Omg! Thank you!

Turns out it was this one: https://www.lemon64.com/game/microdeal-shuttle

Been gaming since 1984 or some such.

By number of hours played: Factorio

By number of hours I can monologue about a game at you: also Factorio

By how much I think it affected gaming industry and culture: Doom

The case studies, historical events, and intellectual movements discussed in the book all receive superficial treatment, and in general the content does not work in service of the argumentation.

That’s how academics say “this book is racist horseshit”

Xenon 2?

Why would anyone give a shit about negotiating with a government that change course 180 degrees on a whim, and recently launched a surprise fucking drone strike on Iran even while they were cooperating militarily?

Any negotiated promise or commitment from the US would be literally worthless. They’d just forget in a week anyway.

I can criticize a broken product. The jobs deserve thing is creative reading on your part.

https://godotengine.org/

There’s no need for Unity anymore. Godot is excellent for at least 2D games the same way Unity used to be. Unreal is easy to pick up for 3D. GameMaker Studio is going strong.

Exactly.

It was an opportunity to pick who would be in power for them to fight for improvement.

If they effectively meant what they claim, they’d push with heart and soul to get the lesser evil in poer and then immediately fight them tooth and nail for positive change.

“We need to fight for change. I prefer my opponent to devolve into oppressive fascism first, please.”

The effect will be stability, but not in a good way. Like a pile of bricks being more stable than a wall because they can’t fall over.

US troops pacify enough that no government can grow there, and no foreign nations (Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, etc) can sponsor a puppet government.

Things that will be cracked down on: Any strong organization not endorsed and in leash of US military.

Things that will not be: Systemic problems like corruption, smuggling, organized crime, etc. And with no other organizing force allowed, nobody will be in power to handle those.

The result will be less violence and war, but a region that’s not sustainable or functioning. It’ll be less able to stand on its own after the US gets bored with it than it is now.

The vanity of not choosing a lesser evil.

All the clutched straws of misapplied “false dichotomy”, “showing the democrats that they must change”, etc are just intellectual dishonesty. It’s actively and knowingly choosing a greater evil by not flipping the lever in a real life trolley problem.

Daily Mail are the ramblings of an angry racist who overheard half a news broadcast.

Okey, then. Time to be less tolerant and sympathetic of people’s struggles, I guess. Strap in, fascist fuckfaces.

Nintendo makes handhelds?!?

We burn carbon-based stuff like oil, coal and gas to give us energy and fart co2. It takes even more energy than we gained to convert X tons of co2 back to solid form.

Every single joule of energy spent on capture would have mattered more if it was used for electricity directly, and reduced fuel consumption for a power plant by the same amount.

It’s hard to see this as anything else than a greenwashing distraction intended to instill an illusion that emissions production can remain at its current level.

Guysfall

mi mlatu cimle

I loved this game. Puzzles that I felt I needed to understand the plot and culture to solve, made the world so much more alive.

Why is this reported on as if King Charles or anyone else in Britain should give a shit?

True. More targeted measures than EMP are possible.

An EMP is expensive and instananeous, caused by a nuclear or high explosive bomb. They are suited to active offense more than passive defense.

Non-nuclear has a max range of 1 mile-ish.

If a drone travels 30 mph, you’d have to detonate a high explosive warhead above your command center every minute to maintain a protective field of sorts.