Goodbye, 2019. You were not a positive year. Unfortunately, 2020 will be less positive than you because of terrifying elements that will make the 2020s the most chaotic and volatile decade since the 1930s and 1940s.
This is the last comic uploaded in 2019. Neo Retro Union would like to wish its readers a Happy New Year, even if the outlook for 2020 is going to be less positive.
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Goodbye, Runescape Java Client. You were a great alternative to the Java browser plugin when it had problems. However, like the Java browser plugin, time was not on your side.
On the 18th of December, 2019, the Runescape Java Client will be officially discontinued.
In the twelve years playing Runescape from 2005 until quitting the game for good in 2017, I have never used the Runescape NXT Client. Given that NXT will need a high-end computer, I had always stuck with the Java browser plugin and the Runescape Java Client to play Runescape. The lack of means to play Runescape was the reason I quit the game totally.
While recycling will be beneficial to both the environment and the economy, it could also help to cut down software piracy and reduce the demand for conflict minerals. Given the large amount of pirated video game cartridges, as well as a huge number of pirated CDs and DVDs, with some of them being made out of conflict minerals, recycling can actually help to force those involved in funding crimes to file for bankruptcy. While recycling is definitely not illegal, it can actually help those who have to comply with new laws that forbid the sale or ownership of pirated goods to dump such illegal items.
Speaking of recycling, any slot machine that got confiscated from illegal casinos should not be burnt up, because the smoke from burning the slot machines will contribute to the already excessive levels of carbon dioxide, which is causing climate change. Efforts had been made by the authorities to decimate the confiscated gambling machines and convert them into raw materials for future manufacturing processes. However, the number of illegal gambling machines and pirated discs seized remains very high that the destruction process is often slow.
Recycling also helps to reduce e-waste, given that a lot of e-waste ended up in the landfills of underdeveloped countries, resulting in harmful chemicals poisoning groundwater, by converting them into raw materials for future manufacturing processes. Also, recycling decimates the demand for conflict minerals, which had been notorious for funding war crimes in various war zones that have seen millions slaughtered. In other words, recycling could be weaponized to fight against software piracy, illegal gambling and the funding of war crimes from sales of conflict minerals.
The 2010s was not a good decade, and 2019 was not a good year, so do not expect the 2020s to start positively, and there are good reasons for that.
New regulations for the World Wide Web will be enforced, and lots of content that do not comply with the new regulations will be removed. Given that most of the content that will potentially be deleted by new regulations were deemed too inappropriate, many netizens will be forced to remove them or face account deactivation.
Tyrannical dictators of rogue states have often blamed democratic leaders for their part in the revival of a brutal imperialistic power that will be the biggest threat to world peace, as well as democracy and said rogue states' dictators' world domination ambitions. But Bible prophecy states that one of these rogue states will end up being an end-time "King of the South" that will be so pushy that he will provoke the "King of the North" and get destroyed. In fact, this war will be very bad because nuclear weapons will be fired in anger by just about anybody who owns a nuke.
Earth's temperature had been rising over the past few decades, and we had been taking note of it as a result of many islands being submerged into the ocean. Yet our best efforts to reverse climate change will prove to be futile because climate change could be irreversible.
Economy analysts have been trying to warn us that the next downturn will be worse than the last one, which had never truly ended. Even worse still will be the possibility that a huge financial downturn will trigger the next world war, which will definitely have nuclear weapons fired in anger.
This comic is just a stern warning about what 2020 and beyond will bring. But we should not worry too much because eventually, Jesus will come again to liberate us and save us all from our madness.
It's unbelievable that Sony could create a video game console line that will last 25 years back in 1994. Nobody expected the PlayStation name to last 25 years, not even Sony. But the PlayStation name lasted through four video game console generations, and with PlayStation 5 possibly coming soon, the PlayStation line will possibly continue through the next generation of video game consoles.
Happy 25th Anniversary, Sony PlayStation! The video game industry would never be this big without you!
