They're probably doing what Bethesda did with Starfield. They break the game concept down into broad technical sections, then farm all the sections out to a thousand different buck fitty an hour developers. Once all the sections are done the company takes them all and builds a skeleton around them to hold it together and calls the game finished.
I have some relevant experience here. They put some shit in fast food that suppresses your ability to feel full. I'd swear to it in court. Let me explain.
Working all the time and running a business, I ate fast food pretty much every day for years. During that time a "healthier meal" was eating at a real restaurant and getting like, fajitas. I had a voracious appetite. My standard McDonalds order was a large Big Mac combo plus two double cheeseburgers plus 2 McChickens. And I would eat all that garbage and still feel like I could eat 2 more doubles afterward. Everywhere was like that. Then I moved and had a nice kitchen, and was going through some rough spots and started cooking again to save money. Except the portions were different. I could cook an 8oz steak and put a couple spoonfuls of potato salad on a slice of bread and be full. Literally 1/4 or less of the portion, and not only was it good I was stuffed afterward.
After eating like that for ~6 months the boss ordered delivery at the business one day and I got my usual McD's order and it was disgusting. The taste, the texture, everything about it was wrong. I tried out other places and it was the same everywhere except for Wendy's and like, rice-heavy Taco Bell items. I think they use real food in their shit and not whatever is going into other fast food. But to be able to eat that much and still be hungry makes no fucking physical sense.
Its not that unreasonable. I've made things over the years that were chan-culture adjacent. Tools, scripts, a video site, etc. You make them for "your friends" in the anon world, have a couple hundred regular users, and get used to everything being fine. But then one day normalfags start using it. Now you have 10,000 hits a day, and suddenly soccer moms are hearing about it and now you're on the hook every time something objectionable passes through the service because unlike anons, normalfags will complain. Loudly. Things that were never a problem become huge, existential problems literally overnight and now you have to weigh whether you're willing to put in the effort to keep up with it. Most are not. I'm too ashamed to admit that one of my projects from years ago, an experimental video uploading site called Tortuga, was something I gave up on because it got popular. You have to pick your battles.
Two things killed it in my region. First was PS2 hype. EVERYONE was saving their money because the PS2 and the "emotion engine" were supposed to blah blah blah. Consoles are expensive. The second thing was piracy. I'm usually the first person to say people should hoist the black flag, but the GD-ROM was cracked VERY early in the DC's life. It was commonplace at my school for kids to have whole CD towers full of cracked Dreamcast games, and everyone was trading and buying copies during lunch and recess. The kids who had broadband at home were downloading DC isos and making bank burning discs and selling them for 5 bucks a pop. This was in ONE school in the midwest US. I can't even imagine how rampant it was elsewhere.
NeoGeo Pocket Color. Still my fave handheld of all time and I still play it once in a while. Clicky-stick goes brrrrrr.
Had a 32X and a SegaCD back in the day, but all I remember playing were Metal Head and Lunar.
Dreamcast, AKA "The Soul Calibur and PSO machine" with a side of Sonic Adventure.
Fits the definition I've been using the past couple years.
Woke (adj): A mental illness in which a person feels compelled to perform acts of progressive social activism within every aspect of their day to day life, including a demand that other people also be woke.
That's how the mind virus spreads.
They could have if Russia was really willing to take the gloves off. To put the "war" in perspective it would be like the state of Oklahoma trying to fight off the entire rest of the US military combined while China and, like, Iran were donating them some money and weapons. Yeah they could drag it out for a while and do some damage, but win? Or even survive in the long term? Absolutely laughable. Russia is bigger than the US and Ukraine is smaller than Texas.
Called it the day the war broke out.
For nearly 200 years, Russia has had a cultural obsession with "buffer zones." They will not sit around unless they have a couple hundred miles of potential no-man's-land between them and the nearest adversary's forces and, key, that these zones are on said enemy's side of the border. As NATO kept creeping closer and closer to Russia since the 90s, they eventually ended up in a spot where the "nearest adversary" was about to be sharing a border with them, so oh look here comes the buffer zones. Predictable as clockwork, and if the Western foreign relations elites hadn't been snorting coke 24/7 and shoving troons down our throats, they could have seen this and avoided the bloody fucking mess. Assuming they even wanted to avoid it.
I'm not entirely sure Vlad is gonna let Ukraine off the hook with just buffers anymore though. Zelensky offered to let NATO put IRBM nuclear missiles in Ukraine, close enough to Moscow for a first strike with no time for Russia to react. Its their version of the Cuban Missile Crisis and I don't think Russia is going to settle for shit that doesn't make that scenario impossible on their own terms. They're not gonna accept any more pinky promises when something like that is at stake.
The weapons are actually derived from the 1970s and 80s research into neutron bombs. The reason the primaries are compressed and pumped via external neutron sources is to greatly reduce the amount of fission fuel - meaning very little gets vaporized in the blast (so little that the ground area under the blast is safe after a few hours), and almost all of the energy comes from lithium-6 deuteride fusion. The blasts are also relatively small - a few kilotons (about a third of a Nagasaki) and are meant to go off thousands of feet in the air, safely away from the ground and high enough to not start fires. While the neutron pulse is slowed by an external casing of moderator (beryllium lined graphite AFAIK) to reduce the range and potency of the neutron radiation output. There would still be some significant compton scattering and so a modest EMP would be present, but we're talking a choice of "oh no my iphone got fried" vs "oh hey that Chinese ICBM with a 4MT warhead just blew up in my face" the choice is pretty clear.
Depends on the nuke. Latest generation "clean" nukes exist. The tampers are made of lead and inert materials, and they use a tiny, highly compressed, neutron-pumped primary to set off a bunch of lithium-6 to get the yield up into the multi-kiloton range. In an airburst they have very VERY little harmful fallout and all the kaboom comes from pure fusion. The radiation they emit is so low that to be close enough for it to hurt you would put you inside the blast radius. They'd make perfect sense as an ICBM intercept network.
Fuck a Baneblade, he deserves Metal Wolf Chaos with a Hayaku Shiki paintjob at this point.
There's something else to remember. They're putting the costs of this in a bubble to make it look bad.
In reality: Those tanks and vehicles and planes get ran, trained on, and driven around regardless. Those soldiers get paid regardless. The material already exists regardless. Literally all Trump is doing is having them drive 20 miles or fly in from an airbase, which are routine things that happen every day. The same money would be spent regardless. Literally all he's doing is arranging the timetable so they all overlap in DC for an hour to do some maneuvers. The actual "cost" that sets this parade as anything different than already-paid-for operations probably amount to less than half a million bucks and is mostly fuel.
We banned Israel from even being able to see our site years ago, and it dropped the volume of CP spam we were fighting by nearly 90 percent. Also when ~10,000 4chan refugees came by after the hack and stayed for a couple weeks there was no blacked spam or demotivation posting. The users kept talking about how amazing it was, and several thousand of them stayed after 4chan came back up.
Its the Left vs Right heat map thing again.
Conservatives see all the bullshit on social media and think "I have my family/friends/normal life so this isn't a huge deal unless it affects my world directly somehow.
Leftists who love rocks and the universe more than their own mothers freak out because every goat herder missing one meal in bumfuckistan feels like the end of the world.
Had to do some training for a different sector recently. In the training materials:
The "guide" was a black woman.
The "employees" were all blue haired women or man-bun wearing ambiguously light brown soyboys.
The only normal looking white guy was cast as the retard in the OSHA video who was doing everything wrong and almost lost his arm. His helper was a tiny Indian looking woman who was pointing out all his OSHA violations the whole time. He gets fired.
I live in the midwest. Its bad.
Look up Cole's Cancer Killing Concoction (if you can still find anything about it online.)
tl;dr, clear back in the 1800s a doctor studied a patient who made a miraculous recovery from facial cancer. What he found was that there are bacteria that cause infection in weakened cancer cells more easily than in healthy cells. So he devised a treatment where a patient with cancer would have a live bacteria culture injected directly into the tumor. The cancer cells would get infected quickly, and "lure" the body's immune system to those cells to destroy them. He cured lots of patients using this technique.
But guess what happened? It couldn't be patented. When Dr. Cole died the entire this was disappeared from the medical industry.
I know. My message is for our supposed (((allies))) here of all places, the splinter of a splinter literally born of anti censorship, who want to support that shit and feel high and mighty over the rest of us. Its a due diligence reality check.
Because in a room with an enemy and a traitor and two bullets in your gun, you shoot the traitor twice. And some fart-huffing moralists are starting to talk about the entire other half of this cultural movement like they're just hunky dory using the system to betray and censor us instead of fighting the real world problems coming from our common foe. Loli art has been the un-crossable line for our side for over a decade - the ultimate canary in the coal mine. The old 8chan was abandoned to burn by millions of people because its new owners banned it to appease the Qanon boomers, and the only thing left was the vapid carcass called "8kun" which gets less traffic than our own little spinoff does today. Even anons who hate loli left, because the principle of warning signs and red lines on censorship is just that fucking important.
I'm aware of one firsthand event in the midwest due to knowing several cops. Two university girls got abducted in the parking lot of the shopping mall right here in my town. A booth was set up by Pakistanis selling perfume, except when one of the girls came up for a "demo", if she was alone and the coast was clear, the rag with choloform came out instead. Both girls got recovered in Kansas City a couple days later, but it was kept out of the papers. According to the cops, if a big alert goes out for girls missing because of events like that, the perps will often immediately murder the victims to make their getaway easier (no baggage, no witnesses) and so there's an unspoken rule that they keep such events quiet and try to find the missing people on the down low.
Doyle was also very unpopular on set, with the other cast shit talking him in interviews years after, before he died. The two things are likely connected.
The one that blew me away fairly recently was rewatching one of my favorite 90s TV shows, Babylon 5. Binge watching the episodes, unlike then when they were a week or more, and sometimes outright months apart, I picked up on a shitload of wokeslop and outright Leftardism that never registered before. A few of the major standouts:
When the Earth Civil War is just starting, there's a short scene where Ivonova is talking to Sheridan about President Clark's anti-alien policies. Specifically that he's "weeding out corruption and traitors" from Earthgov, and Ivonova even says "his policies have made the cities on Earth safer than they've ever been, and his popularity is through the roof." She's visibly angry about it, and they have a quick talk about how common folks are cowards who just want to feel safe. Its only about 10 episodes later that Clark is revealed to be a big bad working with the Shadows, but it absolutely comes across as a welcome excuse to Sheridan and crew. They needed a reason to oppose Clark, and the plot gave them one.
Another big one is when the Minbari Civil War ends and Delenn reorganizes the Grey Council. Now instead of consisting of 3 members each from the Religious Case, Warrior Caste, and Worker Caste, where will be 3 Warriors, 3 Religious, and EIGHT from the Worker Caste. She goes on about helping muh proletariat and how they should be the ones with the real power anyway.
Bester has a sleazy attitude, but it's also 100% true that Sheridan and company are breaking Earth laws and the Psy Corp's rules on almost a daily basis. When you stop looking at the person and just at a guy doing his job, the B5 crew are absolutely the badguys. Literally corrupt and rebellious. I think JMS picked up on this at some point because Bester was given his whole moustache twirling villain arc very late in the show's run, as if to scream YES HE'S A BAD GUY."
Then there was the whole deal with the Night Watch. Since the B5 crew weren't being very trustworthy, the President mobilized a militia of their own citizens to keep an eye on things. The show portrayed this in a very stilted, Gestapo-esque light.
There was a lot more, sandwiched between the Sci-Fi plot arcs, and more that's come out in later interviews (Delenn was supposed to be a male to female tranny, not a Minbari to Human change, but JMS couldn't get it past the censors.) The political stuff gets so stilted that if I didn't know the show was made 30 years ago, I'd swear it was taking swipes at Trump.
"I know the system is corrupt, because as a businessman I use it."
I think he widened his net after the World Jewish Congress declared an international boycott on Germany and Germany's own Jews rose up in support of it. Imagine the hysterical over-reaction to Trump, where every average Lefty acts like he's a demon. They kicked up enough dust to get that net widened. All over a guy who just wanted to unfuck his country.
Porn is half the reason the Internet even got popular. Hell its part of the Internet's very identity. Do not hand the fucking commies the win of overshooting culture too far in the other direction by becoming prude moralfags. Everyone will fucking hate you in ten years, and some Lefty Trump figure will be swept into power and overshoot everything back into infinite gay race Communism.
You've literally LIVED in the fucking middle ground where everyone but the fringe lunatics was content. Porn was kinda all over but also the places it was gathered were tucked away a bit, out of sight of kids who were too young/naive to know how to look for it, and parents policed things to a reasonable degree. Aim for getting back to that state, and don't become a fringe lunatic yourself.
We've seen this firsthand on 8chan. A recurrent CP spammer switched to AI-generated realistic images because he could then use a whole lot more variety in VPNs to attack us with it, since it wasn't technically illegal, but it was hard to tell just from thumbnails that it was fake.
So what? Japan did the exact same thing. They researched the bomb and all the pieces, and made and set aside the raw materials required. And then sat on it all, never building or testing even one bomb, because they don't like, want, or need nukes. But in the event of a war, they could put those pieces together and start producing bombs in a week, just in case. I can't fault Iran for taking that same exact path, in fact I'd think they were dumb if they hadn't.