My “politics” is because I don’t think that any politically relevant (especially for the rest of the world) decision in the US is taken in or by the appointed institutions. And recent events, including the news we are commenting on here, are confirmation of this.

I’ll let you onto a little secret about Europeans: we don’t don’t give half a shit about the US and their “politics”.

You may well argue that we have your bases in our territory, NATO and your social networks influencing our lives, but I see that as our internal problem of still having to grow a proper pair, rather than an interesting consequence of whatever medieval situation you’re brewing in there.

And you wish you were in a cyberpunk dystopia. You’re in a boring one.

I think this could have been the normal evolution of the social network under anyone else than Musk. I repeat, it has always been built this way, for broadcasting. And I am sorry to fire on the Red Cross, but Mastodon is just the same: the only reason it is somewhat better than what Twitter was is that it is novel and barely populated and therefore elicits what in Italy we call mountain path courtesy.

And a huge disruption of astronomical research.

I don’t really see a difference in Twitter pre- and post-Musk. It is literally built for this, for broadcasting with minimal discussion afterwards. I left Twitter a bit before Musk got it because I realized Reddit was better for discussing and obtaining informed opinions. And now I left Reddit.

You guessed it, I am not American.

Nor I have time to spend following the domestic politics of a country that was decadent when it was founded by terrorists (according to its own Constitution).

I am surprised still because this is 2023 and you are behaving literally medieval de facto instituting a new kind of feudalism gibing power to these people.

What’s surprising is that the US does nothing about it

Is that a trick question? Because my answer is a resounding yes.

In Italy I was a member of UAAR (The Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics) and we supported the legal costs of people battling against crucifixes in the workplace, compulsory prayers and even acoustic pollution caused by the church bells. This was in the late '90s to early '00s.

Bad publicity is bad for business. And that’s all the US really cares about.

Let’s look at the bright side: at least it is obvious even to the US that being this close to Israel at the moment is something that is better done under the table.

I play it regularly all over again. The amount of variability they where able to pack in it makes it incredibly fun and replayable. The characters are well thought and balanced and in custom maps are usually good quality. Plus it is a blast in multiplayer and holds perfectly well online.

Broforce

End how?

That’s the plot of Idiocracy

That’s what an AI would say!

That was not the assumption. Also, that map is either 20something years too early or too late to be proof of much of what was going on in the 1950s.

My guess is I have way fewer friends than you

I stay away from driving simulators mostly because I hate cars in general, unless it’s Quarantine or Carmageddon.

Making something VR compatible games pushes towards certain design choices that empoverish the desktop experience.

I have heard great things of Senua’s Sacrifice, but I downprioritized it for years now exactly due to that design aspect.

There are a lot of assumptions there.

First of all, I am sure that is part of something much larger and it is a real neighborhood, not something hypothetical.

Second, I don’t see people giving up their car brains just because you put a tram. I myself would still be using a car if it wasn’t made completely superfluous and fatiguing where I live and work.