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Putin is in power specifically because they settled their differences and Yeltsin was such a drunk idiot that it pushed people to vote for someone who promised stability and prosperity. Putin wasn’t very anti-West until the 2010s. I’m old enough to remember when there was mild talk about Russia joining NATO.


See also: sportswashing in the middle east autocracies.


braindances being shoehorned into a weird detective bit was a big one. they were supposed to be their own things


i was a day 0 PC owners and it was 100% normal launch day fuckery.


Does playstation still dominate international sales? I remember that being a thing for previous generations



I’ve had a second wind of pokemon since pogo came out, but they killed it with the sale to the Saudis. I’m not supporting Saudi blood ventures


The Nemesis system, which we just sit on and don’t do anything with.


Close but not quite those games. Farmville is kind of like a tap tap game. Or Simpsons Tap Out. The tapping refers to the need to harvest resources by tapping on things in game.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons:_Tapped_Out



Regulation of predatory practice. Taxation on the games to pay for rehab and support services for people that experience negative effects from it. It’s really easy to do, but every single gambling operation gets the big bucks from the heavily addicted. The whales are the entire business.



The part that turned me off is it is a complete rip off of Humankind, which was okay but got stale for me pretty quick.