Change your mindset to a more positive one! When people complain you can be like this

Well we’re completely fucked as a country for doing another lockdown, but at least gas prices are so fucked people won’t want to leave their house? Or if people don’t wanna leave their house the gas prices could go down again. There’s a delicate balance to it

I really like how you have to understand the nuances of the hypercapitalist cyberpunk world in order to solve the mysteries! And there’s just lots of little touches that add modern touches to the cyberpunk genre, like how it treats the Internet and body modifications and artificial intelligence and how the idea of “the cyber-punk” is already considered a worn-out cultural relic of old movies

(And it is very lesbian-coded)

shout out to the game Of The Devil! I never play visual novels but it really blew my mind I love the world and the characters so much! I’m happy to see it as the image for this thread :)

naval morale has to be incredibly low right now! i don’t know many navy people but my impression was that it was seen as the “safe” one where you’re not in nearly as much danger as the army or marines

people think u have to become cringe when you’re old but you can stay awesome if you believe in yourself and keep a good spirit

They call me Kamiina Broketan the way I wanna go out drinking with gay women but can’t afford it

Outside of the obvious scam that is the whole platform, I never really thought about how much of a security risk it is! There’s probably teams of Iranian intelligence tracking the “probability” of each action the US can/will take. I wonder if US intel is just panicking/profiting off it or if they’re going in deeper, making fake insider trades to mislead people

We still don’t have a name or a face to this guy, right? And it will be interesting to see how they write a scenario where they lose all those aircraft without anyone dying

Some of it could be because of Trump’s tarrifs, right? I heard that China was sending their parts to Vietnam to complete the product and sell from there, evading the restrictions on Chinese tech

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so the plan for the war where the main problem is the closure of the straight of hormuz, is to close the straight even harder??? The plan to remove the mines seems like a no-go but instructing the navy to “seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran” seems very possible. Basically they’re going to be doing piracy, going to ships, and probably seizing their oil. If they can get intel on who paid, they can harass ships outside of Iran’s missile range. Realistically, they’ll probably harass ships that never paid the toll while accusing them of paying. Physically, they could do it, but I’m sure there are consequences I can’t think of off the top of my head

Does anyone know how lifting sanctions work? Are there scenarios where Iranians could withdraw frozen assets very quickly before the war restarts?

Give him a break, he needs a win after that conflict with Iran

That’s a good point. Its a bit late but I will delete

NATO IS OVER

*looks at a map*

What’s up with Turkmenistan? I know it’s a former Soviet country but I only ever hear of them in that context, I have no idea how they interact with the Muslim world

According to Wikipedia they and Iran are chill 👍🏻

Iran and Turkmenistan share a common border of more than 1000 km. Since Turkmenistan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the two countries have enjoyed good relations and have cooperated in economic, transportation, infrastructure development, and energy sectors. The two nations have strong historic ties.

Other points: -Turkmenistan is mostly Sunni Muslim, but I didn’t see anything about sectarian conflict between them and Iran

-Turkmenistan is another major natural gas producer, and north Iran actually imports gas from them sometimes

-Turkmenistan is recognized by the UN as a “formally neutral country” and apparently that value is also enshrined in their constitution! Idk if they do anything behind the scenes or if things would change if push came to shove, but good for them :)

It surely can’t be anything related to joining the war right? Cuz surely they’d attack with the element of surprise.

Yeah Ive really heard nothing about it! It’s been really underreported, especially for something happening between two countries on Iran’s border

Real life adventurers were often 3rd sons that roamed the countryside looking for work and robbing/stealing when they can’t find any. There were probably tons of people just as chaotic as the average D&D party