Orcinus

Then China and Vietnam should stop trading with the US, right?

EDIT: To the downvoters: this is a legitimate question. I would love for such trade to stop, I hear it would only cost China $500 billion. But I'm worried that them doing that would cause the US to be more forceful in trying to get their resources and I think AES states are trying to avoid that. Even if China could militarily hand the US its ass, the damage is still a concern.

I've read papers that indicate that there's much less risk of damage in casual sex in places like that compared to the US where the culture and sex ed are much worse. As MLs, we need to observe these kinds of phenomena in the context of the world around them.

Aren't you Dutch? I heard the Netherlands was one of the most "sex positive" places on the planet.

I'm non-binary. Am I thus immune to the psychologically destructive effects?

Neither clowns nor Mario deserve to be done this dirty.

I hear that video games can be art in the same way board or card games can be. Where the mechanics or challenge is the art in of itself. Like how music doesn't need lyrics to be art.

I'm glad to be a parasite to such an awful country. Give me good, accommodating working conditions and a short workday and good pay while my surplus value goes to public healthcare, production, and god forbid disability in meaningful ways and I'll gladly start putting in the work.

But there’s also folks like this suggesting the sinister sisipee is using western games as a digital opium to pacify their disgruntled comstituents:

I have a legitimate fear that such a thing is happening in the west, but on the other hand maybe it's for the best. The longer it takes for quality of life to fall so badly that even such "digital opium" doesn't suffice to soften it, the weaker the declining US will be when revolution comes.

Metroid Prime Beyond looks awesome, and it'll look more awesome on the Switch 2, and it'll look yet more awesome when emulation's able to run it. Which option should I wait for, I wonder?

Can you be more specific? The USSR had "universal military service" in its constitution and considering who their enemies were I don't fault them. Isn't that "forced conscription?" Or, maybe you could argue that these are different times. After all, China doesn't conscript but their tech is amazing.

I know that this manner of forced conscription is of an entirely different nature than what Ukraine does, or what Nazi Germany did, where people ended up arming children in desperation near the end of their reign.

I have a friend in the US and two in Russia who try to make these exact points, it's frustrating.

Nice username, it checks out.

The latter may feed into the former. The US, including I believe much of its military power, is fueled by resources it plunders from Africa. I'm hoping with the US's weakening forces and weakening soft power, people will be more incentivized to follow suit with what's going on in Africa (and also in South America, there may be a wave incoming there too).