This misses how it was pretty much implied that Kane (more on him later) is the entire reason tiberium even came to earth in the first place. Now with that being said, there were initial efforts to try to keep the stuff contained, but here comes the Brotherhood of Nod being led by a man named Kane (again more on him later) who decide to go around doing stuff like, massacring a whole village because one person in it disagreed with them, and going far and well out of it’s way to hinder any meaningful research done on tiberium by anyone not Nod because Kane (seriously more on this fucker later) has a very vested interest in spreading tiberium.

So about this outright evil and immortal motherfucker who goes by the name of Kane, he leads the Brotherhood of Nod, he sees himself as a messiah, in one game (Renegade) it’s kinda implied he’s actually Cain from the bible story of Cain and Able, he also believes that humanity must embrace tiberium to evolve. So good fucking luck getting any sort of help from Nod on any sort of tiberium containment, at least when Kane is around that is. Which brings us to the problem of the Brotherhood, Nod itself is pretty okay with cooperating with GDI in a crisis, unless Kane is around, then Nod does anything and everything to keep kicking GDI in the balls over and over.

See the CABAL crisis (the expansion, firestorm), both GDI and Nod worked together because firstly, Kane is “dead” (again), so he’s not there to fuck shit up yet again. If Kane was alive, i’d put good money that he’d let CABAL run amok and do what he can to stop GDI from stopping CABAL, because of his stupendously great not going to backfire one bit idea of cyborgification and tiberium must be embraced by humanity in ordor to evolve.

Instead, they harvest tiberium for the valuable minerals it contains (thus ensuring its spread).

So we’re at the basic problem, Kane has a very vested interest in spreading tiberium, and kicking GDI in the balls. So GDI is stuck in a problem where they need to actually build a military force to do a basic thing of researching tiberium in order to find a solution to containing it. So yeah, the story of the tiberium saga is one of how the planet just keeps getting more and more fucked all because one man wants to “ascend” or some shit like that.

and they saw the NES as exclusively a boys’ toy

So there’s a bit more to this, if I remember all this correctly, Nintendo couldn’t exactly call the NES a ‘video game console’ when they started selling it in the US because the crash had pretty much made that a really bad financial move to call it as such. And also they had to sell it in the toys section to start with, which has had and still has a lot of segregation between boys and girls toys. And also considering how brick and mortar stores have acted for a long time, they likely had a bit of a hand in this in the way of demanding nintendo to pick if it was a boys toy or a girls toy or else they won’t stock it.

Uh… that’s not how it went down in the battletech universe.

I can explain more when I get home, as the clans themselves are a hot mess when talking about the writing.

There are people here who start malding if you talk shit about Dark Souls any popular fromsoft game from Dark Souls onwards lmao

Fixed it.

Which that qualification just excludes AC4, ACFA, AC5, and ACVD… problem now is if you try to talk shit about armored core 6 you now have a bunch of souls tourists jumping you like you talked shit about dark souls.

And yes I will die on the hill saying armored core 6 is just not much of an armored core game.

Well, from the perspective of someone who lives in a rural part of the US, lack of infrastructure, the people who drive them tend to make the fact they drive an EV their personality trait, because of point 1 the people who buy them out here are certainly well off.

Also when they inevitably break down, you’d have to go way out of your way to find someone that even can attempt to repair it, unless you really want to learn a lot about being an electrician.

This is being overtly simplistic, but a lot of it is more often logistical than anything else at least out in rural america.

It continues to boggle my mind that any engineer actually signed off on this.

It’s easy, the engineer wanted to not have to start looking for another job.

You should’ve countered with telling them that it looks like PepsiCo read that one greentext and took it as a challenge.

Tell me you don’t live in a rural area without telling me you don’t live in a rural area.

I’m not trying to be an ass or anything, but I live in a rural “city” and I feel this kind of solution would just barely work, if at all. You’re still looking at nearly everyone out here needing their own personal vehicle. Like yeah cars ruin big cities, but for the most part the only thing cars really did for rural areas was just replace the horse and cart. Especially since I’m pretty sure a lot of railroads were closing down and or merging together for a variety of reasons long before the advent of cars and carbrain.

If you want true hell, try working a factory job, which is what I do.

8 hours a night, on 3rd shift, at least 5 days a week, because half way through the week JIT logistics could just decide you need to work a 6th and 7th day.