So many people are brainwashed around me, and I have lost all hope in the average human growing a sense of morality until the bombs are falling on their own heads.
Today I had to finally make the difficult choice to cut off several friends and family who refuse to see the truth here. Barbaric.
I remember back in the day when I was on the genzedobg subreddit, this was my favourite bot copypasta on there. When are we getting those here on lemmygrad?
As a fellow eu4 fan, I'm nearly certain they've removed 1444 start date solely to sell it back as DLC. They've done similarly in crusader Kings, and I don't doubt it's their plan here too. Also I agree wholeheartedly about your Victoria 3 experience. The game is so focused on its economy system, which is ironically less authentic than what was there in Victoria 2, all while every other aspect of the game was gutted out for rng based dice rolls. I can somewhat understand this for warfare (although the system is still atrocious), but the way you changed your laws by incrementally and endlessly rolling events in your parliament or whatever was mind numbing to the point it's what put me off the game and modern paradox for good.
The Epstein story is peanuts compared to WAR WITH IRAN. if anything the Epstein is the actual distraction too literal war and imperialism, you know the thing that could kill millions of people.
Even then I don't think they'd do it. At most they'll do retaliatory strikes on that one airbase in Qatar, and on some military infrastructure in Israel at most. They have always opted for this option because it's less escalatory then directly attacking the US.
It's common practice by the media to always use the full names of heinous criminals or highly controversial people in order to not end up tarnishing a common name. Like how they always call him Lee Harvey Oswald rather than just Lee Oswald, so that regular people who may have such non-rare names don't get mixed up with the guy.
Practically 0. I don't think Iran is ever going to risk taking such action because they're trying to avoid any possible situation that paints them as acting illegally or aggressively. Striking a US vessel directly is pretty much guaranteeing a NATO invasion of their country.
I'm not really seeing anyone ask the big question here, but the obvious answer is it depends on what you want to play. If certain titles that are your preferred picks are completely unplayable on Linux for whatever reason, then it might be a deal breaker for you. Anti cheat, secure boot, DRM and a myriad of other increasingly restrictive systems are making it impossible for a lot of things to work reliably on Linux. Start with proton db, which is a useful site that can help you check if the games you like actually work on Linux, and if you're still sure, then you can safely make your decision.
Just posting to say I'm alive, just life being rough. Reading your posts still keeps me positive.