Well, brightside is it saves you a few thousand dollars on renouncing your citizenship. It isn’t a cheap or easy process normally.

I like SMTV, but if you are coming from Persona it is a VERY different experience. Persona is a much more narrative spinoff series from the original SMT franchise. SMT games you are typically alone, with just a party of the monsters you recruit to help you. Consequently there isn’t a whole lot of dialog. There is some story, but in most SMT games it tends to be very back-heavy.

SMT games do tend towards bleak, depressing and extremely difficult. They usually do have multiple narrative paths/endings to give it some replay value. They are really for people who enjoy those kinds of gameplay systems first and foremost.

Haven’t done either.

Good to know, may gave it a shot later and see. Cheers

Does this hold up pretty well if you’ve never seen any star wars? I have heard good things but usually from people who have consumed star wars content for like 20 years.

The absolute easiest way for me in general is Stremio + a Debrid service (ala Real-Debrid). Not only is it super safe and simple, but the UI of Stremio is way more user friendly than most actual streaming platforms.

Admittedly there is a fee for a debrid service, but it pays for itself in about 45 minutes.

We all know that to be truly free, you must be free of the evils of literacy and uh…education. That’s why America is so free with their 21% illiteracy rate! That is 21% more freedom!

If I had 700k in savings I could probably retire right now, nevermind when I was 67.
Says he still has an outstanding mortgage, but how much could he possibly have left to pay off??

I feel we have been hovering right around there for a while now.

Look, I fully understand this is a case of doing a good thing for probably the wrong reasons/by accident, but yoooo I will take it.

But man, the easy pickings for Shit Reactionaries Say will be gone.

I have about the same position on this. A lot (though not all) of these people are insufferable, though we don’t have nearly as many in my country as the US does. Being annoying on the internet is, thankfully, not something people get deported for however.

Nor does it mean I wish them death, which is likely what would happen if they were sent back. Their death and a prolonging of a war that is just going to kill even more.

Surely they don’t actually think NATO is an equal partnership between them and the US, right?

US speedrunning driving their economy into the ground. I would be curious to see if this is just a momentary blip or actually some kind of long running sanction.

There are so many things I get from China that I would be missing out on if I were in the US. Nevermind the most simple things like care packages for people living overseas.

Dropping that slogan must have been a fun board meeting.

“I think we should move away from not calling ourselves evil”

“…why?”

“Well you know…just in case we need to do something a teensy bit evil”.

McCarthy would be so proud of the present day US. Rampant sinophobia and russiophobia.

Has the US started a program for reporting your neighbors of suspected communism yet? Maybe they can get the Marvel superheros to do an anti-communism infomercial.

US gov is rapidly banning it on government devices, I assume that this will become a federal position sometime soon. At the same time they are adopting OpenAI for security purposes.

NASA apparently just banned DeepSeek as well. Like China’s aerospace program needs anything from NASA, they’ve well surpassed them at this point.

I think the difference there is the distinction as to when the war began.

People say “special military operation” not to try to reframe it as something less than a war, but because it is a part of a war that was already ongoing. It’s a way of referring to specific military actions that took place as part of the larger conflict. The war didn’t start in 2022, if OP had written “DDG admitted shortly after the start of the Ukraine war that they deprioritize…” their statement wouldn’t be true anymore.

Saying SMO isn’t trying to be cheeky or downplay the war, it is just providing a specific point of reference.

Nah, that would involve them engaging with non-Japanese. They basically sequester themselves to black vans driving around and Twitter. Lots of Twitter.

Yeah it’s pretty much garbage

It’s not even trying to get you to do anything. Just phrased as a bizarre self introduction about how much he likes nuking places. A lot of scams here are phrased in that exact way “Hi, I am name! My hobbies are…”. I used to get about ten text messages like that a day.

Not really sure what the goal of this particular one is. I am not aware of anyone with that name even they’re trying to target.

I have always worked in some form of customer service, which has all kinds of…fun moments. Highschool through university I worked in restaurants. Got the full gamut of rude customers, customers rolling in thirty seconds before close, etc. Had a customer try to pay us in cocaine once, which we do not accept as legal tender.

I am in [luxury] hospitality now and have had to deal with all kinds of entitled jerks and celebrities. Including some heads of states that I have very strong negative opinions about. The mid tier CEOs are the worst though, because they think they are far more important than they actually are. Had a guy call the police while he was checking out because he didn’t want “a foreigner” handling his luggage.

Saved us the effort of blacklisting him, because the police obviously escorted him out instead.