I assumed finger guns and thought this was ridiculous. Using a flag as a prop is just poor sportsmanship though.
Isn't random racist shit part of the wow experience?
It's the gateway to the sovereign citizen phenomenon.
I agree with a lot of the libertarian beliefs, but the people who actually call themselves that are absolutely insane.
Halo had already been going towards the Cod play style ever since Bungie quit making it.
A Republican hasn't won a Senate seat in Michigan since 95. I doubt in this environment with Trump candidates loosing in double digit safe seats that he really ever had a chance.
Even as an RTS fan I can admit the genre is basically dead anyway.
Nintendo has a lot more pure Nintendo fans that don't really care about games as a whole. There's also a pretty good emulation scene for everything outside the current generation. Nintendo is also much smaller than Sony or Microsoft, they had the first implosion with the WiiU. They already with through a FAFO cycle and now Microsoft and Sony are learning that.
Spoils and plunder isn't really trade. Rome wasn't trading for slaves, Spain wasn't trading for gold, England wasn't trading for anything that they could lift...
Maybe espionage, in flipping assets to become double agents.
Counter intelligence style jobs. Hiring the person who breaks into a military base to harden bases. Hacking in the physical space I guess.
Smugglers are probably used for black ops, but that's probably more of a contractor type situation than a hiring. Similarly contract killers that are sufficiently good probably have state level protections to some degree.
It's a matter of distance really. Germany raiding France or Brazil isn't functionally different.
You make it sound like spoils of war wasn't the main income for Europe for pretty much all of history until then. Colonialism put a little nicer name on it.