In absolute, scrupulous fairness, they were, in fact, phantom dweebs

people loved this when lyudmila pavlichenko talked about doing it

Shadow of the Colossus.

It varies by Megacorp. In most cases, Megacorps are basically the "real" government as it relates to normal, everyday life but national governments techincally remain (Ares in UCAS, Saeder Krupp in Germany, etc.) but occasionally the regional megacorp has literally taken over the country, often in the case of the more "evil" megacorps in regions lacking a Great Drgaon (most notably Aztechnology in Mexico).

you could be a secret shopper and just give all the store clerks top ratings

I think gacha games are fine when the endless grinding is the whole point of playing, like I'll just mindlessly spam a few levels during cardio to distract myself from the even more mindnumbing task of running on a treadmill for an hour. It's a total dealbreaker in games large and involved enough to get me to care about succeeding, like GI looks to be. Constantly updated and iterated online RPGs, MMOs and otherwise, are one of my favorite genres of all time - new stuff comes out and if you've been playing you just jump right into it with no learning curve - but it's pretty much unassailably proven at this point that a subscription fee is the best way to do it and I always have to wonder why people are so resistant to that fact.

Also, the only genuinely great gacha model, like, "this is a great idea and other games without this loot system should consider it," was Mass Effect 3 MP where dupes upgraded the item and eventually you wouldn't get the dupe anymore so every pull represented actual progress.

I thought that was Asriel/Flowey, who's a monster/human hybrid at that point.

Well, if we discover a method to make a stronger vaccine that doesn't cost any more or a cheaper vaccine that isn't weaker - cost is part of the effectiveness here - that happens to not involve killing crabs we should do that, but that has nothing to do with the crabs themselves

if you value crab life over human life, maybe lead with that

That's one idea. Here's another: we could keep valuing maximally effective vaccines to deadly, highly contagious diseases over the lives of crabs

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And even if we did, it wouldn't be these lawyers! A president ignoring election results and performing a coup isn't a civil liberties issue!

I was trying to decide what bothered me about this, and I think it's that it's fundamentally trying to soothe; it's trying to give you confidence that the ACLU is actually an organization in any way equipped to address a president who decides he's not going to step down, particularly when a huge minority of the country would prefer he do exactly that.

deadass: the only organization you should care to hear this from is the military

can't have a modern concept of whiteness if you're an ethnostate

The only thing I remember about super mario galaxy is that tim rogers used his review of it to tell the world he had testicular cancer

I mean, it's complicated. The energy companies really would like to move towards renewables and IIRC are continuing to move more and more money into it, if not because they care about the environment then because they know everything's going that way anyway so they can either be leaders now or give up the field to someone else in the near future.

That said, they can't just drop fossil fuels in the short term and expect to stay in business. Ironically, the more money they invest in renewables, the more fossil fuels they need to sell in the short term to break even on it.

In the sense that Roe v. Wade is responsible for the Religious Right, maybe.