What a sniveling worm.

EDIT: furthermore:

Waterbending.

Wow, this puts Hezbollah in a terrible position. What a betrayal. I mean, I know it's a pretty divided country anyways but still.

In any case, death to Israel, death to America.

I'm seeing news outlets refer to either Lebanon or Hezbollah as one of the ceasefire signatories, depending on the article/outlet.

This is absolutely ridiculous.

Aside from obvious stuff like, fuck IP and you aren't entitled to customers, there's also this:

Nobody makes these games anymore.

When I was a kid I loved Mega Man Battle Network. You know when they last released one? 2008.

I also loved Mega Man Legacy, last entry was in 2000.

They don't make these anymore.

The closest we've seen is One Step From Eden and it's a fast paced combat only roguelike from an indie studio. I still bought and enjoyed it, idk maybe if a major legacy studio would make games like the ones they don't want to let people access instead of timed dopamine release triggering addiction machines designed to sell loot boxes they wouldn't have to worry so much about "piracy."

I mean, I could be forgetting some nuances here, but they engaged in war here in an attempt to combat the genocide of the Palestinians right? If you enter a conflict, suffer heavy losses and don't achieve your goals before you have to stop fighting you arguably lost the conflict.

I'm not saying they're wrong to agree to a ceasefire mind you, the Lebanese people were suffering greatly from bombardment from the zionist entity and I don't know how much more capacity to fight they had.

EDIT: when I made this comment I thought that Hezbollah itself had agreed to this ceasefire, now it's sounding like the Lebanese government did though.

American engineering is so efficient actually, because the Twelve Colonies of Kobol had to create an entire species of malevolent androids to accidentally wipe their administration out to the point of the 19th person in line for the presidency to get into office.

It's a few weeks old, so I'm not sure if it was posted previously, but I just saw it on another forum and thought it was too interesting not to share:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wPA1orNv6SQ

This interview with John Mearsheimer is interesting. It's unusual to hear such a clear eyed understanding of the world from someone who is ultimately in favor of Western hegemony.

I also thought it was interesting that even someone who's view on international relations was that the Ukraine war and Gaza genocide should stop because they're counterproductive when maintaining US hegemony is best achieved by concentrating our resources against China, still said that the Gaza genocide was also morally indefensible and that he couldn't vote for either major party candidate because he didn't support Trump but that genocide was a red line.

This "do whatever it takes to maintain Western power" guy has more moral fortitude than the majority of rank and file Democrats.

My final thought was damn, Germany sucks.

I liked that one a lot, though the latter half of the game felt a little rushed. It was pretty despised by a lot of old final fantasy fans though.

Yeah that's a pretty fair criticism. The last couple have felt that way.

I feel like Ashley Winchester in WA2 has the same vibes? He's using a musket, wearing jeans and a Western style button up, etc

I liked the Paradigm system.

My absolute favorite turn based combat system is in Star Renegades. Never been more engaged in video game combat without real time elements than in that one, unfortunately it's a roguelike.

Someone should try making a classic JRPG but with the game mechanics replaced with something that's actually good

Gonna make Final Fantasy nerds mad, every time they try a new system that isn't just "select attack until you win, heal as needed" they get mad and claim that changing away from that system "dumbed it down" and "made it a mindless button mashing game" ironically.

Sure, there's some spaghetti Western flourishes to the music sometimes, some characters wear duster coats and the landscapes tend to be kind of arid

Yeah but I like the dusters, deserts and Western musical flourishes.

I think the amount of guns in a not-modern setting makes it feel pretty Western to me also.

I also feel like some of the towns look really Western. Big metal windmills and water towers, saloony architecture etc.

This also doesn't apply to 2 obviously but this is the frontwoman for 3

Show

Look at those six-shooters.

I don't recognize those bosses, I assume they're from the first one (I only ever played 2 and 3) but the text box background and font are pretty recognizable.

Loved the science fantasy western setting they had, I don't think I've seen it anywhere else.

make no sense at all

Is that Wild Arms?

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Also

Semi-related tangent, but it amazes me that there's tons of Japanese media where they take all these weird video game systems, tropes and abstractions and make them explicit parts of the setting and narrative. Like these things were invented to help portray Lord of the Rings or Conan the Barbarian-esque adventures in pen-and-paper game form in the 70s

I tried to watch Delicious in Dungeon because everyone talked it up so much and at one point in E1 the guy in plate armor started rambling about they didn't have enough money for food so maybe they could sell their weapons and armor and buy cheaper weapons and armor along with rations and I just immediately bounced hard off of it because of the "all goods including form fitting plate armor are totally fungible and you can get an equitable deal selling this equipment and also there is a shop that carries and sells swords, but not as good as regular swords, and charges less money for them"

I felt like I was watching a direct adaptation of Final Fantasy 1 or something.

Dog of the U.S. Empire flags in the username, opinion disregarded.

Patriots are in control, trust the plan.