Oh yeah, I agree. Strategic is absolutely better than just winging it and giving in to every impulse (like you said with the Trans movement today). In fact, a little more strategic thought would probably do people good for fixing some of the situations we are in.

I was just giving another example to back up the other ones listed.

Just because it happened in my backyard so I know some of the fine details, Brown vs. Board of Ed was shopped around and they chose Kansas because we always had a strange relationship with segregation (the Klan held power just long enough post-WW1 to pass it, and just enough to make it difficult to get rid of). As such, the schools were segregated in Topeka, but we had actually achieved "Separate but Equal". Both high schools in the town were maintained to a similar degree, both had similar quality teachers, both were serviced by busses, etc. And the people suing didnt even think they were badly served, they just wanted somewhere closer so their daughter didnt have to walk across a train line to get to school.

It was the Civil Rights activist who decided it could be used as a case to overturn Plessy, and they were right.

I am on dekachin's side, ie Pro-Ukraine. I just think that NATO and its people cringe-post from time to time. Doesnt change the fact that I will pay good money to watch Russia get destroyed by Ukraine.

I mostly stopped commenting on it because it had become a case of "Brick wall arguing with Brick wall", where neither side could even agree on the details to have the debate in the first place, much less practice the definition of insanity yet again.

I am sure everyone on here already knows my stance on the Ukraine war, but I will never defend the media coverage of it. They are just as "head-up-ass" "cringe personified" as they have always been.

Now we need to see if Time had an article about the Russians shenanigans in Chernobyl and the Red Forest early in the war. Because it would make this article title even more hilarious.

Military should never get involved in politics, ever, about anything.

Yes, but they pretty much always have, even in the US. Which is part of the reason we try to make sure generals dont have that much power in a war.

Although yes, there is indeed much fear to be had if they start micromanaging things too much.

I am going to "actually" that picture. Eisenhower had a ton more honors than that, and if he actually wore them all he would have looked more like Milley. He just didnt like wearing them all because he felt it was unnecessary and distracted from his role (which in its own right gets the actual point of the image across).

Either way, the main point is still accurate. The US has almost always been characterized by its generals being little more than politicians who dont really get what they are doing. Which is why, even back to the time of Washington (as well as the ideals of the "citizen soldier" that the US was founded on), we practice "Strategic Chaos" and place almost all of our emphasis on field officers and NCO's, with Generals doing little more than going "I want you to do X by Y time with Z rules of engagement." And then every single NCO takes that, interprets this on their own, and then you end up with effectively hundreds of tiny armies advancing on you from unpredictable directions instead of one giant army.

And when you get a general who actually knows what they are doing, like Eisenhower? God help you.

Agreed. Its the same as how almost every Star Wars fan I know basically picks and choses from the Disney Star War the stuff that they like, and then everything else they enjoy about Star Wars is still the "Legends" continuity. And then much like with Trekkies, there are plenty of Star Wars fan made things that are beloved by the community.

There is a part of me that thinks we might actually be able to get to a point of more stuff being the public domain like that though. Mickey Mouse is coming up on the end of his time as the exclusive property of Disney. In the past, they could have just gotten an extension to their copyright and gone on with their thing. But now that there is growing anger from parents and consumers over the company (Disney has recently been polling in line with the likes of EA in terms of approval), and the fact they have alienated an entire political party who would have done it for them? Now, there is a good chance Mickey could go out to be used by anyone, just like Winnie the Pooh (another example of the woke not being able to effect his shared cultural reputation).

Considering the Arthurian mythos are in the public domain and any random schmuck can make something for it (which is why there are like 5 billion different movies of it), I would imagine it is.

Technically, most generals are. Thank your lucky stars the US Military in a war situation is built around NCO's instead.

Probably. I have a coworker in my machine shop who is more politically incorrect than I am. And he said that at his high school (which, incidentally, is the same one I went to almost 10 years ago), the social interactions work like this. All of the Woke ones are very much the minority, but very loud. A few teachers feed their egos, but most of the teachers dont put up with it. And most of them are fed up with the Woke types and have even started deliberately antagonizing them on some occasions.

But then, I also live in a midsized town in a Red state. So maybe there is differences in major Dem strongholds.

Although Sone shows seem popular with gen Z, I would think most people are tired of the massive push for black, lgbt, and girl power.

It is especially true when you look at the revealed preferences of what Gen Z actually does. The shows that are "popular" with them will pull in less than one million viewers (which includes those watching just to roast it), and the movies that are "popular" with them usually underperform. Meanwhile, every Gen Z guy I knows watches anime and has their personal big-titty waifu of choice, they all play video games with hot women and big guns, and they have apparently been digging up and watching stuff from the 90's and 2000's the same way many Millennials watch '80's movies.

The trailer I saw was just a prerender setting up the conflict. But if you know of a gameplay trailer, I am all ears.

My Dress-Up Darling

Already seen it, loved it. And like you said, shockingly wholesome consider so much of it is based around the fanservice. Kind of like how SpyXFamily was a lot more wholesome than just it's premise made it sound.

Tomo-chan is a girl

I got it on the list, but still a ways down.

Frostpunk 2 announced

Its been announced. For like 2 years now. And all we have now is the arc words that will set the theme of the game ("The City Must Not Fall").

SHOW ME THE GAMEPLAY ALREADY, YOU NERDS!!!

An RTS on the Russian Civil War.

I just saw this one. Call me very interested. You dont see a lot of strategy games featuring armored trains, and the Czechoslovakian Legion is criminally underdone for what they managed to pull of.

The part I am to, she is starting to get more flustered by things he does. And like you said, he is kind of admitting to himself that he is just letting her go with it because it makes her fun and interesting to be with.

I started watching it and got to the part where the figured out the true nature of what is causes the Infernals, then I fell off the wagon due to other things in life coming up. So very much looking forward to getting back in on it.

Ah. Admirably, I am not that far along. I have been watching the Anime and am almost done with Season 2.

Thanks for the recommend. Although it will probably be a while before I get around to it as I have some backlog to get through (finishing Nagatoro soon, then Fire Force, Then wrap up Demon Slayer, then that).

I am kind of surprised the hate the SJW's have for Nagatoro though, considering she very much wears the pants in that relationship. But then again, she does actually care about Senpai, so that is probably why.

Cities Skylines, for when you like SimCity, but hate EA. A sequel probably will do good for the spaghetti code it was running on.

As someone who is a Cities Skylines fan, I know the things to look for. And I can say it looks like it is going to be a huge step forward compared to CS1. It looks a lot less cartoony (death to the Hot Dog Van!), you can set your city to have different build styles between American, European, or Asian. The road builder looks like it got a HUGE overhaul that will make it far easier to actually build more realistic road networks and intersections. And like you said, using a much newer version of Unity that will let it run "better" (probably still not great, but still much better) as well as having AI that can actually use lanes without needing mods.

It even looks like they are dabbing on the corpse SimCity by putting in modular/upgradable city buildings, which is pretty much the only thing anyone had anything good to say about the last SimCity ever made.

Someone beat you to it. I googled and got several hits for Adam's Ribs bbq restaurants.

They have been on this kick recently where they say that any short woman is a loli or pedo bait even when their proportions are entirely that of an adult woman (they are just short).

But you can also tell they have no idea what is actually a realistic standard for what a woman would be, because I have seen some of these dumbasses declare that being shorter than 5'6" is loli territory. 5'6" is 2 inches taller than the average of American women, and 4 inches taller than the average Japanese woman.

It is very obvious that a lot of the Twitter Freaks dont actually know what real people are like.

I got hired in a machine shop with virtually no experience (I didnt know how to use any tool more complex than a wrench and hammer), because they were that desperate for work. Meanwhile, I look at places like NYC and see everywhere closing and double digit unemployment rates.

The system is indeed broken. Just not in the way the Left thinks it is.

You can add me to the list with that Forza then, since I have always enjoyed it. For other confirmed this year, it is hands down Armored Core 6 and Cities: Skylines 2, Jagged Alliance 3, as well as any new DLC for Snowrunner (dont know exact dates, but will probably be this year).

As for longer term and less confirmed, that would be Frostpunk 2 (which still has barely any info after a year and it is driving me crazy), Manor Lords, Sea Power (made by the rebooted MicroProse, so it will definitely be excellent like almost everything else they have done), and finally Falling Frontier (which is impressive for being a single dev).