Lots of people are in 12-month leases and can often negotiate month-to-month... so if they pre-buy a property, they don't need to worry about rent going up because they're in a lease.
Man I've been through a lot of rentals in my life and not once was there a "negotiation", ha. There was a lot of "if you don't I got 5 others waiting" though. And at the end of that lease there was usually a "cost of living increase, keeping up with the average" increase to rent. Which then followed with the prior "if you don't, fuck if I care I got 10 others desperate." And a hearty laugh in your face if you ask for "month by month."
Many of which came from those "mom or dads buying for retirement" who then give it over to a property management company while they live states away. Which I'd almost take a Chinese Firm over, because at least they don't pretend to care and I know the answer to "can we fix this" will be no instead of "we will talk to them." Even the local old man who I rented from once was stuck in a cycle of "city raised taxes and utility costs again, I can't afford this place myself if I don't raise the rent."
And I'm from the poorest area of the country and live in the poor part of a good area of the country now. Nobody I have ever met has ever even come close to a "dream/forever home" or even entertained the idea. They've managed a "can fit all my kids" and a "doubt I'll ever find better" which is impressive and worth being proud of in their own way, but far and away nothing like you describe. "Paying more in rent" would mean just not eating.
So I think our disconnect comes from being on the complete opposite ends of the spectrum of class.
I'll default to your actual insider expertise then and admit my observation was likely incorrect for the greater populace.
But I have had numerous suburbs in my area that have had plural year "Sold" signs up on lots that don't even have foundational work done. And thanks to Mexican Work Standards, work on anything (housing or other) takes far longer than it should. Perhaps there is something else at play there, or just them outright lying about it being sold to drive demand. Just where my observation came from.
I will say though, by the time I went in to buy a house I couldn't wait 12 months. Heck I couldn't do 6. Rent prices were rising year by year and if I didn't get into the house now, then I wouldn't be able to save anything as the cost of living outpaced my raises. Perhaps pre-sales are different in that regard.
Based on what is happening in my own neck of the woods, one problem is that "new homes" are impossible to buy for anyone but Investors and Companies.
Because they are all built as part of a huge development, where they sell the house long before they even build it. Which means no real people are ever going to get in because a regular person doesn't have the money to pay for a house in 5 years, they need one to live in now.
So all "new homes" just go to rich and elites to then be rented back to the locals who never even had a chance to get in.
Only the most blind retards can't see that the Civil War was two evil ideas battling each other for victory. And I doubt any of the men back then weren't capable of seeing it too, as this passage proves.
The problem being that one of those ideas was already on its way out naturally, and its natural death would have had far less growing pains on the very people it sought to "save." While the other still has us enslaved to this day.
Lincoln undid everything this nation had built on nothing but his cowardice, as his own writings and decrees showed it wasn't on any principle, and he was at least rightfully shot for it.
Slavery would have died on its own within enough time as the cost of keeping and using them would well outweigh simply replacing them with technology or other industries. Even assuming MAX RACISM where you treat your slaves the absolute worst and minimally possible, there is a limit where they cease to be able to accomplish the one task you have them for and replacing them is far more costly.
Oh yeah, I still use it regularly because there really isn't a replacement for it nor the great value that a good Text Guide can provide. Especially older games where the level of effort put into some is well above most paid guides of the time.
But if you venture off the guide section at all, its nothing but the most juvenile and proto-woke idiots possible.
"Classical liberals" were always the most useful of idiots for the Left.
They'll tsk tsk the Left's hedonist ways and disavow them so loudly, but then only actually come out and act when anyone actively tries to stop or prevent them from doing so.
Gamefaqs has been dead of real value for years. Their only useful continued traffic has been to text guides for games too old to get anything modern.
Like, their forums were a Tumblr-lite shithole in the 2000s, this is almost perfectly on brand for them and the correct type of market research for the users of the site.
Women are self interested creatures. They will vote for the most short term, personally benefiting politicians everytime, even if that benefit is just social clout.
As long as they are allowed to vote, they will need to be pandered to. And all that pandering will always be some amount of Leftism, because that's what Leftism is built on. Hedonism and self-interest.
So we will lose forever, simply because half the voting population (and really more than half because most non-vote capable like felons are men) are simple retards who cannot be "Conservative" while also having "freedom to vote and have opinions."
I mean, it was pretty well known over a decade ago that women were absolutely going to movies like 50 Shades and Magic Mike as pure pornography and were open about it entirely to everyone.
They brought their families to it, they discussed it openly, they included underaged girls in their parties and discussions about it. It was treated as a wacky fun time.
Even Twilight a few years earlier had 40+ year old women openly lusting over teenaged boys.
And guys slightly more on the fence than you who are "done" are a crucial part of their audience.
Its why they always have "STAR WARS IS GOOD AGAIN?!?!" reviews for the most boring and only moderately less bad products, to pull people back into to repeat the "get angry, watch reviews to validate" cycle.
Even if the mood were to strike you, why pick something recent? Your chances of finding something you walk away from pleased decreases dramatically the closer to now you pick from.
Black Dude is a patriotic veteran who's trying to get his life together, while his white brother is a criminal who drags him into shit.
Also reading this reminds me of another movie Jakey did a long time ago with Tobey Maguire. In which Jake is a criminal loser to a patriotic military brother. Except in that one Jake does get his life together slowly taking care of Tobey's family while he is a PoW.
Its called Brothers. Solid movie for anyone who wants to relive some childhood PTSD of dealing with a Vet father's emotional violent breakdowns from his own PTSD.
My favorite part about Last Epoch was their insane "recruit a friend" system in the game on launch, that basically derailed their entire first few days and killed a lot of momentum they might have had by gutting any attempt to build a community.
They removed it and gave everyone the pet for free, which good on them, but it was such a stupid idea that it blows my mind they let it reach launch.
Also D3 is better than most of these games simply because it doesn't even pretend like it isn't a skinner box meant to be "BIG NUMBERS" and "SHINY COLOR DROPS." They don't jerk you around with any of the nonsense of building a gear set or skill points. Every season you basically get a free Set that makes you explode everything in your vision and then you go around exploding it until you hit a wall where you explode first.
Its a game filled with flaws, but its the most upfront with its "fun" and mindless nature. You don't have to pay someone to powerlevel you through 3 Acts or grind until you get that one drop that makes a build work or any of the other reasons why most people give up on games like Grim Dawn. You are given BIG NUMBER and then can play until that gets boring.
Everytime a Korean style game gets popular, its because the big dogs in its category shit the bed.
POE wouldn't have gotten anywhere without D3 doing most of the marketting for it. None of the older KMMOs would have a Western base if WoW wasn't in decline when they launched.
And now Stellar Blade is literally just doing basic "hot chicks" but is somehow the best game ever because the entire Western industry has screwed up.
This nigga never watched Eragon. Try making an adaptation that successfully ruins nearly every single possible plotline the book has setup for the sequels entirely for brevity. And still ending with the expectation of those sequels.
Also the Artemis Fowl movie never got a physical release and was deleted from streaming years ago. So there exists no actual legal copies of it. Just for your knowledge.
40k has great gatekeeping from the fans on the ground who play it. Both in terms of being insane extremists and the sheer level of autism needed to actually play the game.
The company and the secondary fans who only enjoy it for the "themes" and art? Have been woke for years.
Show them there's a better story which is New Vegas and that's why you're mad
"Adaptation" arguments are the most easily dismissed and will get you just a little. You might get them to say "yeah that sucks" at the best, but no actual outrage.
The MCU has already poisoned that entire well with people ready to completely mock you for caring about source material, in fact. If Drinker is anything like the other EFAP people, of which he is am alumni that owes much growth to, then they actively reject the very notion of an adaptation owing anything to what its adapting from.
The "Fandom Menace" pure vitriol type grift has mostly run out. None of those guys are going to keep growing into the multimillion sub base they want without being a milquetoast "good boy" semi-Leftist.
None of these guys are ever going to have a take that isn't carefully cultivated around whether it gets them cancelled or not and whether the "outrage clickbait" will get them more clicks than the generic FOMO video.
Congrats, you are on the same level as every black woman pumping out 9 kids she plans to neglect while destroying everything around her so she can live out a life of ghetto luxury on the tax payer dimer.
You are no better than the people who do it for serious, and deserve to be put on the wall after them.
Its a woman's insult for other women. It usually does get used to describe "right-leaning" women because they are completely empty of any personality trait other than desperately trying to pander to men.
So its Leftist because women are mostly Leftist and "right wing women" are some of the most vapid creatures that they get special insults made for them.
That's not being a lesbian, that's just being mentally ill.
Most of those can and will go back to men given time because its not some innate sexuality and their actual innate sexuality will win eventually.