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Yeah all governments have a tendency to sweep problems under the rug, but Japan are a whole other level. They NEVER admit to anything ever being wrong.

That's because every time the lead is a minority, there ARE a lot of racist incels review bombing them. If you dislike a movie and don't like being called racist, consider the possibility that they're not talking about you. It's like a reverse Goomba Fallacy.

Disney+

Since Endgame, they've made WAY more good projects than bad ones. However the bad ones NOW are worse than the bad ones before.

So clearly Hood has a deal with SOME sort of demon. Based on who we've seen in existing Marvel movies/shows, the candidates are:

• Mephisto (namedropped in AAA as a demon who enters into pacts with mortals seeking power)
• Dormammu (has an agreement with Strange not to meddle with Earth directly, but using Hood as a catspaw might be a loophole)
• Chthon (created the Darkhold)
• Marduk Kurios (unlikely, but since I'm listing Marvel demons I might as well mention Daimon and Satana Hellstrom's dad)

Note: GOG is also having a sale

SNES:

• Harvest Moon - this can lead into allowing the kid to plant something IRL and having them water it regularly, allowing them to "be a real farmer". Incidentally this is also a great way to get a child to eat vegetables, as a child who refuses to even consider eating a vegetable will change their mind when they grew it themselves
• Super Mario Kart

Mega Drive:

• Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine - simple puzzle game with humorous characters from the old cartoon

Nah, photos show a white guy. He probably had memes on his phone or sassed an ICE agent.

Can you support that?

Every time somebody tries to bring up the "America is just as bad as Russia" argument, I like to look at and compare South Korea vs North Korea and West Germany vs East Germany. We basically have proof that America isn't trying to conquer the world. It practices catch and release.

America's done lots of horrible things but Russia seems to ONLY do horrible things. America helped Japan rebuild and then gave it its freedom again. Russia still refuses to let go of Southern Chishima. America is not as bad as Russia.

Having said all that, I would prefer if NEITHER of them were global hegemon.

I mean, would we expect anything else?

Orbán does just enough for farmers to keep them voting for him. Keeping Ukraine out of the EU is part of that - if Ukraine were a member, Hungarian wheat prices would plummet.

What makes you think they will?

Can't Bazzite just permanently branch away from Fedora?

Trump is out of his depth

Ehehehe

Ah yes, I hadn't intended that part to be considered a continuation of the Columbus point. "Sometimes idiots like Columbus get things done that nobody else was gonna do because everybody else understands just how monumental the task actually is and are deterred from doing it" is a separate point from "often even when a project was more trouble, time and effort than bargained for, it's still worth it". My apologies for the confusion. I've edited my other comment to make it clearer on that score.

Irish man here; I've never been to a funeral that was open casket but I've also never been to a removal that wasn't.

True, but sometimes the only way something worthwhile ever gets done in the first place is because somebody started on it without realizing how hard it would be. Columbus only discovered the New World because he'd underestimated how far away from Asia he was. Sometimes you NEED an optimistic idiot to actually get something done. Nobody else wanted to sail west because they (correctly) assessed that the Earth was bigger than Columbus thought, and it was only blind luck that Columbus encountered an unknown continent before running out of supplies. So an idiot was necessary.

And (as a separate point) yes, when an idiot embarks on an overly-optimistic project it's a pain in the ass for everyone else who has to clean up the mess, but often the achievement lasts a lot longer and outweighs the trouble by orders of magnitude. For example the Moon landing ended up costing ten times what was originally budgeted, but I'd still say it was worth it.

Musk is going the Genghis Khan route. In 500 years he wants to be genetic ancestor to the majority of humans. To accomplish this goal he must:

1. Have many children (we're seeing this)
2. Encourage his children to provide him with grandchildren (we see his reaction to his trans child who is therefore unlikely to give him biological grandchildren)
3. Maximize the amount of wealth and assets he earns in his lifetime so that all his children and grandchildren can each be obscenely rich as well, thereby increasing their chances of having many descendants
4. Leverage the capitalist system to give him and his descendants as much control over the means of production and the levers of power as possible, thereby making them more likely to survive societal upheavals

This will give him the posthumous status he desires the most, as people are more likely to forgive historic wrongs if those wrongs were committed by their own ancestors. He can be as horrible as he wants and still be remembered in a good light if the only people around to remember him are people for whom he is intertwined with their own sense of identity.

He expects the future to slowly reduce the amount of children poor people can have as the global population drops due to obvious and intractible economic pressures.

Yeah someone who cares enough about security to switch to Signal in the first place will be willing to go into the settings to get everything just the way they like it, but everybody else will only keep the app if it doesn't bug them.