Sim builds + cats, what are you me?! Working on my driving sim mostly right now, but nice setup!

Yeah this. I hardly touch AAA titles anymore besides some Nintendo and Rockstar. But I’ve put in hundreds of hours in indie games, AA simulators, and some big studios’ smaller projects like Square Enix’s HD2D titles.

In the process of moving to Fr myself (diginomad). As I understand it you don’t even need 1.5x SMIC in savings just prove you earn 1.5x monthly x12. I could be wrong, still trying to work the plans out if you have any resources you can recommend would love to learn more!

The other big aspect to getting your temp long stay (1yr) visa, if you’re not being sponsored by a company, is to prove your income is solely from non-EU companies. Since I’m WFH American business, I basically just need to pay rent+insurance.

Yeah I’m in the process of moving to France as well. Have been planning it before the current state of affairs and for work reasons but things like ICE and the Thought Police EO are expediting things.

Ultimately my family came here from Europe generations ago for better economic opportunities, more freedom, and virtually every one of us have served our country in some compacity. I no longer see anything on the list that is true anymore. Europe, and France, have their own problems but in the next 60-100 years they seem much more stable and democratic than the US.

I’m contemplating just going on our 90d visa, WFH with my American business, and simply renewing until I get a 1y long-term visa (which you can renew every year with proof of income and NOT working for a EU company). A lot of people on r/digitalnomad and r/getout do a variation of this in Fr.

If things get worse I genuinely think seeking political asylum may be on the table for some people. But I make enough money to not really consider that.

Yeah it’s all a smokescreen. They’ll just shrug it off for their dear leader like everything else. Anyone left supporting Trump are traitors and already quadruple doubled down on his lies and are not the type to admit they’re wrong. It’s just the latest carrot for the Dems to chase while he robs our country.

Ehh naw we just need to let it reset. The house of cards will crumble as soon as Trump croaks, then once ceaser is gone Rome will burn. Hopefully what comes after is better, but it probably won’t.

Personally, my family came to this foreign land, that’s not ours, to seek out a better economic life and freedom. 2024 was the first election that the youngest voting generation went more conservative in the last 100 years. The beliefs of this nation no longer align with my own, so I’m returning back to Europe where my family once came in search of those very values. I realize a lot isn’t great there either, but I have more trust in the EU protecting my fundamental rights than I do the US Constitution.

Failing that, at least Europe has better wine and I’ll just enjoy the view while the world ends.

If the film/tv industry did this alone everything would collapse pretty fast. Cut off everyone’s entertainment and they’ll get pissed real fast.

Become ungovernable

This only makes people go back to Reddit

And they’re almost as conservative as boomers too. Fucking shame.

I think they could conceivably tie in Thrawn with the efforts to clone the Emperor with the ST’s interpretation of him coming back still. It was hinted in Mando already and I could see Thrawn being emboldened by the Emperor’s return to start planning for the First Order or the dark fleet.

Lmao these guys minmaxing not getting laid

I prefer my holy ones to be plate-wearers.

I always thought he licked the table for some reason

Hey, I got one of those. It actually makes me money too.

Same!!! He watches it like he’s playing. When I jump he tenses his claws it’s so cute.

Yeah I think you’re right as a fanfic. Coming of the heels of Andor too… I mean everything is gonna look shit compared to that series haha. But I think it’s also our first look at The High Republic and honestly expectations are rightfully high (no pun intended) because this is effectively our first peek at something that has nothing to do with the Skywalker era. And it just didn’t meet that bar, which kinda puts a bad taste in future endeavors.

Honestly it’s a systematic failure of Executive leadership at Disney more than anything. At countless points this project should’ve been axed or halted for rewrites. Giving that much latitude to an inexperienced show runner is very dangerous.

Yeah that’s kinda how I feel about The Acolyte. Liked parts of it, but most was just kinda lame but not really a big deal as everyone else making it out to be. Things just suck sometimes.

Your mom enjoyed my jokes

Gotta get that schmear on the rear