paultimate14

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Victor Gruen is widely considered the inventory of the modern shopping mall. He was an Austrian Jew who immigrated to the US when the Nazi's annexed Austria.

I can't find much specific on his political views, but I've seen him described by historians as "far-left" and "socialist".

Shopping was originally a small part of his vision. He wanted to make an indoor, air-conditioned version of European pedestrian areas. Residences, schools, libraries, hospitals, parks, etc. He hated how the mall he envisioned became the shopping mall. He was influenced by Disney Land - trying to make a planned neighborhood that optimized the human experience. In turn, Disney took a lot of influence from him to make EPCOT.

So I don't know that he was a Marxist, but he denounced the capitalist hellscape that his malls eventually became.

It's the same reason why factory workers don't join unions or go on strike.

The system is designed to enforce compliance and keep individuals focused on submitting in order to meet their short-term, basic needs. Desperation is the design. When everyone is forced to choose between standing up for themselves or feeding themselves and their families, most people throughout history choose food.

Ah it's the Hard Times, not the actual Onion.

They didn't create Shadow of the Colossus. They were a support studio for Team Ico.

Same thing for almost all of their games. The Astro series is from Team Asobi. Gravity Rush was from Team Silent/Team Gravity/Project Siren (that studio kept changing its name). Parappa the Rapper was NanaOn-Sha. Death Stranding was Kojima Productions. Patappn was from Pyramid.

LocoRoco was an original, but that series hasn't been touched since 2008. I doubt many of the original devs were even still there by 2021. Ape Escape and Legend of Dragon are similar.

Japan Studio has too many games to check them all, but all the ones that I recognize as good and memorable games are from other studios.

Out of curiosity, why are you annoyed at them closing their Japan studio? They have a ton of game credits, but were mostly a support studio. Like, technically they have credits on Bloodborne but I think everyone pretty much agrees that's a FromSoft game.

The only recent original games from them I see is Knack and Knack 2. Personally I thought they were pretty decent and are better than just a meme game, but at the same time they weren't exactly successful hits either. Is there some hit game or series I'm missing here?

And what was left of them was just merged into Team Asobi. Which I find kind of funny because Asobi was originally a team from Japan Studio that was split off.

In the last balance patch they buffed it to 18%

Um... Yes. Just to be clear, I am advocating that Wyoming produce less coal.

And for the US (the whole world really) to consume less.

https://williamblum.org/intervention-map

It doesn't cut a large populated land in half.

Why would that matter? This data has nothing to do with population.

It's also the one everybody already know where to find anything.

That's quite a subjective and eurocentric perspective.

But anyway, how the fuck the projection isn't symmetrical for the North and South hemispheres? How does one achieve that?

This appears to be a Mercator projection, or something close to it. The land in the southern hemisphere is generally close to the equator so it appears smaller as part of that distortion. Also it looks a bit weird because Antarctica usually balances that out visually, but is excluded for this map.

There's a lot of different options for displaying different kinds of information. For what this map is trying to convey, it makes sense for it to be centered on the US. The distortion doesn't really matter because distance is not important. Keeping large populated is not important because the map isn't conveying any information related to population. Is this the absolute best projection available? Probably not. But the Mercator projection is still far and away the most common today (and I see this is copy written 2010, so it would be been even more ubiquitous then).

While that's all true, it's also true that Wyoming today has the highest CO2 per capita production in the US at 96.4 tons.

The re-writing of the tax code you mentioned created the "Cowboy Cocktail", making Wyoming a tax haven for billionaires and enabling money laundering.

They are taking some small, slow steps towards mitigating the damage they have been doing for decades and are continuing for the foreseeable future.

The Murdoch empire transcends borders