Umm no - since an American conservative tends to have authoritarian leanings.

This has a lot to do with the 2010's -2020's tendency of reviewers flattening complex characters with reductive analysis such as “another 40 something white guy”, etc. It sort of opened up a pandora’s box of, “well if this qualifies as actual criticism, here you go.”

I think the problem is there always is 1 or 2 people who “will not bathe for *insert reasons here*.”

I know this is just a curious question but there’s a few that can do it. It could be arm injuries where dropping off/picking up at the place isn’t a problem but full body access is. People who are in the middle of acute back issues may also experience a version of this because the back connects to everything. Same…

It may also be nerd specific conventions have a history of revisiting things.  There could be people at gun conventions or house building conventions that smell like they got there straight from composting, but there’s not huge demographic diversity that might bring it up.

100% yes.

“Team Will” has got to be the most confusing aspect of this whole thing.  And I honestly wonder how much of it is real, or just that it pushes engagement.  In the real world, “people saying mean things to you” is just life. In civil society, you always have the option of talking back (these two would have had the…

The problem you’re skirting is an economic one. This is something that in my opinion also working in Tech a lot of Engineers don’t get.

The problem is the predictable end to it.

My above statement only applies to US think pieces on international titles.

Having lived through that time, I’d disagree. The Square Enix fans existed in massive numbers since the days of NES. And while you’re comparing things to Ultima, those were PC titles of which in my experience very few American fans knew about, unless they already knew Ultima existed.

I mean I don’t really have any thoughts on this because I think this is just the other edge of the sword. I don’t think JRPG as a term started as anything other than local US fans using the term to differentiate their Square Enix and Phantasy Stars from other things on the market.

I mean, maybe as Democrats they should stop showing up every 8 to 16 years and start showing up every 2 years so this could have been done legislatively rather than blaming Biden for not Executive Ordering something too big for the office?  We all knew this is why it took him so long to do it - he knew if he did it…

The international aspect is - I admit - tough.

I would have loved an ending where you can liberate Miquella and play out Malenia’s story differently (which still requires you to defeat her - just maybe not to death.)   With Malenia - she feels like a character who would be locked into a specific course of action until knocked out of it because she’s been around so…

Not really sure how you square that with the last 30 years which has predominantly catered to more liberalizing forces than conservative forces when we’re talking about entertainment.

Dimitris point is also bullshit.

For me there were three main factors working against Horizon this time around. I completely discount the Ubisoft/Open World critique because Elden Ring happened this year. I chalk it even being brought up to Youtubers like videogamedunkey whom aren’t really forced to be logically consistent. This is sort of like…

Iraq yes.

Sure. The US (and the South) had a very real problem of large populations of white and black people and politicians ready and willing to use those issues in a way that benefited them.