This is so annoying. Even though I'm not a fan of porn games on the whole, it is extremely irritating that payment systems can decide how and when you can spend your own fucking money. We're not seven, anymore. We can take care of ourselves.
It smacks of the idiotic "babyproofing" of clearly adult spaces everywhere except bars, these days. Antiquated moral panics, just like 1954's lavender scare all over again.
Certified hood classic.
Please do it, especially red and formerly purple states. It's the only way back. They need to realize what happens when you're an idiot.
Nobody wants to do that. North Korea is a shithole-class country that hates SK, is propped up by China, and to a lesser extent, Russia, who basically use them as slave labor and cannon fodder for their illegal war in Ukraine.
While NATO could easily steamroll NK, SK is right there and would get heavily damaged in a war. And then SK would probably have to take care of a ton of starving, brainwashed, uneducated people and a bombed flat country. Nobody wants to fix them, and superpowers like China are actively working against peaceful initiatives like reunification.
It's an injustice for the world, but there's much bigger fish to fry on the world stage right now. Existential, extinction-class threats like climate change and nuclear war. Democracies fighting tooth and nail against totalitarianism, like Ukraine. And western countries in various fights against the predictable but extremely annoying rise in fascism.
They're smoking symbiotes.
I think the only games I've bought and haven't played are VR games that I can't play because my index is in storage, or bundled/gifted/giveaway games that I got but didn't really want. Vanishingly few, in other words.
For LGBTQ rights? Definitely. For the climate? Way worse. Politically? Way worse. Economically... I'd way we are in a big bubble like the roaring 20s before the great depression. And when it pops, it's gonna be bad, thanks to idiot voters and corrupt Republicans.
Government-wise...things are not looking good. It will take a very long time to rebuild.
Now...state-wise, I know my state is way better off than it was 30 years ago, but that doesn't mean we aren't about to get slammed by braindead antics of the federal government. But we have made a lot of infrastructure investments that are paying off locally. The future of America will be exclusively in states that put a premium on science and progress.
There are none. The two are fundamentally incompatible.
That's the same thing that got us here in the US. You have to clamp down on that shit while you still can. The fucking Russian government is good at it.
That snowball guy finally died last year, thank God. Too bad it wasn't from a flood or hurricane.
Dyson swarm, yes. Dyson sphere, not on our home system. The risks of blotting out your only livable planet's biosphere is too great, not to mention stuff like the dark forest theory.