I'm on dial-up so I think I should have it done around the time GTA 7 launches.

Automation means you just don't need all those men anymore. If anything they cause all sorts of economic and social problems.

So it's perfectly okay to throw them in the meat grinder. There is a small risk of depopulating large parts of the country and then having China or India move in. Russia has been threatening atomic strikes to try and keep that under wraps.

But it's not that big of a problem because China and India both have the same declining birth rates so it's not like they are heavy into territorial expansion right now. They will certainly take every ounce of land and money and power they can get their grubby hands on because they're both fascist States (as an American I'm going to talk but at least we took a step back from fascism recently). But it's not going to have the kind of pressing need that countries have had in the past.

All of this means Russia frankly does not care about their declining population. And with drones taking over more and more military rules they're going to care less and less.

Regular citizens need to understand that they are no longer valuable to the ruling class. And I don't know how to get that message across to people or what to do even if you did.

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.

You can basically kiss any release bigger than the smallest Indies goodbye for the next year or so. This is an extinction level event for any other games and it's probably why wolverine kind of stuck because it probably was rushed out in time to avoid going up against GTA 6.

Also who knew the guys that made Blood Money for the Amiga did other games?

Why John Kerry? Wasn't there somebody else you could have mined for a quote?

The left wing needs to bring back the green New deal and they need to openly State and Hammer home that it is not any woke/DEI/PC/sjw infused bullshit. It's a jobs program and nothing else.

The green New deal was really taking off and then that batch of house members called the squad did a preamble bill, which is a bullshit build it means absolutely nothing, stuffed full of that nonsense and everybody immediately dismissed it. Anyone who was sjw type or minority just looked at it and decided that it wasn't going to happen because those promises always get broken and everybody else just rolled their eyes.

I understand that the left wing needs to cater to their base and their base like any base is kind of fucking stupid. People who follow politics enough to be called a base are not nearly cynical enough.

But the left wing needs to learn how the dog whistle to their base so they don't turn off regular voters on the center. It's harder for the left wing because the right wing is always there controlling the media so that it's tough to get a dog whistle past to them but it's a skill and you need to learn it.

Meanwhile the left wing needs to stop the sjw nonsense because it turns off voters even if their base does like it. Again dog whistles.

They don't need that not with the way copyright works. Nintendo makes a lot of money off of their IPs so it makes sense that they would hire someone to organize and maintain all that. I mean they're big release right now is a remake of a nearly 30 year old game. And it's a straight remake from what I can tell it's not like how Capcom remakes resident evil games and they're just new games.

It's one of the huge competitive advantages that Nintendo has always had over Sega. They have been able to do a lot more with their back catalog.

This will just kick it up to 11. You get shitloads of low effort content on various forms because forums that are targeted by bots have minimum up vote requirements so people show up at places like the retro game forums and post crap like hey does everybody remember game x!

As soon as you tie any sort of monetary or political benefit to people hanging out on the internet everything just goes to shit.

There are less places for kids to play. It's a bit of a nuisance in my neighborhood because there is a lack of nearby parks with the assumption that while you can drive to the park right? So the kids playing the Street cuz of course they do but we're all expected to drive so you're constantly having to watch out for kids.

There's a meme that asks why kids don't play outside anymore and then there's a picture of the outside...

Is your friend also your Canadian girlfriend?

Seriously if you're going to make up a story could you ask Chat GTP to make it more believable. This reads like something Ronald Reagan's people wrote in the '80s.

Synthetic or sugared isn't the problem, that shits been around since the 40s.

Also car based society doesn't help either.

You can't do regime change from the air. At a certain point you're just making the rubble bounce. Trump would have had to occupy the country and that would have meant a draft because we do not have enough troops to occupy a hostile Nation the size of Iran.

Trump and the Republican party lost an election over $4 a gallon gas. I can't even imagine what would happen if he had gone through the invasion and occupation and the necessary draft.

In case you're wondering if I'm pulling that out of my ass go look up the cia's numbers on how many troops would be needed to occupy Iran. It's more than we have in the world. And we don't have the balls to do a genocide like Russia will if they ever take Ukraine so that's not on the table. We can't just murder everybody there as terrible as America is we're not that terrible.

I think the problem is that while it's true that most games support Linux under proton the games most people actually play do not because of weird kernel level anti cheat systems.

It doesn't help Linux adoption if 98% of games are playable but that remaining 2% is what 70% of gamers are playing.

There has been some chatter from epic about making some of their anti cheat tools work under Linux and it would be a big deal if that will happen. Take away gaming and a lot of people would just switch to Linux for the lower memory footprint. Microsoft has a really hard time reducing their memory usage because every department in Microsoft is competing to throw advertisements at us in order to get some revenue because you can't just have useful software that is needed to support the overall product every single team has to be driving revenue 24/7 or they're on the chopping block on the next round of layoffs...

And Microsoft doesn't seem to care if that causes lost users. I have watched large companies piss away billions of dollars in revenue and hundreds of millions in raw profit because they didn't want to continue supporting a piece of software required to keep that money coming in. It's a side effect of how revenue and profit are calculated internally inside large organizations these days.

I think it's funny that I'm going to have a place on your hard drive for the rest of your life.

Somewhere a few kilobytes of your disc storage will be spent at a tiny bit of your mental capacity will always go towards freaking out about me and my leftism.

In this case leftism is just acknowledging reality. Because we all know reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Who knows maybe someday the pebble in your shoe will cause you to join us in the real world.

I know you are but what am I?

Is 12-year-old thinking. People who grow up and learn to Google quickly discovered that yeah gender is fluid. Most people's gender is binary but there are outliers.

I don't expect someone as mean-spirited as you to care about small marginalized groups. But I do expect you to be stop being so God damn stupid. I'm not asking you to suddenly be a good person I'm asking you to stop acting so fucking dumb. How much of your property are you going to give away to the Epstein class because trans girls make you feel icky? Truth be told at this point I don't care. You can sell all your possessions and give them to the orange pedophile. But please stop making the rest of us sell our possessions to give them to El naranja führer.

I just want you to act smart enough that you stop dragging me down with you. That's all I'm asking for. On the bright side it will marginally benefit you. So there's something in it for you and Lord knows that's all that matters right?