I think you’re misunderstanding what I said, US fought a war to stop it the spread of Lenin/Stalin styled authoritarian communism and failed. There never really was a chance for a proper democracy to rise up in such an improverished nation when both sides were going to exploit the hell out of poor workers without adding any significant value to the country or help prop up self sufficient industries.

Geographically it was half the country, but population wise it was closer to 2/3rd pro communist vs 1/3rd anti communist. US involvement wasn’t really justified to start and mostly sunk cost fallacy with how they tried to support the French rule before France pulled out and US was holding the bag and a doctrinal choice of stopping the spread of communism even when there was little to nothing to gain and only save face. Vietnam was going to have a civil war no matter what but US definitely made it worse and drew out the conflict and ramped up the death toll with nothing to show for it. If the US had any intentions of taking advantage of Vietnam modernising and industrializing they’d have setup southern cities that were more friendly to US investments with trafe and infrastructure. But just like in Korea that wouldn’t happen for decades later, US presence there was entirely military and some very bare bones humanitarian aid.

Remind me again which side won and took over the country and which side fled.

I was furious that I had to download steam and install steam to play new vegas on pc at launch (as well as the box I bought from gamestop not having a the game inside but rather just a pamphlet with a cd key) I was later infuriated by New Vegas at launch and the utterly broken state of the game with each week a new but preventing progress or outright crashing game.

But now days I’m reasonable happy with (Steam) it, it’s not a perfect a solution but at least tries to uphold the gamer/consumer experience, unlike shotboxes like origin or epic games which were nonstop ads and snooping through your files outside the directory.

The local devs were not trying to get steam banned. Hell they wanted steam but wanted to play by the same rules and pointed out how strict their own laws and requirements were.

Vietnam govt said you’re right, it’s not fair and banned steam to make sure everyone plays by their rules rather than admit the rules were stupid and draconic.

America literally fought a war to try and prevent that. The majority of the population of Vietnam fought to have this instead.

Did you read the comment? He told them to refund it if they are unhappy because the review scores and revenue are all sony sees or cares about

Without a space suit each planet has roughly the same survivability.

No we’re watching hermit crabs. Get it right.

Can I come watch the hermit crabs too?

It’s a weird joke in general because Logan never would have gotten territorial like that over a woman, especially with Hank. He would have ran out and given him a high five as Logan has pretty much no intentions of ever settling down, even when it comes to Jean.

The blue character in the background is Beast, though its mostly relevant he is known for having long blue hair and fur. Similar to what Logan found on his lover. The joke is on that final panel we also see a blue doll with a shaggy mane of similar color.

My particular company emails contain privilege information and there is absolutely zero trust in letting smart phones aka roaming data leaks anywhere near that.

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Ah yes you can join our ‘Greater Good’ if you volunteer to be our slaves and castrate yourself. Also if you change your mind and try to leave we’ll kill you.

Enlightened 40Kism, we know we are the bad guys, cause there are no good guys, just worse villians.

Thought it was 5 billion but at this point i don’t recall

Sun will expand not explode. Still gonna burn the Earth though, assuming orbits don’t get wonky somehow

TIL cats are really bad at math.

The concept of timezones is fine, we need a way to differentiate when days start so its a bit silly for everyone to go off of UTC or any other clock, how are you going to track the exact date, is half the world just going to go from the 8th to the 9th during their workday

What can be fixed, is making timezones uniform amd straight lines, not zigzagging abominations where its possible to drive due north and have a time change 8+ times.