Weird. My translation software said, "This was always empty bluster to appeal to my unquestioning followers, & all I ever intended to do was use pre-existing agreements to put a new US base on the island & claim I negotiated our right to do so to look like the big man!"

Maybe it's the intonation...

Cyberpunk features a gag news article about an AI author winning the Pulitzer.

Funny joke. Haha. How silly... 😕

Guaranteed 3 of those founders only read sports biographies and "How to be an Alpha" books, while the 4th sticks to L. Ron Hubbard.

If you'd been ready to fix your health care crisis back when you had the power to do so, your country might not have been in the state it's now in, being led by a withering, dementia-riddled sex-pest.

Instead, we're just lumbered with a different flavour of flailing incompetence from another cluster of drooling, spineless halfwits, too distracted by headlines to put an iota of thought into their actual jobs.

The only problem with that crap FINALLY being dropped is that it didn't happen a lot sooner.

"Don't forget, you're not actually playing as this badass assassin in their historical setting. No, you're actually playing as some dipshit on a VR bed who has to occasionally stretch their legs and have boring conversations with annoying characters before you can get back to the interesting stuff."

The "modern" segments of AC ground the games to halt to tell a thoroughly uninteresting story with thoroughly uninteresting characters and downright painful gameplay set-pieces, while killing the immersion of the main narrative.

Especially in Black Flag!

O...kay.

Is he wearing a tinfoil hat and not much else, and accusing the clouds of mocking him?

(in the UK, so can only make an educated guess)

Anti-grav belt!

Wait, what are we talking about...?

youtu.be/QHPmRJIoc2k?...