Unironically the best places to be in the decade it collapses will probably be the DPRK and Cuba

IIRC everything on XBox is also on PC via the MS store, which calls into question why the XBox needs to exist.

The best and worst part of MS’ gaming division is that they’re pretty much ignored by corporate.

this is the ending to Men in Black (and then they did it again for the ending to Men in Black II because that film was creatively bankrupt).

We could do a burning Vatican City flag, I think.

This is advanced CEO brain. He read the same reviews as everyone else did, but he has to conclude that he should play it safer with the company’s money, which means we’ll probably be getting another Skyrim port or two before TES VI.

About the same here. Last game I beat was Cult of the Lamb, which took about 24 hours and that length felt about perfect, leaving me with absolutely no interest in doing any of the “postgame” after beating the final boss.

The only exceptions for me are games with a substantial creative element, like city builders, or games with tons of mods (and often those two categories overlap).

I think Final Fantasy and JRPGs in general have a way of losing people because plot points are spread so far apart from one another. Spend a couple hours running through a dungeon and unless you’re paying real close attention you might forget why you entered it in the first place.

Democrats and splitting the difference perfectly to piss off both sides, name a more iconic duo.

I thought of that parallel too, my comment was more that this is one aspect of many in the Chinese system which seeks to extend democratic processes beyond just electing your representative. This particular system is cribbed from Germany’s notes, but the context it exists in has more democratic structures than the context that the German one exists in.

Ahhhhh this is so cool. Libs will of course say that this is fake for the same reason they believe all unions in China to be fake, because they’re part of the CPC, but China continues to implement Full-Process Democracy and continues to be the gold standard for representation in a modern government.

Yes it’s very corny and over the top, moreso than even Starship Troopers which it gets compared to a lot. The military embracing it anyway reminds me of something Zizek said about the new fascism embracing irony.

Bradley IFV though I guess it’s actually six soldiers not four

He’s right that it’s easy to fill a void left by western nations (but mostly America) being so phenomenally shit. Hopefully this works out the way the China-lead Iran-Saudi Arabia talks did - all China needs to do is be a fair arbiter and they’ll have all the credibility they could possibly ask for.

Japanese light tank

“Welcome to the captured American military equipment museum. To your left is the Coffin on Wheels, and behind it is the Bloated Budget APC That Only Carries Four Six Soldiers. If you continue into the next room, we have the Plane That Doesn’t Fly in the Rain…”

It’s still pending legal challenge ofc, but from everything I’ve read they’re only going to ban it from appearing on app stores, which should mean that anyone not on an Apple device can still install the app, and anyone with any device should still be able to access the website.

So I’m expecting TikTok to continue to be very popular with Americans even after they’re no longer “officially” supported.

wow. Imagine burning out your expensive GPU for a fortnite skin.