ComradeYellow

I dunno about that, many modern corporations seem attracted to the idea of doing business with socialist governments, should they let them in. China, for instance, remains a Marxist government but many many corporations across the world are attracted to Chinese investments like you know what, and even their richest entrepreneurs are members of the Communist Party. Seems like a natural evolution of socialism, the government remains firm in providing employment and services to its citizens and owning a good chunk of the economy, but businesses also being allowed to flourish so long as they follow government protocol and don't "rise above" the state, like western governments where corporations seem to own all aspects of society, especially politicians.

While we're on the topic of "wokeness", there is now a rainbow colored sidewalk in my hometown, which is I guess a small step forward towards triggering the rednecks! Something like that but horizontal not vertical, if the screen on my phone wasn't cracked I would take a picture but I think this is sufficient demonstrative purposes.

Artyom is not 100% mute, he narrates the intermission between each map, which I think is a great balance between an annoying PC blabbermouth and a completely silent laughably unrealistic PC.

Defectors from adversarial nations have been slamming "woke" US schools for decades! If an American defected to say, China they would probably also slam "woke" American schools for teaching kids to be chaotic and harmful to the stability of society. "Woke" US schools and institutions are a universal punching bag for agendas across the board.

Ain't that the truth! It's like they merged together.

I'd say the quality of the Chinese military is approaching parity with that of the U.S., just on a tighter budget, as they don't blow 700+ billion a year on military and focus their budget more on improving infrastructure and domestic needs. Russians yes, have surpassed the U.S. in military tech.

^Yet I don't know a single Trump supporter that cares about Russia xD, so it appears some Russians were perhaps misled or put faith in the notion that single American President can change course in any meaningful way. Oh well, we're two countries now: Blue and Red, and it was old Abe who said "A House Divided cannot Stand on itself", so unless we get a unifying force soon, expect same old BS, but with enhanced graphical features like more mass shootings and riots.

It might be a bit bland. Like, you know, every Bethesda game to date. Bethesda is the perfect 'B' rate studio: Big, Beautiful, BLAND so of course it's an American developer.

Eh, I'm sure 4 years from now we'll have bigger concerns than the pros and cons of Win11 so IT IS WHAT IT IS.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1226246.shtml

Not sure I getchoo, you mean Biden's (pretty good, admittedly) plan will fail or China's global economic and technological initiatives will fail?

The vast majority of Republicans support Trump, so the idea that there's a mystical GOP that's more like the Democratic Party is Lost Cause style of thinking. Also, HoonDing has a point, you wouldn't think it by reading posts by old fossils on the dark web, but there are tons of people around the world who are starting to see representative democracy as an abject failure and are finding the predictability of an authoritarian government more attractive. That's a card in China's favor right now, and Biden's goal is to try to prove them wrong. Time will tell whether this strategy will work, but he certainy gets an A for effort!

Russia was relatively quiet during the Trump administration, that logic applies to the Obama administration in regards to Russia. China yes, saw Trumps reign as a golden ticket to raise the bar on spreading its influence. Personally, I don't support N.A.T.O because it antiquated at this point, even the people who created it cautioned that it shouldn't last longer than a human lifespan. Also, China has lots of money with its trade surpluses and the U.S. is broke so even if Biden succeeds at containing China to a degree, I'm fairly certain he'll quietly tone down the rhetoric in regards to the tech and trade war later on and take their money to help keep the U.S. economy afloat. So yeah, contain China, but keep buying their stuff seems like the best long term strategy for the U.S.

But not by choice, when you're kinda backed into a corner you eventually have to reluctantly concede to the whole "Enemy of my enemy" logic. What's funny is that they don't see strategic partnership as an "Against the West" move but something more along the lines "For the benefit of us". I know, strange. EDIT: kinda ninja'd by Zor

Eh. just more posturing, nothing new. What is actually more significant is the recent G7 meeting. Most countries aside from the U.S. want to avoid a Cold War 2.0 like the plague so Biden's plan is thus: 1) Distribute 500 million free vaccines to developing countries in order to prove the alleged superiorty of Western advances in medicine and the alleged shoddiness of Chinese vaccines. If successful, it would not only paint the West as the savior of Covid 19 that China started but make China look like both the culprit and and inept. Weakening China's position significantly in it's quest for economic partnerships. 2) Spend trillions of dollars in pensions and insurance funds on infrastructure and railways in same developing countries in an effort to block China's Belt and Road Initiative, again in an effort to demonstrate superiority in Western technology and more transparency in economic deals. If these work then it would be a serious blow to Chinese influence, at least in the short term, and Biden has picked the perfect year to do this, as domestic issues have been relatively quiet and buried under the rug. However, the recent inflation report was not good, and all this spending to block China will only add to the already steadfast increase of consumer goods and rent prices, which could more fuel to fire once culture wars flare up again, and they will! Very interesting times ahead, stay tuned.

Eh, Microsoft (seems) much more transparent than Interplay was, which Fargo and his buddies ruled with an iron fist, so I'm sure Tim and Leonard are still on board.

Pretty sure China would fix the problem if it is in fact an issue and not Western propaganda.

Not sure how synergy works when both companies are under a huge IP. I would assume they have them working independently under their own brand algorithms but I don't know for sure because I'm not with any of the companies lol.

And in a transitional phase, no less, comes with being old enough to vote and buy cigarettes.

Obsidian's trailer is best trailer. "We got nothing and here it is" approach to trailering is fresh air.

Am more hyped by this anti-hype trailer than I otherwise would be. Nice job Obsidian.

Let's just say that I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if silly Americans gobbled this **** up rather than, you know, invest in more established ways of rail transportation. Germany, China, and Japan are now competing for the fastest maglev. Japan in particular is going all in and wants to build a super expensive maglev line from Tokyo to Okara, which would cut the trip down to 69 minutes which is faster than air. Americans will, likely, go for the silly option of course so the end result is we'll get something little better than a carnival ride that still can't beat maglev (initial ambitions called for 1000 km/h but realists guage in reality it'll be about half that).

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/173247/travel-flanders-hyperloop-elon-musk-train-amsterdam-schiphol-antwerp-brussels-hilde-crevits-innovation/ Heh, only in America! I mean who needs high speed rail and Maglev? Elon Musk, our lord and savior, is going to bring us Hyperloop!

This was also my concern. Kinda raises a yellow flag when someone high up quits mid development. Same things happened at CDPR and look how that turned out.