SabinStargem

If they got the coop working and user-friendly, I might be able to convince someone to join me for a playthrough. Regardless, I will certainly pick up a copy - SS2 deserves my money, and I want Night Dive to keep bringing back the good stuff.

I already tried it about a month and a half ago. Linux is really user-unfriendly if you got games that aren't Steam exclusive or like modding. I got lots of older games or ones meant for a Japanese locale system, and I had issues with installing DLC via Heroic Games Launcher / Lutris / or just getting Mini Galaxy to work properly.

In any case, I want Steam to work with the EU on a EU Linux, since they got lots of money, data, and influence to help develop the distro. Plus, Gabe doesn't want his platform locked onto Windows, so you got a personal motivation for Steam to seriously cooperate with the EU. The EU can put lighter sanctions on Steam if people buy games while using EU Linux. This would help drive adoption and normalize Linux usage among normal people after a decade or so.

I hope Lucas makes an official Amerika DLC. It is important that Paper's Please message is not treated as anti-communist, but anti-totalitarian.

I would like the EU to make an official universal Linux distro, intended for the ordinary person to use on their PC. Bonus points if they can collaborate with Steam to make it compatible with gaming stuff. The big reason I stuck to Windows 11 is for the sake of games, but if compatibility and ease of use to customize was improved, I would be happy to switch away.

The big thing that the EU can bring to the project is contributing lots of money for making Linux suitable as a daily driver, along with mandating its usage on government machines.

"Hello, is this Canada? I got a vermin infestation in a White House that could use fumigation. Do it like how you did in 1814. It is too far gone to be saved."

I think we should go much further: Being educated should be a JOB. We pay the students, so that they focus on learning. Provided this grade-based income is less than a "real" job, they will naturally migrate into the workforce.

This will undoubtedly require a major rethinking on what an economy is, how it works, and why it should exist in the first place. But I think we are close to American Capitalism being milked dead, so we should start thinking of new approaches for whatever is to come after the fall.

An rendition of Trump's Greater Depression:

I think Mexico is the most likely candidate for attempted 1st annexation. Trump hates colored people, thus he thinks it is an easy win on multiple levels. It wouldn't surprise me if Mexico ends up as a proxy combatant on the behalf of Canada and the EU, and likely using their cartels to kill members of Yarvin's Cabal to send a message.

I am hoping that if there is a civil war, all of Yarvin's Cabal are killed or executed. They are traitors to humanity as a whole.

My money is on Mexico, he has been placing brigades with Strykers and whatnot on that border. Whatever the case, still stupid and evil.

IMO, the thing of most value for my position is that it normalizes opposition and resistance. After MLK died, the media was used to enshrine his approach in the history books...and Malcom X was a footnote at best for most students. It is through offering the promise of violent revolution if peaceful evolution wasn't negotiated, is how we got here without too many corpses.

By removing the notion of violence from protest, things were lost:

1: Fewer people to protest anything. The elimination of 'rough' characters simply meant fewer people to raise signs, fists, or to speak.

2: It has become taboo to associate with people who believe in giving as good as they get, or being aggressive. This means that kind protestors simply don't communicate with the violent ones, so there is less coordination for their goals.

3: A wider array of actions to do for protest. For example, ignoring 'safe space' rules, such as the perimeter around JD Vance's house, or burning Teslas in America, or displaying the (wax) severed heads of Trump and friends. These aren't kind things, but they certainly give a message to the people in charge.

If roughness in politics among everyday people was ordinary, we might have more work strikes - or the people in the US Treasury could have denied DOGE unlawful entry, because the spirit of opposition was ingrained into people in that other timeline.

High injury and fatality rates. An astronaut risks their life everytime they ride an occaisional rocket, but a lumberjack has to deal with falling trees on a daily basis.