ThisIsSin
Anarchotyranny is when you don't know what the rules are
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ThisIsSin
Anarchotyranny is when you don't know what the rules are
15hr ago
The Metroid remasters and Prime 4 do, but I hesitate to call those popular, sadly.
That being said, though, the obvious answer is certain smartphone games, Pokemon Go in particular. VR headsets use them as well.
ThisIsSin
Anarchotyranny is when you don't know what the rules are
18hr ago
I was shocked by how many people thought that the final season was a sharp dropoff from the penultimate one; for both, I had thought that the penultimate season was garbage, and the final season just felt like a continuation of the trajectory.
The penultimate season was garbage, but it still at least had some promise (and felt like it had some stakes, and hadn't gone all Dark Fate on the protagonist).
Also, the final season forced you to wait for the worst episode(s). And over the holidays, too. Likely wouldn't have been so bad at any other time.
A cancelled season is always as good as the fans make it. A rushed season is bad forever. I get that the show-writers were dealt a bad hand with it taking way too long to film everything but in truth the cracks were visible from S2 (mainly because they reset most of the character development and hit the protagonist with the idiot ball, which S3 and S4 actually seemed to be safer from).
When I am made consciously aware that the events are happening because the writers wanted to manipulate me
The writers didn't respect the characters enough and it shows. (Which goes double for character types society in general does not respect; kid characters being the most obvious.) I'm led to believe the same thing occurs in the final season of GOT.
When I am made consciously aware that the events are happening because the writers wanted to manipulate me, rather than because of reasonable action-and-consequence within the world in which it was built, the suspension of disbelief is lost, and I'm left emotionlessly thinking about the writers instead of emotionally empathizing with the characters.
The 90s nostalgia that has already been written has been pretty good so far. Granted, it's also not really trying to be this right now. But outside of Deltarune and Omori it's going to take a lot more effort to pull it off because there really isn't very much kids of that time will remember about the '90s- there's a lot of difference culturally between the '60s and '80s, but not a lot of difference between the '90s and now (this is kind of the cost of extended adolescence, by the way). At least, not in the West; the East probably sees it differently.
ThisIsSin
Anarchotyranny is when you don't know what the rules are
18hr ago
ThisIsSin
Anarchotyranny is when you don't know what the rules are
21hr ago
Your idea that we should have a world where only those who are on top at any given moment [in this specific instance, that's the old] should have anything is dystopian.
But we kind of have that world right now.
and do not somehow belong to the younger generation merely because they are younger
They belong to you insofar as you can defend them. Historically, the old pay the young to do that (in various ways, not necessarily financial, but is a good chunk of the time). The fact they're currently refusing to (because they feel, perhaps correctly, they do not need to) and at the same time preventing any other independent development is, again, kind of the central issue.
I believe I've mentioned this before: when a society is in equilibrium old vs. young and to the degree that all modern development is zero-sum, TFR should be 2.0. Lower than that means the old aren't reinvesting enough (it's very clear that they're addicted to low-cost labor, hence their preference for infinity foreigners rather than focusing on domestic reproduction); higher than that means the young are burning through the capital too quickly and are on track to create this problem.
I might just suck at the game; I seem to find them a bit narrower than 5's. Then again, 5's set in the fictional Dei region of Mexico, and them not being able to afford paint, or more than 3 roads and one mountain, is realistic I guess. You can't run over the cows in 6 either, which is unfortunate; gone are the days of secret minigames in benchmarking programs where you could shoot down flying cows with a missile launcher mounted on the back of your monster truck (which, annoyingly, I can't find any good footage of, though you can see the aftermath of it here).
NFS Heat was very good but I haven't heard much out of them lately (I know they made a new game but I also know nothing about it). Hey, at least the AI cheats as hard as it did in those games, so you too can experience the classics, like picking a 3000 HP drag car and losing to a Beat.
Which was funny, but come on.
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