Rimworld does pretty well on not just “money trader has” but specifically that traders don’t deal in, well things they don’t deal in.

Elder scrolls to my knowledge, the blacksmith will sell you a sword… and literally buy cheese wheels down to his last penny.

what’s he going to do then… flip the sign from black smith to cheese shop, until he builds up enough cash to restock on metals, why isn’t everyone a general store at that point due to customers selling and buying random stuff.

More dumb to me is, just simply the concept of nations changing drastically over time. It was the communist party of russia that fought along side us in WW2, it was the facist states in germany and japan that we fought against.

Obviously it’s not the land mass and the name that people have problems with, it’s the actions, people don’t like the authoriterian regime that’s attempting to take over the nations around it. People like the nations that show no signs of attacking other nations and look for mutually beneficial agreements.

This is so much like the confusion when he thought the german leader would think of D-Day as a bad day.

and, same wording as the US is liberating california, from… itself.

Good fucking grief… Have they not watched trumps negotiations and the patterns

1. Trump makes impossible unreasonable demand.

2. Other nation gives half as a compromise

3. Trump takes the half, then attempts to take the rest by force.

Denmark now needs to be ready to get bombed, by fucking planes launched from their own god damn airbases.

Was going to start with thinking that, but then watched the video. I’m hearing far more “My friend runs a land scaping business, and he lost 10 or so, he’s going out of business”. Then comments on how they don’t live in a big city and they don’t know how they are going to find people to hire. Finally in the last 15 seconds he tears up and says he got to know them as friends and he hates seeing what it did to them and their families.

So yeah… feels like “I won’t make money”, “I’ll lose my business”, and “oh yeah they were good people who I hate to see their lives ruined”.

1. Because most internet arguements wind up as bullet points
2. Because we suck at grammar.

Well I can agree with the general concept, we are closer than ever to the brink of a nuke being dropped on US soil. Because the only time anyone has considered a situation important enough to drop a nuke, it was to stop an alliance of facists from wrecking the world.

Who’d have thought encouraging actual government officials to wear masks, not identify themselves and refuse to prove their legitimacy would open the door for criminals to impersonate them easier.

(and that’s of course also ignoring the possibility of, what if a few actual ice agents take advantage of their anonymity and use the plausible deniability to commit crimes).

Based on the rule of “it’s always projection with these guys”, I’m going to conclude elon just did a shitty job on his robot after executing trump.

Who’s going to be surprised? The leaders who will never be in the same state? Nah it’s advantageous for them. The soldiers? Either they are following orders and gritting their teeth as they fire at innocent civilians, or they believe the propoganda that the protestors are a violent threat to the country. Surprise will be if say, on the order a significant portion of the armed forces back the protestors.

The thing that shocked me… I was fully expecting that kind of BS ideas from say Jeffries, Schumer, Newsome etc…

But then looking at it the one I’ve seen talking about it was… Ro Khanna, which was one I considered in the “overall tollerable” side of the democrats.

Kind of, a bit greyer there, first depends if it remains sustainable, though I’d like to point out the US at least. While some states do want to push for a cover up. It’s fair to say that overall american history still notes the atrocities that say the US forced on the Native Americans. or say Asian Americans in WW2 etc… Of course that’s also because the US kept a free press so far. With enough corporate or government control of the press, it’s very likely “patriotic history” will replace objective history.

I’m assuming it’s a reference to the conspiracy theory trump re-truthed… basically claiming that biden died (or was actually executed) in 2020 and was replaced by a robot. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-shares-unfounded-conspiracy-theory-claiming-biden-was-executed-2-rcna210244

Don’t stick up for the person, stick up for the policy. It’s wrong for the president to order the arrest of politicians who are standing up for their constituents, full stop.

Trump could arrest fucking MTG for saying she regrets voting for the big beautiful bill, and I’ll call it wrong for a president to arrest a member of congress over a poltiical disagreement. While still noting she’s still an idiot that no one in the right mind should have ever voted for.

I mean fuck that guy as in, his political asperations should be dead with his bullshit “lets find common ground” with nazi’s.

But, this situation is far more about what’s going on than who it’s going on with. In this situation he’s doing the right thing, he’s pushing back against facism. On it’s face trump is testing the limits of the laws, the willingness of the national guard to commit attacks on US citizens and government officials. If trump succesfully arrests newsom and gets away with it. Than you can expect 2 results. Some centrists will cancel any attempts to slow down the martial law to try to spare themselves, and those willing to fight will also be arrested.

I don’t know your stances enough to say whether or not you have a single politician you support. But assuming they are not pro load everyone into concentration camps without due process, than you should be concerned.

Setup for the overused joke - I’ve been using vim since I first started using a computer, I just can’t quit.

also worth noting you open vim the first time, you get a huge ass splash screen telling you how to exit

I still laugh so much at the concept. Did no one who spreads that theory watch the biden trump debate in 2024. No one can possibly convince me that chat GPT backslid that much. If either Trump or Biden’s performace was actually an LLM. Investors would be backing out of AI so fast our heads would be spinning.

Hell the late 90s cleverbot would have held it’s own in those debates.

Also have to agree, that 1. Inflation wise, to a degree video games seem almost untouched by inflation. Which IMO is symptomatic of the real problem. The average person’s budget for luxury items, is if anything going down. Hence why in spite of inflation resulting in everything else going out. game prices have been steadilly launching in the 50-$60 price range since the NES. Even with massively increasing team sizes etc… Also worth noting, they are far and away one of the most insane price vs entertainment time ratio you can imagine. Movies are what… $20 for 3 hours of content? While for 2-4x that games typically average in 40ish hours for a main game alone (and very easily into the hundreds for completionists or multiplayer)

Personally I’d be happy for luxury items to be spiraling upward at a steady rate, while housing/transportation/necesities all lock with wages.

IMO I think that’s basically what kills the luxury goods/entertainment industries. Is that AAA games cost way more, take far larger teams than ever before, but at the end of the day, they need to sell them to the same masses, that have if anything less disposable income than they did in the days that AAA games were made by a team of ~10.

So yes in my opinion in short, I don’t consider the idea that video games jumping up in price, at a rate that’s insanely low compared to inflation. After 25 years, a video game goes up from $50-$80 (and it can be noted that in that time team sizes have multiplied tenfold), meanwhile in 2 years a shitty one bedroom apartment in a small city’s rent goes from 600 to 900, while they are cutting the staff etc…

Honestly fine with him just sitting out. Dems funded by billionares… write laws that favor billionares. Dems that accept his money are going to favor the same facism bullshit the republicans do.