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For what it's worth, I genuinely do find local politics a more viable field than national politics regards to the US.

I refuse to have fun until the situation has improved enough to merit any sort of joy. Actually, I'm lying, I can't remember how to have fun even if I wanted to.

None of these people ever seem to think they’d be one of the people getting the shitty end of the stick at the bottom of the pyramid

Also, The periodic table? The categorization of elements has undergone constant iteration and refinement for centuries. There’s a reason you don’t hear about the plum pudding model or the four classical elements anymore. Hell, five new elements have been discovered in the past 25 years alone.

I'm hoping eventually this extends back to stuff like TV stations signing off and the end of the 24/7 news cycle. Won't put the cat back in the bag on the latter, but this whole "No brakes, society has to keep moving all the time and constantly get faster at it" mindset is unsustainable for a whole host of reasons.

I've still gotta do a deep dive on Sea Power. Loved their stuff in DE, but just kinda haven't gotten around to it yet. Maybe once I'm caught up on Future Sound of London? (Speaking of the DE playlist)

Two factors here, one business-specific: One, more generic architecture is cheaper and easier to resell. Two, McDonalds has been running from people's "kiddy" perception of the brand since the '90s (to limited success).

“What if I were to rebrand neoliberalism and act like it’s a new philosophy again? Delightfully devilish, Yglesias!”

Libertarianism: "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect (And I should be the in-group)"

I've heard scuttlebutt about US think tank players like Focus on The Family moving in following the collapse. I doubt this is the whole of it, but I wonder what their role here is.

As a bit of trivia re: games being political, Atari's Missile Command (1980) was explicitly a statement on the futility of nuclear war inspired by the devs' own fears during the cold war.

On the PC/Home computer end, you also had political sims like Balance of Power (1985-1990), which...well...

As for SEGA and Japanese politics, they made a whole ass arcade game dunking on prime minister Kakuei Tanaka taking bribes in the Lockheed Bribery Scandal. It got a export release virtually unchanged, somehow.

I'm still holding out hope that Entertainment Sciences' Bouncer turns up someday. We have basically everything but source code or a cab... Shit, there's character model sheets that've been scanned and everything.