times etc.

Newspapers are bunk