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Anyone who thinks there's something wrong with the fact that no artists are currently focused on it.

Depicting difficult subjects in art is one thing. Obsessing over depicting people's failures is weird.

scale

That's an interesting thought I hadn't considered. The Webb is about as quiet as we're going to get anywhere near our orbit, but a lunar compound could very easily be much larger, and would be a great deal easier to service/upgrade.

And slowly, society began to awaken to the reality that theirs was a civilization ruled by Mammon, not men.

The best part of it was how they released it. I wish I caught it when they aired it, unannounced, in a random time slot on Adult Swim late at night.

I also recognize that effectively nothing actually changed from roaming a world map

There isn't much, but there are actually a couple of hidden locations related to important sidequests, like the zodiac weapons. I think there might also be something there related to the post-game content in the International version, but I'm not certain.

I'll actually copy a comment I saw recently by someone else who knows more about Final Fantasy than I do. Apparently it's much older than that.

Though historically the ATB system was invented for FF4 and used by all games until FFX itself before being used again for X-2, though I think most of them had the option of "active or wait" like Chrono Trigger to pick from. I haven't played most of those FFs to say for certain. Not that it makes it better, but it technically was the return to form and earlier games just had less you cared to watch happen.

It's wild to me how he left partially because of FFX, which is widely regarded as one of the best, and is my personal favourite.

Which still is rock paper scissors IIRC, but the loser gets kicked in the balls.

I thought it was taking turns kicking each other in the balls until someone gives in. The trick is, of course, that whoever gets kicked first loses every single time. It's probably a joke about very real "slap fights" where guys will take turns slapping each other as hard as they can.

Any word on that other questionable industry in Thailand?

No, I'm rather certain that's got all the context right there.