Yeah, it’s one of the (9 or so) alternate endings for Star Fox Command on the Nintendo DS:

“Fox was despondent. Star Wolf had taken from him everything that he loved. Falco’s attempts to comfort his old friend were futile. Fox lived as one already dead, barely eating or sleeping. But then Falco had an idea that changed everything… Falco had a brainstorm: retire as pilots and engineer their Arwings into racing machines. They would enter the high-speed world of G-Zero Grand Prix racing! When Falco saw excitement return to his friend’s face, relief coursed through him. Fox and Falco turned out to be a great G-Zero team. Winning race after race, they become household names across a countless number of planetary systems. Their days as part of Star Fox faded to a distant memory…” —The Curse of Pigma Ending

It did not strike me as anything particularly memorable, just a weird alternate ending in a game with a lot of weird alternate endings. Like, there are multiple endings in that game where Krystal turns in to a villain.

But to go all Yoko Taro and be like “nah man, the weirdest endings are the most cannon” is…

I mean…

I found this podcast really interesting and enlighten…On the GZERO World Podcast, we’re taking a look at some of the top geopolitical risks of 2025. This looks to be the year that the G-Zero wins. As longtime listeners will know, a G-Zero world is an era when no one power or group of powers is both willing and able to drive a global agenda and maintain international order. We’ve been living with…

Apparently this had a longer title. I'm sticking to this one.

Another tale of someone in their late 20s, doing something they love like writing but feels like they have lost their spark. Why this feels like something I can relate to? Well, except for one thing. This is Mysterious Disappearances. Director: Tomomi Mochizuki Series Composition: Tomomi Mochizuki Music: Kayo Konishi Yukio Kondō Original creator: Nujima Character Design: Takuya Tani Art…

Judul Buku : Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World Pengarang: Ian Bremmer Penerbit : Penguin Group Cetakan : Pertama, Mei 2012 Tebal : viii + 229 halaman

G-Zero (government 0) merujuk pada suatu fenomena saat ini: tidak ada satu negara atau satu aliansi negarapun yang mau dan mampu memegang tongkat kepemimpinan secara global. Ini karena negara-negara yang di masa lalu pernah menjadi pemimpin dunia, saat ini sedang menghadapi berbagai masalah internal yang besar, kompleks dan pelik. Amerika Serikat yang pernah amat digdaya, kini lumpuhsecara politik ataupun ekonomi. Besarnya defisit anggaran belanja mengurangi kemampuannya bermain dipercaturan politik dan ekonomi global. Kawasan Eropa juga sedang menghadapi persoalan keuangan akut, yang bisa mengarah pada bubarnya aliansi negara Eropa.

"Term used to denote the absence of a politically and economically dominant country or bloc."

“For the first time since the end of World War II, no country or bloc of countries has the political and economic leverage to drive an international agenda,” argued Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer and head of research David Gordon, writing in Foreign Policy:

The United States will continue to be the only truly global power, but it increasingly lacks the resources and domestic political capital to act as primary provider of global public goods. There are no ready alternatives to U.S. leadership. Europe is preoccupied with a multi-year bid to save the eurozone. Japan has complex political and economic problems of its own, and rising powers like China and India – are too focused on managing the next stage in their development to take on new international responsibilities. We’re referring to this new era as G-Zero, because that phrase captures the lack of international leadership at the heart of so many emerging political and economic challenges. …

Why the G-Zero and not the formation of blocs that allow countries to pool their influence to get things done? Because the default policy response to a breakdown in global economic governance is every man/nation for himself. As demonstrated even in a politically integrated Europe, without adherence to common rules, there’s no such thing as collective economic security. In the G-Zero, domestic constituencies will become increasingly effective in pushing populist agendas on trade, currency, and fiscal policy.