I completely agree; the buildup and production involved in most RTS games is tedious to me. Close Combat seems like the perfect middle between simulationist war games and RTS chaos. It was actually developed as a Squad Leader game before they lost the Avalon Hill license.

The Combat Mission games were fairly similar, with my favorite feature being a mode where you issue orders in 1 minute increments; you’re watching the battle play out in real time, but it’s still turn based. Edit: Apparently they’re still making these. Here is the one I remember playing most. I still like the Close Combat games better to just jump into though.

The only modern franchise I’ve played that has a similar play style are the Total War games, but I think they realize WWII isn’t a great fit for them.

Why would anyone eat at a restaurant called Robert James Ritchie’s overpriced middling fare?

Is there anything more American than cops burning down an entire black neighborhood to target a few people inside and then getting off scott free due to qualified immunity?

Yeah, the christofascists and the technofascists are both groups of unbearably abrasive control freaks, and neither of them can stand to give up one miniscule bit of power. It’d be delicious if their edgelord ideologies weren’t so dangerous to the rest of us.

The provision, introduced by Representative Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, states that “no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.”

More proof that “State’s rights” has always been code for oppressing minorities.

The remasters always look off to me.

Wait, you’re telling me that appeasing fascists doesn’t work? Who’d have thought?

You’re absolutely right, I got the two types mixed up. That’s what I get for going off of memory.

I do use boudin sometimes, but I always go half and half with a chunkier sausage that holds together. Thanks for the note.

Andouille is great, but really any smoked sausage works well. I actually prefer boudin if you can get that, because the chunks all stay together.

But don’t forget to brown them first, that’s very important.

When I make red beans and rice I use equal parts onion, celery, and bell pepper. I chop them very finely and then cook them till they turn to a mushy, thick, aromatic sauce.

About an hour before the beans are done I’ll scoop out a cup of them out and mash them up to thicken the sauce some more. It’s at this point that I’ll add some browned sausage into the pot.

I do like adding some pickled onions when serving, because the acidity balances the fat from the sausage nicely.

Oh, I’d forgotten about that game. I actually liked it better than Age of Empires.

I played so much Warlords 2 multiplayer with my siblings when I was a kid. I should check that series out again.

The death penalty is barbaric no matter how it’s done, but if the state was going to put me to death then bleeding out in five minutes by firing squad seems a lot better than drug-induced tortured breathing for an hour.

Yeah, they were perfectly happy to ride the tiger when it was hurting people they hated and giving them power over ignorant bigots.

Good thing he exploited all of those people, now he’ll get some good PR.

Billionaires should not exist. Being a better person than Elon Musk is the lowest bar a human can possibly clear.

I made that exact mistake a couple weeks ago, and it was just like you say. Biggs doesn’t have nearly as many of those bitter ones, either.

No. It’s another form of government that has its own issues, but not all authoritarian regimes are fascist.

On the other hand, neo-feudalists are reactionaries because they want to return society to a mythical past where a heirarchy of elites rules over their subjects. Fascism, neo-feudalism, and conservatism are all subsets of reactionary ideology, but they are not the same thing.

I agree that that is what society and government should be for.

Reactionaries, on the other hand, have a completely different set of values that is incompatible with a free society. They see the role of government as instituting a heirarchy with themselves at the top.

The recent attacks on DEI are a clear example of their insistence on hierarchies with the “proper” people sorted to the top. They believe that all of society’s problems are due to leftists upsetting the pyramid.

They don’t think they’ll need protection, because the government works for them, since they imagine themselves at the top.

Video of the piggies in action.

Love how she berated them the whole time, you know that pissed them off so much.

The Card Says Moops is a great video that illustrates this principle.