Ce n’est pas un crabe

Generally speaking, CEO is a political position intended to influence other business leaders and banks to advantage your company.

I’m not sure how you automate that

Angry Albanian Noises

It’s weird to think of a top-down historically-isometric RPG as “AAA”. We’ve come a long way, baby.

From the Sea to the Sea to the Sea to the Sea to the Sea

The US-based financial sector fights it tooth-and-claw at every opportunity. I suspect this kind of legislation is an absolute cash-cow for lobbyists across the continent, in the same way the PPACA made a bunch of influential DC firms incredibly rich.

But can the ECB actually deliver on a useful and efficient method of continent-wide banking in practice? Fingers crossed, I guess. I just wouldn’t hold my breath.

“You must mean Base 22”

"Liberals” have all these characteristics you say, according to you

I asked you to name a liberal who supported the Vietcong and you are angry that the question hurts your feelings

the people you’re talking to here supported the US in the Vietnam War.

Show me a liberal who is actually pro-Vietcong. Find me one Democrat who praised them.

Half the rational for the Vietnam War was as a proxy crusade against the Evil Russians. Liberals loved Vietnam when LBJ was fighting it. They only fell out of love after the '68 convention and Humphrey’s dismal defeat.

Those pesky violent students.

Students can be as violent as anyone else, given the opportunity.

Once you start flinging molotovs, you’re in the fight. I get liberals cheering at Their Team when a radical kills a squad of police officers from The Evil County.

I find it curious that they can’t see the connection between Chinese counter-revolutionaries (yay!) and the Vietcong resisting US/French occupation (boo!) with the same tactics.

But the idea that holding a student ID card automatically makes you a pacifist? Come on.

Hundreds of them die, and of course they have to shoot some of the students, but they always come out the worst of it.

Lightly armed amateur rioters engaging a bunch of blooded veteran soldiers are going to have a bad time.

But this myth of Tianamen as a peaceful protest that Deng flattened with tanks is as ahistorical as it is choked with Bircher propaganda.

The USA has funneled tens of billions of dollars into international propaganda, to the point that Albanians erected a statue praising George W. Bush for an intervention he campaigned against four years earlier.

The UK is embarrassingly pro-American, to the point of doing mass arrests of their own citizens for denouncing the Gaza Genocide. Germany is embarrassingly pro-American, with the leading parties effectively operating as proxies for the Biden and Trump administrations. The Italians endlessly pander to Americans for business investment. The Hungarians are barely more than an extension of The Heritage Foundation think tank. Alberta, Canada is fully MAGA pilled, with Ottawa close behind. Argentina is saturated in American fanaticism. Chile just flipped to a pro Trump president. The Philippines and Japan are both climbing onto the bandwagon with India and Saudi Arabia.

It’s bad out there, boys.

The Epstein Files are a distraction from the ongoing genocide in Gaza

Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and always I have recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true King under the Mountain, go now and speed well"

DM: “Okay, fine. But after this you can’t use it again.”

It tends to be tit-for-tat as well. British ships challenge Russian coastlines, American subs emerge inside areas of Russian control, French planes overfly Russian military bases…

All this gets reported in Russian media as provocative, which reinforces the rationale for further conflict with Western nations.

When these countries enter a state of detente, the maneuvers don’t stop happening. State news agencies simply stop using the incidents to agitate for further conflicts

Trump bombed Nigeria on Christmas Day “in defense of Christians”.

There’s a moment when it can add tension. You find three silver arrows in an old fort, hole up for the night, and then hear the horrible howl of a werewolf ring out.

Or you’re lost in the desert, trying to ration your water until you can find an oasis.

I’ve played Westmarches games where you do a little pre-adventure “we need to go X hexes so we’re wanting Y supplies to get there and back”. But its more a cost of failure than a drama element.

The Battle of Algiers

You mean West Canada?

The Emancipated and Fully Independent People’s Republics of Iowa and Illinois continue to be unrecognized by the UN. But the revolution marches on, comrades.