On the other hand, his primary win has gotten a MASSIVE amount of news coverage. This is a big amount of groundswell for an underfunded candidate. You’re right, the battle isn’t won yet, but spreading news and expressing support will only further that cause.

I’m pretty sure it’s a known strategy of a handful of billionaires (the richest man in PA comes to mind, though I forget his name) to back moderate dems to shift the board to the right.

Old af, but, The Irresponsible Tyler

Are republicans known for their strong pull out game?

Yeah I’m not sure this is true, though I imagine it’s only a matter of time. Anecdotally, but I know a guy who definitely has PTSD from, among other things, watching onscreen as such an automated weapon of war homed in on two combatants fleeing, closing in until finally one of them, looking over his shoulder directly at the camera, gave up and stopped running immediately before death.

You’re not the only one. Pretty sure I got W3 with dlc for $5 ages ago. I’d like to get cyberpunk with dlc for no more than $15. Especially since I was pretty hype for that game. Had been itching for something with a proper world to explore and get lost in, felt like it was going to scratch that itch. I don’t often buy things day one, but I was taken in by the advertising and CDprojects rep. I took the day off work and then didn’t even buy it because of everything.

Honestly it’s a pretty clever scam by conservatives. Run on a platform of big government is inept, wasting your money, we need to reduce spending and reduce taxes! Once in office, do nothing. Sabotage functional government. Obstruct long term projects. Now you have things to point to as proof that big government is bad and does nothing, because you were the big government and made sure nothing happens.

Don’t forget! If there’s dlc for that game, it’s not included there, either.

Absolutely get the anxiety, though I will agree with your family that it’s a basic skill. Astonishingly, a significant number of jobs here in the US require a driver’s license, even if driving isn’t part of the job responsibilities. A friend of mine is hitting this right now and it’s making their life a lot harder.

Honestly I think it was more than 15 years ago. As soon as “light trucks” (a category including SUVs) became less regulated than any other vehicle, it’s been aggressive marketing from automakers to push them. Remember when even the Simpsons was pushing how terrible and dangerous SUVs were with the canyonero? It’s just been political loopholes pushed by corporations, and now we live in a country where the top 3 best selling vehicles have all been 20 foot long pickups for years.

And, as a reminder, the top 3 best selling vehicles in the US have all been pickups the last several years in a row. The F Series is king.

Only 19 feet? I’m pretty sure the ford f series trucks cap out between 22 and 24

Personally I’m big on Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart. A mod of a doom mod that plays like super mario kart pushed to it’s absolute limit, with a community that has added most characters you can think of, a million quality of life changes, and some things that crank it to 11 for me, like the blue shell equivalent moving just slightly faster than your top speed, so if you play perfectly and drift dash nonstop you can keep it just barely tickling your butthole but not hitting you.

I so deeply want Tesla to release automated vehicles with no drivers or observers in them. I’m sure that a company that has had it’s dealerships get attacked will have no problem with cars on the road unaccompanied.

Thought this could be cool but an atv and guns stray from the source material strongly towards generic survival sandbox

Woah woah woah. Texas seceded from Mexico to preserve slavery until they joined the US so they could secede to preserve slavery. And a cuba libre is delicious, not nearly as watered down (underwater) as Florida is.

Sure but Nebula is cheaper than youtube premium AND pays it’s creators more because it’s a platform owned by it’s creators.

I’ve heard similar takes resolved with “this person is venomously sexist, but straight.” Once their sexual needs are met, the one thing they want out of a partner is done, it’s back to absolutely loathing women.

Sounds like a nightmare, tbh.

Land ownership, entrenched wealth. The economy already started to shift towards selling a few exceptionally expensive items to the rich over selling a ton of cheap items to the poor years ago, and we’re going to see how far it can go into “if nobody has money who’s going to buy everything” before a collapse. The examples I’m most familiar with are in video games. Gacha games target whales while, in the worst cases, using free players as content for those whales who are spending thousands or tens of thousands a month. Meanwhile, the price for individual releases keeps going up to the point that there’s speculation that the coming console generation the switch 2 is heralding will be the first one that isn’t affordable for the average american household.

The top 10% of US earners are already behind half of all consumer spending.

Haven’t played 5, but SMT is a very different series, despite being what persona spun off from. The biggest differences in my mind are the lack of social aspects in general and that SMT is just kind of brutal.

If the difficulty isn’t such a turn off, I might recommend Devil Survivor, which has some systems just a couple steps away from social links, your decisions determining who stays with you and how the plot goes. It’s a TRPG.

There are plenty of SMT games with appeal, but that’s the closest one to persona, and even it isn’t that close.