The whole 'run government like a business' idea usually entails running it into the ground. It's just a more diplomatic way to express wanting to remove social services from people.
Just being a persistent world was a huge novelty in and of itself.
Asheron's Call was my time sink. It had quests and stuff but the devs had a storyline they developed with active monthly updates. It made everything feel so alive on top of it also just existing in realtime.
And even so the quests and stuff they added was extra fluff. The social system and trading economy were the backbone of the game. It wasn't until trade bots really took over that the social system collapsed.
The Bay of Pigs, the attempted invasion of Cuba, always seems to get omitted when the Cuban Missile Crisis is brought up.
With Cuba, in just about every case, the United States has acted as both the provocateur and the aggressor. Unless you want to go all the way back to Batista, whose ousting is the primary reason for this stance against Cuba.
Also the United States operates a military base and prison in Cuba already.
Xcom and Morrowind have high degrees of dicerolling in the gameplay. Progression has a lot to do with controlling or improving your odds. You can have a whole lot of different outcomes based on adapting to each roll.
Souls games usually lack that level of randomness, at least in the calculations phase of gameplay. That's how you see speedrunners standing still and circling around all these explosions and attacks without repercussions, etc. You either know the steps or you don't.
Stalker games are a bit different in that they're FPS games. I think when you can stealth headshot snipe something, the whole dynamic changes. (Which probably also flows into Elder Scrolls a fair bit.)
Cuellar is painful because Cisneros would've been such a boon for both Texas and the Progressive caucus. In 2022 the DNC and Pelosi intervened personally on that primary race in favor of Cuellar.
While Roe v Wade was being overturned and there was a push to codify it, they picked the anti-abortion candidate.
Blanket looka comfy. I hope it is the perfect combination of weight and insulation.