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I saw this comment...
i thought it would be like a fun goofy prank ya know...maybe put the sticker next to a trump 2024 sticker...
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everyone 
DM betting ideas if you want
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Start from the most basic premise. War is the continuation of diplomacy when all other means of resolving issues fails.
War is conducted when there aren't enough resources for everybody.
War is a tool of scarcity.
For a country to not participate in war ever would require it to accept its decline and death without any struggle.
Wars are infinite in empires. A last resort in nation states and international world orders.
As long as the world GDP keeps growing and the largest economies do not fall into decline war can be skipped over, but the moment nation states get stuck in place for decades, unable to move, unable to thrive, forever stagnant, that is when the risk of war goes up, by a whole lot.
This is why it is a miracle that the EU hasn't fallen into a war so far of its own making. Which can only be explained by the fact that it has continued to successfully keep growing geographically and to not collapse into internal instability. Even so, anti-migrant sentiment has continued to grow year on year. In the end the only choice for Europe remains to redirect that ire of the people in a direction that does not harm the state.
We have seen the same pressures cause a war in Ukraine. With Russia stagnant for years on end, and without any other way to grow except by war that is won. War has continued when a nation state had no other way to prosper or to even remain stable.
In China again we see calls for war, to keep attention off of the problems that persist within. As the economy slows and it becomes clearer that there will be no growth in decades ahead, the jingoism rises, to distract from this fact. China puts pressure on India and Russia and all neighbors around.
In the US the GDP growth rate remains barely above 2.5%, to maintain it the US is more than happy to invade or influence other nation states that aren't providing it with enough investments and monetary benefits.
It does not matter how much more advanced we become as a species, as long as the last step remaining to attain another piece of the pie is war, we will conduct war in the end.
This is the same reason why we now find North Korea sending troops to help the Russians, to gain a stronger ally the only way it can right now. Again and again the same theme repeats itself, even with centuries of progress, humanity will not be above war.
It is the same reason why we find Iran consistently funding terrorist organizations across the middle east, because it is the only way it can attack the west without being attacked back in turn.
It is the same reason why Israel will not back down from the wars to come, because it is finally too tired of being attacked again, and wants the guarantee as given to all developed nations, that they will not be assailed by their weaker neighbors, for fear of unprecedented retaliation.
Israel would never stop its war. Ukraine would never stop its war. Russia would never stop its war. They would never stop their wars because the war is the only way remaining to get what they want. A final victory.
From the fact that war is the last tool left to a nation state when it comes to dealing with its neighbors follows the fact that once even the last tool fails the repercussions are unforeseen and terrible. If a nation loses its war it loses decades at the least and breaks apart at worst. Nation states that participate in wars are no longer in a position to lose those wars as they have everything to lose if they face defeat. That is why wars between neighbors are some of the most vicious that can be found.
It is only the proxy wars where we find the larger states willing to back out as they find advantages somewhere else or have a limit on losses suffered without losing everything. The nation within which the proxy war itself is taking place never stops however, until it has pushed out all foreign invaders or been taken over completely by them, as is the case for Afghanistan having fought every major power in history.
Some think that drone swarms or robots would make war obsolete, but they do not understand the fact that wars will always be fought as long as all other ways of making peace have failed, and so they will be fought irrespective of whether they are fought with sticks and stones, guns, tanks, or machines. For the reason to conduct war continues to exists no matter how advanced mans technologies become. This is why it remains paramount for nation states to keep developing their defenses no matter what.
The US for example, makes itself powerful enough that not even an entire continent invading it could defeat it. China makes itself strong enough that the US could not invade it. All nuclear powers make themselves powerful enough that it is not worth invading them. That is the way of things. That is peace for a long period of time.
If the nukes of the world were to ever fail, that is when the world would return to a state of global war, where nations would be warring, taking and losing land, every single decade instead of across a century. Even the long peace that Europe has had since WW2, appears to be coming to an end.
Europe has already reached the peak of what it can produce to keep its population well fed and well taken care of. For now it satisfies itself with expansion via new member states, but the day it has nowhere further to expand, only war will remain to satisfy the needs of the continent. Wars that France is still aware of, wars to control the resources of other nations to ensure the wealth of ones own.
Conclusion:
As we are reaching the economic peak of most nation states of the world, the only way for them to grow any further would be to participate in successful wars. Most countries not in a position to do so due to being surrounded by greater powers on all sides will die out. Larger nation states will dominate over the smaller ones as the influence of the UN weakens when faced with multiple powers participating in might makes right along with the economies of most countries of the world slowing down to below 2% per year.
36 countries of the world are already stagnant. With Germany being the biggest stagnant economy. War in the future is inevitable as many nations fall into the middle income trap and the high income trap, unable to grow any further in any direction.
Kamala will win.
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Sub nautica 2 is good too go as long as they can make it with current gen graphics.
Chronos the New Dawn is by bloober team the people who also recently made Silent Hill 2. @Fresh_Start trust them too make a good game. The possible release date is next year @Fresh_Start hear.
The third game is off the grid, which has had the guy who made district 9 involved with the game. Based on the trailer the game does indeed look cinematic and there might be something too evolving the action game medium by involving movie directors in it. No clue what the gameplay would come out looking like in the end. One can only hope for the best.
Here is a bonus trailer that just looked cool too me. No idea what it's about. Exodus : Mara Yama reveal trailer -
Something something evil aliens in the darkness. Reminds @Fresh_Start of the drukari from 40k.
Anyways the mods of Vidya can suck it and @Fresh_Start hope their hole fails and people keep posting in a more free public space or build a second vidya hole than too deal with those whiny babies.
Kamala will win.
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Hypermuscular Hindu Hridaysamrat 
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to making another post
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why are chudlets trying to normalize skeletonry again? are xhey stupid? 
witches 
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It was one directions last tour and they came to [city] near where I lived, my bf at the time was older than me (I was 19 he would've been 29) was basically an unaccredited sound engineer and got cash work at the venue, he sometimes brought me along with him on jobs when the bands were interesting as an "apprentice", no one believed that tho cause im a foid
anyway he's setting up for like 2 days straight and im in the venue with him for sound check and the boys (one of them was missing, not a fan of the band so dont know which one) was doing their thing in the empty stadium and mostly ignored us sound and light ppl. I purposefully passed Liam on the walkway between stage and booth and stopped him (a big no no - we're kind of supposed to pretend we don't care that they're famous and not interact) and told him I was a big fan (a lie, I just wanted to bang one of them and Liam seemed like the easiest one to fall for a willing kitty). he was polite but non-committal but two hours later I'm helping bf pack shit up before the end of sound check and there's a big crowd which always happens when the talent is leaving or coming, but Liam is lingering a little bit and finally makes eye contact w/ me
He came up to me when bf carried something to the truck and asked me if I knew anywhere quiet and I told him it'd have to be elsewhere because that's my bf. He told me to write down in my phone a hotel name and fake name he was under (Zach Thomas) and come there that night
I went to the hotel when I got dropped home (it wasn't even that nice), gave the name at the desk and bunch of like servants accosted me before I got to the room and I signed a bunch of documents
When I got inside he was laying on the bed already naked and barely interacted with me. Only thing he said was "all I want is a beej" so I did it, he tasted salty and sweaty and kind of unwashed? Hard to describe. he was also kind of small and shrivelled and took ages to c*m and I realised when I was leaving it was because he'd been jerking off, the room floor was littered with balled up Kleenex
i swallowed but it was difficult because his jizz was so gloopy and thick and wasn't really watery enough to swallow like you would a liquid
after he finished he rolled over as if to go to sleep and said "I have to sleep it's the only chance I get on your" as if telling me to leave. I went through his small bag while he slept before I left and he had a huge amount of diet pills
When I left the hotel all the servant ppl were gone as if they weee never there, not even sure if the other band ppl see staying there
Anyway I also sucked anton yelchins peepee same year
I feel like it's ok to tell this story now than Liam is in heaven with the angels rip xx
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It's very obscure, rebellious, but also from approximately the time you were born. You get to have legit street cred for being a hipster, an anarchist, and conforming to the example set by the kids who are older than you but younger than your parents. This combination was the ideal for "punk" kids in my generation. If you truly were born in le wrong generation, it is for you too.
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