Luxury!

When I was growing up nobody had a pot to piss in! We just had to hold it until the economy improved!

Map of agricultural production changes in the nuclear winter following a minor nuclear exchange, posted for no particular reason.

(For a full-scale exchange...)

Also, for no particular reason, a map of Russia's population distribution, alongside a reminder of Russia's nuclear missile failure rate, particularly booster failures. And that nuclear warheads have been commonly lost disturbingly often even during peacetime, with at least seven weapons from four incidents lost in flight landing in a way that left them fully intact and easily reparable, just from the US alone. And that Ukraine is rich in nuclear engineers, including still some retirees who worked in the Soviet nuclear weapons programme.

There's also this myth that "if you just use a nuclear weapon, you automatically win the war". Nuclear weapons are immensely effective terror weapons, but their effectiveness on the front is a lot weaker than most people think. People on frontlines tend to be in trenches, bunkers, basements, armoured vehicles, etc, and can be surprisingly close to a tactical nuclear blast while still surviving. They're effective against hard points but struggle against a broad, diffuse front (aka, today's front, which is a sparsely populated, deep, amorphous zone, thanks to drones). Amortizing Russia's estimated budget for tactical nuclear weapons comes up with ~$15-25M per weapon (not counting the delivery system), so they're hardly a dime a dozen either.

IF, via terror bombing or threats of terror bombing, you can convince your enemy to surrender, then congratulations, you have won (enjoy your nuclear waste heap and restive population who wants nothing more than to kill you). If they do not, however, their only goal remaining will be to focus 100% on using their extensive nuclear waste supplies rich in plutonium, their extensive long-range strike weapon supplies, and their extensive metallurgical experience, to render your major cities to ash in the same way that you did theirs.

(I also just assume herein that Ukraine doesn't actually have a secret nuclear weapons programme already, which is certainly an assumption).

Or too poor for your kid to do their homework.

Even 10 years ago when my kid was in high school (Christ I'm old) it was impossible to do your homework without internet. You couldn't just do it at school they would kick you out after closing because nobody wanted to pay for teachers to hang around and watch the kids and there was too much legal liability otherwise.

There are libraries of course but never mind the fact that there isn't wanted biking distance most of the time let alone walking and we often don't have anywhere the kids can bike safely on our roads anywho. Before I got old and sore and tired with a bad back (again, Christ I'm old) I used to cycle a lot and it's a fucking mess out there for an adult much less a kid. Plenty of places that you just cannot cycle without getting creamed by a car.

Point is internet is a necessity in our modern economy and society. It is up there with water and electricity. It didn't have to be but it is.

"Here's a good reason to never inconvenience Rich assholes" -article written by, some rich asshole.

Any evidence obtained wouldn't be admissible in court and the attack from the orange pedophile would fizzle out. It would still be financially devastating of course because of course it would but it would be useless for putting somebody in prison. We are always off from president pedo being able to order his enemies jailed and or killed. He can of course attack them financially though

I look forward to the unplanned broadcast of Swan Lake.

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...