Voroxpete

None of what you've just said connects back to your previous comment in the slightest. You started by saying that they cut too much from the TTRPG and that the world was too shallow, and then when I asked you to elaborate you just went on about augmentation systems.

At this point I'm not convinced you actually know what it is that you don't like about it.

Cool. So let's get this passed, and then work on those other things.

I'm really not sure what you mean by this. Are you talking about the game at release, or after they patched in all the intended content?

Outside of what I assume you mean by the "scripted gameplay" of the main story there are dozens upon dozens of side quests and weird little points of interest to discover (well over a hundred, easily). A lot of them help to elaborate on the setting in interesting ways. What exactly were you expecting that the game didn't deliver on?

That's OK, this little nugget will gladly accept more smooches on her behalf.

OMG I wanna smooch her little noggin!

Weird exception: Akagi.

Intro: super chill, with this really melancholic vibe, imagery evoking the mournful, dilapidated state of post-war Japan. A nation in ruins, beaten down, with no sense of identity or direction.

Outro: HEAVY METAL OVER B ROLL OF PEOPLE PLAYING MAHJONNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!!!

Thankfully, most radio stations stream online as well, so even if your local options suck you can still find some great stuff online.

This is CHSR, from Fredericton, NB.

Things I've encountered when listening to this station:

• Modern jazz
• A regular segment dedicated to new music from female artists
• Progressive news and politics from Rabble
• Thrash metal
• The latest chart hits
• a selection of country and western that somehow didn't suck???
• Progressive news and politics from Democracy Now
• Big band jazz
• Discussions of intersectional feminism
• Giblert and Sullivan
• 1920s classics
• Two guys talking about comic books and wrestling
• Bluegrass hour
• Just a whole episode of the Canadaland podcast
• Irish rebel songs
• A discussion of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy and its effects on modern day Isreal
• New East Coast bands
• A podcast hosted by the Green Party
• Prog Rock
• Frank Sinatra
• Celtic traditionals
• Writing advice
• French hip-hop
• A history of electronic music which I tuned into just in time to catch the host going off about what a tit Grimes is
• Classical music
• and one entire day of nature sounds

Basically, it's the greatest radio station ever.

Probably shouldn't have fired the department in charge of international aid.

Still one of the greatest burns I have ever seen in my life.

Well put. We're in agreement on all of this, and understanding why Trump is so obsessed with tariffs helps to explain why he is so thoroughly confused about what exactly his tariffs are supposed to achieve. They are, simultaneously, a means of raising government income, a means of repatriating manufacturing, and a means of forcing other countries into more favourable trade terms (any careful examination shows that each of these objectives instantly nullifies the other two; it literally cannot be the case that more than one of these is true). The reason he's so confused is because he starts with the use of tariffs as his desired outcome and then post-hoc justifies it with whatever reason he's been given most recently. He wants to force other people to the table, yes, but he also wants to bring manufacturing back, and he also wants to cut taxes and replace them with tariffs, because really he just wants tariffs to be a thing that he does, that succeeds by some definition. The actual definition of success is irrelevant.

A person raising their voice is doing more than a person who chooses to stay silent. Why would you direct your anger at the former rather than the latter?

This idea that anyone "not doing enough" needs to shut up and sit down is exactly the kind of toxic bullshit that fascists want you to consume. They want you to feel that everything has to either be some huge world changing gesture, or it's just not worth it. Life isn't like that. Real resistance isn't about blowing up the Death Star, it's about thousands, millions of tiny acts of defiance that build upon each other. Every time someone says "this is wrong" someone else is inspired to agree. Every time someone shows up to a protest, someone else is inspired to show up the next time. You don't change regimes in a day, and you don't build movements out of nothing. They accumulate, millions of tiny choices gathering together into a vast whole.

Resistance starts in the mind. Fascists want you to think the way you're thinking, because if you can't even get to the point of giving a shit about what they're doing, you'll never ever get to the point of actually doing something about it.

Refusing to comply really can be as simple as just choosing to call out their evil, every single time. It's a starting point. It's easy and trite to say that big trees grow from small acorns, but much harder to really understand what that means, to take into your heart the idea that every single word or act of defiance matters, that enough drops really do make an ocean.

I'm not asking you to plan a revolution. I'm just asking you to give a shit. Because the people telling you to stop giving a shit are the ones who want to do terrible things to your country, and they need your passivity in order to succeed.