I think it might be even worse than that. It's a war for nothing at all.

A defense analyst said, "we can't be sure that the administration has met their war aims" and it made me scream at the radio. What aims? They didn't even bother making something up. At least Bush 2 respected us well enough to lie. I have no idea what any of this is supposed to accomplish.

You're watching a nuclear power putter around a marina with fifty brawling toddlers climbing all over the tiller.

Oil prices going up is “good” for petrol states who aren’t blocked.

But yeah fair callout about Israel.

They say Palantir israeli good software ;)

Well oil is frequently trotted out as a reason to do this, so we certainly can't take oil out of the discussion, whether it feels like it's an obvious bad reason or not.

It's been all throughout the news throughout March and April, here's some examples (please excuse the LLM summary, but summarizing lots of repetitive news links is actually one thing that LLMs do not hallucinate on often):

> March 29-30, 2026: Trump told the Financial Times that his "preference would be to take the oil" and discussed seizing Kharg Island, which handles over 90% of Iran's oil exports.

> April 3, 2026: In a social media post, he claimed that with more time, the U.S. could "OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE".

> April 6, 2026: At the White House Easter Egg Roll, Trump told reporters, "If I had my choice, I'd keep the oil," but noted that he hadn't fully done so because he wanted to "make the people of our country happy" who wanted the war to end

March 29 - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-pre...

April 3 - Trump posting on social media https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-makes-cryptic-social-media-2...

April 6 - https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/06/trump-says-he-would...

I mean it's not clear the current state of things was the ambition before the war, a while back they were talking about seizing Kharg island which indicates capturing oil resources was an objective

Okay it’s now explicitly marked as flagged at least

makes sense political

I think we need an official HN response. This is a legitimate video game, which happens to be satire. If we as a community cannot handle this, I don't know if I want to be a part of it anymore, even though I've been here since 2014.

Political satire. People who take themselves and their political alignment too seriously will inevitably flag it.

Can't rock the boat too much, when the captain has a lot of money

This is one of those submissions that will invariably descend into a flame war if someone dare criticize it and infringe upon the consensus joy of others.

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They were actually called Kings Quest and Leisure Suit Larry. There was also Police Quest and Space Quest. Sierra Online really had some of the canonical adventure game series.

It's rpgmaker which might use the "local storage api" for some state management depending on the exact version.

Try again, fighting the Pope is worth it.

Idiocracy was supposed to be a warning, the GOP took it as an instruction manual.

Amazingly high-effort art.

If Iran would have ball room, Khomeini would be still alive.

> it only works on Firefox for me, not on Chrome

Sounds like a feature, not a bug

Try going to chrome://gpu and looking for red text or error messages

I was going to say that political censorship is out of control in the US, but that appears to be a Canadian ISP?

A DNS WHOIS [1] shows what's likely the cause:

> Important Dates: Created 4/28/2026

Many an ISP these days blocks domains that have been registered less than a month ago because most scam campaigns have to cycle through domains way faster than that time.

Check if you have enabled some sort of "malware protection" at your ISP, because that usually is based on DNS filtering.

[1] https://who.is/whois/epicfurious.com