But seriously, reddit would be so good if it was only for this.

Every time a lib make flatearth or tinfoil joke, a lightning bolt should descend.

“Donald, at DPRK, his arm salutes. Kim, his face bewildered”

and ultimately did not change the status quo even slightly.

It did actually, or was on the course to. After this visit Kim announced they are toning down the military expenses to focus on civil development. But when Biden became president and OcK elected even more fascist govt than usual the provocations increased greatly and as an effect DPRK had to get way closer to Russia that anytime before, they even officially entered military defensive pact now.

After Soleimani was killed and a war was nearly started with Iran in January 2020, there was still an “oh shit” moment from the Trump government and they quickly walked back and prevented a war from being escalated.

You got the order wrong, they first backed off from war around september 2019, and then assassinated Soleimani as a last word and consolation prize for hawks. The actual reason they backed off was that Iran demonstrated both will and ability to defend itself by series of force shows and shooting down the best US drone with old Soviet missile - which also shown pentagon bonzos that the war might be way harder than they though.

Exactly, especially that the drones were proven to be vulnerable to anyone who have an actual military and is willing to oppose USA for real, like Russia, Iran or even Yemen (and unlike Pakistan or Iraq).

They were before just 5 seconds for starting it for real, then they backed off and killed Soleimani as consolation prize for all the hawks. They were sure Iran wouldn’t actively plunge into war over one general after narrowly avoiding at least full scale aerial terror if not outright invasion.

We already are pokemon. We live in a small balls of poverty with no way out, and each day we are being called by our owners to struggle for their gains.

Minmaxing numbers being taken for an rpg is one of the oldest problems not even with the genre but with fucking game journos and ads. I mean, unless you want to roleplay as accountant.

I remember encountering this first time in Darksiders, it was advertised as an RPG game, and it has accessible difficulty so i finished it and was like “wait is that it”?

From that point of view “soulslike” emerging as tag and genre is positive development.