Nausicaa is my favorite, too. The hand-drawn animation is incredible, the conflict is nuanced, the setting is beautiful, and the characters have interesting motivations. Its a masterpiece.
I completely agree; the buildup and production involved in most RTS games is tedious to me. Close Combat seems like the perfect middle between simulationist war games and RTS chaos. It was actually developed as a Squad Leader game before they lost the Avalon Hill license.
The Combat Mission games were fairly similar, with my favorite feature being a mode where you issue orders in 1 minute increments; you're watching the battle play out in real time, but it's still turn based. Edit: Apparently they're still making these. Here is the one I remember playing most. I still like the Close Combat games better to just jump into though.
The only modern franchise I've played that has a similar play style are the Total War games, but I think they realize WWII isn't a great fit for them.
Is there anything more American than cops burning down an entire black neighborhood to target a few people inside and then getting off scott free due to qualified immunity?
Yeah, the christofascists and the technofascists are both groups of unbearably abrasive control freaks, and neither of them can stand to give up one miniscule bit of power.
It'd be delicious if their edgelord ideologies weren't so dangerous to the rest of us.
The provision, introduced by Representative Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, states that "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."
More proof that "State's rights" has always been code for oppressing minorities.
The death penalty is barbaric no matter how it's done, but if the state was going to put me to death then bleeding out in five minutes by firing squad seems a lot better than drug-induced tortured breathing for an hour.
No. It's another form of government that has its own issues, but not all authoritarian regimes are fascist.
On the other hand, neo-feudalists are reactionaries because they want to return society to a mythical past where a heirarchy of elites rules over their subjects. Fascism, neo-feudalism, and conservatism are all subsets of reactionary ideology, but they are not the same thing.
I agree that that is what society and government should be for.
Reactionaries, on the other hand, have a completely different set of values that is incompatible with a free society. They see the role of government as instituting a heirarchy with themselves at the top.
The recent attacks on DEI are a clear example of their insistence on hierarchies with the "proper" people sorted to the top. They believe that all of society's problems are due to leftists upsetting the pyramid.
They don't think they'll need protection, because the government works for them, since they imagine themselves at the top.
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Commander Adama tried to warn us.