Yeah I made an assumption there, but the seat of the county town is a population of 1200 itself. Its a dead county in all ways so even the sheriff of the whole county is overseeing less than most local police departments elsewhere.
But it being a female cop makes a lot of sense.
In this case both, but that's not a high bar to clear.
The first is legitimate garbage in most ways. Its generic and overall boring, the only reason its remembered is because it was basically the "first soulslike." I played it way back and got about half way before falling out, can't remember why. Either way, you can get it for dirt cheap so its not a huge loss to buy it for a few dollars just to fuck around.
The second is a pretty good all around game. Nothing to make it stand out super well (other than its otherworld mechanic which is really good), but it is a great game if you just can't get enough Dark Souls.
Its amazing the lengths they are going to to try and make an example of this man. Like, every week its coming out more and more how many things they had to manipulate to get him on the hook.
They are truly terrified of people realizing you can in fact just fucking stand up to the savages among us.
Based on nothing but the one picture I've seen of her with her son, and the picture of her from the bodycam footage I can say she is insufferable in the worst way and everyone hates her and her son is a little shithead that nobody wants to see around their house.
So that's probably true too, based on nothing but snap judgement about 40 year old moms in hoodies who have that face.
I've got 4 billion pictures of myself as a child, in various sizes, because my mother could not stop taking pictures. When she died, me and my grandmother had to spent plural days working all day going through legitimately 10s of thousands of photos to see if there were any of real value of relatives or the like (spoiler, not many but enough to justify doing it).
On the other hand, my children will need a sketch artist if they ever get stolen. My social medias use the same picture of me from halloween over a decade ago. I cannot fathom ever even thinking of taking a picture in a moment, let alone of people.
But I've been sitting with women in the past who were responding to their deluge of Snapchat messages and they are taking unique selfies for each one. Dozens upon dozens of faces being made in front of me. This is when they weren't opening an archive filled with thousands more to pull from.
Truly I do not get it.
Its small town law enforcement.
They get off on this kind of petty authority flexing and bullying their way around. Especially during the probably 2-3 times a year they get to act like "real cops" instead of town nannies and paperwork bitches.
It doesn't need to be that deep when this problem is older than any ideology.
She lives in a town of like 200 people. She absolutely knows who called the police on her and probably even knows the reason why, and the Law is doubling down to avoid looking like they were used like chumps for a petty feud.
That's my guess and I'm sticking to it.
I didn't finish Remake (so I didn't touch Rebirth), but from where I got (I think like 1/3) its the same story with extra details to fill in and justify being a full priced game that only covers a small part of the original story.
The Time Janny thing comes in towards the end and adds a meta level that's all new, but the story otherwise seems to be the same skeleton with just some details expanded as far as I could tell.
But given that, and the otherwise massive changes , its closer to "two different adaptations of the same work" that someone attempting to accurately remake an outdated title. Which at minimum I think qualifies it as closer to "new game" than something like SH2 or even RE4 remakes did.
-Balatro
Gambling game everyone got addicted to because gambling good and FOTM power for people who don't actually play many video games.
-Astro Bot
Told its a really good game with more heart than the entire PS5 existence combined. Probably deserved.
-Black Myth: Wukong
The other FOTM backed by infinite Chinese money that nobody even cared about once its "they stood up to the Woke mob!" cudgel wore off and its "record breaking steam chart!" became obvious Chinese bugmen buying it because "China numbah won."
-Metaphor: ReFantazio
Of course the new not-Persona would be there, especially with its recent release. Heard was decent, and that most of the politically drive dialogue people passed around is meant to be the "bad position" they learn from over their arc.
-Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
We all knew it would be there.
-Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
Squeenix might be bleeding money constantly, but FF can't die quietly.
you're basically recycling content we've seen years ago as "new and original" when it's anything but
This is true for a lot of remakes, but the FF7 ones are significantly different enough that I say this doesn't apply to them. Like, I don't particularly like the Remake, but they built almost a new game for it in every way but the broad backbone of the story. Its got more "new" development to it than 90% of sequels do.
I don't think it should have been made or done like that to begin with (and FF7 never dying needs to fucking end to begin with), but it is a mostly new game more so than something like Silent Hill is.
Occupied wall street was on the right track.
They were, that's why they shit got filled with Race/Gender/Etc activists Week 2 who immediately made it entirely about the Victim Stack of Oppression and every other Leftist cause.
Its why the Powers that Be pushed the X War so hard in the following decade, to make sure no one ever united until a single banner against them again.
“Let’s just listen to music. Who the hell wants to hear questions?” He then danced for roughly 40 minutes
I completely missed this event and I'm sad I did because its just so legitimately lovable. Every now and then Trump acts like a real old grandpa and it puts a little warmth in my heart.
So many "human moments" from politicians come across as obviously crafted, like any scene with Obama and his daughters, but this is too stupid and dorky to be truly acted. Truly heartwarming.
But I think Trump has finally finished what he started back in 2016. Which is make people unashamed to be Right wing openly again. Back then people were still on the fence about it and it left only the more gungho T_D types doing it, but now you can see regular folks just existing while Right-wing again and using dumb little memes like this to show it.
Especially as its an organic meme, which always have more staying power and deeper effects on people. Nobody cared about "Biden Bros" or "Dark Brandon" or "Unburdened by what has been" or used them after the money pushing them ran out.
Its literally this scene from South Park.
They aren't mad about anything but these losers making it too obvious and too on the nose that it makes them look bad. The smarter ones know you can't be out in the open about these things, as the huge backlash tranny issues had on this election is proving as we speak, so they need to rely on subtext and brainwashing techniques.
And I bet everyone in their life literally had a bro-down with them about it too.
It really can't be overstated how nearly 90% of mods are either "nudity or erotic" or "the 9th reshade pack for the same game."
If you remove the sexify mods, then you really will be left with almost all technical autist type mods with a handful of outliers.
They aren't entirely off the mark.
Black People Twitter as a named specific thing was hugely influential on internet slang and culture, and is the root cause of a shit ton of slang and phrases that people use now. It did more to put "black culture" in the hands of the masses than all the media before it combined. It was there as a thing bringing things like "take the L" or the like into common discussion all the way back in like 2009 or earlier.
Like, during its heyday, both reddit and /b/ had huge "black people twitter" posts everyday of people just enjoying blacks on the internet talking like ghetto rats. 4chan of course was more hateful while reddit was more "yasssss slay" and we know which of those two would control future narratives.
The problem is, they can't address how or why black twitter was so unique and different without opening the can of worms about ebonics and it coming across as laughing at dancing monkeys. So instead its this nebulous "unofficial" thing that lets all blacks become foundational internet powers instead.
Aloy is just the American version of Lightning.
A generic and forgettable character from an otherwise okay game that nobody really cared much about, but is obviously the Waifu of somebody with a lot of sway and power.
So she keeps getting treated as a Mega Mascot that has an endless adoring fanbase and gets pushed hard into more and more places well above her actual popularity.
Not just couch coop, but couch coop with your kids. Which is why every adaptation otherwise is huge family movies like Star Wars or Jurassic Park, or Batman.
Might just be me, but Steam has always been difficult to get couch coop games working on. Online usually works fine, but sharing runs into controller issues or the like everytime.
The problem is they've already even solved those issues, they have just needlessly separated it out as "graphic novels." Which means its sold in a different area or even stores as my local shop only sells Comic Books while "graphic novels" are sold at Barnes & Noble (which only sells big omnibus classic comic arcs otherwise).
And the only difference I can ever find between comic books and "graphic novels" is that comic books are full color, are limited to capeshit (or at least DC/Marvel and their employees only) and otherwise cost more per page. Whereas a "graphic novel" is just manga made in America, with all the benefits that brings.
But "graphic novels" have almost no marketing or industry foothold. Scott Pilgrim is basically the only one that ever made waves that I can think of, and the movie is mostly responsible for that. So despite having fixed all the main issues with comic books, they are just forgotten.
What's funny about these types of "representation" is that its still nothing like her other than being "large."
Like, the female Druid in D4 this is referring to is ugly and thick in all the least attractive ways, but she also looks stout and able to physically engage her muscles. Like someone you might have trouble knocking down because they are so brick shaped.
These fat women who made her and champion her are none of those things. Their bodies are made of pure dough and their muscles are useless because they just throw their weight into any physical activity to get it done. You could knock them over easier than a skinny person.
So its them just admitting what they think about themselves. Which is "ugly and fat" and saying "that's it! this is me!"
But they are a problem. One that the host country needs a solution to before accepting them in and letting them loose. Whether that is by having a long term plan to hold and then return them home, or having a system in place to acclimate them in.
Which is the issue most are failing to achieve.