Who, out of the countries that use the gulf of Hormuz, would be buying US oil?

Billionaires don’t want to stick their greasy fingers in culture though.

I’m sure the second Grok in the human centipede will find that very nutritious.

If you use that Grok, you’ll be third in the centipede. Enjoy.

Well that sounds efficient.

Vibe Warfare. Where Skynet doesn’t have control of the military, but everyone does what it says anyway.

Yes, because Russia and the US have been no trouble at all since they got the bomb.

What we need to do is stop using fossil fuels, and let the Middle East go back to being irrelevant.

Is that smart? The US largest export is oil. Spiking the prices is what they want too.

The weapon: 💣

Fuck it, let’s have an asteroid and an alien invasion while we’re at it.

He says from the golf course.

Hey, you can’t deny the world will have a lot fewer nuclear weapons in it afterwards!

This is how we get Dalamain.

They’ll need it because the war money will stop immediately. They’re being funded only as much as it hurts Russia. Just like Afghanistan in the 80s.

By the time you finish the game, whatever you’ve seen so far will seem like the most normal thing in the world.

Definitely a lot of standard Kojima gameplay in there, among the apocalyptic Deliveroo simulator and bonkers 4th wall breaking.

a.k.a. how to own a social media platform without having to buy it.

Art of the deal.

They’re polished, but nearly all of them are too safe.

The ones that subvert things a little are always best for me, and these always get mixed reactions from people who went in with a set idea of what they wanted from it.

Red Dead Redemption 2 being a slow paced wild west simulator rather than Grand Theft Horse is a prime example. It didn’t play by safety and doing popular things. It did what they wanted it to be, and it’s all the better for it.

It is mental, but I also kind of wish he’d hire somebody else to write dialogue for him.

And maybe somebody to check all the women characters, and make sure he’s not coming across as being a little bit odd.

If we’re going to have a religious book, it should be The Egg.

But instead of playing the map as a menu screen, you actually play in the world and discover things.

That was the crucial difference for me.

Yes, I’m sure a nation with huge oil and gas reserves wants nuclear just to have very expensive energy.

They want nuclear weapons to prevent regime change due to external interference. Russia can’t protect them. There’s no NATO style protection for Russian allies. I think we’re only seeing this now because of how weak Russia is on the global stage.