Ah no, buddy, you misunderstand me. I’m gonna play this game, my experience on the previous ones parallels yours closely. I’m deciding if I’m gonna pay for it or not.

Dude this publisher is totally dogshit. I’m torn between paying for it to support the dev or not.

I cannot imagine any business partnering with Krafton after it came out that their CEO used ChatGPT to come up with a plan on how to screw the Subnautica 2 devs out of their deserved bonus, against the advice of his legal team as the plan was wildly illegal.

I think it’s your right to steal literally any game or piece of media for a slew of reasons that there is no reason to get into.

That said, I can’t imagine doing it for this game. The unique multi-player experience on its own was so fundamentally fascinating for the first one and I’ve heard the second game is just better in every way. I’m really looking forward to playing this one, and I don’t mind shelling out to support the developer. They’re not a small indie studio, really, but Kojima is doing such unique and consistently wonderful things with games, I really just wanna see more and more.

I mean he’s gotta say people are wrong for not liking it, it’s his job to sell it

I never thought it was a good game, but I knew it was oddly popular

Choke!

“You didn’t like what I was doing? No fucking problem I’ll just lie about it moving forward”

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf posted on social media, “We will never pursue a ceasefire. Let the enemy know: there will be proportional and immediate retaliation for whatever they do,” adding, “We will fight in a tit-for-tat manner, with no compromises or exceptions.”

Didn’t the US start the war by killing Iran’s leader? Hm. Hmmmmmm…

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That’s the thing, you don’t ever have to actually launch the dang nuke. The goal is that deterrent, not annihilation.

For whatever it’s worth, I think your questions make sense. MAD is kind of madness, but its how the world has worked since the invention of the atom bomb. And anyway, I can’t see or cast downvotes on my instance.

Personally, I found the card game element interesting for a bit and then tedious and ultimately I went back to KSP. But I also wanted more direct control and other KSP elements that Mars Horizon didn’t quite scratch.

The consequences of having nukes?

MAD dictates that the US doesn’t fuck with nuclear-armed nations. That’s the consequence. You don’t need to actually launch it, just be able to.

Countries with nuclear weapons aren’t subjected to as much US imperialism because of the threat of retaliation.

Aurora 4X seems closest to what you want, that I know of, at least.

Mars Horizon might get a bit close, but I think it’s a little more simple than you’re looking for. There’s a demo for it on Steam so it’s easy to try, at least.

Because no matter who wins, the DNC does the same shit. They continue the same RNC policies and programs they vocally decried during the previous term, but quieter, they expand US surveillance, military budget and expand the tools of oppression, they do fuck all to truly address the material conditions of the working class and we just get to watch the rich get wildly richer.

The DNC just… doesn’t help people. They just act as a way to lower the temperature away from revolutionary acts, but food, housing, education and medicine just keep getting more expensive, wages are utterly detached from productivity, they don’t get money outta politics and they won’t stand up to protect the rights of Americans.

They know damn well what candidates and policies are popular and they continuously pander to the donors instead of the hard working people that make this country turn.

Heck, whenever they do have a chance to actually work like an opposition party, there’s always conveniently juuuuust enough DINO members to stymie any actual progress. That way the rest of them can throw their hands up and say “ohhh we tried, but it’s their fault, I’m actually on the side of the people!” Bullshit!

They concede power to fascists again and again and make nothing more than milquetoast “resistance” to it and even exacerbate it in plenty of examples.

Biden was an utter failure. He was all talk. He didn’t act to enshrine Roe v. Wade into law, he slept on his promises about minimum wage, he could only give modicum to support to union workers fighting for better working conditions and he did nothing to stop the rise of fascism in his country.

Call me crazy but I think it’s on the DNC to run candidates with policies people like moreso than it’s the people should be demanded to vote for whoever they run. The latter policy has done nothing to help the working class American in the past 30 years, at least, it’s no shock they’re tired of it.

I think people would trust the DNC again if they started doing things to help people instead of just function as a halt to leftward politcal progress when it’s their turn.

As it stands, I really don’t care what they say they stand for or do, I don’t really trust the DNC to do much of anything other than maintain the status quo and quietly expand the RNCs horrors.

Not that my vote even matters in our wildly broken election systems. The vote always goes to the DNC candidate and has done so for nearly four decades.

There’s really just no way to actually vote for supporting the worker in the US. Hoping for change from Congress or the President is a fools gambit.

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Eyyy we don’t need resources shortages we can make our own!