Do people remember the Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial, in which the guy who hates Gorbachev for failing to hold the Soviet Union together is convinced that actually Gorbachev is okay because the fall of the Soviet Union allowed Pizza Hut to enter Russia? “Pizza is soft power” was basically the thesis.
(And yes, Gorbachev played himself in this ad, which didn’t air in Russia.)
Wait weren’t they “accusing” him of being vegan? Where do they think cheese and eggs come from?
All the time. Four-guys-in-a-line is one of my favorite genres. Final Fantasy 6 might be my favorite one.
More recently I quite liked Dungeon Antiqua 1 and 2, which are indie games. 1 is like “What if Final Fantasy 1 was slightly more like Wizardry (and also just one big dungeon)?” and 2 is like “What if Final Fantasy 3 was all dungeons?”
When I went to Japan a lot of people spoke English. I don’t think we had any trouble. Everyone was very helpful. At one point my granddad and I were looking at a map trying to figure out how far we were from our hotel, and a guy came up and asked us in English if we needed help, and when we told him where we were staying he walked with us like 2.5km to make sure we got there! (This was in ye olde days before smartphones, so we were using paper maps.)
I didn’t finish it (I’m a serial quitter, I almost never finish games) but I enjoyed that Ryder was sort of an anti-Shepard. I played the Shepard trilogy as a Vanguard and even on the highest difficulty Vanguard!Shep is an unstoppable biotic death god, especially in 3 where Charge > Nova > Charge > Nova is possible. On the hardest difficulty in Andromeda, Ryder is a plucky underdog who has to somehow squeak by against enemies who frankly outclass them one-on-one (or at least my Ryder was; perhaps there is a stronger build I could have been using, but this one sold the fantasy).
Similarly I remember cracking up when Ryder tried to call a crew meeting about something important and immediately lost control of the room.
I don’t remember much about the plot, tbh.
Hey, I liked Andromeda! Maybe it just needed a few patches, I played it a few months after release and didn’t see any of the bugs I remember people posting about.
We need more people like Chloe Freeman.
Freeman’s employer did not see it this way. When police questioned her (thus collaborating with ICE), she openly said that she disagreed with ICE separating immigrants from their families. Trinity Health fired Freeman and has refused to make any public statement on the events of May 28. It is criminal that this and other hospital systems allow ICE and CBP agents to enter medical buildings.
First of all, I think this is a bit.
But (and this is my understanding, although I’ve never tried it) on Kalshi you buy a contract that says “if X happens, this contract can be redeemed for Y money” and then you can, in turn, sell that contract to someone else before it expires/pays out. So you can actually make money by trading the contracts regardless of whether they pay out or not—you buy at some price, and then if the contract price goes up (either because the event seems more likely, or because many people were buying it in the hopes of selling later) you can sell it to someone else at a profit. This is the sense in which it’s like a stock market.
So there’s like two layers to the joke here, one is intentionally misunderstanding the way Kalshi is like stocks (it’s actually more like options, which do expire and become worthless) and the other is that sometimes stocks really do go to zero.