Yeah, I always likened it to Karens going “look, I made some frozen pizzas for my family a few times, I did my part, Pandemic Over!” and they just went back out into the wild.

This is exactly my experience too. We can’t plan for certain nights to be busier than others because they’ve stopped being consistent, there’s no pattern anymore. It shifts and moves around so much that we can’t do anything except ask some of the already tired staff to stay an extra half hour to help or something.

Great piece, but it didn’t touch on what I’ve experienced as one of the biggest reasons people are quitting in droves. In a recent poll, it was cited as the #2 reason people are quitting these jobs, though I suppose this article was meant as a plea to that very reason.

It’s the customers.

Physically, no. None of them.

“How lucky for them...back HOME...” >:)

Rearranged musical score? ...hopefully not -too- rearranged. NieR’s original soundtrack is a beautiful masterpiece.

Royal -kinda- fixes the problem with the gay men, since instead of fawning over wanting to uh...do stuff with Ryuji, they instead think he’d make for a killer drag queen and take him off for a makeover. It’s...not much better but at least it’s no longer sexually creepy.

As for Mara, well, you can’t get rid of Mara.…

“We actually wrote about the game back in July 2020"

Yes. Thank you Kotaku. Now it’s dead. Just like every other Nintendo-based fan project that you’ve reported on.

Meanwhile the choices we get are boring humans of different flavors with nothing remotely more interesting. I’m hoping Dragonborn make it in, but right now I’m actually not picking up BG 3 because I’m -so- tired of the boring fantasy tropes with humanoid races/species. We don’t even get orcs/half-orcs? Even if they’re…

Man I’d love to know what the hell happened to Reptile.

Natsuko Ishikawa wasn’t writing Zenos before. I feel like she’s the writer that can take Zenos from being a somewhat boring “I need to hunt my prey” villain into something spectacular.

I -really- don’t think that’s the case, since some of the problem comes from them not even wanting to make new characters of existing species in the Mario universe. Creating characters that just happen to be particular species’ in the Mario games aren’t going to create any confusion. Look at Koops from TTYD. He’s a…

I guess we can’t name the name, but you can probably figure it out for 25 cents.

...and yet all those raids still require pre-made groups and don’t have matchmaking. So y’know, any of us scrubs who don’t have 5 other people to play Destiny 2 with when the game is starting to flop are just SOL.

CORN CHIPS ARE NO PLACE FOR A MIGHTY WARRIOR!

It’s the combination of that baby voice combined with the text ALSO being translated into baby speak. It’s one thing to hear her talk but to also have to spend brain power trying to translate “I’m the cute widdle girw fwom Wendew.” It fucking hurts.

Tell me that after going through the collapsed roadway, the sewers and the train graveyard. Areas that both had 2 screens at most to go through and no real big threats outside of Abzu, but now they take a few HOURS to slog through. Tell me that after the umpteenth time you have to VERRRRRRRY SLOOOWWWWWLY shimmy…

We get it, you hate casual players who don’t have the time or drive to grind in Eureka for hours on end. Shame on them, with their lives and such.

So this is “shameless” but Temtem...isn’t somehow?

Gonna be real, I think it’s a bit of a bad look to call this shameless.

I actually liked how the game explained their immortality. If I’m remembering this correctly: All of the immortals come from a dimension that’s on an axis of time that’s perpendicular to the axis of the world they now inhabit. So their souls aren’t moving “forward” anymore in relation to their original timeline, and…