It also makes upgrading cheaper, though your little brother playing as Player 2 will have to suffer through having an inferior controller. (As is tradition.)

Look how rough most of the island’s terrain is compared to the large flat area where the city of Vancouver is. The physical separation from the mainland doesn’t help, either.

If they did so, they’d also require Zamboni drivers to do their circuits in the opposite direction, counterclockwise instead of clockwise. They like to drive along the boards on the driver’s side so they can tuck up against the wall gently & see just how close they’re getting.

“… and nothing of value was lost.”

The man can get his country into NATO, I’d say he has earned his retirement.

Point taken.

It’s not like Russia is going to issue press releases on its troop deployments.

Probably lutefisk, fish cured in lye.

Wow, a DEC AlphaStation computer. That couldn’t have been cheap.

Indigenous names are heavily used. Half the states have Native American derived names, a much larger proportion than I thought. Pre-European population density was much lower, though so there were a lot fewer settlements to name.

The city government spinning up its own instance makes sense. You could then have accounts for the various departments, transit, road and highway, parks and rec, the library, the mayor’s office…

Well, how’s his wife holding up?

I guess Dumbo got into the liquor cabinet again

Yeah, but it reminded me of the other quote.

I’m curious, what voice to people hear these lines in, the default epic male announcer voice, or the super horny female announcer alternative?

“Join the army, they said.”

“See the world, they said.”

“I’d rather be sailing!”

“Stay awhile and listen.”

The Philippines were a US territory from 1898 to 1946. People born there in that era were non-citizen US nationals, similar to people born in Samoa today, which eased the bureaucratic hurdles to move to the US.

Trump was right about one thing, we are a nation in decline, but it’s not for the reasons he’s claiming.

Yakuza maps have never been particularly huge. Even in the most recent game, the new map is maybe on the scale of GTA III or Vice City. Still, they manage to pack 15-20 minigames into each game’s word map, some of which involve driving or riding around the map, plus the inevitable scavenger hunts and hidden collectibles.