I had some fun playing slightly newer titles with an action replay to cut down on the grind and it really helped.

MMO is a one and done genre. You never match the original high.

I’ve played through everything with cheats, and the last missions of the expansion were crazy with effectively immortal heroes.

8 wouldn’t say it’s hands off, it’s just indirect. Babysitting wizards or the warrior that decided to fight the world is a big part of the game.

This is still a fun game to play, I’ve had several copies over the years. The sequel is absolute garbage unfortunately. It plays more like sim city than an RTS. There’s a good balance of scenarios to play, and many are quite fun. There are several very difficult end game scenarios I’ve never managed to beat.

Congress gave the president the power to wage an unlimited amount of war so long as troops are removed by the 90 day mark. Even then if troops are gone before the court rules, it doesn’t matter either, as was ruled under Clinton.

I’m already at the point I don’t really need to buy anymore games, and my library isn’t even that old or impressive. Add emulation and it’s even harder to justify purchases.

If it was 40k, as the sarlac consumed more souls it would gain the ability to manipulate people into feeding it more with increased power. It would also be capable of growing to the point it could consume planets.

One of the most common is that people were stupid in the past. Humans have been roughly the same intelligence across history. There was lack of technology and knowledge, but ancient people were far more intelligent than many give them credit for.

Feudalism was essentially slavery without the formal ownership.

That’s probably how I saw it

There’s probably some truth to this. Men’s and women’s hockey are functionally separate sports.

There was a guy who went to Ukraine to find a blown up tank to prove something about the armor.

The left likes to pretend that all of the criticism of Obama was racism.

Government departments don’t get to roll over money, that’s partially the problem.

The US would bomb the factories before the Chinese military could get close to them.

I’d say it’s most likely some form of smuggling that got caught up in the increased tension.

This is actually a bad thing that leads to wasteful spending. Use it or lose it budgeting creates perverse incentives to continuously spend.

It’s not just payments, California is a port for most of the US, but that traffic would be less if they were their own country. There’s a dozen or so similar things similar that give states a benefit that ful countries don’t have.

Breaking states out and pretending they are countries us fundamentally dishonest. State economies are artificially inflated vs outside countries.