Latter stage ‘JRPG’, true. As the ideas of what was ‘entertaining’ in games changed the field diversified. When you stop being what you’re described as the descriptor fails.

“But did you know that a subset of any group of players find literally any content up to and including blank screens hot? Sexy, even?”

The talk about the journal and the lack of handholding is giving me strong ES: Morrowind flashbacks.

“Retro” also doesn’t really apply to actual classic things.

It’s a situation where the output of a few of the various Japanese gaming companies revised the RPG formula into one that sold well. While it’s absolutely not culture-specific it’s also very hard to argue that the particular style and the story quirks that come with it (lots of young adult/pre-teens occasionally in…

The negative connotations to “JRPG” tend to be things like bloat, repetetive conflicts, endless grind etc.

Honestly, my first thought was “We stopped ‘burning witches’ when we stopped listening to people like you. Now we’re getting close to doing it again, and who are we listening to?”

Almost like “cancellation” is a ginned up talking point the right wing ‘elite’ uses to motivate the rubes.

“Cancel Culture”?

I mean, he doesn’t even have to apologize if he’d just accept that - for the moment - he’s basically at the Dolph Lundgren/Jason Statham etc. level. He’s good enough to carry a film as long as the film is suited to his skills, but even then don’t expect billion plus box office without something truly special behind…

Eh, San Andreas, Rampage, Central Intelligence, all movies that were... eh, OK. All movies that made eh, OK money. The failures tend to be things like Doom that ALMOST squeak by.

I finally gave in and actually watched the movie in question.

“The final straw appears to have been a petition signed by 25 members of the show’s cast, who alleged that Alarr exhibited inappropriate behavior and fostered a toxic workplace environment on the set of the Peacock soap opera, calling for him to be replaced with a female director”

Transparency. “Hey, we started development and are moving forward.” “Hey, here’s some concrete evidence that production is moving in the way we said it would.”. That sort of stuff. All you really need.

I’ve friends who own the boxed sets and will leave them on nearly 24/7 as background noise, tuning in for their favorite episodes. Others that consider the show the go to “there’s nothing on TV, oh hey there’s a rerun...” viewing.

The music industry has a history of chewing up artists like this and spitting them out broken and/or dead. 

First, as a question was asked, “No”.

Some people are so burned by so many games having crappy pathfinding that it’s reflex not to use it.

If they aren’t stating a weight they aren’t held accountable on the weight. If it’s just pictures presented in “fantasy” settings such as they argue all commercials are, then they’re covered.

Well, that’s extended from when I used to go. Should expect that, friend over at Knott’s is talking about already being in heavy preHaunt work with main rehearsals starting mid-August.