ComradeYellow

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/epic-games-is-losing-an-absurd-amount-of-money-on-exclusive-games/1100-6490008/ Haha EGS just keeps shoveling Fortnite cash into their store hoping that someday the store will be viable and a peer competitor to Steam. Where's all the Chinese gamers at? With a population of 1.4b you'd think that would give them a boost cos Westerners clearly prefer Steam.

Russians: if you attack us, we will sink most of your navy, we will destroy your key command posts and we might even strike the continental USA with our conventional (non-nuclear armed) long range weapons. US Americans: nah, there is noooooo way you can do that, you drink too much vodka and you are bluffing. We are the most powerful military in the history of the galaxy – have you not read Tom Clancy?! Russians: don’t you understand what the consequences of a major war in the Ukraine will be for the European continent and your NATO “allies”?! US Americans: you are authoritarians, we are democrats and democracies always prevail against authoritarian regimes! Russians: but, don’t you feel any pity for your European “allies”?! US Americans: we can and will protect them, we are the most powerful military in the history of the galaxy!! Russians: and how do you propose to protect anybody from our hypersonic weapons? US Americans: We are the USA. Lower your defenses and surrender your forces. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile (yes, that is the mental level of these TV-educated ignoramuses).

We're supposed to be better than "a lot of countries" according propaganda. We so special and gifted.

CaPtAiN MoRgAn!!!!!

The world according to Westerners especially Europeans.

The fact that almost half of congress are filled with these characters really reflects the intelligence of Americans. China may be a fascist ****hole but they certainly aren't that stupid...

Bacon? On a side note, I find it hilarious that hardcore nationalists prefer AK's in the 21st century whilst leftists feel comfortable with AR variants. 'Tis a fun dialectic.

I don't know man I used to think like this just a few years ago, when my step dad would make retarded nuclear scare gestures I used to roll my eyes. These days though it just feels....different like a cyclical shift from the 1930's. The second the U.S. shows any kind of weakness I'm just waiting for certain powers to pounce on the opportunity.

I dunno I don't think anything can top Grim Dawn, it's like the better-than-Diablo Diablo. Bobby Kotick wouldn't allow such a finely complex mechanics in a new D game.

Russian forces are massing on Ukraine's border. Bluff or not, Putin is playing with fire (msn.com) Westerners: Hell-to-the-No P00tface! Russians: Ukraine is ourrsz *punch-to-the-face*

HZD looks absolutely stunning and right up my alley but I AM NOT SPENDING ANOTHER CENT ON A GAME until I get through a good chunk of all this other crap I bought.

Sounds like everywhere in Europe tbh, post industrial, post communist, borderline dystopia. I'm just waiting for them to hit that "post liberal" phase.

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/04/07/emmanuel-macrons-dangerous-election-gamble/ Something very rotten in France.

What...in the Hellish nightmare...IS that??

America's unhealthy obsession with sports and celebrities I think is the core issue, it feeds into the stereotype that Americans are just loud and rowdy ignorant competitive barbarians ready to use swords and steel on anyone who disagrees with their policy.

Does his infrastructure plan include a federal jobs program?? If so, sign me up! I can't see how a federal jobs program could hurt an workers anywhere in any state. Also, I'm starting to believe we're past "competition" with China at this point, WW3 seems the likely outcome. I always thought China had an economy sort of like Europe but just with a single party authoritarian government. Upon further analysis, looks like I was way off! The Chinese government has far more in common with the American far right, which is strange considering the anti-China babble they constantly spew.

Light tanks can stop a 5.8×42 round and fragmentation though, I think there's a certain value to that. Especially going up against a nation with millions upon millions of infantry, far more of them then heavy equipment, though their equipment should not be underestimated.

Were I Commander-in-chief of U.S. armed forces I would definitely focus on light tanks to protect infantry and prioritize heavy artillery and precision airstrikes to bust enemy armor/entrenchments. But that kinda makes me sound like an Armchair General now dunnit. I mean I suppose one quick nuclear strike on the Politburo in Beijing could also work, but I'm sure they have a contingency against that.

Funny, but inflation is certainly a concern, despite the economic bump that comes with renewed consumer spending. This could come back to bite us in a couple years or so. But what do I care! We do kinda need economic reform in the U.S., something that's better than the dumb partisan extremes of overspending and underspending.

Speaking of Marines (And Army) https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/11/china-declares-war-us-inevitable-army-general-highlights-need-fighting-vehicles.html Americans always had a thing for light mass produced tanks, like the Shermans, and this war will be no different.

You're not supposed to question satire, you just role with it. But yes todays Chinese rhetoric does sound similar to Germany and Italy's rhetoric in the 1930's. ... And perhaps Russia as well, as they seem to be not reversing their reactionary rhetoric at the least. China is Germany, Russia is Italy.

The U.S. isn't losing to Russia and China on vaccine diplomacy. It's not even playing. (msn.com) The U.S. is so internally fractured and divided and suffering from an identity crisis that it gives others a shining opportunity to exploit it.

Am done. Let's see what this has to offer.