They'll still obey the whip (because people that don't get deselected come election time), but they'll all be planning their next move once Trump is done.
The only loyalty among the rank and file is the fear of losing their jobs.
Yeah, I think there was a demo, and it wasn't nearly as instant death based as the full game.
The sequel gets a lot of cut scenes and other characters that I wasn't sure about, but once you're through that initial bit of exposition, it opens up a bit and lets you just get on with the puzzles. There's a demo of it, which I recommend if you're on a potato PC, because my 1060 really struggled. PS5 version was fine though.
I found it a bit easier than the first game, but the DLC certainly ramps it up again.
Vance doesn't even seem popular in his own family, let alone with the public at large.
Musk isn't allowed to run so they're all out of demagogues at this point, and their entire political strategy hinges on that. At some point they know they've got to shift back to pretending to be normal again. Their next candidate is going to be someone like Romney. They're going to lose all the crazies when they do, but chances are they'll just go back to not voting while hoarding bump stocks.
But the violence carried on until 1998. Just them both joining the EU wasn't enough. It wasn't genocide levels, but it took a lot of work from both sides to get the bombs to stop.
My main takeaway from The Witcher 3 was "must find Ciri, the world is in danger!" followed by quite a lot of Gwent.
The Bloody Baron questline was probably the highlight, along with the Hearts of Stone storyline. The rest of it was going to question marks on the map, hoping to find something more interesting than a box to open or a surprise enemy attack. This got especially bad once you reached Skellige and had to faff about with a boat to reach half of them.
I doubt that would ever happen anyway, but Britain and Ireland were both in the EU for a long time before they actually struck a peace deal in the Good Friday Agreement.
I suspect a lot of the GOP also want rid of Trump now he's won for the second time.
They've put in their time. They're political lifers. They know they don't really need him any more, and frankly his health will take care of that sooner rather than later.
If he follows the rules, he can't run again anyway. If he doesn't then they don't need him to win elections for them, because there won't be any more. They're just stuffing their pockets while waiting for any opportunity to try and get in a bigger chair. Their only worry is that someday, lobbyists might not want to bribe them any more to do their jobs.
I suspect the list is being withheld for reasons other than Donald, who we all know is on it anyway. Plenty of more important shadowy figures who still have something to lose.
I think it just tonally doesn't fit the game at all after act 1.
"Here is a very urgent thing. We can't stress enough how urgent this is. Also would you like to do a load of pointless shit for these random people that have no bearing on anything?"
They give such a minor amount of money, that I'd just sell the guns that drop and they drop by the dozen. The only real thing to buy is new chrome, and it's something I basically did twice during my playthrough. Once when things were getting rough in combat, which made things far too easy tbh, and again when I hit max level and there wasn't anything better to have. I think originally there were stats on clothes as well, but that's all gone since the 2.0 update.
I still did them, but that's mostly because I'd bought the game and didn't want to leave gameplay on the table as it were. This is really the first game that made me question why I do that, and if I should. I'll often skip the boring collectibles in games, and these quests really felt bordering on collecting 100 feathers in Assassin's Creed or something.
I think CDPR have has this issue since the Witcher 3 tbh. They know how to make amazing story based games, with nice enough writing and characters, and some lovely grey area decisions where there's no real right and wrong, and then mar it with boring open world design.
It feels like a great linear game somehow constrained by being an open world sprawlfest.
I'd genuinely recommend skipping all the fixer missions because they take ages and add very little to the experience, while also reducing the urgency of the storyline.
Make sure to play Phantom Liberty because that's honestly better than the main game.
They'll still obey the whip (because people that don't get deselected come election time), but they'll all be planning their next move once Trump is done.
The only loyalty among the rank and file is the fear of losing their jobs.