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Should be a wild four years.

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I've played a little of Mario Kart World, and I've been playing Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3 recently. I also downloaded the Castlevania Dominus collection, but I haven't played it yet.

Oh, also, I played the Mina the Hollower demo, which was made by the same company as Shovel Knight. It comes out 10/31/25.
Thoughts on the new Mario Kart? I’m waiting for a deeper library before I buy a Switch 2. Plus they cut my main, Petey Piranha.
 
Thoughts on the new Mario Kart? I’m waiting for a deeper library before I buy a Switch 2. Plus they cut my main, Petey Piranha.
Somehow they took a game as volatile as Mario Kart and made it even more volatile, to the point where I struggle to even call it a party game, nevermind a competitive one.

It's basically just playing slots, you're punished for playing well and rewarded for playing poorly and there's even less skill expression than in prior games - you're basically just moving straight the whole time, there's no corners to cut, detours lose time rather than save them, and there's no way to close distance by playing well. You basically just hope you get good items and that's the entire determining factor.
 

These protests are getting so serious they're having to bring out the intellectuals

I watch this guy for retarded car things to see if he ever finally gets arrested, this was one thing I never expected would collide
I watched that entire video unfortunately and retarded is the best way to describe it.
I've played a little of Mario Kart World, and I've been playing Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3 recently. I also downloaded the Castlevania Dominus collection, but I haven't played it yet.

Oh, also, I played the Mina the Hollower demo, which was made by the same company as Shovel Knight. It comes out 10/31/25.
nigga play a real game. I’ll give you a pass on the castlevania shit, but the rest? Pfff…

if you said “yeah, I’m a big dick cool guy who plays the best A&N shit like Chrono Trigger, MOO 2, Deus Ex, Lobotomy Corporation, Baulders Gate 1/2, and perhaps the controversial Yakuza series” I would appreciate your political insights and posts. But Mario kart? Some faggot furry game?

You legit make me sick. I hope you realize what a blight your game selection tastes are and find some path to redemption. May god have mercy on your soul. Lord help you if you post again and are like “weeee I speed run Celeste and delta rune now yaaayyy fill my anus with cum!!!”
 
It's rather interesting, isn't it? The word "citizen" practically never appears in the mainstream press. They really don't want that word entering the zeitgeist -- the more people think about the word "citizen" and how it relates to them, the more they'll think about that word and how it doesn't relate to the illegals trashing the country. Wouldn't want people to realize that legal distinction and push back against the narrative.
They want subjects not citizens.
 
Exclusive | Walmart and Amazon Are Exploring Issuing Their Own Stablecoins
The Wall Street Journal (archive.ph)
By Gina Heeb, Anna Maria Andriotis and Josh Dawsey
14 Jun 2025 02:18:09 UTC
Some of the biggest merchants are exploring how to issue or use stablecoins, potentially shifting the high volumes of cash and card transactions that they handle outside the traditional financial system and saving them billions of dollars in fees.

Walmart, Amazon.com and other multinational giants have recently explored whether to issue their own stablecoins in the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter.

Expedia Group and other large companies such as airlines have also discussed potential efforts to issue stablecoins, some of the people said.

A move to launch crypto-based payments by Walmart or Amazon that bypasses the traditional payments system would send shivers through the nation’s banks and card-network giants.

With vast networks of customers and employees, troves of data and far lighter regulations, retail and technology companies have long been viewed as particular threats to banks, including regional and community lenders.

Stablecoins are currently used to store cash or purchase other cryptocurrency tokens. They are supposed to maintain a one-to-one exchange ratio with dollars or other government currencies, and are backed by reserves of cash or cashlike assets such as Treasurys.

The retailers’ final decisions would depend on a bill, called the Genius Act, which would begin to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins. The bill recently passed another procedural hurdle but still needs to clear the Senate and House.

Why the retailers are interested​

Stablecoins could allow merchants to circumvent traditional payment rails, which cost them billions of dollars in fees each year, including the interchange fee they pay when customers make purchases using their cards.

Payments can take days to settle, delaying the time it takes for merchants to receive the proceeds from sales. Stablecoins offer the possibility for a quicker process. They could be of particular interest to merchants with suppliers who are located abroad.

Merchants have long tried to launch payment alternatives to get around the card-based system that is dominated by Visa and Mastercard, though most of those have failed to gain traction.

Amazon’s efforts are still in the early stages, a person familiar with discussions said, and some of the talks have centered on having the company’s own coin for online purchases.

The companies have also weighed how to use outside stablecoins, some of the people said, even if they decide not to pursue their own. That could be through a consortium of merchants led by one stablecoin issuer, for example.

Megabanks have been considering a stablecoin consortium of their own, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

Merchant trade groups have been meeting with lawmakers in recent months to push for passage of the Genius Act. The trade groups, led by the Merchants Payments Coalition, have said that a regulatory framework for stablecoin would enable an alternative payment type for merchants that could significantly lower their expenses and create competition against Visa and Mastercard.

Visa and Mastercard shares each fell around 5% Friday. Visa was the second-worst performer on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The “push to instant payments is inevitable and represents a risk” to Visa and Mastercard, TD Cowen analyst Jaret Seiberg said in a note.

There is still some skepticism about the security of stablecoins and the regulatory implications of getting involved with digital assets.

Walmart has lobbied for adding a separate amendment that would introduce more competition in the credit-card sector to the Genius legislation, according to people familiar with the matter.

Walmart has long sought to get into financial services, where it could leverage its network of millions of weekly customers and employees. It has in recent years waded deeper into the industry through its fintech unit.

In the 2000s, the retailer withdrew an application for an industrial loan company charter after broad opposition.

Exclusive | Big Banks Explore Venturing Into Crypto World Together With Joint Stablecoin
The Wall Street Journal (archive.ph)
By Gina Heeb and Justin Baer
27 May 2025 21:40:53 UTC
The nation’s biggest banks are exploring whether to team up to issue a joint stablecoin, a step intended to fend off escalating competition from the cryptocurrency industry.

The conversations have so far involved companies co-owned by JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and other large commercial banks, according to people familiar with the matter. Those include Early Warning Services, the operator of the peer-to-peer payment system Zelle, and the Clearing House, the real-time payment network.

The bank consortium discussions are in early, conceptual stages and could change. Any final decision would depend on the fate of legislative actions around stablecoins and other factors, such as whether the banks find there would be enough demand for them.

Banks have been bracing for the possibility that stablecoins could become widely adopted under President Trump and siphon away the deposits and transactions they handle, particularly if big tech companies or retailers get in on the action. The banking industry is in catch-up mode in the crypto space after a regulatory crackdown two years ago.

Stablecoins function as digital dollars in crypto markets, and are currently used to store cash or purchase other tokens. They are supposed to maintain a one-to-one exchange ratio with dollars or other government currencies, and are backed by reserves of cash or cash-like assets such as Treasurys.

Banks see an opportunity for stablecoins to speed up more routine transactions, such as cross-border payments that can take days in the traditional payments system. There is still some skepticism about the security of stablecoins and the regulatory implications of getting involved with digital assets, some of the people said.

The possibility of Wall Street’s traditional powers teaming up to issue their own stablecoin marks the latest sign that mainstream and crypto finance are inching closer together. And given their utility as an efficient way to move money, the stablecoin market has long seemed like a logical nexus between those two worlds.

Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that several crypto firms were planning to apply to regulators for banking charters or licenses, encouraged by a bill that would establish a regulatory framework for banks and nonbanks to issue stablecoins.

The Senate this week cleared a procedural hurdle on the bill, called the GENIUS Act. The latest version of the bill included restrictions on nonfinancial public companies issuing stablecoins, according to a Thursday memo from the law firm Paul Hastings. But it didn’t completely bar them from it, as bank lobbyists had sought.

In March, the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial said it would launch a stablecoin. Trump has also launched a meme coin, and hosted its biggest holders to a gala dinner Thursday.

One bank consortium possibility that has been discussed would be a model that lets other banks use the stablecoin, in addition to the co-owners of the Clearing House and Early Warning Services, some of the people said.

Some regional and community banks have also considered whether to pursue a separate stablecoin consortium, according to people familiar with the matter. Such a venture would be much more difficult for smaller banks.
 
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Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries​

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The Trump administration has abruptly shifted the focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants, according to an internal email and three U.S. officials with knowledge of the guidance.
The decision suggested that the scale of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign — an issue that is at the heart of his presidency — is hurting industries and constituencies that he does not want to lose.
The new guidance comes after protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration’s immigration raids, including at farms and businesses. It also came as Mr. Trump made a rare concession this week that his crackdown was hurting American farmers and hospitality businesses.
The guidance was sent on Thursday in an email by a senior ICE official, Tatum King, to regional leaders of the ICE department that generally carries out criminal investigations, including work site operations, known as Homeland Security Investigations.
“Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,” he wrote in the message.
The email explained that investigations involving “human trafficking, money laundering, drug smuggling into these industries are OK.” But it said — crucially — that agents were not to make arrests of “noncriminal collaterals,” a reference to people who are undocumented but who are not known to have committed any crime.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the guidance.
“We will follow the president’s direction and continue to work to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off of America’s streets,” Tricia McLaughlin, a department spokeswoman, said in a statement.
For months, Mr. Trump and his aides have said they would target all immigrants without legal status in the United States to make good on his campaign promise for mass deportations. While the administration came into office saying it would initially target undocumented immigrants with criminal records, it has in recent weeks expanded to raiding work sites and sweeping up other undocumented immigrants broadly.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump acknowledged that the crackdown might be alienating industries he wanted to keep on his side.
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,” he said on social media.
Mr. Trump posted after Brooke Rollins, the secretary of agriculture, informed him of farmers who were concerned about the ICE enforcement affecting their businesses, according to a White House official and a person familiar with the matter. Mr. Trump has for decades owned luxury hotels, an industry with a strong immigrant labor force.
A former Trump administration official added that throughout his first term, Mr. Trump often heard concerns from some Republicans from rural states about how the immigration crackdown would hurt the agricultural industry.
The decision to scale back operations at work sites comes at a crucial time, and the implications of the guidance are still to be determined on the ground. The guidance did not appear to rule out raids at work sites in other industries, like the one at a garment factory in Los Angeles that sparked the protests.
In recent weeks, Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, has publicly pushed for a “minimum” of 3,000 arrests per day.
Following Mr. Miller’s comments, arrests shot up to over 2,000 a day last week, and in recent days and weeks, ICE officials have conducted operations at restaurants, factories and business across the country.
One Department of Homeland Security official with knowledge of the email said that agents had felt the pressure for more arrests and that the guidance took them by surprise. Agents were still digesting the long-term implications without a direct signal from the White House about how to carry out the new guidance, the official said.
Mr. King seemed to acknowledge that the new guidance would hurt the quest for higher numbers of arrests.
“We acknowledge that by taking this off the table, that we are eliminating a significant # of potential targets,” he wrote.
 
I watched that entire video unfortunately and retarded is the best way to describe it.

nigga play a real game. I’ll give you a pass on the castlevania shit, but the rest? Pfff…

if you said “yeah, I’m a big dick cool guy who plays the best A&N shit like Chrono Trigger, MOO 2, Deus Ex, Lobotomy Corporation, Baulders Gate 1/2, and perhaps the controversial Yakuza series” I would appreciate your political insights and posts. But Mario kart? Some faggot furry game?

You legit make me sick. I hope you realize what a blight your game selection tastes are and find some path to redemption. May god have mercy on your soul. Lord help you if you post again and are like “weeee I speed run Celeste and delta rune now yaaayyy fill my anus with cum!!!”
I gave you a banana for your chimpout, champ. :story:
 
Why only partially agree?
What is nuance?

If china is so good at dealing with the nigger problem
There are no fucking Africans in China. Their immigration laws are extremely strict. They aren’t good at dealing with the nigger problem so much as they don’t have one to begin with.

Also, they’re a totalitarian state. Even if they did have a nigger problem, they could wipe it out overnight with the signal from uncle Xi like they did to the Uyghurs. America will never be in that position, ever. Not even China’s vassal states like Hong Kong, Macau, or Tibet function like that. Only the mainland can achieve that sort of coordination due to their preexisting commie structure under Mao that was consolidated into a slightly less insane form of government after his death.

China has access to solutions to multiple problems (not just violent subhuman racial minorities) that America does not, because they represent an entirely different form of governance and thinking. None of China’s solutions, no matter how effective, will ever work for America, and vice versa.
 
Anti-ICE protesters throw barricades in front of cars that leave Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark New Jersey.

One driver comes out of the vehicle himself and clears the path.

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ICE looks like such utter cucks allowing the protesters to do this. That is not peaceful protest. Just arrest them and be done with it.
 
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