It's basically the only scenario I can see on the table where normality even has a chance to return in our lifetime. The military would have to clean house on both sides of the aisle though, force primaries for everything, and basically flush the toilet on the last 150 years of party politics.
You can't trust the reviews, it's true. But also, it's very much a buyers market with games in general right now. The headline issue is only a problem if you take the side of AAA studios who have to compete with passion-driven indie projects that aren't just out to make a buck.
I'm going to spend how much to play a game with an obligatory launcher after I already opened steam? And it's badly optimised? 100gb you say? And I have to see ads for skins? And that's competing with a game less than half the price that's amazing, 3gb, no ads, and it can run on a decade old computer?
This is a big-budget problem. They made their omelette, and now they've got to sleep in it.
I saw the episode of Dark Tourism where they go to Turkmenistan. It seems like quite a grim and sheltered country. I wouldn't have thought they sent anyone abroad for education, are you expected to return with certain skills?
We've created a world where corporations expect to treat with countries as sovereign nations in their own right. They already forced America to treat corporations as people. This is why you never give an inch.
Hell, what do you want to bet they plan a false flag attack on the gathering and use it as a pretense for martial law? At this point a military coup would almost be welcome news to most of the world. Can't have that.
That's usually what they want, more unearned powers and privileges. You're a history guy. How did it go for Rome when armies owed their allegiance to one man?
Please go watch it. It's the best thing I've seen from Glitch yet, and it was made with the creator of the Owl House, so the Disney hate has a whole backstory to it. I might even pick up a little merch.
No it's not, it just crashed out of the sky after that whole thing with the Mammon Machine.