Hotspur

For sure, and alternatively, if you a person who does crimes, particularly if you do crimes with friends while armed, you should clearly just get balaclavas, plate carriers and an ICE Velcro patch, since no one is allowed to resist you or ask your identity.

“But Officer! There aren’t any immigrants working in this bank, I’d know, because I’m the manager!”

“Uh huh, I’ll believe it when I see it, and I bet your woke ass is hiding them in the vault: open it right now and return to your office if you don’t want an all expenses paid trip to El Salvador, one way. If you don’t find that motivating, I also have flashbangs, if you catch my meaning”

The movement is bad. I like your description of UE5 asset flip. But since the movement isn’t really important (except for the mostly optional plat forming—why the hell did that include platforming, so weird) it didn’t really turn me off. I found the physical environment design to be a little weird and repetitive—it works well at the overland scale but feels kinda vague and goofy when you’re in an instance.

But I found the story intriguing, and honestly, the combat just hooked me. The combo of the turn based format with some reactive skill elements was appealing, and it continued to be interesting because of the vast array of pictos/luminas. I also thought the Act pacing was strange, after act 2 it feels like they kinda ran out of steam and you just wander around grinding up to kill optional world bosses.

Anyhow I enjoyed it, but it doesn’t seem crazy to me that if you weren’t that into turn based combat to begin with, you didn’t click with the game.

This should be tagged for a year-end best-of retrospective post. An excellent specimen of the form.

I think you might be looking at the trigger for the gtrnade launcher, if You’re talking about that second loop below the normal trigger.

I mean the guys already making this joke himself right? So you’re just laughing along with him. Unless you made the T-shirt text for the meme, and even still, he’d probably chuckle at it if that were the case.

Customers aren’t engaging in the market enough for your tastes? Make them the market!

Yeah was worried this was the case. Seems insane though that they can make that decision and then force the family to take liability for the cost. Hopefully they will have some sort of recourse—I don’t know exactly but I’m pretty sure long term life support ain’t cheap.

That’s so fucked

So this is horrible and stupid. But also, who pays for this? Does the family get forced to eat millions in ICU bills? Does the hospital just eat it? Does it get covered by Medicare, which they’re actively trying to erase?

Well, I get that? But satire presents exaggerated versions of the truth in order to display the absurdity of that truth. I guess I’m just skeptical that the grifter narcissists currently running things are ready for bunker living, but again, there are bunkers, and the tech/hedge fund set has been very apocalyptically oriented last few years, so perhaps.

The argument I can see for it (from the great power geopolitical perspective) is that it would be a nuclear regional war right in Russia/China’s backyard, and might distract/degrade them. But again, the very high chance of total annihilation inherent in this should immediately discount it as a viable action. But we also live in some sort of hyper reality at this point, so perhaps the capitalist death-drive really is being made real right now.

You’re right, thanks for fixing.