The fact that they’re just getting around to asking now means he already has.

A quick bit of reading tells me that the current leader, Abiy, has basically installed himself as dictator. He canceled elections during covid and has been the de facto leader since. This BBC article seems to do a decent job of breaking down some of the sides, but the gist is greater ethnic representation, refusal to lay down arms and weaken regional defenses, greater regional autonomy, and the removal of Abiy and restoration of the democratic process.

We live in a reality where saying you want people to live and be free is considered hate… Morality and ethics can’t come to the phone right now, they’re dead.

Very illegal… By the way, anyone who accepts and receives that payment is also guilty.

Science fiction was getting a huge boost at the time. Star Wars was released the year before. Battlestar Galactica started in 78. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the Donald Sutherland/Jeff Goldblum one, was also 78. Alien would also come out in 79. Video consoles were being billed as super advanced and futuristic. I’m sure this came from that. What’s interesting is that 8 years later, we got Arkanoid, a breakout game actually set in space.

Like buying votes during the last election?

I’ve wanted that one and there was a good one for the NES too. I was just thinking about how I miss the posters we used to get in boxes and magazine.

EDIT: This was another cool one I’ve had my eye on.

Just to spite him, the day after we elect a new president, I’d love for some sort of ceremony where Denmark and the US exchange Greenland back and forth. Something like the whiskey war with Canada.

It’s a shame they murdered the series. It would actually work well as a metroidvania.

You don’t need a diary to know that, there’s plenty of video evidence where he’s obviously sick of all the bullshit. Totally had the “how am I the only educated person in this room?” vibe toward the end.

He is filled with turtle meat!

We’re stealing it, obviously… From Russian shadow fleet tankers, Venezuela, and Iran. Trump hasn’t even been quiet about it, not that he ever is…

His operator just walked away. Even puppeteers have bathroom emergencies.

Then there is no longer a point to staying within the union.

Sad thing is… People are going to believe it.

Someone will say they saw someone doing it or that the people who filmed it after were also the ones responsible. We’ll have a witch hunt over it and people’s lives are going to get ruined. All because donny numbnuts would rather it was a conspiracy against him than face the fact that it was a shitty job likely made worse by whatever they dumped in after to kill the algae.

Or maybe we’ll just go bomb Cuba to distract from it all…

Only reason I know is because I’ve been collecting since I was a kid. I’ve got three loose copies, shame they’re not worth anything… I’d be happy to separate some stupid people from their money.

Going to point out that actual boxed copies of just Super Mario Bros. Is actually on the more rare side, since it was quickly bundled with the NES and the version with Duck Hunt came out pretty quickly.

It may have sold 30 million copies, but a large majority of them are either the Duck Hunt combo or the one with Duck Hunt and World Class Track Meet. Kinda the same way Stadium Events is that much more rare because of the bundled, renamed version.

That being said, people have too much fucking money…

In Connect I’ve got a button for it.

But the markdown is ###### for tiny text

which needs to be on its own line

He will*

*as long as it’s in his favor…