In case you haven’t heard, a bunch of the original KSP developers are teaming up with the DayZ guy’s company to make a spiritual sequel: Kitten Space Agency.

Because it’s Microsoft and they have to compulsively rename things every few years.

Just imagine if he had stuck to his promise of being a one term president and didn’t try to run for reelection.

Idk, as a white guy, that’s more cringe than offensive. Maybe that’s because I live in the South and can pass for a redneck, but I hear some vile shit from those other white guys fairly often.

You mind linking me to that ad?

Obama was a unique situation in that he was both an incredibly charismatic JFK-style figure and ran after the Republicans had managed to both start a very unpopular war and destroy the world economy.

No, but the whole point of Doctorow’s Enshittification essay is that it inevitably will. In the same way animals keep evolving into crabs due to convergent evolution, social media companies will keep turning into shit because the market incentives push them that way.

It’s what has literally happened to ships that violated the Russian and Iranian sanctions in the last couple years.

The company would be prosecuted and the ship seized the next time it docked at port. If the company was based in literally any other country, nothing would happen.

There is no blockade of Cuba. It’s an embargo. There are no military ships blowing up anyone trying to trade with Cuba.

In Texas, it’s common knowledge that the best tacos and tortas are from gas stations.

Nah, it was second behind the invasion of Iraq and the forever war in Afghanistan. The US’s unwillingness to react was in large part because it had been weakened by a decade of idiotic wars in the Middle East. Europe has no excuse though.

I’m my experience, that’s most right-wingers in Texas. They’ll bitch about corporate power, the consolidation of megacorps, the little guy getting fucked over and then just be completely unable to process that the last 40 years of Republican rule are why that’s happening. They’ve decided their identity is Republican and questioning that is something they’re not willing to do, even if their ideology runs counter to it.

They’re also one of the companies trying to destroy the NLRB.

It’s not like the Ukrainians are getting new block 70s. Thery’re almost certainly old block 40s on the verge of retirement.

There will 100% be a policy to disable it. Microsoft may shit on their retail users, but there’s no way they’d force it on their enterprise clients. It’s a security and compliance nightmare and they know it.

You’d think so, but Europe has some pathetically low numbers for this question, with many countries below 50% and a few in the 30s.

Gee, maybe something happened in the 20 years since then that changed people’s opinions on endless wars in the Middle East.

Skyrim was at least an improvement over Oblivion. It showed they had the ability to recognize and fix the mistakes of Oblivion and still create an interesting world.

The problem is Starfield isn’t a one off. It’s the latest in a line of progressively worse games. Every game they’ve released since Skyrim has been worse than the one that came before it.