Its a "hard stop" maneuver. You interrupt an incredibly emotional event, where tempers will raise and thoughts runaway as it goes on, with a complete nonsense thing that causes the "jolt" of how odd it is to basically derail the train that people's emotions are running.
Its a very useful manipulation technique, brought from Anger Management psychology and helpful for dealing with spouses (where 'winning' is still losing often). And like most things Leftist, its now being maliciously applied to prevent anyone from questioning them.
Its especially effective if you give them some positive emotion to replace the gap with, especially a subconscious one like food or sex.
Considering they already are having a panic from people complying too hard with just phase one, and that was a much "easier" sell because children and porn set off people's alarms pretty easily, they certainly are boldly overestimating their power and capabilities.
Has the British government forgotten that its Empire has long since crumbled and they are just an increasingly irrelevant island?
Couldn't happen to better people. Just looking at some of the "I just got laid off, here is my resume plz hire me" posts over the last few days and I am shocked at how shamelessly retarded some of them are.
Why would you admit to working on Civ 7, a game so reviled it cause prior games in the series to reach new peaks over it? Why would you even admit to being laid off, something that indicates how disposable your position was in the first place?
They all seem to think they are this incredible talent in a competitive market that is just chomping to poach people, instead of a highly oversaturated industry with probably double the amount of employees available compared to needed jobs.
Women are stuck in the extreme External Loci of Control mindset, so to their self-serving mind it absolutely is. Nothing is their fault, everything that happens is the world acting upon them and thereby the world needs to be fixed.
Even their flaws are someone else's fault. She is crazy because her ex was "abusive." She is poor because "gender gap." Etc.
At that time, he was found incompetent by three doctors, but because he did not meet the standards of involuntary commitment to a mental health facility, he was released.
How does such a gap even exist, if not by malice? Criminal activity should be standard enough for commitment.
Also the "doctors" for criminal court cases are usually Psychologists that decided that whoring themselves out to lawyers instead of big businesses (for "research") was a better use of their 'skills' and should be criticized more. They rarely go against whichever side paid them, and have been shown to regularly fall for base level tricks criminals use when talking to them.
In most urban and even suburban areas there is more area that meets that than places that don't
And this is by design. Its like a restraining order, it exists in such a way that you are always going to be in violation and they just now always have a "valid" reason to pick you up and charge you if need be.
Its also a deeply important cultural piece and something they clearly hold a lot of pride in.
That's the kind of thing you need to tiptoe around incredibly carefully to even talk about, as one wrong word (correct or not) will sink your entire existence and have the entire world against you.
Look at what happens to Right-Wing figures in America who say something pro-gun control like Dan Crenshaw, for example. Literal overnight demonization, though we lack the conviction to force them out as the Japs do.
I'm offering the perspective of other people. I am in agreement with you on these things, but its a common repeated position they are taking and its important to understand why they think these types of logical traps.
One of the only matriarchal cultures in fact, and certainly the only one that wasn't a short lived novelty.
Its honestly one of the most unique things about them and you could probably pull a lot of discussion on how it made them the way they are throughout history.
Apparently the rice thing has a lot of "government intervention" keeping them from producing more than they could be, very similar to our farming issues, and the increasing urban density making it impossible to find young, strong men to move out there to work the fields, so they are slowly aging out of having the workforce for what farmland they do have.
I imagine that was the intention for all the immigrants in the first place. Sending them to the rice fields (motherfucker).
Important thing to note, is that it seems like the big thing that ruined him wasn't the immigration policy (though that was certainly a big part) but his rice policy.
Apparently Japan has a huge thing about importing rice. Like, national heritage and culture type stuff. And he was making some really stupid statements about importing rice (something they already do but quietly to make sure they don't run low), and the news has been running non-stop hate against him daily about it.
Its a whole rabbit hole thing that wouldn't even register to us, but Japan is Japan and it probably makes sense to them on the inside.
There is a reason why Trump felt confident to go into their own rally and tell them they are losers to their face, and they could either follow him or continue to be losers.
Regardless of your feelings on him, he was 100% right there and they need to be brought back to reality before their "ideology" can ever be useful. Otherwise its endless waiting for utopia and being obstructionist in every manner.
After Go Set a Watchman was released, I think we can all conclude that she only made such a "timeless and resonating" novel by accident and wasn't all that otherwise.
Granted, she was smart enough to never release that herself, and her publisher(?) did so against her wishes after her death so I don't fault her. But its existence shows where her mind was and it was very stupid.
Once I did, I realized I truly didn't master (or fully appreciate) the game until I beat Absolute Radiance to finally get to 112%
I understand that perspective, I am simply getting old/slow and my fingers get caught over themselves often so my gaming "skills" are not up to the snuff of such a challenge. Especially one demanding such perfection. However, on the flip side:
I am also the kind of masochist to 100% every fromsoft game
I have 100% all of them sans Elden Ring (did base, haven't played DLC) and even One Bro'd DS1, DS3 and Bloodborne myself. DS2 can eat my balls, and much like I just mentioned my fingers cannot handle the perfection required for doing Sekiro No Charm/Bell Demon.
One thing From games have over games like HK is space, wherein you have a lot of options for recovery and learning. I can run away and often get the heal off (unless its Elden Ring) and just get out of range to observe the combo.
HK, and most 2d games, don't give you that option. You are locked in a small room and need to be in the fray at all times. Almost all bosses have a gap closer if you try to escape and it will be hard to dodge if you are at the maximum range (see the Red Ant boss everyone is struggling with in Silksong currently). Its a lot more reactionary skill based.
But these are just opinions, I enjoy all of them as high quality products (sans DS2 and Elden Ring).
My town recently built a small amazon factory, and watching their business plans unfold first hand is so comical that I believe this might be their hope to bail them out of the idiocy that is their entire model.
The city itself is currently attacking them because their drivers are so lazy that they've stuffed so many packages in mailboxes (which USPS confiscates instead of just taking out) that the Post Office is overflowing with them with no sign of slowing. And apparently they hired minimal background check retards to get "up and running" and are currently trying to fire all of them to replace with "real employees" but refuse to give them vehicles, demanding they bring their own.
Its a cavalcade of nonsense that defies all sense and only seems to not explode because Amazon is "too big to fail."
As someone whose played most things in the genre, from mainstream to forgotten indies, I think it is a bit too much of a filter for its own sake. Like I earlier, I bounced off it numerous times before finally getting into it.
But it was also a kickstarted game made by a bunch of dudes as their first go around, and sold for basically a pittance brand new. I can forgive a lot of little things like that weighed against those factors without it marring my opinion.
And if the post game content is any indication, they lean almost too heavily in the opposite direction of "git gud, and fuck yourself" challenges. I'll never be able to do all of those and I fear the man who can.
I don't disagree, but its still a filter that will remove people from getting to the part to see why its so beloved.
The first zone is grey, slow, and not all that interesting if that despair and emptiness doesn't catch your interest. And the slow walking speed, spaced out check points, and linearness of it make it hard to appreciate the first time through.
It pays off, but not everyone is gonna want to push through. And that's fine.
I mean, its solid enough design that the lack of map isn't impossible or even ridiculous. Part of making it technically optional and the compass an equip (instead of default) was making that possible. But its still a Metroidvania which requires returning to old areas and the like.
The real problem is if you take a break from it and don't retain your internal map, then its a real problem that you basically are better off reseting if its not too deep in. Which is why if you don't get gripped and power through a few zones then its just lost.
Right, but you see it in a lot of doomerism and overly MAGA types, where they treat him as an "all or nothing" savior whose every misstep is a sign that its all failed and everything was a lie.
On a long enough timeline I think we can say he "saved" it by reversing some courses and getting some balls rolling, but in the right now it'll feel like barely anything.
Literally everyone I know is going around telling people "buy the key to get to the weapon with the old downslash as soon as you start the game" to get out of the angle problem.
These people are weak and they will not survive the Hunter's March.
Hollow Knight suffers heavily from its first few hours being quite a slog. If the atmosphere of it doesn't grip you then its pretty miserable. Especially with making you play a decent amount with no map, having to lose an equip slot for the compass that shows were you are on said map, and needing to get a ways before you get any "faster" movement mechanics.
I bounced off it half a dozen times before I finally pushed through long enough to feel right. And if it wasn't so cheap that would be a huge mark against it.
That's always their first defense. "This is just fueling anti-X talks!" As if there isn't an actual event that happened and a literal person brutally hurt/killed.
We saw it applied heavily post 9/11 when America was coming together in unity to fucking hate Muslims and they couldn't have that.