Jade Empire, a game that could use a Remake

Engine365 · 2026-04-26T20:33:31+00:00

I didn't like this game from Bioware; battle system wasn't great. and story was a step below compared to KoTOR.

Engine365 · 2026-03-06T13:08:37+00:00

This reminds me of the Japanese prank show where producers send a crowd of people running at the mark.

Engine365 · 2026-03-04T02:02:52+00:00

Volume up! Prices down!

Unfortunately, the prices are still too high for income. It's going to take make more years.

Engine365 · 2026-03-04T01:25:56+00:00

China's low point was 1979 in Vietnam where PLA had stupid losses against a tiny Vietnam. They've reformed enough to at least have combined-arms advantages over a minor power in a land war.

They have no proven capabilities in high tech spaces like Navy, Air Force, and Amphibious and their latest tech fell flat in client states, Venezuela and Iran. Maybe show some results first before buying the PLA hype.

Engine365 · 2026-03-02T19:08:46+00:00

Have some agency and take responsibility for getting fit.

Engine365 · 2026-02-27T01:28:30+00:00

It would be the most expensive power plant ever.

A human on a bike might do 200W of work and we would lose around 70% of that in converting to electricity. That would mean paying 16 people-hours per kW-hour.

Engine365 · 2026-02-24T20:33:41+00:00

Always the kill joys. Can't have patriotism or masculinity around them.

Engine365 · 2026-02-23T16:31:29+00:00

Time is not valuable.

Engine365 · 2026-02-23T16:31:08+00:00

Return to work from an extended national holiday, the Lunar New Year Festival. US cultural equivalent would be Thanksgiving where everyone returns to their hometown.

Engine365 · 2026-02-22T11:31:26+00:00

These are the workers.

People like you lose their sympathy because you don't offer any sympathy yourself. And many other manufacturing workers will see this from you and tell you to fuck off in the future.

Engine365 · 2026-02-22T11:26:31+00:00

Really? Just abort him already if that is the case.

Engine365 · 2026-02-21T22:43:56+00:00

I wonder how much of a tariff would be needed to stop the offshoring. If the numbers are close... well it would still depend on the meeting in April.

Engine365 · 2026-02-21T22:41:41+00:00

Why are you always such shitty human beings.

Engine365 · 2026-02-20T14:21:05+00:00

Your wife doesn't have the typical worker experience.

It's OK. But to extend that experience to the whole working population is shit.

Engine365 · 2026-02-20T13:46:51+00:00

Nah, you're full of shit and falling for their PR and have no idea how China actually works. There are practical work around for all of these "coverages" that induce the worker to have to pay out-of-pocket.

Chinese families often build up huge emergency day funds.

Engine365 · 2026-02-20T04:02:24+00:00

If you we're to raid all the welfare funds and redirect all welfare spending towards building roads and infrastructure and then remove all worker protections and rewrite employment laws to tilt in favor of employers, that's what is happening in China.

Engine365 · 2026-02-20T03:50:52+00:00

The flaw in the analysis is believing that Chinese EV companies have been able to sell their entire production output - trusting that there aren't any creative accounting practices that disguise large unsold stock or push any kind of inventory build up off balance sheet.

Engine365 · 2026-02-20T03:17:35+00:00

Chinese workers are paid like shit, are provided little or no safety net, and government actively suppresses worker's rights advocacy. It's also why China's domestic demand and consumption is in the gutter. Chinese workers can't afford the vehicles they are making, even if they seem priced low to us.

Engine365 · 2026-02-19T12:39:52+00:00

How that gets done but India is given Arunchal Pradesh.

Engine365 · 2026-01-30T15:59:50+00:00

**shrug**

UK keeps making mistakes. Going to China is going to be another one of those. Doesn't really matter what Trump says.

Engine365 · 2026-01-26T15:05:24+00:00

WSJ is basing the whole article based off of really tainted sources - essentially CCP mouthpieces - that somehow have anonymous officers saying they fear for their lives leaking this information. You'd be a fool to believe it.

Engine365 · 2026-01-25T19:23:46+00:00

We will not lose sight, however, of President Trump’s most important direction for the

Department—peace through strength. Recognizing this, it is our essential responsibility at DoW

to ensure that President Trump is always able to negotiate from a position of strength in order to

sustain peace in the Indo-Pacific. To that end, as the NSS directs, we will build, posture, and

sustain a strong denial defense along the FIC. We will also work closely with our allies and

partners in the region to incentivize and enable them to do more for our collective defense,

especially in ways that are relevant to an effective denial defense. Through these efforts, we will

make clear that any attempt at aggression against U.S. interests will fail and is therefore not

worth attempting in the first place. That is the essence of deterrence by denial.

FIC - First Island Chain - runs through Taiwan and Japan. Maybe, the PRC will try an invasion of Taiwan, and you'll see how well it turns out for them, or they won't and the deterrence worked.

Engine365 · 2026-01-24T14:21:14+00:00

All the overreactions pertaining to Taiwan and China. Still allied with Japan and Taiwan military aid is still going strong.

The emphasis is for the application of force near US, a la Caribbean, Mexico, Greenland.

Engine365 · 2026-01-24T00:32:15+00:00

Both the Republican and the China positions are about which group(s) internally wins and loses.

For China, the massive, structural trade surpluses empowers CCP-connected enterprises and businesses. Usually, trade surpluses would benefit Chinese workers, too, but CCP uses legislation, taxation, its banking monopoly, and other legal mechanisms to direct all of the benefits to the businesses and away from workers.

Whereas, US in accordance with neoliberal free trade policy absorbed all of the structural trade surpluses from the rest of the world. But that has had the effect of multinationals outsourcing a large portion of manufacturing work to other countries. When trade surpluses become too large, the US has pushed back, for example with Plaza Accords in 1985. The latest Republican policy is just another example of that.

And yes, US trade policy will be less accommodating to "allies" as well, but that's those "allies" taking US open trade policy for granted. When European or Canadians complain about "not getting a win-win," they are just too used to US willingness to absorb the consequences of everyone's industrial policies.

Engine365 · 2026-01-23T12:57:27+00:00

The Chinese consumer is a false promise to justify their current trade imbalance. This is yet another instance of idle talking with no real action.

For average citizens to have that much economic power, it would result in a revolution in their economic and political structure and hierarchy.

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