Carl [he/him]
True fact I have a pair of MDR-7506s that I use for all headphone-related purposes. No bluetooth ear bud can hope to compete.
I’m imagining Marx writing a dissertation on the water economy in Caves of Qud
I don’t think the Trump administration is thinking about this as much as this poster has. The truth is that Musk and co literally don’t know what USAID does or why its useful to American Empire - they are just generally anti foreign aid, so they closed it. That’s it.
capitalists would have found a way to stop him
I don’t think capitalists can be counted on as a rational actor in this case. Musk certainly has a lot of ventures that rely on imported goods and materials, but he is literally too ideological and short-sighted to see how tariffs will impact him, and he’s not the only one.
what exactly is causing that?
I think that the modern practice of astrology is intentionally vague on this point because you’re supposed to fill in the blank yourself. Whether you believe in psychic energy or spiritual power or guardian angels, you can nevertheless participate in astrology and most importantly purchase astrological tchotchkes ranging from telescopes to tarot cards to shiny crystals.
is objectively correct and fully justified in all of his rhetoric and actions, but the lib writers of FF7 nevertheless felt the need to explain his anger as being some kind of personal revenge quest and make his character arc about realizing that doing violence against Shinra was bad.
I agree that that’s what the main games are for, but I also think that there’s more than enough room in Pokemon’s franchise for side games that cater to older fans with more complex battle and sim mechanics. Pokemon Colosseum 1 & 2 feel like they could have been the starting point to a whole secondary line of JRPGs in the Pokemon world with unique stories and mechanics, but they never followed up on them and now those games are just a weird outlier in the franchise’s history.
from natopedia
the Engineers, a group of terrorists which is trying to coerce the United States into recalling all of its troops stationed abroad.
I think they launch attacks against military bases/the white house, but it’s been a very long time since I played this game. If I remember correctly the game’s dialogue is like if chatGPT was exclusively trained on War on Terror scaremonger articles, everyone just free-associativity rants about the quds force, al quaeda, chinese special ops, spetznaz, etc.