At least you don't feel well with yourself after raining on my "parade". Yay indeed. :-0
As for the wikipedia part you linked to, it doesn't say something I didn't already know-the most anti-Metaxas part is from Arthur Koestler, who was (suprise,surprise)a communist-not the most objective of sources.
However, even though I myself disagree with part of his politics(he was against Venizelos, whom I admire, him also being a Cretan-like myself-and uniting Crete-and other Greek areas which were occupied by the Turkish- with Greece), I think that, well, his "dictatorship" was very relaxed compared to others-such as Horti's in Hungary(as for his anti-communism, everyone was anti-communist at this era, except for the communists of course) .
Even if I agreed with you in everything you support, (which I don't, but I don't really feel like entering in such an argument in a day of national celebration for myself and other patriotic Greeks) I would still say that, by refusing to let the Italians pass through Greece, on the early hours of October 28th 1940(here's another great thing he accomplished-he kept Greece out of this devastating war for an entire year-by that point France-for example-was already occupied by the Germans!), he managed to redeem himself for posteriority for every single bad thing he had done before- in short 28th of October 1940 was Metaxas's catharsis, and that's another reason why this day should be celebrated.

He was an anticommunist ex-communist by the time he wrote the used sources, but, yeah, in greece, disqualifying critics as "communist" is a bit of a national sport...

Maybe, but there were many people that remained fervent communists even after being disillusioned with Stalin's regime-Koestler could be one of those.

Maybe you remember what happened more than 40 years ago. Nowadays, in Greece, disqualifying critics as "anti-communist" is a bit of a national sport... :-/

Lucasarts on GOG. A pretty f'n amazing wish fulfilment..

Better assume this by default than question a heroised dictator.

I remember a lot of things, of the "bad things only when done by the other side" variety. Not sure if you mean the Junta, the Nazi occupation (and its resistance), the post-ww2 civil war, its concentration camps for dissident artists, its executions of political prisoners who were refusing public abjuration, its kidnapping of village children to put them in indoctrination schools because the other side does it too, a wide range of adorable material for hemiplegic memories and selective history reconstruction. But I'm sure you had something very specific in mind, from all of it, though.

That said, when "anti-communism" takes stalinism as a pretext, to then disqualify as "still probably communist anyway" (without caring much about what it would mean) the very people who denounced it, it kinda defeats the nice historical legitimacy of that rhetoric. This illustrates quite well the pure "lumping" mechanism of these dscourses, and their reliance on undefined terms that can be stretched however contexually convenient.

Anyway. Let's try to see this day as the Official Greek Lucasarts Celebration Day. Would be a tad less ambivalent...

LUCASARTS ON GOG.COM!

Shouting to the world!

When I woke up at 6am, it was 67 degrees outside. This is not going to happen much longer where I live, so I am enjoying it while I can.

TIE Fighter! I won't buy it until I'm ready to play it. But that could be very very soon. :)

Got paid! GOT PAID! 2000 Euros in hand baby! The world is mine! MINE!

Haven't yet decided if this is good or not.

Machine was up on auction a month or so back, but it was only posted for maybe four days, and there was a short two-week window for disassembly and removal from the premises. I badly wanted to jump on it but the timing utterly sucked. The thing went for just $2,700 when it's worth closer to $25,000. Damn it.

But it showed up at a company I've worked with in the past. I was (am) scheduled to move a different machine and the guy I was working with asked if I could look at a couple other machines at two other facilities. Sure enough, one of them is the auction machine. And damned if it isn't in pretty decent shape for being 14 years old. Sure, it needs some repairs but nothing that would cause me to think twice about buying it.

So it sucks that I missed out on buying - nay, stealing - that machine at auction but at least I got the service work, and also some parts sales from it. As it happens, I found out today I would not have won anyway - they had a high bid threshold set at $10,000 and I would have bowed-out well before that point. But new customer FTW, and the machine at least showed up in my area.

I guess we'll call it good since from nothing came something.

Had a really tasty apple at lunch. I mean, a really good one. Seriously.

Told you you could trust that snake.

Play as a hero! is bland.
Be a fungi! is suddenly intriguing.

They should redesign the game to fit the mistake.

friend got invited into heroes of the storm alpha,I'm in his friend list,he's leveling like crazy,there's a chance I might get in also through him.


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what can I say,I'm easily amused :P