I’ve been a PC gamer for almost 30 years now. This perpetual march of buying new PC upgrades to play new games is an old song.

Pete has been making the rounds on various right and left’ish podcasts and channels, that’s probably why his name is coming up. Though he avoids discussion on specific policy or make any firm stances.

Basically he’s doing the Democrat Dance. Saying lots of words with little or no substance or committment.

Host: “America is feeling a lot of economic pain.”

Pete: “I aknowledge and empathize with that pain.”

Host: “…and? What would you do about it if you were president?”

Pete: “Yes! So, about that local sports team…”

This issue is a hot potato for politicians, none of them want to fix it. To fix it is to aconowledge the real unemployment numbers which will reflect badly on a political party.

If Political Party XYZ were in charge and changed the unemployment count to the true count, Political Party ABC will claim unemployment “skyrocketed” because of Party XYZ without the context of the count being more accurate.

And if Party ABC takes back power in this hypotherical, they would change the definition back to the inaccurate count, then claim they drastically lowered unemployment.

Generally, if software was affordable and their business model is ethical, I wouldn’t pirate it.

If a company is charging a subscription for something that has no business being a subscription, I’ll pirate it. If a business is stealing data or willingly collaborating with evil people/governments/regimes/etc, I’ll pirate it.

Democrats: “Let’s ignore left wing and independant voters. We’ll chase after right wing voters instead.”

Right wing voters vote entirely for Republicans. Left wing and independant voters feel abandoned and dont vote.

Democrats: "I don’t understand how we could have lost. Let’s continue to ignore left wing and independant voters. We’ll have to double down on our efforts to get right wing voters.

Right wing voters continued to vote entirely for Republicans. Left wing and independant voters feel abandoned and dont vote.

Democrats: “What the hell happened? We lost yet again? I thought doubling down on the same strategy would have worked. Welp, we have no choice now but to triple down on the same strategy we keep losing with.”

It’s ok. I’m in my 40s and it’s my first dive into a pokemon game. My roommate is angry that a coworker recommended this specific game as my first, but it seems ok.

There’s a story… I guess? It’s not very compelling as it seems the target demographic is much younger. I do like going to new areas, collecting every wisp and pokemon, and evolving them.

I’m late to the party, but I just got into Pokemon Legends Arceus.

Right wingers threw a temper tantrum when a trans woman competed in a chess tournament. Their opinions and outrage are invalid.

Soon, a dottering old man will patrol the island while quipping “spared no expense!”

Maybe they should stop mass banning people for opposing genocide? Just a thought.

1. Crash the economy and make people desperate to put food on the table.

2. Betray the American people who hold top secret information.

3. Mass fire everyone without warning and without consideration of their well-being.

4. People with top secret information sell it to foreign governments to put food on the table.

5. Government has shocked picachu face.

Laws are only as good as their enforcement mechanisms. And if there are no enforcement mechanisms… well…

Oh no, are the background trees ok?

Holy cow, is the apartment rent controlled?

Dems are still out in the woods, looking for their spine. They lost it decades ago.

What about your individual experience?

I probably wouldn’t even notice.

It can be hard and fustrating at times. It’s a zombie game that pulls no punches.

Shoot a gun? Every zombie within half a mile heard that and are now converging on your location.

Hiding in a building? Zombies will break down doors, break in through windows, climb over and under obsticals, etc.

Got a scratch? Theres a chance its the zombie infection. Sympoms set in and you become a zombie

Even on the easiest settings possible, it’s still a challenge to go at it alone.

I was playing Project Zomboid because my friends were playing. Turns out they were just waiting for a Star Citizen patch and abandoned PZ when the patch dropped.

I won’t play Star Citizen until they fix optimization issues. Right now it’s a buggy mess with 8 to 10fps.

If you get kicked out of the military for being trans, run for political office. Any political office, high and low. Primary Republicans and Democrats alike. They’re both a parasite on America.

That would require the Dems to get off their butts and do something.