Considering how rough most of the modern games are… I’m cool sticking mostly with romhacks

Looks at Pokemon

You can take pikachu from my cold dead hands

Their crunch culture is def bad (they’re going to kill Sakurai one day), but there is quite a few things they do right. They don’t lay people off and their executives take accountability. Iwata took a significant pay cut when the Wii U flopped.

Currently, in our bank account, we have £2100 (around $2800). It’s not even enough to pay the rent for one month," explains Joseph Redon, head of the Japanese Game Preservation Society. He’s describing the end of the non-profit organisation he set up in 2011 with the aim of properly safeguarding Japanese gaming history before it is lost forever.

Bummer, it looked cool

Shhh, we’re jerkin here

Shirt

I don’t expect it to drop much if at all; the OG switch is still at its launch MSRP. Same thing with the games, they never put them on sale. Maddening for sure, but that’s Nintendo.

I get it. People tend to get turned off when I explain the ecological messaging behind Cattle Decapitation’s lyrics

I was about to make a Khorne reference but this one works better

That’s all well and good, but if people want a switch 2 that’s fine too. More exclusives will come out for it as they support it for the next 6-10 years

There are already wars in the Russian caucuses.

I cannot prove or disprove a negative, so I’m not going to touch your second point.

Georgian nationalism was so fervent at the fall of the USSR because of Russian oppression. They haven’t done anything to clean up the mess they created because frozen conflict on their borders is beneficial to Russia.

I believe in self determination, so I don’t have a problem with any group deciding they want to be Russian in a free and fair election. That said, I find that Russia’s involvement in the Caucuses has been wholly self serving.

Which time? When the Bolsheviks ousted a democratic government in 1921? When the Red Army crushed protests in 1989?

I get your implied point that Ossetians and Abkhazians did not feel included in the Georgian nationalist government that took over after independence, but I also think that Russia crafted the conditions that created this problem in the first place and intervention from them was not the solution.

Yeah I agree. At the end of the day I’m not going to disrespect someone by calling them something they don’t want to be called

the “balkanisation of Russia”, like actual balkanisation, will be associated with a series of conflicts and death

Again, this is already status quo from Russia at the moment.

Also, genocidal is an overstatement.

A few days after the recapture, on 2 April 2022, news reports and videos emerged showing streets in Bucha covered with the bodies of men dressed in civilian clothes. Some of those found had their hands tied.[14][15] Among those killed were women and children. According to first estimations at least 280 bodies were found.[16] There was also evidence that Russian soldiers had systemically tortured, mutilated and executed many Ukrainians in the basement of a summer camp.[17] The event caused the Ukrainian government to call on the ICC to investigate whether or not Russia had committed war crimes.[18] On 7 April, the mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, reported that almost 90% of the dead residents had bullet wounds, not shrapnel wounds.

In August 2023, the Institute for the Study of Warreported that the Ukrainian Resistance Center had claimed to have gained access to documents detailing Russian plans to conduct a decade-long ethnic cleansing campaign in occupied Mariupol. The ISW reported that the depopulation of Ukrainians through deportation and Russian efforts to attract Russian citizens to move to the city is likely to be an ethnic cleansing campaign in addition to being apparent violations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.[83]

Russia has forcibly transferred almost 20 thousand Ukrainian children to areas under its control, assigned them Russian citizenship, forcibly adopted them into Russian families, and created obstacles for their reunification with their parents and homeland.[7][8]

These are genocidal actions, plain and simple. If you have a problem with me characterizing it as such I really don’t have anything else to say to you.

Correcting historic injustice is usually pretty messy. I’m not looking for Russia to be hurt, I’m looking for it to be broken up so it can no longer wage the wars of conquest it has consistently engaged in as well as giving the ethnic minorities that imperial Russia and the USSR oppressed the self determination they deserve. There would have been no wars in the caucuses in the 90’s if not for Russian imperialism.

You said the balkans aren’t doing well; they largely are now. Those wars were a generation ago. Corruption is the biggest problem in the balkans right now as far as I can tell.

As for Russia, they’re already a genocidal state constantly engaged in war.

Yeah I mean, I’m not calling someone dude or guy intentionally if they don’t like it. That’s just being polite.

I still think guy/dude is gender neutral. Call it the Good Burger principle:

“I’m a dude, he’s a dude, she’s a dude, we’re all dudes… HEY!”