They're doing it to stop Trump and punish us for rejecting their dystopian agenda. That's all this is.

I know people don't see eye to eye with Nick on everything, but this is not the answer. I hope he's OK.

The media is already pre-programming America for Birdflu to become COVID 2.0 right as Trump takes office.

Don't be fooled, it's just an attempt to sabotage his agenda before he can start it. They're running the same scam as before where they jack the test equipment's sensitivity so high anything will be considered birdflu.

Don't fall for any of this propaganda. It's another made-up crisis. Fight any new medical mandates wherever you can, and refuse to live in fear! These globalist mad scientists engineering these viruses need to be thrown in prison.

If I were in charge of Jaguar and wanted to appeal to younger customers, I would have commissioned a 2 seater compact sports car like a Mazda Miata or Toyota 86.

This car would be a throwback to old British roadsters like an Austin Healey Sprite or MG B.

It would be an ICE, of course, and these types of cars are extremely popular among younger car enthusiasts. I don't see their popularity going anywhere; and such a car would be a good entry level Jaguar in terms of price and performance.

What they actually did to attract this demographic was a disaster. My idea's not perfect, but I think it's better than what we got.

It's even funnier when they only provide 3 options for pronouns cough cough Forza Horizon 5

I thought you could have any pronouns you want?

FH5 is an insensitive, discriminating racing game that refuses to acknowledge me as a GTP racecar with turbocharged/V8 for my pronouns.

Elon's gaming company can't come soon enough.

Hopefully all the honest, passionate, and creative developers that jackoffs like this are alienating and ostracizing can follow suit and start their own MAGA or at least apolitical gaming companies.

I don't like seeing how this deeply captured industry is seemingly doubling down on its predatory, hateful bullshit in spite of the big political and cultural win we had on November 5. However, seeing the tide turn against this woke, regressive ideology gives me hope that something better is around the corner.

We're just going to have to take a very bumpy road to get there.

Do you think they'll stop if BlackRock and Vanguard are ever coaxed into cutting off the ESG bucks that fund this woke slop?

I think there's still hope; he and RFK Jr very publically teamed up. Kennedy said he'd only do that if Trump admitted Operation Warp Speed could have been handled differently.

Maybe Trump is waiting for an opportunity to admit as such when he feels he's in a position where he doesn't have to be constantly on the defense; i.e. after the inauguration.

I really hope that Trump putting anti-mandate people in health positions in his cabinet can open the door for the COVID tyrants to be held accountable.

I don't think we can really count on Trump himself to do it, but he seems intent on adopting a more hands off management approach. He's suggested that he'll generally let RFK Jr, Battacharya, and co. do what they want.

If they get to actually hold those globalist Big Pharma mad scientists accountable, I hope he won't get in their way, so to speak.

Hopefully we start seeing things turn around when Trump gets in and starts a big enough cultural realignment.

I think Tekken 8 and Astro Bot look very compelling and I've been enjoying the new Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom game.

I would personally consider those 3 games highs in a rather quiet year for new game releases.

The original movie's not even 15 years old and was likely animated for a reason.

Why was this necessary? Who asked for it?

They're copying something, all right.

The destruction of a 90 year strong brand for the sake of an agenda not everyone wants, and cozying up to NGOs 80% of the population absolutely hates. People will fight the ICE bans, and manufacturers are already suffering the consequences of putting all their eggs in the EV basket. Look at what's happening to Ford.

They should have kept the F-Type, made an evolution of it, and taken it GT3 racing. They ought to build a new version of the badass C-X75 hypercar from the Spectre movie, too.

Something just doesn't seem right to me about how not one of those families is speaking out against being caught in all this lawfare. All for the sake of corrupt politicians and leftist NGOs being able to exploit their dead kids to shut down those who disagree with them.

If I were them, I would have been furious and demanded they stop.

I think many seem to agree that the best thing for TV as a whole is a return to the '90s era of specializations and a philosophy that supports programming with actual depth and isn't reliant on displaying gross caricatures of the worst aspects of humanity.

That last point is what I personally see in much of the reality TV that took over the medium in the 2000s and proliferated almost every network.

It wouldn't surprise me if those involved in producing reality TV were receiving some kind of ESG-like funding to enable and exaggerate the worst human behaviors and structure it in a way that would sort of dumb down its viewers.

Then again, that's my rather biased perspective on that topic; I totally understand if others disagree with me.

I think the problem was that Survivor became a smash hit for CBS in 2000, and every cable and over the air network fell over themselves to try to replicate its success with reality shows of their own. From a business perspective, it also helped that they were dirt cheap to produce and get easy short-term returns on.

Of course, they all had varying degrees of success, and a lot of cable networks that formerly had specific focuses like Speed, TLC, History Channel, MTV, etc. saw much of their audience leave once these programs started proliferating their schedules.

They came the expense of more thoughtful, albeit less Schadenfreude-like programming that people tuned into those networks to get away from, alienating their core audience and only attracting fair-weather viewers that would leave when those shows were no longer the hot trendy thing.

Which brings us to where we're at now: multiple networks with no real focus or core audience desperately trying to throw anything at the wall to see what sticks in order to just barely stay afloat. It's why MTV's schedule is little more than Ridiculousness marathons all day, and History and Discovery Channel pretty much rerun the same shows and episodes all day with very little variety.

I admit that I never even considered him for VP, but I felt good hearing that he was a candidate for the role.

I felt relieved when he got selected, and this was primarily due to his vocal opposition to all the COVID mandates throughout early 2021. He was one of only a few politicians to openly call for people to civilly disobey the vaccine and lockdown mandates. Almost no one in politics wanted to do that at the time.

Suffice to say, I think he's only helped his case since then. I'm glad he was chosen for the role, and I have high hopes for him come January.

And turn one of the national Fox Sports networks back into the Speed Channel. Then give it the documentary, digest, news, and live event programming that made it so beloved in the Speedvision and early Speed Channel years.

I also call for MTV to become an all music genre network again, Fuse to return to a focus on alternative music, and A&E to become a real arts network again. All the other networks you mentioned should revive the focuses from their early-mid '90s heydays.

MTGA- Make Television Great Again!

Pompeo believed that inditing Trump over the classified documents (the Jack Smith case) was good. He also led the charge to persecute Julian Assange.

I encourage you to read this Roger Stone article https://www.stonecoldtruth.com/p/why-president-trump-cannot-trust about Pompeo and Haley. It includes the Fox News clip where Pompeo threw Trump under the bus.

I used to like Pompeo too. Now I'm embarrassed I ever supported him and hope he stays as far away from Trump's team as possible.

The US needs to leave NATO, the UN, and all these globalist scams as soon as possible.

They've done nothing to actually help Americans and are little more than vehicles for a one world government.

But would we still see other predatory game mechanics?

Battle passes, microtransactions, lootboxes, mandatory Internet connections, and broken, bare bones Day 1 releases. Those seemed to go into hyperdrive after GamerGate too.

Or do you think these were just natural side effects of publishers and shareholders getting more greedy as the industry took off? Were we going to see those things anyway, with or without wokeness?

I just want to start a discussion. I thought this would be interesting to think about.

Does Trump's 2024 win feel so special because the past 4 years were such a disaster?

They showed us just how consequential corrupt governments can be, and therefore compelled many of us to do a better job being politically active and standing up for our rights. Would America have become so awake if Trump somehow did win in 2020?

I'd love to hear this community's ideas for this alternate history.

I saw a video a few years ago of some Japanese gearheads who was able to bring freaking European Le Mans racecars into the country and make them street-legal.

That country loves its cars and goes to great lengths to get foreign vehicles into Japan. The car people there truly respect overseas creations.

To your point, it sounds like foreign car enthusiasts in Japan must have big pockets. Hell, the Japanese Lamborghini owners club has a professional Super GT racing team. And it actually wins races and competes for championships!

So this person sees someone who looks Hispanic or Mexican and thinks they're here in America illegally?

What does that say about the Redditard?

It's just saving me more money in the long run!