So do Americans (edit: who support Trump) understand that they are the ones paying the tariffs? When Trump tells them how many billions he's collected in tariffs do they realise it's their money he's collected? I keep wondering if I missed something...
"And slowly, but surely, all the doors in and out of America shut. Tourism gradually died out and a country once prized as the most successful international hub of the world became a sealed bubble. Once their isolation was complete, global powers once held in check by America's might, had a free hand to expand their imperial ambitions and make their move. Taiwan was annexed in 3 months. Most of Eastern Europe fell a year later. In the face of such overwhelming might even Western European countries bent the knee rather than risk nuclear annihilation. Finally Russia's might was restored and all that was left was to wait for the once powerful but now isolated bubble that was America to collapse in on itself. Then, it would be a simple matter to take it. Possibly even without a shot being fired. " Comrade Putin!..... Comrade Putin you asked to be woken up... you seemed to be shaking and grinning in your sleep. Are you alright? I must say that is an impressive boner sir! What were you dreaming about?"
100% agree which also leads to one of the biggest disappointments in JC4 for me; re-spawning enemies... It was so satisfying to conquer bases in JC3 and you knew that was it then. That base belonged to the rebellion for good. Also they changed Rico's ethnicity and bodyshape. Here's the hero you love except he's South American now and his muscles are gone. He's meant to be an ironic cliche "Thees could be traaable". That was the whole point. It was fun. I think the thing that ticked me off the most though was that all they had to do was make a graphically updated clone of JC3 with another land to fight over and they could have spawned an endless amount of sequels. I've played through JC3 so many times and the second that Firestarter soundtrack comes on it's just so. damn. perfect 😎🍷
"I think I use AI more than most people here." That's a bold claim with no further explanation. In the words of Calvin Candie "You had my curiosity, now you have my attention"...
It's not a conversation though is it... but I think you know that. There's so much bandwagoning against AI at the moment. It's just sad and unfortunately, quite predictable.
I'm sorry it's making your life actively worse and I'd love to hear exactly how, because for me it's done nothing but improve my life in so many ways. It's got me over writers block so many times, helped me work through tricky problems of all kinds, taught me all sorts of excellent drawing, singing and music creation skills, helped me make sense of societal and political issues that I would not normally have understood and answered questions with a total absence of ego that I would never have had the nerve to ask before for fear of sounding stupid.
Hegelian dialectical materialism? It walked me through conversationally until I got it. The feasibility of someone being rich enough to build a rocket and just leave earth forever? It laid everything out in incredible detail (the resources required, it turns out, would be mindbogglingly insane).
AI hating is dumb and that's a hill I'll happily die on.
You're right. When I said "do Americans understand" I meant "do Americans who support Trump understand" I should have been clearer.