I liked this one. Zapp always gives me a laugh. So far this and the Christmas ones have been my favourites, the rest being meh to ok.

But it wasn’t so often the central theme of the episode. We’ve had 4 out of 5 stories based purely around current events.

It had some pretty funny moments, and the universe being trapped in an ever expanding warehouse is pretty Futurama, but I was pretty disheartened when I saw the name of the episode and when I saw it was just about Amazon. I hope not all of them are current event things.

I would rather it have ended on a high note as it did before the reboot if all the episodes are going to be kind of meh. New episodes for the sake of new episodes don’t do it for me. I’m hoping it picks up though

That’s the trick, all banks suck. Some just hide it a while to draw people in. I’m with ING and haven’t had any issues since I’m too poor to need internation atm rebates or max savings interest fee, but that doesn’t mean I’m happy about it. I wish we didn’t live in a system where we are mandated to use private, for profit institutions to store our own money that we earn.

Hmm that’s not promising news for me. I’ve found Futurama works best when it’s handling things not directly related to current events. I’ve been concerned about this season in general since I heard about it, more so after seeing the trailer, and even more so now.

While Papers Please is very good, it has more in common with nations in a post-soviet balkanisation than a communist nation. The banality is very present in modern western government as well, and the inability to afford medicine for your child is something that is ripped straight from the modern USA. It is a great approximation of what people imagine due to media conditioning, and that makes it very easy to role-play within the game and really enjoy it.

All in all, amazing game, amazing soundtrack, not really indicative.

Workers and Resources is an interesting one. It focuses on the material reality of running a planned economy without internal money supplies. Also a very good city/industry builder.

Any reduction in foreign investors will be made up for by local ones. The issue isn’t just that property can be bought by people overseas, it’s that housing is a commodity at all. Ideally the only home people would own would be the one they live in, but to get there politicians would have to not be so deeply involved in the real estate game. Unfortunately for those of us who rent, or who are stuck with a mortgage we can’t afford, this unsustainable housing price increase is exactly what a lot of people want.

Oh the ecological disaster argument is definitely extremely unlikely, I agree. I just think it’s interesting to think about.

I swear I’ve seen the argument of ,‘maybe then, but not now’ more times than I can count, but I could be wrong. It might have been one or two things that just annoyed me from the short sightedness of it.

The issue with pure research, as opposed to implementing some practical energy production, is the lack of practical knowledge gained. If we don’t need to use nuclear energy it’s no big deal to have no practical knowledge in the country, but it is still a shortfall.

I also don’t like how one of the main points in the article is about the economics of it. I think some things are worth doing despite there being a loss, however I am not as educated in the matter as those in CSIRO.

Like I said though, renewables definitely are the future of at least the bulk of our energy production. If we can provide power to the nation without needing as many big holes in the ground or potential environmental issues I am all for it.

If we had transitioned to nuclear decades ago, we wouldn’t be so reliant on coal now. But for the last however many decades the argument has been, ‘well nuclear may have made sense ten years ago but it’s too late now’. This same argument gets stated all the time.

Renewables are the future as far as my uneducated self can see, but they are more reliant on no significant climate shifts in our future. If there was any large ecological disaster that negatively affected our renewable output, such as any significant ash clouds from a supervolcano or something else horrendous, I feel like with our current set up we would have no choice but to go back to coal.

I would rather nuclear energy be funded and researched as a viable alternative, even if just for the knowledge of it. We never know what applications it could have in the future.