Aw, don’t be sad. It’s possible that he has a stroke and dies in a really funny circumstance, like falling down an up escalator.

a lot of people do dislike the franchise for multiple reason, the mission structure being one.

I played Dragon’s Dogma 2, and realized that has the kind of mission structure that I would really love in a GTA or RDR game. Even if the missions in DD2 weren’t all that great themselves, they didn’t end the mission and send you back to the start even if an important character died. The quests weren’t quarantined off in a part of the open world, they were embedded within it.

The party of personal responsibility.

I’m enjoying your posts, it’s really neat to see retro game tech from China; I really didn’t know what was available there since western journalists don’t really cover it.

Agreed. In my opinion, the problem is that the Democrats are trying to be the party of both labor and wealth. They are financially beholden the very billionaires that are making life unaffordable for normal people.

Sure the Republicans are far worse in every respect, but the Democrats have no incentive to make the economy work for people like us when it is easier to chase billionaire donors for campaign funds. Once they’re captured by capital they don’t want to bite the hand that feeds them, so that means wealthy interests are far overrepresented in the halls of power.

I’ll try to douse the flames if it comes to it.

He, and what’s left of his supporters like Bill Maher, have some kind of stupidity that makes them think that it’s a sign of intelligence to be in the midpoint between blood-sucking fascists and big-business neoliberals.

Relevant quote:

I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

On War, by U.S General Smedley Butler (1933)

Dude is freaking out because he’s finally being treated like any other politician, and his pathetic ego can’t handle it.

BZ Basel also said Thomas was arrested the day after Ms Joksimovic’s body was found, and initially told investigators he had found her dead and dismembered her body in their laundry room in panic.

Let those who have not dismembered a family member in a panic with a jigsaw and garden shears before dissolving their pulped body in a bath of acid throw the first stone.