The way some US citizens engage with their government really reminds me of the good tsar, bad boyar phenomenon common in Russia.

Trump/the tsar couldn’t be doing the thing that’s hurting me, he just doesn’t know about the situation! If only the state governor/boyar wasn’t so horrible, corrupt and hiding the situation from the federal government, then Trump/the tsar would obviously step in and fix the issue.

Oh, ok. Sorry, I’ll stop reading the future ones then, didn’t realize all the slots were taken.

Gonna echo what others have said here from my general programming experience: you need to start WAY smaller. Build, for example, a top-down sprite art single-player extraction shooter. Once you’ve gotten the hang of the general problems with real-time gameplay, then move on to the next project.

I don’t think you’re wrong in starting with a particular focus and expanding the scope as you gain experience, but you’ve set your starting point aggressively too high.

Seems pretty normal for an orange cat. There’s something about that colour that causes extreme stupidity. They’re normally good fun though.

If you’re an EU citizen, just paying taxes does a lot.

Even without the ratcheting, assuming the percentages are well calibrated, it works on everyone equally no matter your financial situation. A wealthy person paying tens or hundreds of thousands of euros for going 5km/h over the speed limit learns the lesson very quickly.

In some countries, the fine is not defined as a definite amount, but as a percentage of yearly income. In Finland, a mild speeding ticket is half your daily income. That means for Musk, if he was caught speeding there, would have to pay ~38,000,000 EUR as a mild slap on the wrist.

Thanks to previous abuse of the war powers act (unironic thanks Obama), they can kinda do whatever in that front mostly legally. A previously used tactic they can borrow is just to claim the same force is now part of a coalition force, so now it’s not a US war.

The whole thing is an exploration of one concept: temporal pincer maneuvers. The entire movie is one, and you have 3 more during the movie (car chase, Freeport, Stalsk).

Every time they do this, it gives cover to real antisemites to launder their hate. Attacks on Jews worldwide are going up in large part due to exactly this kind of insane hyperbolic rhetoric making the word antisemite lose all meaning, and therefore more difficult to combat.

TELL ME HOW THE GRASS TASTES, LITTLE MAN!

I fully agree with your goals (last paragraph). Literally all I was disagreeing with was the finality of it, that your country is permanently wrecked. It is currently wrecked, but nothing is fully permanent, and with enough time (talking a decade at an absolute minimum, more likely multiple decades) and people commiting real effort, this is fixable.

Never say never. In 1986, it was utterly unthinkable that the dictator of my country (Romania) would ever be overthrown. 3 years later, he fails a mad scramble to get out of the country and ends up being executed.

Might not be visible now, might not be for years, but there’s always possibility.

So get vegan borger

Increasing trade between the EU and Canada just makes perfect sense, with or without full membership. They bring the raw resources, we bring the equipment to extract those raw resources. It’s a pretty sweet deal for both parties.

I agree with the outcome, but not the reasoning.

The US has no planned victory condition, no strategic plan, they’re just kinda bombing things semi-randomly with no long-term goal.

Iran, meanwhile, has a specific actionable plan: cause enough damage to turn public opinion against the war hard enough so even Trump can’t ignore it.

In short, the US can’t win because they haven’t even defined what winning means.

Don’t get too excited. Yes, it’s a split from Orban and Magyar is more pro-EU, but Tisza (the new party) is a splinter group from Fidesz (Orban’s party) and share many of the same views domestically.

Basically, same far right people but willing to stfu to get access to EU funds again.

There’s a concerning number of Romanians who think the Tate brothers did nothing wrong. Best get them somewhere with a functioning legal system.

Oh, don’t worry, I know! I’ve read some DF stories like Boatmurdered. It just seems like way too much for me, and is why I prefer “simplified DF” games like Rimworld.

Wtf did I write all this for, oh well.

I found it an interesting read. As a huge RimWorld fan, I can relate to some parts and stare in blank confusion at others.