id imagine a certain generation hates the US mainly because of the US stance during the Falkland Wars, as its one of the major times where the US didn't enforce the monroe doctrine(when it typically would have). Of course as time gets farther from that time period that view kinda starts to mull off, sorta like younger generations in mainland asia's opinion of japan.

i mean they did very recently consider switching to the US dollar, which means at least at a government standpoint, they trust the US economy over their own at that moment. They used to hate the US in the early 2000's but its more 50/50 i think nowadays.

basically yeah, covid-19 ontop of console shortage and people getting more free time/unemployment checks boosted the PC space a lot.

usually though, games are not remotely close to sales of merchandise and is a drop in the bucket. For IP like pokemon, yugioh, and such, the video games is such an insignificant amount of money compared to merchandise. basically all major ips held worldwide make top dollar based on merchandise sales.

unlikely because most of the mess revolved around the failure to properly break down the ottoman empire back after WW1 which left any minority group in the region victims of future problems over the past century. if it didnt happen back then, its unlikely to happen now.

Jerseys and stuff arent usually bought on Temu/Shien but rather DHgate, which is MUCH more niche in terms of Chinese marketplaces known in the U.S. The average person outside of the internet/sporting fandom probably doesn't know what DHgate is.

my domain is my media server, so id rather not end my domain.

iirc military grade was more meant for being able to be used in the extreme ends of temperatures (e. g blazing desert and frozen tundra) which many typical devices would fail to work in. it later devolved into a marketing term that doesnt really mean anything.

it has the situation similar to removing porn censors is in japan, political suicide to whatever politician or party that suggests it. In the case of the cuban embargo, youd basically lose most cuban voters in Florida (thus giving Florida to the other political party for a long time period)

more than 60 is incapable for most systems if one is assuming cinematic settings with max RT at their monitors native resolution.

its effectively a large problem for any community that has a majority kid userbase with communications on. It's why in Flipnote 3d wasnt released for western audiences, as it was used by pedos in Japan to talk to children.

Bascially any popular game with children functionally has to have children comms turned off else it'd be a problem, and the only way thats being implemented is if its banned completely, or parents start monitoring what their children do/play (and we know the latter option is never happening because parents will never accept blame)

all chromium browsers are affected, so if a chromium browser wants to support manifest v2, they have to manually maintain it separately from the main chromium build. whether individual companies will do so ofc is tbd. braves built in browser probably not affe ted

its overstated because its kinda what is more interesting so people click it for a peek. Strictly in thr US for example, not many talk about Global Foundaries, or Texas Instruments because thats what they kinda do now, fab micro controllers and chips on older process nodes.

TI for example has a shit ton of fabs, but the chips they make go into your everyday kinda mundane stuff. No ones interested for your performamce of your washing machine for example.

they would still be vulnerable. if you only care about security, you would be running a FPGA because anything fully secure would be slow, because speculative execution is inherently full of security flaws, and also the major reason why CPUs have any semblance of performance.

isnt the uber vs taxi slightly misleading. part of the reason why some people dont trust taxis is because some charge per mile, so its cost is fully based on if your driver actually knows where they are going, and doesnt have a rigged meter. Some people would pay for the piece of mind of not playing taxi lottery (and also prevents the situation that a taxi driver does not accept a currency, e.g can happen in Macau)

you wouldnt need to be american to make that decision. virtually no poltician anywhere in the world would make that executive decision, as it would be poltical suicide.

how you play is up to you. The Core games are MGS 1-5 and peacewalker. the other games usually ad some side story elements that are nice to know but less critical to the overarching series plot.(metal gear games, as well as metal gear acid, and portable ops). Survive doesn't exist.

Feel free to play the core games in production (1, 2, 3, Peace Walker, 4, 5) or chronological (3, peace walker, 5(including ground zeroes), 1, 2, 4)

for the timeline of the spinoff titles, classic Metal gear games takes post 5 pre 1 (deals with a character whose identity you learn in 5, but generally not very vital to the plot). Acid takes place in an alt universe after 4, portable ops is between 3 and peacewalker.. The side story games are almost like filler missions where a short plot would take place, but doesn't really critically affect the general plot. It's just there to give more progression to the soldier capabilities of Naked/Solid snake

generally speaking you can sorta break it up into two halves, the former deals with Big Boss (3, Peace Walker, 5) and the latter half is the les enfants terrible trilogy (1, 2, 4) (the MSX games serves as a bridge between the two plots to a small scale, linking a character you see in 5 and characters would see in the latter trilogy)

to add on there of course are several other factors. FGC tournaments being in person also makes it so that artists also interact with the community, so that in person interations arent overwhelmingly male to male. It also helps that of the existing locals for FGC scenes, many of them takes place on college campus', which generally speaking, is more left leaning.

Speaking from my experiences as I used to host melee games at a local community college.

id take it if the animal was meant for consumption and not as a pet

Amano at the time was in Europe when FF7 was in production iirc. Mostly stopped doing Final Fantasy after X. After 6 was also the separation point for JRPG, mainly involving Final Fantasy.

Takahashi(Graphics Director) left to go make Xenogears, Sakaguchi(Director/Producer) went to go make Parasite Eve after helping Takahashi produce Xenogears. Final Fantasy would then on get a new core team hence the overall changes to the game series image (where 1-6 were more fantasy, with 6 being slightly more industrialized, and 7 being more of the opposite much more urban with elements of fantasy)