Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.

Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.

At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.

Under Roca's leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro's revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party's long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.

In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.

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  • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
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    2 months ago

    This has always been a thing with the souls games. There's a massive amount of information to take in about game systems, item interactions, weird secrets. Going to community websites and wikis to share information and work things out has been part of the experience the whole time.

    They went way overboard with Elden Ring. I could upgrade the first weapon I find in DS1 to + 25 and beat the final boss without worrying about anything. In Elden Ring, I could be 30 hours into a playthrough and my main sword swings too slowly to punish a boss so I have to look at the wiki for upgrade materials or alternatively find the weird item which stuns the boss halfway across the map hidden behind an unrelated NPC quest.

    Elden Ring built their bosses around the idea that you have the wiki on hand. "Does this boss have enough openings? Eh who cares they can just respec or find the shackle on the wiki."

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 months ago

      could be 30 hours into a playthrough and my main sword swings too slowly to punish a boss so I have to look at the wiki for upgrade materials or alternatively find the weird item which stuns the boss halfway across the map hidden behind an unrelated NPC quest.

      what weapon are you using? what boss are you having trouble with? some bosses have pretty obnoxious attack delays that can certainly mess up great club and ultra great sword timing. The shackles are only a mechanic for Mogh and Margaret, and I think that was specifically to help new players deal with Margits first encounter. I remember everyone, including me, bouncing off that fight like ducks off a star destroyer's main shields. From definitely could have made it more clear that players didn't have to go directly to Margit and could explore around Limgrave and Weeping Penninsula.