opening up oil exploration would produce no new oil for a min of 10 years.  Long term, the Europeans are working to get off of oil and gas, oil will be easier for them than gas.  EV sales are increasing every year.  I mean in the face of rising gas prices, US oil companies are pumping less oil now than before Covid…

/s needed because plenty of people would post what you did with no sarcasm intended at all.

Quordle has ruined wordle for me.  I still do it, but its like a warm up.

I advocate for the banning of Beloved, not due to subject matter, but because I hate that book.  I blame my senior year AP English teacher who loved it on Oprah’s book club....so we spent 5 months on it.  5.  In HS.  IN an AP survery course.  But none of that is serious.  Banning books is stupid.  Take a book out of…

In 2016 it was announced that both the DNC and RNC had been hacked, we now know it was Russia.  Nothing came out publically from the RNC hack.  A few weeks and months after, scored of GOP pols switched their tunes on Trump and also stopped talking tough on Russia.  The GOP is compromised.  The whole party should be…

square has a ton of output on the mobile market in asia.  I havent looked at their earnings reports, but ill bet that is keeping them afloat more than FFXIV.

Konami isnt inept. They just dont care.  Their non gaming businesses give them a much better ROI than gaming, so they dont bother running development.  They are a very japanese centric company, the japanese console gaming market is shrinking, because the japanese population is shrinking, and because their gaming…

and it assumes that those who dont game, but could, will be heavy game users.  My sister bought a switch....she barely uses it after a burst on zelda and botw during the pandemic.  She is...43, she has owned a nes and snes (with me as kids), used my n64, owned a gcn, a wii, and now a switch.  But she isnt a core…

Square had a first party north american design team back in the 90s.  Square North America.  They made one game.  Secret of Evermore, built on the Secret of Mana engine, but written for American audiences by American writers.  Americans were warming to JRPGs with FFIV, FFVI, Breath of Fire 1 and 2, Secret of Mana (not…

Square seems to have no idea how to manage its Western Devs...but then considering the insane development hell that goes in to a FF game....they can barely manage their own titles.  FFXV was what 2016?  It started as FF XIII Vs, and was announced in like 2006.  FFVII was first announced in what 2014 or 2015?  Square…

That LG 2.1 sound bar is not 130.  Its 280, either its not on sale or you linked to the wrong one.

That LG 2.1 sound bar is not 130.  Its 280, either its not on sale or you linked to the wrong one.

its an element.  Only so much room for mp shooters at any given time.

Its so far beyond that.  They want to have their cake and eat it, and then they want to eat your cake too.

This isnt unique to games.  This is the modern US corporate mentality.  Corp Execs take no responsibility for anything.  Its a bunch of rich people in a mutual admiration society.  We let so many companies just become huge, there isnt really that much competition.  Everyonce in a while something happens that outrages…

Fuck him.  He had great stand up in the 90s and early 2000s.  Chappelle Show was fun, then he pulled a hissy fit that resulted in the cast and crew having to find new work (if he was unhappy he could have force Comedy Central to make changes).  Big fucking baby.  All he cares about is Dave.

You can play zelda 1, 2, LA, ooa, oos, minishcap, four swords (the portable one not the gc one), oot, mm, phantom hourglass, spirit tracks, link between worlds, and that other stupid multiplayer one on 3ds, So 14 out of 18. But yeah. Its dumb. It is so stupid that the Switch Online doesnt include gb/gb games. I dont…

It was conceived as a gamecube game, it got delayed to make it a wii launch game.  Same as Botw.  

a lot of nintendo games start that way conceptually. Mario Galaxy 2 was going to be a Mario Galaxy Plus Edition, and they just kept making new levels.  Nintendo doesnt really do much DLC, pokemon is gamefreak, kingdom battle was ubi.  Mario Kart....they needed something, it was the only title selling for them on…

Its also moronic to imply that people cannot understand a culture not their own.  Even if they dont, its about tone and intent.  People need to learn to empathize with others.  Trying to understand a culture not your own is important.  Thinking you can speak for another culture not your own is another thing entirely.  

Well “leftist” is a meaningless term.  Liberals are on the left of the political spectrum to the extent that we use that right left terminology.  While Im not going to give rich white people a pass, rich people are not good at standing in solidarity with marginalized populations in general.  Most problems come down to…