I can already smell the whole "expansionism" thing that many empires once did. History repeats itself.
I simply don't understand how Israel still isn't satisfied with the land it already has (the UN recognized territory), why do they need to just gobble up more?
How. The fuck. Does Russia. Keep getting away with this???? It's a fucking children's hospital, not a military base.
How does Israel keep getting away with this?
PlayStation 3. Yeah, it was a games console, and had lots of awesome games (such as the Uncharted series, LittleBigPlanet, Ratchet and Clank, Journey, Warhawk, I could be here all day), but it was the extra features that really made it appealing in my opinion.
This was the cheapest and best Blu-ray player you could possibly get. It even stores media files on the internal storage, rips CDs too, upscale DVDs to 1080p resolution, not to mention the XrossMediaBar user interface was just so easy to use, and aged quite beautifully. It even has funky themes. It can play your PS1 games (some models can even play PS2 disks, but all models have some PS2 games downloadable from the store), you can manage files on your PSP or Vita. It had remote play, but it was... pretty limited to say the least.
It quite literally only does everything.
I'm gonna drown in downvotes once I say that I don't like the Grand Theft Auto series. I'm actually serious, I never understood the appeal for those games.
Wayback Machine, all the time. Very useful if a reference link on Wikipedia is dead (why do websites just remove articles like that? It drives me nuts). Unfortunately it doesn't handle JavaScript very well, rendering some functions of websites unusable, or breaking images. I particularly remember browsing the website for Al Jazeera Children's Channel (which is jcctv.net by the way), they had a theme switcher which unfortunately uses JS, so... I'm stuck with the blue underwater theme for some reason. And yes, Al Jazeera did do lots of non-news related stuff at one point.
The Internet Archive can be useful as well if you're looking for a very niche thing that isn't really available elsewhere. I usually use it for software, but at one point I tried searching it for an archive of Club Penguin's game files. They also have lots of public domain stuff if you're interested in that (friendly reminder: Steamboat Willie is part of it now).
I know an Australian who runs a YouTube channel called DankPods (you might've heard of it), and he's pretty damn funny.
I like to imagine an alternate universe where the Kaliningrad Oblast didn't exist, and in its place was a 4th Baltic country, I call it Dooland (formal name: Republic of Dooland).
Their language, Doolish, is actually a Germanic language based on German, but simpler than even English, and doesn't have any conjugation tenses or case system, and phonetics similar to Italian (yes, a Germanic language where the R makes the trill sound).
The flag is a horizontal tricolor, purple on top (yes, purple), blue in the middle, and green on the bottom, representing grasslands late at dusk in a starry night sky, where it's usually pretty cold. Purple goes on the top because idk it looks better?
Cities include the capital, which I named Almara (don't ask why), where a sandwich shaped like an ice cream cone is sold (unfortunately I stole this idea from Disney), however it's not the biggest city, that title goes to Celestia (way nicer name), where the aurora borealis can be seen, usually next to a giant grass field which the flag is based on. It also houses a very popular music festival that doubles as its tourist attraction.
In terms of a national animal, I went with the koi fish. It has a very calm vibe if you ask me.
Seems like a fun country if it did exist.
Possibly the only worthy iPod competitor in my opinion. I wish I had one.
Android is being used by Microsoft now since Windows Phone didn't really do very well. Their Surface Duo device runs Android. Windows 11 has a "Windows Subsystem for Android" feature... that uses the Amazon Appstore (and is actually getting phased out - the WSA thing, not the Amazon Appstore).
And yeah, I have no idea why the Google Play Store isn't available there, seems like a pretty weird decision. Can you tell I hate geoblocking?
Apple didn't fall victim to this?