GTA is satire about American society. Because of Hollywood, TV, and English being the lingua franca of the world, this way they can reach a far bigger audience. You couldn't do exactly the same game set in Helsinki because the world knows far less about Finnish stereotypes. Ninja Edit: Random thought about satirical games set in Finland: My Summer Car is kind of that game.

But they have explored London before. I think the UK would probably the best setting if you would.

The Chinese government are a ruthless immoral authoritarians. Say what you want about economic systems, but fuck authoritarians.

It's kind of funny how McCain and Romney were/are the voice of reason in the GOP. We didn't know how good we had it. Or rather how much worse it could get.

As a European with a higher than average interest in North America, I can say with some confidence that Europeans don't think about the Upper Peninsula at all.

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83 degrees Celsius is too hot in any month

I couldn't activate my W11 with a genuine W11 key taken from a previous W11 install.

You all keep saying that, and I'm not saying I can't ultimately make the move, but there's always something that doesn't quite work as easily.

Then there's always a solution to that which isn't quite what you want and involves a lot of terminal which isn't really something casual users want.

For me this time it was OneDrive which I want to be able to use, trust, and have control over without terminal commands and a half baked GUI. I get it, fuck Microsoft, but it's already paid for and we're not moving because my wife, who is doing dome contracting work, doesn't want to mess with what she is familiar with.

It's definitely not for free. You can buy several Windows laptops and Office licenses for a single Mac laptop.

We don't choose which app we use. Our friends, family, and colleagues do.

I could live with Signal's functionality, but there barely anybody there.

That's Limmy, not Lemmy.

Metal tires and metal roads. Kind of slippery, so we might need to make some sort of ridges to guide our vehicle's direction. Stopping will still be hard, but if we just lock cars together and do it all at once it might be feasible.