The paragraph is titled “Sounds Familiar” for crying out loud

Of course, the obligatory China mention. “Digital totalitarianism”.

Hold up, you are the same person that went gushing about thighs beneath a previous comment of mine…

They’re picturing a depressed person as a nihilistic killjoy that doesn’t want to do anything and lives without a purpose, I’m assuming.

I didn’t know that. That makes this train a little less absurd, at least.

It’s just branding, because it’s a shuttle service between a mainline stop in a nearby village and their Gigafactory outside Berlin.

The best part is that this train isn’t made by Tesla, it’s just them leasing battery trains from Siemens, and they don’t even operate them:

Tesla plans to switch to operating battery-electric trains from the Mireo Smart family, manufactured by Siemens, replacing diesel trains currently transporting employees to their factory near Berlin.

[…]

The trains will be leased from the newly established leasing company, Smart Train Lease, founded by Siemens in early 2024. The operation of the trains will continue to be managed by the passenger transport operator Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB).

Source: https://www.railway.supply/en/tesla-is-transitioning-to-environmentally-friendly-trains/

whataboutism

See my other comment here: https://hexbear.net/comment/5333660

They added a general disclaimer that some dialogue is inappropriate for modern times and not representative of Capcom’s current values. Some examples, courtesy of the ESRB:

The game contains some suggestive material in the dialogue (e.g., “Stop peeking! You Pervert”; "Her measurements are 33,22,33”; “You missed out on seeing [her] naked.”).

There’s nothing visual going on, it’s just “spicy” dialogue, but I support their decision to add a disclaimer. But merely acknowledging this is too much for these people…

Ranked-choice voting probably wouldn’t do much. Australia has ranked-choice voting, and their political landscape isn’t much different from the UK or Canada, with two status quo parties dominating everything (Labour and Liberal+National), only now you have smaller parties and independents they have to deal with sometimes.

Maybe that’s because it still has single-member constituencies, which really hurt electoral diversity. The House uses single-member constituencies, and only 12 percent of seats belong to third parties. Meanwhile the Australian Senate also uses ranked-choice voting, but with the nationwide vote share for seat allocation , and there third parties have 30% of seats, with mainly the Green Party benefitting.

The primary driver of Wukong’s sales success is its popularity in China, where developer Game Science is based. Games industry analyst firm Niko has an in-depth article by Daniel Ahmad breaking this down. 93% of Wukong’s Steam reviews are in simplified Chinese, and Steam shattered its previous download bandwidth record (set during Cyberpunk’s launch) by a whopping 28 terabytes per second on Wukong’s August 20 launch⁠—82% of that traffic originated in East Asia. Gameplay videos and previews of Wukong have also been dominating Chinese social networks like bilibili.

peekaboo

MEGA MAN STAR FORCE REFERENCE

The Transer (heh) […] is a mobile terminal that appears in Mega Man Star Force as an evolution of the PErsonal Terminal from the Mega Man Battle Network series. Most people wear their Transers on their arms[, but it can also be detached from the wriststrap].

The Transer is just a wearable Nintendo DS in form, because that’s the platform the game is on, and instead of apps, you insert different physical cards, as the battle system has card game elements. Gimmick-based worldbuilding.

Coincidentally, it was released in Japan in December of 2006.

For a decade we’ve heard rumors about a liva-action Mega Man movie and then a Netflix series, I guess this is what came out of that. I couldn’t give a piss about the rest of this series, because I really don’t like the “serious AAA ” aesthetic.

I think they did a good job at converting him into a realistic style (wonder what his voice will be like), for something like this, I think they should have gone with the X series instead, not the cartoony original series.

Also, Capcom willing to put Mega Man in anything but a new game lol.

My guess is they’re trying to build an audience for a new game, so essentially pre-emptive advertising? His appearance in Smash did bring him to the foreground again for many people, I think that’s how I first encountered him even.

What am I supposed to be looking at? I couldn’t find anything of the sort in the edit history. I did find this in the “Talk” page, however:

I was waiting for Mega Man 8 to make an appearance lol

I remember holding a presentation about perovskite and multi-layer “tandem” solar cells for a green science fair in secondary school. I did it together with someone and the presentation was well received. I have fond memories of learning about this.

cartoon villain shit

Using nominal GDP instead of GDP adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP). America still leads in the former because the same goods and services cost more there than in China.

Christopher Rodriguez tried to detonate a bag of explosives at the embassy in Washington, D.C., by firing a rifle at it but missed

They keep missing!

If you look at her Wikipedia page, it uses three different sources for hateful comments in Russian media, and no specific attention to stuff from her own country…