The one that resulted in a a spike in teens reporting high instances of anal sex because it was seen as a loophole?

kind of the only criteria the GOP money men have for bankrolling a candidate is: can he get elected, will he do what we want on regulation, taxes, and limiting enforcement on corps and wallstreet? Used to be this stuff meant you couldnt get elected. Now it seems to polevault you to the top of the heap. Im seriously…

Maybe, but the US has a far more heterogenius society. Hamburgers, hotdogs, pizza, all foods though of as american in our minds now, and while they are german and italian, it is the american version that was marketed to the world. I dont know what it is like in the south or midwest, but in the northeast, every small…

Disney also, they do extremely well in Japan.

Forespoken is not coming to xsx, and there appears to be some time exlusivity for FF16 whenever that comes out.

Apple.  Disney. Just two off the top of my head.  Both sell gangbusters in Japan.

Last numbers I saw suggested ps5 was selling 1.5 to 2 to 1 in North America.  Series X is not one of their most successful systems to date. Its doing fine, but you cant judge sales in the first year as a metric and with supply chain issues its even rougher.  I mean in the first year, XboxOne was their fastest selling…

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.