Yeah, thats a great example of where you run into the differences between 'Cascadia' as a bioregion, defined primarily by watershed networks, snd 'Cascadia' as a maybe possible legal/political entity, based on current existing borders.
IIRC, the bioregion Cascadia basically only extends down to bits of Northern California... but the political reality doesn't match well with this at all.
Perhaps state delegates could all send couriers to Goodsprings for a conference, to hash out the details, lol.
Cascadia vs Greater California vs ... New Zion/Deseret?
The immediate problem would be that Idaho, eastern OR and eastern WA are very very seriously trying to do the whole Greater Idaho thing, and are basically chalk full of armed white supremacist theocrat bigots.
So... yeah.
I guess the 'good' news is that western WA has JBLM and a lot of Navy bases, and maybe enough of them would align with Cascadia ... ?
The bad news is the Holy State of Greater Idaho would probably be able to dash and seize Hanford, and then be able to make dirty nuclear bombs.
But anyway...
Throw in Hawaii and then Cascadia and Japan and SK can form a trading bloc, and theoretically be able to back that up with maybe a little bit of the formerly US Navy?
Total spitballing here.
Alaska sure would be completely fucked.
Airline fuel is pretty expensive these days... for some reason... Didn't BC/Yukon already basically say 'fuck you' to US truckers going between Alaksa and the 48, or I am not remembering that right?
To prove both our points further, I just had to do a custom Lutris install and configuration to get the old Bungie game 'Oni' actually working.
tl:dr - Modern, current (9/10) Proton can't handle .NET 2.0 properly, apparently, when I have a 64 bit system and its only made for 32 bit... and/or the engine that Bungie used for this is apparently ... essentially custom... theres nothing quite like it, according to the Oni2 people/website of people who've been reverse engineering it for like 20 years now and still haven't totally figured it out.
I had to jump down to the wine 8 custom lutris version, basically.
I'm sorry but I'm literally bi, and my reaction to the helicopter guitar hero story was to outloud say 'that's gayer than I am what the fuck!'
Like, that's 'cheesy gay porno plot - chapter 1'.
Yeah... yeah.
I've known a ... decent deal of ... what I would basically call 'totally not gay, for reals' dude bros, high school / college guys with no conception of boundaries or consent.
Like... I did karate for a pretty long time, saw a lot of dongs in the dressing room... but like... you'd get permanently banned from a dojo for doing that.
I guess its just the uh, Spartan culture re-emerging... shove enough nearly naked dudes into cramped quarters and uh ... norms change hahaha.
I guess I'd be more 'air force' in the sense that I'm an autistic nerd, and uh, yeah, you don't have to tell me that plenty of nerds are actually total freaks in the sheets lol.
I've known some navy dudes, but 1] they were submariners, so thats a bit more intense than most other kinds of Navy situations 2] didn't know them well enough to know their sexual habits, but at least the submariners I knew came across as brash, in your face, basically assholes, but who would flip on a dime to being holier than thou, restrained and 'reasonable' "experts" about shit they assumed they knew more about than they actually did.
In particular, one submariner I knew, he appointed himself squad leader in like a day long Arma 2 campaign... dude literally had us marching around the map in circles, because we were using mods that made it so you had to actually use a map, a compass, landmarks, stars... no gps / 'you are here' map indicators.
He couldn't do any of that correctly, at all, and we literally spent 8 hours being lost, don't think we ever got anywhere near our objective.
But he was extremely certain he knew where we were and which way to go and what landmark was what.
This is also so stupid and stereotypical that I still feel like I'm lying when I say 'the submariner had no idea how to landnav' is basically that entire story.
Also totally makes sense that Army/Marines have just fully gotten onboard with hotwiving and cuckoldry... its... essentially legendary how unfaithful a huge number of military wives are.
I guess just actually codifying and normalizing that is superior to the old way of dealing with it, which was family secrets, alcoholism, murder, etc.
Totally makes sense that MPs are the worst kinds of people... just dang, guess I was not well informed about the uh, spiritual character of the Air Force.
Yeah, thats a great example of where you run into the differences between 'Cascadia' as a bioregion, defined primarily by watershed networks, snd 'Cascadia' as a maybe possible legal/political entity, based on current existing borders.
IIRC, the bioregion Cascadia basically only extends down to bits of Northern California... but the political reality doesn't match well with this at all.
Perhaps state delegates could all send couriers to Goodsprings for a conference, to hash out the details, lol.
Cascadia vs Greater California vs ... New Zion/Deseret?