I’m not sure calling Gorbechev an idiot is right though.

Just because he was a victim of external interests, as you describe. Feels a bit victim-blamey.

“Look what you made the US do to you”.

Yeltsin, maybe though.

Which bit of history does this represent?

At first I thought it might be the break up of the USSR, but that doesn’t really work here. So that leaves me at a loss.

I just can’t see how Gorbachev and Trump, or their actions, are similar.

Nah, we sometimes call them “Yank Vegetables”.

Classic bully behaviour.

Stupid and self defeating.

I’m starting with the man in the mirror I’m asking him to change his ways And no message could’ve been any clearer If they wanna make the world a better place Take a look at yourself and then make a change

The only part that’s unique to gaming is that gamers are the most toxic community in the internet.

I wish this wasn’t as true as it is.

I don’t think this is a gaming problem.

It is a discourse problem.

People engage in absolutes. They either love a thing or hate a thing. There’s no nuance.

And it must be made to cater for them, there’s no expectation that it will contain choices they don’t approve of.

And this stance, this modern relationship with the world permeates everything, especially forms of media.

You see it in films and books… Fans and stans and folk trying to take it down. There is no nuance or middle ground.

People don’t accept that, perhaps, something isn’t just “not for them”. That’s why you get grown men complaining about the direction of children’s shows they used to watch.

And this is compounded with social media where polarisation, blunt takes and contradiction are the primary drivers of engagement.

Audience error.

But let’s not forget the time the US dragged the world into a horrible war on terror just so it could maintain oil prices too.

Yes, that was what I joking about.

Fun fact. The choir sing “Ecce homo qui est faba”.

Behold the man who is bean.

He’s an alien.

You see him drop to earth in the titles.

You just know that Trump is going to have to say and do some batshit wild stuff to distract us from this.

What next?

My money is on claiming Antarctica as US land because of …uh… Ice prices or something.

Nah, you got Hungary too. All the fash.

Real Art of The Deal shit.

Absolute fucking masterclass in statesman-like diplomacy.

Genuinely a moment for all Americans to be proud of. Truly, exceptional.

“you don’t have to carry a darkbag so it is completely portable”

But also

Photographers must supply their own development chemicals and have access to water, measuring containers, a timer, and safe chemical storage bottles.

Not sure this is the revolution we are looking for, or the one they think it is.

As an art critic (seriously, I get paid for it… sometimes), I’d like to tell your 9-year old that their work is superb. The use of colour and spacial arrangement is particularly deft.

I look forward to following their, hopefully, long career in the arts.

It’s just like here but there’s an awful, hollow, gnawing feeling like you’ve already seen this post before just last week.

Going to guess you aren’t European and you aren’t aware of what Putin did to our gas prices at the start of the Ukrain invasion.

You’re out by a million miles (sarcasm, not exact figure).

Dangerously close to live laugh love.

The size of the open world doesn’t matter, especially if a ton of it is empty procedurally generated nothingness.

Likewise, the length of the game doesn’t matter if it is bulked out by empty, meaningless fetch quests and busy work.

It’s like boasting that you are serving gallons of 1% Beer.

Good for these guys.