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Well someone I talk to said that this might be a big brain play to invoke the insurrection act, or at the least be a two birds one stone for serving Trump’s and the neo-con’s goals here.

There’s literally an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise where humans discover alien replicator technology for the very first time

Which is also the episode that they blow up the alien space dock station because it abducted a main cast member… Well it’s less offensive to your intelligence (or otherwise) than the actual red alert origin episode (why they say “go to tactical alert” rather than red or yellow alert…), seriously why did we need an episode’s B plot (that later invades the A plot) dedicated to the phrase “go to red alert”?

Not looking forward to it because I know for sure it’s not going to reach the bare minimum of CTR’s greatness in the genre. Like imho the only game that has managed to surpass CTR in kart racers just happens to be CTR:NF.

Sounds exactly like how in music “R&B” is just the record label’s way of saying ‘black people music’.

Sorta, there’s also another group of people that have a vested interest in making taxes as painful as possible. The Republican Party, because they want taxes to have such a negative association with them so that it’s easier to sell their platform of tax cuts, budget cuts, ect. ect.

The thing is that the federal IRS, and most (if not all) state level tax offices already know how much you owe in part because banks and employers are legally required to send your total money income info onwards to the IRS and such. So we could absolutely do away with the system we have in favor of system where the government sends you a bill and you check the government’s work rather than the current system of the government checking your work while knowing full well what the answer actually is. But we don’t adopt it because the tax prep businesses will cry about jobs being lost, and a lot of politicians don’t want that technicality hanging over their head so we’re stuck with the dogshit ass system we got.

So… they lied?

Eh, yes and no, like this is a longstanding thing with reporting losses/kills in military engagements, everybody over reports kills and underreports losses. A known example is that during WWII in the Pacific, japan zeroes that retreated would throw the throttle to a bit of a overload max in a way, and doing so would cause the engine to smoke a lot. The thing is that to the US pilots a plane smoking that badly was as far as they knew was going to go down, and so they reported those smoking retreating zeroes as kills, then at the end we find out that the US navy killed significantly more planes then what Japan had.

So even without any ulterior motive of propaganda, over/underreporting tends to happen a lot if not all the time in any military conflict.

Edit: If you want a funnier example, how many Tiger Is did the US army see and engage on the western front in WWII? If we take the words of tankers as truth, nearly every time they saw and engaged a german tank (especially if there was a long gun Pz IV in the fight), in actuality it was only three times.

As we’ve seen with this Palworld lawsuit

Okay stop it right there, there’s a lot (and I do mean a lot) of moving pieces that is going into that lawsuit. The major thing is that the narrative that everyone i’ve talked to seems to have latched onto and not know anything about it is that they think it’s a big company is bullying a small indie dev, however that isn’t even remotely true because Pocketpair had officially in July 2024 (so it likely had been in the works for months, or up to a year beforehand) entered into a partnership with Sony, the same kind of relationship that Gamefreak entered with Nintendo back in the day when creating Pokemon. And as a short history lesson, Nintendo and Sony don’t like eachother, and if you want to know why look into the original Playstation, the CD based SNES one, and ultimately why the Philips CDi came into existence.

Yes I am insinuating that the lawsuit is happening purely because of Pocketpair making a bit of a faustian bargain with Sony, and there’s plenty of reasons to point to that being the reason. Like did you know that the damages that Nintendo is demanding from Pocketpair for allegedly violating patents is 10 million yen (and halting distribution, but that part is very normal for court cases in general), roughly $65,000 USD? Yes actual chump change for Sony, and also very low for what you’d think a patent lawsuit would bring in. Not to mention that patent lawsuits are inherently very risky endeavors to begin with, considering that right now it looks like both Nintendo and Sony are playing a game a chicken, and daring the other to blink first there’s only a couple results that ends up happening. Nintendo wins, and forces Sony+Pocketpair to seriously reconsider how they market and merchandise the Palworld IP going forward, while also likely more clearly defining Nintendo’s patents. Nintendo loses, yet has their patent affirmed, and more clearly defined. Nintendo loses, and has their patent invalidated. In all three results, they still get to make Sony bleed for doing from what Nintendo’s pov is, a blatant encroachment of territory by Sony.

The closest thing I can think of something like this happening in the past was when Sega sued Radical over alleged patent infringement in The Simpsons: Road Rage, except there it felt more like it was simply because Simpsons Road Rage was so much just a Crazy Taxi copy paste job with a Simpsons coat of paint dumped all over it.