HobbitFoot

Feels like I’m listening to the Boomer complaining about kids today not knowing how to use a manual transmission.

There have been some articles regarding beginning CS classes bring required to include teaching concepts like folder structures because a sizeable part of class was list on this concept.

To use your transmission analogy, it would be like truck driving schools now need to how to drive a manual transmission vehicle, which adds to the length of the class. Or all the company vehicles are manual and now the company has to deal with hiring new drivers who don’t know how to drive stick but will say they know how to drive.

The rest of Europe doesn’t want to take on the burden of an independent foreign/defense policy.

Western European countries get to enjoy their peace dividend while not needing to answer to their public about foreign policy. Eastern Europe is scared that Russian aggression is going to include their countries.

France is probably the only EU nation that can self deploy an expeditionary force or project power beyond its borders. France is also the only EU nation with a nuclear deterrent.

Yeah. The game came with a bulky peripheral which locked in a lot of gameplay. It also didn’t help that arcades were pretty dead at the time of the Great Recession.

I feel like the genre would have had more legs if it started as an arcade game in the 90’s.