I can’t really speak to Europe in particular as I’m an American and mainly understand American issues, but from the bits that I’ve seen it seems like Russia has been trying to influence the politicians of any country that “dares” to interfere with their intentions.

I would not be the slightest bit surprised to find European NATO countries have their own Russia manipulated politicians either willingly or unknowingly fighting against the release of weapons/money to Ukraine. On the opposite side we in America have a gigantic lobby that is solely focused on helping Israel, again I would not be the slightest bit surprised to find they too are operating in other countries that would help them (not necessarily a bad thing in concept, any country would want to have a lobby to petition other governments to help them. I’m not trying to be antisemitic or anything)

There is also the concept that Isreal helps as a “stabilizer” for the middle east. That’s the geopolitics argument, I’m not smart enough to know whether that actually works as intended or not.

Musk won of course…

As usual billionaires buy get their way. Too many people that aren’t brainwashed “conservatives” on there for his liking so he took it over and now look at where we are…

People are such scumbags on Amazon. If you aren’t paying attention and just quickly go to rebuy something like deodorant (like I just did) you can end up spending over $50 for 2 sticks… I had to actually go to the manufacturers page to find what I was looking for as I guess they changed packaging and all the assholes are charging insane prices for the “old style” package.

Pretty much. These platforms right wingers take over are propaganda dissemination devices, not entirely “for profit” enterprises anymore.

Exactly. I fucking hate microsuck for putting me in this position, but I pretty much only use my PC for gaming and watching stuff and the games I really like have this EAC bs…

“Just get a console then bro” lol… Lmao even.

Racist right wingers in the US: “We’re not racist! You people call all Republicans (conservatives) racist! Also, Kamala is a DEI fake black person.”

Most of the worlds conservatives: “FUCK YOU PEOPLE THAT ARE DIFFERENT FROM ME!”

It’s almost like most “conservatives” are racist assholes no matter where they’re from…

To be honest I just see people commenting here and there that xyz game didn’t work for them and they have to jump through a bunch of hoops for what does work that I just write Linux off for now.

That and I tend to like to check out early access games (cough star citizen cough) so I just dont want to limit myself just to give Mi€ro$oft the finger.

Also, (see early access comment) I’m kind of impatient so even though I’m pretty capable, the last thing I want to do is have to be an IT guy for my PC every time something doesn’t work lol windows is pretty good in that respect.

Pretty much the only thing I use my PC for is gaming so it really sucks that I can’t just dump them for Linux…

I don’t want some games. I don’t want to have something I’ve been hyped about be out of reach for God knows how long just because Linux support is crap as the market share is so low, but man do i hate Microsoft…

Yep! The hitchhikers books are so much fun lol

I still think one of my favorite lines is “the ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

EA exec: I haven’t shot us in the foot much lately, I think it’s time we did some more of that.