The game isn't out yet and it's somehow become woke and abandoned "its irreverent roots".

"I want everything to stay the way I imagine it forever" said everyone's 6-yo nephew. Have you never liked a band and as they get more successful their style changes? Sorry if this is your first disappointment with selling out, that's something you should learn as a teenager.

GTA V made billions of dollars with it's online component and people are whining about GTA VI having online stuff. "Why would a company who's decade long game still has 10 million weekly playerbase make their new game somethign they would enjoy?!"

You know what you can do? Not buy it and not play it. GTA V was a fun single player campaign but I never played it past that. I probably won't ever play VI. There's sooooo many goddamned gaming options today even compared to when V released.

WoW Forever is out, go play that!
Deadlock just released 6 new heros and had a huge update! It's good!
There's are thousands upon thousands of indie games with single player only, please go support those.
Even Star Citizen is still plugging along somehow if you absolutely must have giant budget AAA games!

Does every single thing in our lives need to a game piece in an eternal culture war? I have to imagine this very thing will be amongst the topics lambasted in the game, it's one of the few thigns still able to satirized in today's insane world.

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I don't think you understood the premise of my comment.
It's not that Congress doesn't have the power of the purse, it's that its ability to enforce it with methodology that actually works (the courts vs. impeachment) has been severely crippled- by court precedent that favored the concept of a unitary executive that Congress cannot constrain from its duties.

i.e., the Power of the Purse is the power to allocate money.
However- only the President has the power to spend that money.
Can Congress really restrain how he does? Well, today, by jurisprudence, that's a big fat "it depends". It depends whether the President issues a magical incantation regarding "foreign policy" or "national security".
The Power of the Purse to constrain how the executive spends the money allocated has always been somewhat theoretical, but for the last 200 years, we have more or less held onto it.

Congress being unable to impeach a President that ignores its laws isn't a new thing of the last 2 years.

If the courts will not enforce Congress' supposed authority to restrict how the money is spent, and impeachment is virtually impossible- the Power of the Purse as we knew it is gone, and what remains is the power to shut down the Government.

You follow?

So the "leftists" who are in the minority of Congress and even amngst Democrats "leftists" are a small minority but they have so much sway and power they can make Trump/Hegseth/Rubio hold their punches, the same people who were bombing bombs in the Gulf of Mexico, these are the people who are "taking it easy" on Iran because "leftists" want them to? What a weak ass bitch-made man, that is preciesley the attitude you don't want in a President, we should just make Chris Murphy President then if he has all the power!

Too bad we don't have a President with fortitude to do the right thing like Joe Biden anymore :(

lol- you're such a fucking idiot.
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When I said I handle subpoenas all the time, for my customer data- that should have shown to you that your understanding of the conversation was fatally flawed.

You really are just a stupid person.

Because your premise seems strange.

You seem to be arguing that Nintendo exercising its "for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" being, in your estimation, not "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" somehow has rendered their copyright null and void.

This is, in my estimation, a stupid fucking premise.
Am I misunderstanding you?

During this time China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. Having visited, I can see that many of them enjoy a good standard of living. In fact some of the apartments and homes I was in are much, much nicer than the ones in the UK. They looked like something out of a catalogue. I could hardly believe that people were living there, with kids and pets no less.

While it's far from universal, it's still hundreds of millions of people. When it comes to quality of life, things like air pollution matter. EVs reduce that considerably. By adopting renewables we can have a better standard of living. It's not a loss, it's a huge gain.

You can slice it different ways. China is at over 4PW/year renewable generation, the US is around 1.1PW/year.

I think per capita emissions are the fairest way, but we should also look at how fast each country is installing renewables.

Until you can answer what a peace deal will look like you have 0 legs to stand on.

You're the one who elected the man who said and was told "war with Iran will be a years long quagmire" and instead pushed the "yes, I would like a years long quagmire".

Maybe you want America to be El Salvador but I do not.

1. Starshield got disabled, that's why it's a story and Trump and Musk's explanations are contradictory. You're just repeating Russia talking points, as per usual.

2. Suddenly conservatives are going to pearl clutch at me over the word traitorous? Also Ukraine has been "running out of manpower" for 4 years now, again, more talking points. Also if Musk had anything to do with without military approval then that is traitorous, by definition, doesn't matter his reasons. I agree it's stupid to toady up to Putin so why does this admin keep on doing it? You said that and then justified doing it, this is why you are a clown.

3. No show trials eh? After Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and god knows what else now we have to put down our swords in peace because one side wants to stop? Too bad, there's no back to normal until we jail our tyrants. Maybe you should have worked with Biden who in fact did exactly what you prescribed.

I can give you countless examples of Democrats holding their own accountable, I mean, this is the party that replaced their incumbent on the ballot! You are so full of shit It's coming out of your ears.

You can whinge all you want about it but you are doing the both sides schtick and it's completely fucking dishonest and I am glad more and more people are looking at what folks like you do and ignoring it and calling it what it is, fucking bullshit from mind raped losers.

I am also writing this for everyone else, this is a game; is this fuck-knuckle a MAGA idiot or a paid foreign op? What's the difference today? Now go get some more talking points from HQ and report back.

The mid-range is 800 to 1000 and the top end of a gamer card is pushing 1800 dollars.

This is all because AI slop and crypto.

Woke sjwdei feminists did not come for your games. Finance Bros who want to replace you at work did.

Remember all the whining about how we would have to go back to being an agrarian society and suffer a massive decline in living standards to get to net zero?

China is proving that isn't true. In fact, it's proving that all the fearmongering about net zero costing us too much is nonsense, and it's actually a huge economic opportunity. They can't make solar panels, wind turbines, EVs, batteries and all the other stuff fast enough to satisfy the huge demand. The energy produced is the cheapest available, which further boosts their manufacturing.

We do need to do a lot more. China needs to do a lot more. But you can't also expect people to accept poverty to get it, so the only way it will work is if we ramp up the transition to a better lifestyle and lower costs as quickly as possible.

What other fair measure is there? Unless you expect China to somehow reduce its population to US levels, per-capital is the only way to do it.

And let's not forget that a lot of those emissions are things made for American companies and sold to Americans.

Because China's population is 1.4 billion people.

What's more important is the rate of change. Every country goes along a curve where emissions increase, peak, and then drop. China was on the up slope as it industrialized, and is now starting on the down slope. The peak was far, far below where the US and Europe peaked per capita, the only reasonable measure unless you think their One Child policy was a good idea.

The rate at which China is installing renewables and storage is staggering. Just the newly installed renewable capacity from 2025 produced as much electrical energy as the whole of Germany consumed that year. Just the new stuff, and this year they are on track for it to be even more. They are adding more than a Germany sized amount of renewable generation to the grid, PER YEAR, and accelerating.

If Europe and the US were doing that too we would be in a much better position regarding climate change. It would doubtless be a huge boon for those economies as well.