I haven’t played it yet but apparently this 'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" is fantastic. I’ll quote a friend who just finished it: “Just finished Clair Obscur. Probably not 100%, but I’ve beaten the superboss and completed the story. It has the exact same feeling as finishing a really good book that makes you feel bad in all the good ways, the kind that has you stare off into the distance after putting it down for the last time.”

Personally I feel like I haven’t played a great story driven game in a long time. Maybe Baldur’s gate 3 could appeal to you. Still not sure it sucked me in as much as Horizon did though.

On a deep sale, the Jedi Fallen order and Survivor are good story games.

It’s not entirely incorrect. The two party system is designed to force both parties to appeal to the average person. But when one side goes radical and still appeals to a big chunk of voters, the other side has to consider how to capture those voters too. In the case of the democrats, that means taking an extremely conservative approach to countering the Republicans, because they somehow still believe there’s a chance Republican voters will swing towards them. Young people are looking for a far more left wing government than the democrats are providing and so voter apathy among that demographic is so high, leading to this spiral. There are people fighting for sure, but the average is moving to the right.

It shouldn’t be, but German Auto makers are extremely slow to evolve due to their ridiculous bureaucracy. They’ve had ages to get on top of it and ignored it and they should pay the price for that, but they’re too big to fail for their countries economies. They’re definitely beginning to waver in the face of competition from china, so this comes across as the EU giving them a final respite to really start competing. Then again, could just exacerbate their complacency, we’ll have to see whichever way it goes.

In private messages outside of work, yes, it comes across passive aggressive and is a hard stop to a conversation. In work context though, it’s pretty common on teams as an acknowledgement, though I still think it’s nicer to use like a heart react then actually reply.