but that is funny tho

IIRC Felix came up with the name on the fly and it was only supposed to be for the first episode. His idea was that it’d sound like a really bad soundcloud rapper’s mixtape. It’s the kinda joke you make when you’re stoned.

The Blob: Invading Iraq is a good idea
Everyone else: But

I’m a socialist who thinks Russia stinks and needs to fuck off but uh- yeah I’m right-wing for thinking that the blob doesn’t know what it’s talking about after forty years of the blob being wrong.

That’s potentially a factor, per Surkov’s idea about creating the illusion of a powerful Russian state, but I think it’s also probable that it’s just what they had and they were dumb as shit.

No, I just uh *checks notes* read what a bunch of professional Russian scholars said about the structure of the post-Soviet russian state and the publicly stated beliefs of Vladislav Surkov and came to the conclusion that they’re a bunch of dumb ex-gangsters trying to impress their boss overseen by someone who finds…

Funny thing though- all of those hits were clumsy, lazy, brute force bullshit rather than ‘tailor-made’ Hitman: Codename 47 shit.

I’m sorry but the more you list your credentials the more clear it is that you’re just inculcated with blob nonsense and don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.

Election influence is another example of this kind of trickery. China did way more to influence ‘96 than Russia did ‘16 but it wasn’t percieved as the same kind of existential threat because it wasn’t magnified. Beyond that, there are clear signs of Russia taking steps to leave trails that’d suggest influence no…

You’re assuming that Russian intelligence has a unified leadership and isn’t just a mess of ex-gangsters and failsons trying to impress daddy putin.

You’re assuming a unified russian intelligence state capable of a ‘tailor made’ assassination exists. It doesn’t. It’s dweebs jockeying for power and favor under Putin and Putin using that to create the illusion of an omnipresent and omnipotent Russian intelligence state, like when Surkov funneled money to groups in…

Man it’s almost as if the Russian intelligence community is a massively incompetent, disorganized gaggle of morons who are incapable of organizing basically fucking anything rather than the bond villains they’ve fooled the liberals into thinking that they are.

They are, actually. In fact, agriculture in the NCR is reliant on post-war vehicles based on pre-war designs, according to to Fallout 2's description of the NCR capital in Shady Sands.

While that’s true graphically, I think where they’re missing a step is that there are tonal and gameplay differences in the 0/Kiwami games as well as updated content that isn’t in 3-5. There are even running threads like Kiryu’s friendship with the Pocket Circuit fighter and the kids that it’d be weird if they dropped.…

Are they still doing that? Shit. I was hoping they’d opt for at least a Kiwami 3 rather than keep on keeping on with ports. Bleh.

Kiwami 2 apparently picks up on a lot of stuff plot-wise and gameplay-wise from 0. So now there’s 0's hostess club minigame and a side story dedicated to giving more closure to Majima and Makoto.

I think that’s giving them too much credit, and that the more likely scenario is that rather than being dumb oblivious and casually biogted white bros they’re just actively evil people who know what they’re doing.

Yeah but collusion with an outside power isn’t necessarily a huge deal in and of itself. The Clinton campaign sought oppo from Ukrainian nationalists who are arguably tied to Nazis and the *Bill* Clinton campaign both sought and secured financial support from China back in ‘96 that is arguably worse than anything…

He had chronic debt from failed businesses and was, by his own admission, terrible with money. That’s not a story. That’s a dead man being shitty with money.

I think we need to have a very serious conversation about the nature of collusion and what that collusion means, what influence it actually had, etc.