Robot Jazz

  Well, this was unexpected.  I never thought I would be writing two  posts about a game I only dabble in, which is to say No Man's Sky.  Back on July 28, I wrote a piece about how NMS  was getting me to appreciate the less loathsome aspects of summer, the worst season of all. Now, as I sit on the precipice of Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer in America, I am once again compelled to write a piece, but this time about  Hello Games' recent update,  Voyagers  — a content drop that is blowing up the internet as I write this.  🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Voyagers  is not the largest update Hello Games  has ever released, but it might be the most consequential since base building was added to the game oh so long ago.  Voyagers  arrived with what is often considered the mic-drop of space games: incorporating spaceship interiors into the game for a maximum of immersion.  In a game that long had spaceships only interactable from the fa...

  In the late 1920s, two Republicans, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and Representative Willis C. Hawley of Oregon decided that they had the solution to America's worsening economic situation due to what would become known as The Great Depression. Their answer was simple: tariffs. America would tax its way to prosperity - a tariff being nothing more than a tax on imported goods paid by the consumer.  Anyone with a high school education in either history or politics knows the results: an economic disaster that only worsened the depression. As  Wikipedia relates: Some countries protested and others also retaliated with trade restrictions and tariffs. American exports to the protesters fell 18% and exports to those who retaliated fell 31%.[18] Threats of retaliation by other countries began long before the bill was enacted into law in June 1930. As the House of Representatives passed it in May 1929, boycotts broke out, and foreign governments moved to increase rates against Amer...