I agree, and It’s all because of the distorted form of freedom of speech they have in USA, we generally don’t have that problem in European democracies.
For instance FOX News is simply illegal by European standards, because they lie and distort reality.

I bet you never thought it would work. 😋

Other countries too.

Ah she’s a lesbian then? I didn’t consider that.

Nope. They do what they are doing, because they think that is what defines a triple A game.

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Spoiler…
They probably were.

But to be fair, Germans took a lesson from history, at least in the west, in the east however, they covered it up. And so AfD grew from the east with the help of Putin and Trump.

Partner? 🤣
USA doesn’t have partners anymore.

Confirmation bias.

Graphics quality stopped being an issue IMO 10 years ago. Today creative graphics style beats graphics quality more often than not.

I don’t care about triple A titles anymore, I love RPG, but the last really good AAA RPG to come out was Skyrim from 2011, that’s 14 years ago!! I suppose fallout has it’s good points, I just can’t stand the dystopian atmosphere in those games.
I also like Borderlands 1 and 2, but Borderlands 3 and 4 have been disasters, and they want $70 for a game that is mostly a repeat of previous games, with updated graphics, which anyone can do if they utilize the better hardware features on modern cards.

Contrary to those examples there are hundreds of gems big and small, that (also) have actually fun gameplay and good graphics and originality. For instance 7 days to die, a 12 year old game that is still developed and improved on, and you can choose to play old versions if you want. That’s like having a series of 6 games from a triple A title, but for half the price of 1!

The latest gem I found is Windrose:
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3041230/Windrose/
Windrose Play by Glock 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qww28tHVHLI

An absolute gem (survival/RPG/exploration), that runs perfectly on my older Radeon 6600XT GPU on Linux. made by a smallish team of 15 developers, it’s a prerelease but it already has a ton of content, and it cost less than half of most AAA titles.

But there are also titles like the Infected, that is made by ONE GUY!!, that plays great has great graphics and a unique play-style and story.

So why the hell do AAA games so often suck so bad? My guess it’s because it’s games by management, that both make them more expensive, because all managers have their own ideas of what makes a game sell, typically things that make the games unnecessarily expensive to develop, and sometimes it even ruins the gameplay. Then there’s the constant obvious monetization attempts. Because it’s more important to make an extra buck on the game, than actually make a good game out of the box.

The result is that the actual gameplay quality of AAA games is often poor, and the games are too expensive for what they deliver, and small indie teams can make better games at lower cost.

Just stay far far away from the World Cup this year. It’s simply not worth it.

The only research paper I have been able to find was from my own country Denmark more than a decade ago, and was about natural flour fluor in the water, because it’s illegal to add to the water here.
That paper was very clear that people in the area that had flour had better teeth health.

Well our politicians haven’t, because electricity has been heavily taxed.
And recently there have been problems with the grid having problems keeping up.

If you want people to move to electricity, you would want to make it advantageous for users to switch to electrical sources.
But all we’ve had is that EV cars have been taxed less than ICE cars. But that’s only a single segment of energy use, although it’s a big one.

Yes it has measurable effect, lots of research has established that with a very high degree of certainty. But maybe the causality isn’t proven?
The claim is that it strengthen teeth, but I’m not sure that is proven, for all I know it could also be it prevents bacteria from flourishing in the mouth to a degree that is significant enough to prevent tooth decay.
But that may just be lack of access to the data. This issue is very heavily researched for many decades, so professionals should have a pretty good grasp on the facts by now. It just irks me that I’ve never seen anything documenting the causality, there is clear proof of correlation, but AFAIK not the causality.

I’ve been saying for a decade now that electrification is the only viable way forward. All our energy efforts should be focused on that.
Electricity can be made in many ways that don’t require burning fuel, and that doesn’t release CO2. And electricity is in many ways the superior form of energy to achieve most common tasks.

For instance a heatpump running on electricity made from burning wood in a power-plant, only requires half the wood to generate the same amount of heat as if the wood was burned to heat the house directly.

An electric car similarly running on electricity from burning oil in a power-plant, still use slightly less oil than a comparable ICE car. Because the power plant is more efficient than an ICE engine, and the EV has very little waste.

When you can produce clean electricity from wind turbines, hydro power, solar panels or even nuclear power plants, the pollution and CO2 generated by that energy consumption, is only a tiny fraction of conventional energy sources, like burning fossil fuel.

Even steel smelters can now be powered by electricity, and AFAIK they are already working on implementing that in Sweden.
Something I was told years back was impossible, which it obviously isn’t.

It is way easier to make electricity environmentally friendly and sustainable, than it is for any form of burning fuel. Even If you can burn fuel without CO2 and pollution, that too can be used to generate electricity.

The future is 100% electric.

Yes I saw the unpacking of such a box. Looked pretty nice actually. But you’d have to be pretty stupid to fall for it. So IDK if it had any effect.

For me opening in private tab is enough to get access.

Which country is more self sustainable Iran or South Korea? Because South Korea industries are grinding to a halt because they can’t get resources through the Hormuz strait. Other asian countries are also very hard pressed, and the Arab countries along the strait are also essentially blocked.

Seen in isolation everything you write seems pretty spot on, but I don’t think it’s that simple.
The only thing that is for sure is that USA has already lost allies, and every day this draws out, USA is alienating the world more.

There are lots of tankies here, but you are probably one of them considering your username. Tankies often make stupid comments like the one you made.