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Most similar to Advance Wars:

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis

Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation

Shining Force:Resurrection of the Dark Dragon

Just in general:

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow

Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 1 and 2

Drill Dozer

Golden Sun 1 and 2

Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town

Guru Logic Champ

Metroid Fusion

Metroid Zero Mission

Medabots RPG

Klonoa: Empire of Dreams

Funny - at this point, when I see an article that sort of backhandedly promotes Trump or undermines Harris - just enough careful bias to be recognizable but not enough to be objectionable (like serving the Trump campaign's interests and their obvious desired PR spin by helping them distance themselves from Project 2025 while also downplaying its very real threat by characterizing it merely as "a conservative initiative seized on by Democrats"), I just immediately assume that it's the NYT. And it inevitably is.

Edit to add - I should've made clear - it's not their bias that bothers me so much as their cowardice.

One of the greatest songs ever IMO, though I much prefer the original.

All songs start with silence, then build a series of sounds until a song is achieved, then return to silence, but few illustrate the magic and wonder of that process quite as well as A Forest.

Oh yeah - I get your point, and agree as far as that goes.

I just think that a system that has to actually have laws in place to limit the abuses carried out by psychopaths in positions of power is self-evidently a failure. A society should have standards in place that either prevent psychopaths from gaining power or strip them of their power should they gain it.

The world as a whole is not insane. Insanity is concentrated among those in positions of power. And we ignore it. We spend so much time and energy arguning back and forth about policy and ideology, and treating things as givens so all we can do is choose the next step in a series of events, when the reality is that the entire situation exists solely because the people with decision-making authority have led us to this situation, and that because they're deeply mentally ill.

I think we should be calling out the mental illness - putting the spotlight on that.

So, for instance, any executive who would sign off on Disney trying to dodge responsibility for a death their negligence obviously caused is self-evidently mentally ill. It can only be the case that they have a lack of empathy, compassion and remorse that is pathological and therefore shouldn't even be allowed to hold a position of public responsibility.

That's the way I see it. It just makes no sense at all, as a society, to allow people who are demonstrably willing to act in ways that cause suffering to have access to power over others. They should be removed from influential positions, and potentially removed from society as a whole, and should be under the care of mental health professionals rather than running loose, warping society to accommodate their own mental illness.

The misperception gap widens when officials get more money from fossil fuel interests.

It's not that they "don't get" it.

It's that they're corrupt pieces of shit.

That makes my observation no less true.

Much is periodically made of public mental health issues, most often depression. But far and away the most significant mental health issue humanity faces, and quite likely the most significant issue, period, is psychopaths in positions of power.

Fucking psychopaths.

Just your daily reminder that much of the power that rules the world - the immediate political power and the wealth that buys influence over that power - is in the hands of literal psychopaths who value their short-term self-interest over anything and everything else, including humanity's health and well-being.

One day there will be a memorial erected over a lifeless Earth - "Here lies the human race - billions of lives and millennia of history destroyed so that a few psychopaths could buy mansions and yachts."

Yes - that's exactly what it is. Vichy Twitter is to historical Twitter as Vichy France was to historical France.

I stole it myself, so you're welcome to it.

I have no idea who originated it, but from the first time I saw it, I haven't used anything else. It just so perfectly sums it up.

So there are only two possibilities - either Vichy Twitter is such a poorly run site that it crashed on its own, or it's such a poorly run site that it's not prepared to deal with being DDOSed.

Well, it's sort of like picking out the most enthusiastic of a group of gang rapists and focusing exclusively on him, but I guess it's better than the standard US government strategy of just ignoring them entirely, so that's something.