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I don’t agree with this “setting precedents is bad” logic. The Republicans have shown absolutely no qualms about breaking with previous precedents and setting their own, so why should the Democrats? From our POV this is just an indication that the collapse of US institutional legitimacy might proceed slightly faster than it was before, but it in no way alters the course that the political system has been taking since the neoliberal turn.

Rare degrowther W

but also RIP in peace Germany’s middle class lmao

You guys misunderstand him. All Ukraine has to do is launch a massive surprise attack leveraging their technological advantages to break up Russia’s defensive lines and create encirclements. Never mind the fact that Ukraine has neither surprise nor a technological advantage nor a completely fresh ideologically dedicated army flush with amphetamines.

Yeah my HMO guy didn’t know how to approach this, so he did this.

That room’s got some warm lighting. I’m guessing not too many LEDs in Pyongyang in 2010.

The only winning move is not to play.

True then and true now. Though if I wanted to be a clever boy about it, I would use suitcase nukes and pick three events that ghouls attend en masse, like Davos, the State of the Union, and a G12 summit.

I really like where D&D’s at, since it has multiple classes at every point along the “at will” to “once per day” spectrum, so players can pick what they like. D&D 4e tried homogenizing everyone into having mostly “at will” powers and players (myself included) hated it.

Agreed about not liking that D&D sucks all the air out of the room, though.

All of the best games ever made have been janky as hell. Highly polished games are usually that way because they avoided doing anything interesting and just did things that had been figured out by previous games.

I like all three of those games, but calling SMO “half Kirby and half Banjo-Kazooie” is incoherent to me. Bigger maps don’t make your game more fun, go too big and all you’ve managed to do it make it more tedious to get from point A to point B. Also, kirby’s power ups don’t work the same way SMO’s do - almost every SMO powerup changes the way you interact with the game world, whereas a kirby powerup just gives you new ways to dispatch enemies (which was already trivially easy).

SM Wonder is good but not quite at the high bar achieved by Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze or Rayman: Legends

Yes. Also everyone should be required to learn how to use a slide rule before they ever get given a calculator - I think that seeing how the numbers relate to each other on a physical device can help students conceptualize them better.

you sit at a red light. a bicycle passes you on the side of traffic. you grow obscenely, irrationally angry and vow to get all bike lanes removed from your city. the traffic gets worse.

Yeah this particular piece of data isn’t gonna go on top of my list lmao. Major corporate audits like this also frequently find that they’re not culpable for child labor when they are, shit like that.

IIRC, when this photo was taken, Burger King had some kind of exclusive right to operate on military bases. Dunno if they still do but contractor fuckery is one of our most important American values.

It’s florida but I was also underwhelmed. I have the suspicion that they don’t have anything really flashy to show off yet because they’re still working on it and have over a year of dev time to go.

AFAIK the referendums were held in Venezuela. If there was one from the region in question showing that the people living there yearn for liberation, that would be different.

Pictured: Me, getting excited for DC20, even though I know I’ll never get to play it

There is a theory that a lot of liberals and radlibs believe where Marx was German, therefore any nonwhite communist movement represents a form a European colonialism.

This is definitely a bit.

I’m not familiar with any theories, but after watching only season 1, I liked it a lot. The metaphors for police/democracy/everything else and the parallels between The Game and The Real World are really obvious to a Marxist, but its got a lot of twists and turns and is fun in the moment even if what it has to say has been done to death.

I’ll also say that Season 1 explicitly states that The Game was made up by American businessmen, who are portrayed pretty over-the-top and basically treat the Korean characters as cattle, so if they decide to go North Korea Bad in Season 2 that will be a big retcon.

I think you meant to say “Deck” in the second paragraph.

But yeah I totally vibe with your observation. Something a bit ironic with this situation is that a big part of why other companies simply can’t provide the kind of service Steam does is copyright issues - XBox and Playstation both give out free games, Nintendo has their online service, but no option remotely compares to “make everything available on one app on the most modern device.” Imagine if Nintendo put everything that had ever appeared on the Wii/DS/Wii U/3DS/Switch shops all on one online storefront on the Switch, and let you attach ownership to your account and play everything you owned on the most recent device - then they would have about a quarter of the functionality that Steam has on the Deck, where you have access to every game you’ve bought for PC for as long as Steam has existed (and quite a few things from before that) and the number of things that have lost compatibility is pretty low.