I’m going to stop you right there. Japan has steadfastly refused to aknowledge quite a lot of it’s WW2 massacres, still has plenty of Shinto shrines dedicated to some of the WW2 worst of the worst perpetrators, and has refused to compensate known victims of it’s (past) regime.

It also shows there is a lot of polish between the accepted version and the gold version. Game dev is ugly work until the inflection point of releasing the feature.

Honestly, I’m in for an “audience surrogate” generic character that is NOT part of the main cast. It preserve the original mythos of each original character by not having one of them as the scripted protagonist and thus “preferred” status. I.E. That means NO ONE of the original cast has plot armor, but the audience…

I see it as part of totalitarian governments and entities associated with them to “integrate” and eventually control an ever growing part of every parcel of the global economy and cultural aspects. If you can’t beat them, join them (and then influence them).

That’s only true if you focus only on the last 150 years, and conviently forget previous empires like Persian, Achaemenid and the Ottomans.

I think the main holdup here is the term itself: “anime”. Language is fluid, and cultural osmosis in the modern world lend itselfs for languages to share terms, which then are used within a certains context, and eventually that context overshadows the previous ones and become the “principal” definition for a word,…

Or shameless copies and scams, like the “flappy bird” clones saga....

One could easily reply that your appeal to status-quo are a form of avoiding the subject. Capitalism does not work the same way in a state-to-state level, has evolved a GREAT deal along the years, and one can argue is not moral enough to be considred it’s “final” state.

If it’s a choice you are forced to make, it makes it anti-consumer by definition. That’s one of the arguments against the “walled garden” mentality.

This is probably the worst definition of a monoply I’ve ever heard. Incorrect too.

Remember, Epic is only one member of a larger interest group here. For the North Dakota bill, namely.

You do know Tencent has shares in Apple and Alphabet too, right? Or are you just spouting talking points? All three are not majority, so they can’t impose a data backchannel on either three.

Well considering Nintendo only show news when enough is gathered to warrant it, you can expect quite a few things. Of course, that depends on what is actually presented. A few direct fell flat in the past because of lackluster content.

I always get a laugh out of the argument about “supply and demand” (and overall “invisible hand” bullshit) when within context the very act we are discussing is manipulating said “supply and demand”.

At this point, sarcasm and absurdity are the thinking (wo)man only respite...

My personal view of this problem as a whole is this: IF you live in a democracy, then the most meaningful thing you can do (apart from actually figthing fire with fire) is vote. Electing people (and then pressuring those people) who can pass laws that meaningfully can make the difference, even on small things such as…

The long answer would include thing such as: having a large disposable income, luxury versus commodity, human cognitive biases (such as FOMO), boredom because of the pandemic, societal conformity, perceived value (cheaper for gaming than a comparable PC), and many more.

Your argument falls flat on soooooo many levels:

Luckily there are many speedrun categories, and quite a few that put emphasis on playing the game as intended (AKA: “no glitch” runs).

I am of the opinion that often eccentric people with anti-social quirks can be great creators, precisely because they think and view the world differently.