Plausible deniability. Like every time he says “I heard it on the news,” or “people are saying x/y/z.” It obfuscates the actual authority of what he’s saying by pawning it off on some vague entity. “I didn’t do the thing/make the call, We did.”

It’s spineless and pathetic to see world leaders talk that way. Fucking lead your goddamn country. Take ownership of this shit sandwich you’ve been making in the kitchen for four fucking years and eat it.

He only puts his name and branding on the tackiest, stupidest ideas possible. Like the “Trump Card” or the Golden Dome.

They can be LED I just want the aesthetic.

Every 6mo or so tencent aquires a different game I like and gives it cancer. This timeline sucks ass.

Are you dense? You assume I was near a nest. I was playing in my front fucking yard. It was an asshole goose, probably trying to make a nest there.

I guess next time I’ll just let the piece of shit keep attacking humans unprovoked. I love having the onus to be kind and gentle to animals that would literally kill you for food if they could. Get the fuck over yourself.

Mother nature is a cruel place and when you’re born particularly assholish, like that goose, you’re bound to pick a fight you’re not gonna win.

It’s sorta like bears. If they get to use to being around/interacting with humans you gotta just put em the fuck down, for their own sake and the community’s. Don’t worry, there’s still fucking plenty of them.

Rats with wings. I got bit by a goose as a kid so while I don’t go looking for a fight, I have been waiting 13 years for one to finally try again so I can grab it by that stupid fucking neck and give it this exact treatment.

And when they don’t copy fast enough? Believe it or not, trade war.

It’s not nefarious! We just wanna send you the right ads when your hormones are in flux and you’re vulnerable!

Also we promise we definitely will hand over your menstrual data the second your GOP Governor requests it. /s

If we’re gonna be going full cyberpunk I’d better see a lot more fuckin neon in the next few years.

I think looking at it through an “all else equal” mindset is a little misleading.

Back then it was basically space-age technology. Video games were leaps and bounds ahead of other forms of entertainment, techwise. You could somewhat justify the expense because there was literally nothing like it in existence.

Nowadays? People make video games for classes in high school. I can write a flappy bird game on my phone and play it there. Small projects with less than 50 people regularly end up as bestsellers on Steam. Thousands of titles release on steam every year.

Video game supply is through the fucking roof, yet companies go out of their way to overproduce and underdeliver. QA is nonexistent anymore because of day 1 patches and always-online. They realized a long time ago that when your primary market is children, you can be as absolutely shitty as you want because a parent will give their child anything to shut them up or help them fit in. You can exploit a child’s labor for profit and their parent will pay you just to keep them occupied (Roblox, cough cough).

I mean we all knew video games couldn’t cost $60 for all eternity, but watching the price hike an entire third at once (50% if it costs $90) I think has made people realize just how overvalued video games are in general.

Best I can do is repeal child labor laws, take away their school lunches, and berate everyone on government assistance for just not “wanting it” enough.

I mean that’s roughly equivalent to my reaction to 99% of what’s on Bad Dragon.

People are weird, they get weirder with the lights off.