Orcinus

Fitting if he'd do that. That's Hitler's birthday.

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.

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.

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).

I remember this swell video. We need to make more like this to get into details, even if the videos last 100 times as long.

...I know how to solve the gamer problem. Tell them that they should support Marxism-Leninism and China because that's the only way they're going to be able to game at 8k 480fps.

All this crazy stuff from China's R&D makes me happy to live. It's not just bismuth, either, they're doing several different kinds of chip experiments. They recently got a carbon nanotube ternary processor working.