I said that because they did add some minor side quests that were almost finished at some point I think.
XiaCobolt
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That game was wild, I remember putting a bunch of hogtied Confederate remnant guys into shallow muddy water and watching them struggle to keep their heads up so they didn't drown.
That's in the game from the start. I think the first time I played I was still a bit of a lib and went "I'll leave him to die a sad broken man" the second time I let my sawn-off bark.
He was hiding his power levels during the election...they were much lower.
Apparently he might be a Yang Guy because all would be US assassins these days have incomprehensible centrist politics.
I had of course explained Welcome to Dorley Hall to them 10minutes earlier, so they also agreed "basement"...
Shapiro is a real ghoul, former IDF, super pro-Israel etc
But also given he's a Jewish Governor in a swing state that went Red for Trump, I'm thinking the bomb throwers were probably Nazis so that's not great either.
My grandfather was from the so called "greatest generation". He was "handy" and refused to get help fixing anything. Cue everything in his house just being fixed with masking tape. TV panel fell off? Tape it back. Hole in wall? Tape over it? Nothing couldn't be fixed with masking tape.
It was dogshit and sometimes you have get people who know what they're doing to help.
My sibling was telling me about a hateful bumble message they got from a man, I muttered "basement...", I'm pretty Dorleypilled.
Weirdly true. Source is dog shit (Radio Free Europe), but a combination of the non-aligned movement and loving basketball made Serbs pretty chill with most other people except those also from the Balkans.
All the other former Yugoslav nations scoring well too except North Macedonia.
I saw the Minecraft Movie. It's a baffling movie. It's actually very funny and enjoyable.
But feels like it shouldn't given the sum of it's parts. It's a real contradiction. It's somehow too faithful/literal to the source, with uncanny AF villagers/illagers, them actually crafting by throwing tiny icons down on a grid, etc, while not faithful enough in other areas, there's moving wind mills and lots of items, mobs, interactions, etc that don't really make sense if you've played the game.
It's trying too hard to be meta and reference memes (e.g. kids yearn for the mines), but also is kind of really sincere in the way everyone interacts with the setting and less "that happened".
The real world is shown, but it's all kind of twee and magical realist to begin with (there's a bit with a jet pack and another with a mobile petting zoo strapped to a taxi) which is odd. But works. There's ~3 random diegetic songs just because Jack Black is a singer. There's all these weird choices. It's really weird. But I'd probably watch it again. IDK.
I saw this on my phone and said "fuck, this needs the computer" and walked to my computer.
Tintin is a real land of contrasts. Herge was a reactionary, started writing for racist publications and how much he collaborated with the Nazis is a subject of debate from begrudgingly to enthusiastically. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets is anticommunist trash. Tintin in the Congo is racist trash. There's a reason they didn't translate it into English for decades because it was too fucked up even for Anglos. Those books are not worth reading.
So his works start off really racist but over time Herge shows a surprisingly level of nuance and respect for other cultures (for an early 20th century European). Like the Blue Lotus is very racist to Japanese (but they're also the villains because it's the 1930s) and it's stereotypes the Chinese badly, but it also sincerely suggests the Chinese are the same as Europeans, a proud culture with a long history worthy of respect and friendship. Chang, Tintin's Chinese sidekick is smart and heroic. Even returning much later in Tintin in Tibet.
Tintin in America straight up calls pretty much all Americans gangsters and irrational lynch mobs, who will swindle First Nations out of their lands to steal their oil at first opportunity. As the books progress non-European places (Peru, Tibet etc) get shown with at least more nuance and interest, even if there's still problems.
Also the quality just gets so much better. Like the early stories are just dogshit. Barely readable. Tintin in America is one Deus Ex Macchina after another as Tintin bumbles from one situation to situation. Tintin in the land of the soviets is a series of shitty newspaper cartoons strung together. But later works like the Calculus Affair is a tense political thriller about a spy battle over new sonic super-weapons in fictionalized Balkan states, Tintin on the Moon is a sincere and realistic story of the challenges of lunar travel a decade before the moon landing.
Tintin also over time assembles his cast, Captain Haddock, Professors Calculus Thompson/Dupont and Thomson/Dupond, as well as recurring characters Bianca Castafiore, Spruk, Chang etc. Tintin truly doesn't start until the Crab with the Golden Claw, when Captain Haddock storms on the scene "blistering blue barnacles" and all.