I’m one of those people that actually would rather not know how some technology works so I can retain some level of surprise and admiration. I know generally how a fair number of technology devices, process and functions work but I don’t get as excited.

No I was hoping for the dinosaur browser game.

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Who’d thunk it someone from the damn Bush family pushing for conflict. Something Prescott’s son, George, did and George’s son, Dubya did. If Jeb actually got into office, surely he’d go to war too.

So, they take Maduro himself.

And replace him with a loyalist to Maduro.

…Okay then…

Wow, how predictable, the game everyone has waited on for so long is GOTY.

I just roll my eyes at all of the winners while making a cock-jerking motion with my hand to symbolize the circle jerking the Steam community gets off on.

Nope, can’t go with that. That’s how they win, is you doing nothing.

The region’s future must be determined by people themselves, free from the shadow of empire

I have a problem with that line. Maduro has been president of Venezuela since 2013. Just, how long would it take for the people there to free themselves? 50 years? Never?

I mean look at the American people, we’re no different. We keep talking about revolution, civil war, assassination. We’ve only maybe have a couple of near misses, but the rest are just nothingburger after nothingburger. We still willingly wake up, go to work, come back home and repeat everyday while we glue ourselves to the news just getting vicariously pissed off and yet we do dick about it. We just grip onto voting like they’re rosary beads in hopes things turn around and only then do we proclaim we’ve done something, only allowing the villains we’ve elected previously, to get off scot-free.

And even then, that doesn’t promise anyone that we won’t stupidly elect another dictator of our own.

I would rather die in my sleep, than being told I have a certain amount of time to live by.

Because that’s what I always saw death as, just permanent sleep.

I didn’t know he did it twice. Christ, these sycophants do everything in such a tone-deaf but deliberate fashion.

Look at his face when he did it the first time, it’s so forced and everything. It’s about as tonedeaf as Alex Jones sitting there with a stupid fucking look on his face, with a hitler moustache.

If you commit suicide right now, you are letting them get the last laugh.

Good, great, your disappearance has harmed those close to you because you allowed an american dictator get to you by his actions.

This is why I do not wrap myself tightly with political news and news in general.

Besides, I would rather someone attempt to stop this psychopath Luigi-style than just offing themselves because of this. You would be remembered as a hero.

In some ways, I’m not.

In other times, when I want to simply drop cold-hard truths or unfiltered opinions. People lose their minds. We’re not ready for those kind of thoughts, both surface web and fediverse, even.

Except they’re women and America has practiced twice now that as soon as they see a woman as running for president, most men go “OOGA BOOGA! NO WOMAN! NO!”.

It’s George Dubya all over again.

The point is, America has thrown out formalities. If we think we’re justified to do shit, we’re going to be firing missles. We did just that!

We’re not that country anymore. Anyone can bring up WW2 and whatnot, well guess what? During WW2, America had dignity. We don’t now, not for a while. We just shoot first, ask questions never. That’s how it’s been for a while.

I don’t fucking know.

I just put it into the ever-growing pile that says “Because it is fucking Trump”. Because that insecure piece of shit will do anything - anything, he feels he wants. And until we have a government with a spine that will actually impeach his ass and mean it, what else can we say?

You’re probably best finding RTS games where you are in the roles of maybe rulers and whatnot that oppose US military? it’s all I can think of.

I don’t know what I can tell you.

I’m one of those patient gamers, where I’m just happy I finally have a machine that can play about 89% of the games I have to throw at it. Moreso happier that it can confidently run PS2 emulation, something I’ve been chasing for years to have a machine that can do, to own anyways.

I think you just need to sit down and contemplate to yourself what you want out of a machine. It’s not a good healthy mindset to be fretting about upgrading all of the time. I mean, you made a huge leap already going from 15 years to what you have now.

Also consider that, there will still be games released that look graphically demanding and everything, but will require maybe a 1060 GPU, just as an example. Probably 8GB of RAM. It’s only the AAA stuff that wants everything to be tip-top shape. Don’t chase those.

I am reluctant to re-visit Half-Life 2 and its episodes. Simply because they were great games for their time and overall classics. I just remember in Episode 2, looking back longingly at the devastated City 17 when you launched the rocket in episode 1. How much reflection I did about the series I completed and the episodes I would complete after.

It was an experience going through those games all the way the first round, recalling all of the hype, the memes, the talks and so much build up. Revisiting it now for me would just be rewriting those memories over.

The Messenger is another. Really loved that game for what it was. It had so much charm to it.

From my understanding, when you’re lobbing missles to another country after another country does something horrendous to you. That’s declaration of war.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, that was a declaration of war against the US.

So how can all of what you said, not be a declaration? It doesn’t matter if Congress passed this or that. Shit happened, we went to war with Afghanistan, we sent soldiers and fired shit over to the Middle-East. Yet not a declaration?