Conspiracy theory: It’s a ploy to make the Ai image piss filter seem more normal and validate it as an aesthetic choice instead of being the signifier for the lowest of low, the ultimate slop garbage devoid of any humanity or anything interesting.
The size of the US national debt does not matter. The US will always* be able to pay its debt as long as its the central economical/political/military force on this planet. It can always make more dollars if it deems that necessary and always has done so in the past. And as long as you build functional and necessary state things, every economist and every journalist that points at the debt needs to be bullied and stuffed in a locker. Debt matters to nations depending on IMF/US loans and that’s an entirely different issue.
However if all your burger nation pays for is bombs, genocide, brown shirts, fat cops with tanks, wall street losses, ai bubbles, real estate bubbles, jeffrey epstein flights and failsons crack adventures abroad… You might not get a good “return of investment” as they say and you devalue your own currency for very little long term benefits.
But these things in itself are already dissolving the societal connections much more than an additional 0.5% inflation due to debt. The real “inflation” is the direct result of ever increasing rent seeking, quasi monopolies, disfunctional social systems and the short term demands of share holders. I.e. captialisms core mechanisms. And the real damage is not to your financial health, but is literally just large scale physical and mental violence to an ever increasing amount of people.
*Total collapse/balkanization not included
…Hex Bear? Like the animal?
Yes Snake. Your contact in Pakistan. Named after a radical communist resistance group in Karachi. It got destroyed after repeated ideological struggle sessions involving cats, but it’s exceptional meme skills still inspire the common people to this day
Basically the two modes of my ADHD
They look the inverse animal of each other.
It looks like one of those animals where the popular rumor is “They actually should not be able to fly! We still don’t know how they do it”. That is, of course, wrong… It’s clearly thrown like a snowball for fun by larger animals such as bears and apes to get enough lift under it’s tiny wings.
It’s actually hip to fuck bees.
I think that’s a good sign of taste though. Games are so incredibly diverse, even the ones that reach the peak of their genre can be just eh for others.
I’ll never finish Witcher 3 because that’s just too much stuff for my little adhd brain. Ghost of Tsushima was a wonderful 2 hours of ogling at the most beautiful wind-swept grass fields I’ve ever seen and I’ll never touch it again.
There is probably fantastic shmups or fighting games that I will never touch. But I gladly bang my head for 5 hours against the next Gulgagram, Darkblood Impaler From Soft throws at me and defend the 15 ms reaction window I have to dodge his instant kill grab.
$1 is worth BRL 10.
You buy $ 100 with BRL 1000. You tell your broker, you’ll pay him back later the BRL, for a fee. That’s a “short”.
You package it in a bet that says “whatever the difference is in BRL when I pay you back, we will do it 10x”. That’s “leverage”, alternatively also “insane stock market gambling nonsense”.
The tariffs get announced. You can now get BRL 10.2 for $1, because that’s how the stock market thinks it’s should be. You pay back your debt in BRL with $98. The difference of $2 gets increased 10x because of that bet. Congratulations, You made $20 with insider trading.
Usually you try to hide these things among the general stock market noise and not trade so much money, that it makes a visible dent in the evaluation of an entire fucking currency. It’s common place, but as usual with Trump, just more on the nose, more blatant and just more fuck you.
Path of Achra
Fields of Mistria (if you’ve played enough Stardew Valley)
Undertaledeltarune
Dwarf Fortress
Balatro (probably all you need for a while)
Factorio (on a more modern chip at least)
Slay the Spire
Terraria
FF 1-6 (emulated or the remakes)
For children it was perhaps the last time where at least a bit of your innocence could last beyond age 12 or 13. Less control, more “well, the sun is shining, let’s hope they will be back by dinner”. I’ve probably never have known a neighborhood in more detail than when i was 8. You could do something stupid and it wouldn’t be filmed or photographed, with date and location tag, immediately uploaded into the cloud and available at a buttons press. You could get BORED, and then you’d do something that you hadn’t tried before, because you couldn’t just grab your phone and bombard yourself with tiny dopamine hits.
My nieces/nephews are struggling with this so hard. They are good kids and their parents are doing a commendable job, but they are lucky to have enough time and enough awareness to strictly limit their kids access to media.
People here focus a lot on the fighting and difficulty.
Just so you know, it’s also absolutely gorgeous to look at and the game feel is incredibly tight and responsive. If you just run around in it for an hour or two, but don’t have the patience for getting really good a tapping your shoulder button, you probably still have a good time.
The only one that was on par so far was Nine Sols. It has the most insane final boss I’ve ever seen and the only bossfight I had to grind harder than Father Owl. Probably took me 8+ hours over three days. After beating it, i felt like I could parry bullets in real life if just tried a little harder. Gorgeous and deeply engaging game too.
>Bayle flies through the air, directly at JB
>uh oh
>Everything explodes, JB gets ragdolled across the arena
>Looks up, beaten, bloody and muddy face, ready to give up
>from behind him
>CURSE YOU BALE! I HEREBY VOW...
>Igon played by Anya Taylor-Joy
>50000 death threats and gamer boycott calls
If the director has a great sense of humor and a horror background, just make Hornsent the protagonist. Also Jar People please.
Most slop isn’t made for my taste, so I’m honestly looking forward to it.
Refreshing Cold Milk Hotel
Bubbly upbeat pop songs, but still horny about Anne Frank.