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This is how you do a starting mission. I'm not sure how the rest of it's going to play out, but the gameplay's solid in the first few minutes and this is a narrative I can get behind.

The way it seems to be playing out is that it will bloody destroy you. There's metaprogression, and while it seems like you can win the missions without it, it is extremely not easy without the boosts involved, and from what I'm seeing even with them. The tutorial mission is pretty comfortable, but the breaks immediately come off even in the very first mission after it. This game is trying to kill you, and it is entirely willing to throw a fifty strong mixed brigade of artillery, wunderwaffen wheel ram things, tanks, rocket barrages, plasma cannons, other mechs, turrets, all at you at the same time while you have to stay in a limited area and just be like, "Figure this out yourself, fresh meat".

It's actually kinda' refreshing because after getting my shit pushed in about five times and with effectively no bonuses (I had unlocked a weapon and that's about it), I almost did figure it out and get nearly to the end of the first proper level. Almost.

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Anyway, advice for anyone interested in trying it, the translation's a little scuffed so I can't tell for sure, but it seems a lot like there's something of a time pressure in, at least, the first level. If you lollygag too much, game will flash a red message at you and drop the angry fist of god down in the form of dozens (and that is not "a dozen", that is dozens, as in several of them) of enemy reinforcements -- when you're probably taking a good little bit just to kill one or two. So don't stop to smell the roses, the faster you get through the less likely you're going to be jumped on by like literally an entire nazi armored division. The whole damn thing.

Well, at least on normal. It may be different on easy, I'unno. Haven't tried it yet. I'm deffo having fun, if nothing else, this is pretty solid mecha twinstick. Visuals are pretty good, there's buildings to blow up and stomp on, handling and aiming and whatnot is workhorse functional, there's a lot of pretty good design going on here, outside of maybe the difficulty cliff.

E: Also, when you murder enemy mechs, you get an upgrade choice: If you see minions, get minions, especially if it offers you a tank. Despite being a big stompy mech with big stompy mech guns, what you really need is the power of friendship to soak up bullets and shoot things for you. Both of those, real bad.

I'm... pretty sure you can get those outside of scotland? Like, intensely sure, because they're easy to get where I'm at in north florida and one of the more common forms of biscuit/rolls you encounter. Quick check suggests they're just called dinner or yeast rolls around here, as near as I can tell having not been to scotland to actually try local morning rolls they're the exact same thing under a different name. Form is the same, ingredients are the same, reported texture is the same, preparation is the same.

I'm less sure about other parts of the US, but much of the east coast, especially the southern parts in particular had a fuckton of scottish (and irish) diaspora -- a great deal of food you'd normally consider scottish can be found pretty trivially down here, if not always under the same name.

It's around there, yeah, though I can't confirm offhand the exact amount. If you're under a certain yearly income you don't even have to file.

It was the sole and only aid florida gave me when I lost health insurance due to blue cross being fuckers in response to the ACA; I was poor enough I didn't have to file, so the tax related burden for not having insurance just wasn't applicable.

First, murder the CEOs of turbotax and co.

Then, tax reform!

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I wish that was more of a joke than it is. It would be astoundingly trivial to effectively entirely automate our tax filing -- for the vast majority of the population, every bit of tax information you file, the tax office you're filling to already has the information. Unfortunately, companies like turbotax have spent millions of dollars lobbying to prevent the IRS and whatnot from just filing the damn things for you, because it lets them fuck people over in order to make bucks. As long as they're in the way, simplifying the process and saving the country millions of hours of labor and billions of dollars will remain far, far more of a challenge than it should be.

As with most things, blame capitalism and eat yeet the rich.

You're okay otherwise, at least, hopefully? Surviving a crash without major injury is always better than the alternative

... also good luck with the tow truck. Any luck it'll be cheaper for you than the last time I had to call one.

I didn't recognize it and similarly googled it, and I don't think I've ever seen them before. Only thing they performed in I think I might have seen was the '98 godzilla movie.

Rest in peace, though. 60 ain't young, but it ain't particularly old, either.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/16/russian-wagner-group-places-15m-bounty-italian-minister-guido/

What is Wanker Group thinking?

Probably that it costs them nothing to do, and not much beyond that. It's not like they're particularly likely to pay up even if someone was stupid enough to try to collect.

On the flip side, signore "migrants are hybrid warfare against us" can kinda' rot, so I guess a pox on both their houses on this one? The ukraine support is good but also fuck this guy, y'know?