TheObviousSolution

Imagine being such a Russian pawn that you immediately bring the aviation industry down to Russia’s level.

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Yes, nothing exceptional about Trump, all “slow but inevitable”. It’s all the government’s fault, don’t look at the rich oligarch that owns a personality cult creating social network behind the curtains…

People need to leave their personality cult echo chamber human cattle factory facilitators based in the US.

Expats should expect a “nice” surprise soon enough, courtesy of the candidate they were bubbled into voting. Did you work your entire life in the US to think you could retire somewhere else? Oh you spring child. Hell, fuck that, did you think you could be merely born to an American parent and live out your entire life in some other country as a native citizen? Oh you spring accidental American child.

Hillary is about the only thing you are right in. Who runs a candidate who has been so publicly cuckolded (cuckqueaned to be precise) to such a position of authority? Clinton was literally ran out of the office because of it (of course, history proved it only matters for one party).

Yet, even your last statement is wrong and conspiratorial. They ran Hillary because they considered Trump to be a joke candidate. And in that election, it actually made sense that Trump won because disillusionment with the system pushed people to vote for joke candidates. You are trying to suggest “dem party insiders” “found the worst person possible and talked him into running”.

But big money was trying to push corrupt influence into the US government long before through movements like the Tea Party that preceded MAGA. You aren’t completely wrong, the US should have switched to a representative democracy instead of winner takes all if it wanted reforms long ago. Even in the now propaganda laden Germany its nature as a representative democracy is still helping to prevent the fascists from taking over again. It’s not invincible, but it helps add choice and resistance against fascist tendencies.

There’s nothing great about it. It’s just on a wider, faster, and more unstoppable scale.

How to artificially impose a curfew by making people too afraid to fly. Is this what happens when you get King Musk mad about getting his flights publicly tracked? Gonna bet so, the guy is bitter and corrupt enough the he would want to replace the entire aviation system with one that won’t track him regardless of how many deaths it would mean.

He only cares about free speech when he can control what and whom it is flooded to. If you disagree with him, it will get automatically prioritized for the trash heap and chances are his critics will have worked it out of their system to bother complaining somewhere else, giving him a two for one. The russian troll factory strategy: https://theconversation.com/i-investigated-millions-of-tweets-from-the-kremlins-troll-factory-and-discovered-classic-propaganda-techniques-reimagined-for-the-social-media-age-237712

Not that they don’t deserve their opinion, just that it is somewhat hypocritical to use nostalgia to put the game on a pedestal and prevent it from being as accessible. Most devs don’t take it as a personal attack to their character to make their games more accessible to players and get more of a fan base going, and frankly, ease of access for a lot of kids of free retro games on their emulators is what has compelled them to later become loyal fans of the franchise. It is not a commentary about the value of games itself, and I will not shed a tear for indie devs that are already millionaires keeping prices high on their games as if it was necessary. Also not a fan of IP laws that are just an excuse of profitting way beyond the cost of development of something.

This would not be acceptable anywhere outside this particular sub-industry, and it does not even make sense once sales have dropped down low enough since the benefit you get from advertising is greater. This only makes sense if you see any sense in huffing and puffing and taking it as a personal aggression having to consider selling your product that has already profited its development costs several times over for less.

Personally, I will not buy it because it is not a genre I particularly like. But I would not mind buying it to see what all the fuss is about on discount. Take that as you will, but the outcome is that I will probably play something made inspired by the game before I play the game itself. Counterexample for me is Tunic, would not have bought it, in fact, I haven’t even finished it, but the devs didn’t put it in a pedestal so high that I didn’t mind giving it a try and adding it to my library. Doesn’t mean it isn’t a great game, specially for those into the genre. I’ll let you get right back to getting offended now.

Actually, a better counterexample: Bastion. Not a fan, but aspects like the quality, the way the game handles replay-ability, and other aspects of the game like the narrator, now has made me a fan of Supergiant Games and anything else they make, even if I’m generally not a fan of the genre. Also why I supported them with Hades on early access and why I played Pyre when I generally wouldn’t have.

Gonna get lynched for admitting to this here, but I’ve stayed away from Shovel Knight because of how premium they take themselves to be. I have gotten Hollow Knight and plenty of other Castlevanias on discount, though, even though I’m not a fan of the genre. I think this statement coming from them is a bit ironic consider how they treat their product, although they aren’t the only one.

Extra funny if you knew of the people who were “playing” Eve Online psychopaths, who had and still have the tendency of toying with the mental gymnastics of portraying the Sith as the good guys and the Jedi as the bad guys and decided over a decade now to get involved in propping up the Trump movement.