God I miss that game

They’ve gone out of their way to turn themselves into a petrostate, partly because it used to mean jobs and partly at the behest of corporate masters.

I don’t remember sweat pants even being offered in sort of warm styles until not that long ago, but I’ve never really worn them.

Looking back, I also played the hell out of Railroad Tycoon.

Civ 2 and 6, Total War: Empire, 7 Days 2 Die, Mass Effect franchise.

I work in a camp and gaming in the evenings keeps me out of trouble.

I’m more confused about how you made it to 25 without ever wearing jeans. Did your folks make you wear khakis? Cargo pants? There’s no way you made it through Canadian winters only wearing swear pants.

And they both rely on barely existing regulatory enforcement.

"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement

For the people with short attention span this guy covers Swarovski

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You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).