I think the issue is, the Gawker blogosphere at one time WAS probably more even-keel and and usually didn’t logically or devolve into histrionics and there are some posters that remember that. When the Gawker readership did notice that Kotaku, io9, et. al had gone the direction of Jez they went to other blogs to find…

In retrospect, Malenia is sort of bizarre in that she represents extremely poor balancing and design but that’s also why she became such a meme/popular character. Watching that character, which flat out just breaks specific builds and then is quiet manageable with others popularity is kind of fun. Because it sort of…

At this point, there are 3 women to every 2 men in college so I wouldn’t actually be suprised in the near future if women’s only colleges were outright challenged for existing.

This is probably a more accurate take. All deference to Japanese developers in general, but Japan has a tendency to look to Japan for answers.

The difference is the transition from “topical” to “time capsule”. If you look at the history of Oscars or even films in general, there’s often a premium put on “timelessness”.  The dullness you speak of IS Lester’s life.  That’s the point.

The problem is really one of asymmetric information. All “love yourself” has to do with is not hating yourself for things that are not changeable.

Thanks for the recommendation. I haven’t seen that one so I’ll check it out. The setup is definitely by definition Isekai.

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…