I mean, almost literally everything about Japan is designed from the ground-up for xenophobic isolationism, including its laws.  If Japan doesn’t want to be culturally isolated, Japan is going to have to fix it.  No one can fix it for them.

Gen X had a chance to stick it to Boomers, but instead decided to lay low and try to play by their rules, and we know how that went.

Now they sit around and act smug towards Millennials and GenZs as though their failure to stand up for themselves is some kind of badge of honor.

Gonna go out of my way to not feel bad about a bunch of scam artists being called scam artists tbh.

Conservativism is a death cult, so this is really just living up to what they are to begin with.

BotW worked because of the art direction. They knew them limitations and designed around them.

I realize people obsessed with the bleeding edge, graphically, are never really going to appreciate that, but here we are.

Of course, why BotW could manage that 5 years ago and Pokemon seems content to just sort…

“BotW doesn’t really have a story after the tutorial area”

This really isn’t true, though. The story is all around you in that game. The visual story-telling was pretty remarkable. Stumbling into new areas and seeing battlefield wastes or ancient areas barely touched.

That’s not even mentioning the memories. The story…

You know, other than the obvious horrific dumpster fire that the nation is burning inside, there’s some kind of sick satisfaction to be had in watching Trump do exactly what he was always going to do to the GOP.  Is it enough?  No, obviously, but if we have to watch this ship go down, it may as well be entertaining.

BOTW isn’t going to suffer that same fate because of what the game actually did for gaming.

Think of how many BOTW clones and open world games that cribbed heavily from BOTW design philosophy.

THAT’S what makes an all-timer.  Something that significantly added to the medium as a whole.  Twilight Princess, while a good…

Counterpoint: Krampus should stay permanently.

Please seek professional help.  You are worrying everyone in the thread.

You sound like a child.  The only unhinged one in this entire thread is you.

“The 1987 adventure, Maniac Mansion, doesn’t need to be played to enjoy DOTT at all. In fact…lean closer so I can whisper…I’m not the biggest fan of the game. Shhh.”

Well that is certainly...A Take.

It’s insane and more ammunition for the right-wing reactionary “the woke crowd have lost their minds!” bunch.  It plays right into those hands.

This is the definition of a worthless comment.

Nobody cares what your aesthetic is. Just don’t play the game?  Are you somehow brand new to the medieval-through-the-lens-of-Eastern-culture aesthetic that has literally always been Final Fantasy?

The number of people in these comments failing to understand that this is not a remake of the 1961 film, but is instead a new adaption of the stage musical is really telling.

This is the decision that is going to completely shatter the legitimacy of SCOTUS in a way it will never get back (Roberts knows this, which is why he is trying so desperately to find a middle ground, but the other conservatives aren’t biting). What that means moving forward isn’t entirely clear, but considering…

I get all of that.

But the reality of the American political system is that it is designed to support only 2 major political parties because every election is a winner-take-all, first-past-the-post system. It’s math. It’s the reason no viable 3rd-party exists.

And unless we tear it all down and start again, it will…

Did you just not read the post at all?

“The absolutely MADDENING position of many on the left, from the leaders down to the voters themselves”

I’m pretty sure “leaders” is spelled “leaders” but OK.

You either understand how American politics works, or you don’t.  It’s nice if you’re in a position to not have any of this…

It’s an easy game to play when puritanical “might makes right” culture is so prevalent.  So many people see being rich as a virtue.

This is the final blow, but the warning signs have been here forever that EVERY ELECTION MATTERS.

The absolutely MADDENING position of many on the left, from the leaders down to the voters themselves, has been to ignore basically any election that wasn’t Federal. That grave error is what has put us here now, because…