Their hypothetical did technically take nukes out of the equation. It is ultimately a dumb hypothetical anyway though. A conventional war wouldn’t even be necessary if the rest of the world wanted to unite against US.

the random military bases would kill a bunch of civilians

So no different than right now.

From a purely military point of view: the US can’t beat farmers in a sustained war, the US vs the rest of the world would be over in under a week and most of that time would just be spent on logistics.

Now double that with the economic mess if the US were cut off from the world economy? They wouldn’t be able to field half their military assets without Chinese resources. Not to mention the absolute gutter morale you would have to know the entire planet has allied against you.

“I have no sympathy. That’s not a person, that’s an enemy"

"I know that they have no pity for me. Because I am Ukrainian. That is enough.”

I assume the irony there goes whooshing past their head at supersonic speeds.

Cool so that means we all have claim to the continent of Africa now right /s

Careful, you will get France all hot and bothered again.

Who wouldn’t beat the US military is a better question. They have a pretty abyssmal track record, and they didn’t even do the heavy lifting in the wars they were on the right side of.

Unless it is a money burning competition, I suppose.

Huey Li

Studied Political Science at University of California, Davis (Graduated 2017)4y

“Do you have any examples of dictators that actually did their country good? The short answer: None. If they really did a good job, they’d have been happy to open up political competition.”

Oh boy, a poli sci academic that posts on quora. Poor guy is going to get whiplash from being put on a pedestal by libs. I am done with the internet for the day.

Furries are fine, my brother is one. They are consenting adults doing their own thing that doesn’t bother anyone. Not my thing, but doesn’t need to be. The only cringe thing are people who irrationally hate them because they are accepted targets to bully.

America, Land of the Free¹ and Staunch Defenders of the Free Market²!

¹ Except for TikTok

² Except for Chinese Goods

In a variety of ways, yes.

Yes, unhealthy food is made to be addictive and convenient.

There are other factors that go into it too though. People work far too long hours with far too long commutes and either don’t have the time or energy to do any cooking and/or grocery shopping. Even if you live in an area where you have good markets to buy food from, you may not always be able to.

I love to cook, it’s one of my main hobbies and I still find I don’t really have much time to cook during the week after work. My office provides lunch that is reasonably well balanced, luckily for me. If I could spend less time going to/from/at the office I would happily go to the market to buy fresh produce every day. But that simply isn’t feasible.

Not at all, they were simply the best people for the job and they were obviously promoted entirely on their own merits. What a wild coincidence that they all happened to be white guys, huh?

Gaming is a weird one because AAA development is an unsustainable shitshow with goals that can only be achieved with some of the worst exploitation that exists in any industry anywhere, but at the same time it has become easier than ever for a small indy developer/team to make and publish their own stuff and not have to deal with any of the big companies at all. Not that indy development doesn’t have its own host of problems, but for different reasons.

Basically no adult that chose to be there is innocent.

I would entertain the argument that young children born there that do not yet have the capacity to leave would be considered innocent, but they were never targetted to begin with. I mean young children, not people that are participating in a rave across the street from a concentration camp.

Every adult though has blood on their hands. Most of them have actively participated with the IOF in some capacity, and even those that have not are supporting it.

As long as the CPC doesn’t plan on doing HALO jumps from weather balloons. The Air Force’s sole weakness!

Also that is a weird course for Russian naval forces to be taking…? Or is this part of their brilliant strategy to take over Myrtle Beach, causing bikers up and down the eastern seaboard to riot?

I found the second game to have more game, but also it felt sorta…low budget?

Ni no Kuni 1 felt very much like “what if ghibli made a JRPG”. The second one loses a bit of that, and the production values seem a bit lower around the edge. Lot less voice-acting, seems to go more broad than deep as it were. I didn’t hate it, I think the combat was an improvement and the castle building stuff was fun, but I honestly probably liked my time with the first game more overall.

Mindustry is one of the very few factory games I have never tried (really put the automation tag on something and I will probably buy it). It always seemed like it leaned much more into the tower defense side over the factory side.

As someone who usually plays factory games with stuff like biters turned off, do you think there is much there still?

Hey another Tenno! That’s where I left off last time I played Warframe as well. The grind to get a Necramech pushed me off the game a couple times. The New War was pretty fun though, as I am one of those weird people that plays Warframe for the story/lore.

They made that particular grind a fair bit easier, and apparently in the June update they are going to make it even easier. So if that was what was holding you back, may be worth waiting for the update.

Played Recently:

Animal Well. It’s fine, I am not really a metroidvania guy though. Foundry. Also fine. It’s a factory game in the vein of Satisfactory, though with a procedurally generated world instead of a static one. Has potential, needs a lot more time before it really stands out from the competition.

Genres:

RPGs and factory/automation/base-building games for the most part.

Live Service Games:

I periodically have phases where I get pretty into Warframe, and now is one of those times. It’s a pretty good “podcast game” to do other stuff during, I generally really like a lot of the art design and lore of that universe. As far as a live-service game it has a relatively decent business model, basically everything is available in-game, though they will happily take all the money you have if you so choose.

I used to play Dead by Daylight because I love horror, but I am so fantastically bad at that game that I ended up dropping it.

Nope, they are pretty much as bad as the rest of them. I think like 96-97% of their salespeople make basically no money. That was their whole shtick back in the 50s of recruiting housewives as salespeople, you see it in a lot of period dramas and the like.

I know a few countries they operate normal stores because local laws prevent them from doing their whole tupperware party thing, like China. I have heard they are moving more away from that model in other countries too, but I have no idea how true that actually is.

I don’t think the actual product is necessarily bad as far as I am aware, but they still have scummy sales practices.

What does the Watcher do when two of his targets have a phone call at the same time, how can he listen in to me discussing the weather while my neighbor talks to her mother about an upcoming wedding.

There is a chance that every detail of the wedding won’t get passed on to the KGB, it would be a disaster! I propose at least three watchers per person, that will fix it.