I always fine it incredibly how much bethesda has destroyed any interest I had in the games they make. I really enjoyed Oblivion when it came out, I remember downloading Skyrim the second I could. I played about a hundred hours in Fallout 3, and countless hours in New Vegas. But FO4 stopped all that in its tracks. I didn't bother with 76 when I heard it was multiplayer only, I never touched ESO, and Starfield was barely a blip on my radar. If starfield had been announced a decade ago I would have been obsessed, something marketed as skyrim in space would have been right up my alley. Now the closest I'll be to getting excited for a bethesda game is wishing that they'd let Obsidian use their assets/engine to make a better game. Ah well, I'll stick to indi games and the occasional well-done mainstream game like Balders Gate 3
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imo it's too early to tell. Americans have the memory of a goldfish, I don't think anything that happens before the final candidates for each party are chosen matters. Sure the dems have absolutely lost some people over Bombin' Biden's support of Israel, but I don't think that really matters to most american voters. It's looking like it'll be Biden vs Trump again, but without a bunch of residual goodwill towards biden and Trump has the advantage of not being on the defence this time (court cases notwithstanding but I don't know how much those will factor in. If anything he can spin it as being under attack by the entrenched powers etc etc). Right now if I was a betting man I'd say trump has the lead, but with still almost a year to go anything could happen.
Zelenskyy confident us will not betray Ukraine
I'm sure the Kurds, Saddam, Gaddafi, the Mujahideen, South Vietnam, etc etc felt the same way
I remember growing up I was always confused by the song "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" because of course there would be plenty of snow on Christmas! Hell, when you dressed up on Halloween you took into account throwing a snow jacket over top of it because there was a good chance you'd see freezing temps or snow! The latest you'd get a decent snowfall was mid November!
There is the lightest dusting of snow on December 19. Every winter for the past few years has been this horrific cycle of hovering around freezing with a healthy dose of freezing rain that turns the entire city into a skating rink. Everyone in government and half the people around be either outright deny climate change or just don't give a shit.
Can't believe america is opposed to the SPARTAN program smh
I like writing up effortposts, I just need to find a topic I can dive into for a couple hours. Now's a good time since I'm on winter break and have access to online archives & libraries through my university. I've been thinking of doing a writeup on Ryan McBeth, this think tank/YouTube osint guy who also wrote a Tom Clancy-esque Handmaidens Tail fanfic that just has so much to unpack it'd be a post all of its own
Yup, there's a reason my /tg days are far behind me. It was an ok place to find obscure rulebook pdfs but God damn is it infested with the worst bigots
Please President Xi, bring justice to this lawless wasteland
the enemy is both weak and strong etc etc
Literally a participation trophy army
You know that's part of it I just don't understand. Freezing sperm exists. These iof fucks could just jizz in a jar and toss it in the freezer before they head out, instead they are violated and humiliated postmortem. Hell, the iof could make it part of recruitment instead of training up squads of tactical cum hounds