Obviously 4D Chess. Biden endorsing Trump is probably the fastest way to guarantee Harris wins the election.

I am not going to lie, I assumed the Biden wearing the hat was a doctored image, because surely nobody would be that dumb.

“First they take away my grandmother’s egg monopoly, now they take away my brother’s thriving business. I can’t believe the vendetta Xi has against me personally!”

They are not. Asia (this comprises most SE asian countries), China, Japan, and SK are each separate regions.
Not quite as uniform as Europe, which is basically just one big region.

This is correct, I use a US PS5 in Japan and there is no issue.

I just have multiple PSN accounts for different regions. Even if you wanted to use the off-region PSN account outside that region you could, you would just have to do some workarounds to fund the digital wallet. Though there are plenty of sites that sell PSN codes that would work, I have used in the past and never been an issue.

Yen too, even factoring in exchange rates it is about 850 USD in JPY. In terms of relative purchasing power, it is well over 1000 USD.

We designed the damn thing and it is the most expensive here. I can’t imagine they will have all that many domestic sales.

This can’t be real right? Streaming services are seriously broadcasting the debates? Isn’t Disney+ for children who probably don’t want to watch the debate?

I mean…I guess I get it. USians treat their elections, especially the presidential election, like a team sport. Cheer for your team! Boo the other team! Only two options! Better buy your team’s jersey so they know who you support!

It…depends probably.

You can definitely build a competent gaming PC for less than a PS5, depending on the games you want to play. If you are playing like Factorio and Rimworld, you don’t need a 4090 or something like that.

I think a PS5 is probably better value if you are just looking at raw tech specs for technically demanding games. Historically consoles (except sometimes Nintendo consoles) are sold at a loss because the platform holder makes money back on software. I have no idea if this is true for the Pro, though I imagine it is.

But on the high-end, PCs are definitely more expensive. The PC I just built cost me several times more than a PS5 Pro would have. It is almost certainly technically more powerful than the Pro would be and I can do a lot more with it besides just play games.

For me, makes no sense to replace my PS5 with a Pro. I don’t even care about the whole disc drive thing people are in arms about, I haven’t bought a physical game since the PS3 era. My PS5 has a drive that has never been used once. I just don’t really see the benefit of the upgrade when I have the base version and a PC already.

Well yes, but she will give the contracts to minority-run defense contractors! Far more progressive.

At first I was like “Oh, well a DNR is not that crazy a thing to hav-oh.” I would probably take my chances with bleeding out too.

" If the player allows the counter-revolutionary Trotskyists to take over the Supreme Soviet, it is possible to establish socialist governments around the world through Permanent Revolution and even dismantle the United States in less than six years"

That is certainly an…optimistic viewpoint of Trotskyists.

I would! If for nothing else than the satisfaction/fun of doing it yourself. (Which I realise you went into depth on in your other answer)

There are a lot of things that I’ve done myself that were probably not cost-efficient. But I enjoyed doing them, and there is a special sort of satisfaction by having something you can say you truly did yourself. I despise that mindset of every hobby has to be turned into a “side-hustle”.

I don’t think there is a one size fits all answer.

I ask these questions mostly rhetorically, please don’t answer anything that would run the risk of doxing yourself unnecessarily.

Do you speak other languages? Which ones? If not, are you willing to put the effort in to learn?

Do you have any career skills, what are they? If you are highly educated and have specialized skills (especially if you are something like an accomplished scientist) then it is a LOT easier.

What kind of lifestyle do you expect? Do you want something comparable to the USA? Do you want a more agrarian lifestyle?

Do you want to retain US citizenship? If not, some countries can be difficult to naturalize at.

For comparison, I left the US when I was very young and have lived my entire adult life in Japan. It’s not perfect. While I hold out hope that comrades here will make progress (and we do in some areas), we have existed as lapdogs of the USA for a very long time at this point. Would I recommend it to other people? Honestly, depends.

I really liked the Devil Survivor games. Tactical strategy RPG in the Shin Megami Tensei series. Incidentally one of my favourite big franchises.

They re-released the first game on the 3DS and it’s a solid port. Speaking of SMT games, SMT: Strange Journey is another good one. It has that very classic dungeon-exploring RPG vibe though, which isn’t for everyone. Think Etrian Odyssey or the old Wizardry games.

Was that why his hair like that? I always assumed he always just did copious amounts of cocaine before public appearances.

Invested it in chainsaws, obviously.

That one is one of my favorites.

Assuming that Russia would somehow benefit from cutting off the gas supply, why wouldn’t they just…turn it off on their end? If they really wanted to make it permanent, why not destroy it on their end? Traveling out of their own territory just to blow up the pipeline in an elaborate high risk underwater covert ops mission in enemy territory as what…an elaborate false flag?

"Next time on…The White House.

Biden is furious at Pelosi for snubbing him, even after she promised they were besties . Pelosi can’t even sleep she is so upset by what she had to do. But little do they know that Michelle Obama is determined to get her friends speaking again with a light weekend planned of bombing developing countries!"

I could probably make this into a streaming TV drama and it’d be better than half the stuff on streaming now.

I think this is extremely unlikely, the days of the government actually pushing back against corporations in any meaningful way in the US seems largely over.

Even if somehow it did go through, there would be functionally very little impact. They’d sulk a bit about the government stifling “innovation”, walk away with their tail between their legs, and then go back to operating almost entirely unchanged.

There is nobody with more experience at being president of a wide array of countries!

But that loss will be mitigated by the remarkable thwarting of Mr. Putin’s original plan to take over Kyiv and destroy Ukraine as a nation.

What? That was never the stated objective. The whole three days to Kiev line didn’t from Russia either. Russia never wanted to destroy Ukraine as a nation, though that may very well be the functional result thanks to NATO.

Imagine trying to spin “our opponent didn’t destroy our capital!” as a victory when they weren’t even trying to do that.