Honestly the whole game suffers a lot from the Starship Troopers syndrome of making all the elements you are supposed to hate look awesome.
And then fucks it up even further by making the "sympathetic" side look fucking awful and eviler than their oppressors in every way other than "muh slavery, muh capitalism."
If people were left to their own devices, then self-segregation would have been the norm.
I can't speak to every state, but the majority of my parish in Louisiana is self-segregated.
We haven't reached the level of having seperate corporations and businesses, so we have to intersect there (and its the fastest way to create a racist, make them deal with the niggers who work at McDonalds or Walmart), but our homes and schools are either seperate by miles or just two halves of the building.
And really no one complains about it either, other than whites wanting to increase it to escape the niggers working cash registers. We all agreed unspokenly between the two races that it was the best course of action and mostly maintain that seperation. And any black guy who leaves is usually a hardworking good man who is accepted by his character, and any white who goes to the ghetto is a druggie, criminal or both and fits in perfectly there.
Unironically, it seems to be graphics faggotry and other nonsense like that. Because the only thing it has over the original model is 4k vs 1080p and 60-120 FPS versus 30-60.
And I guess the Gamecube emulator being built into it, because that's the only feature I've seen people actually excited for. Which says a lot about how bad this reveal has gone in terms of hyping people.
I don't think most of Trump's critics could even explain to you what a tariff is, let alone why its bad and the complexities of how they function. Including in being reflected between nations.
They were just told its bad because he does it, and thereby its bad because he is doing it. Everything else is just backtracing to justify it from there.
I'll go even further and say Batman and Robin isn't half as bad as people say it is.
Its an absolutely ridiculous movie that is so over the top in so many ways that it doubles back on being hilarious in almost every scene. It barely takes itself seriously, so why should you?
Literally, its entire bad reputation is down to people refusing to accept anything but "dark, brooding Batman" as acceptable and then just rejecting it entirely based on that premise. A problem that still plagues the franchise as The Brave and the Bold faced similar issues despite being probably the best Animated Batman since TAS.
Its no masterpiece movie that's good on objective levels. But its absolutely an enjoyable ride if you let yourself just accept that Batman has just as much history being that kind of corny, retardation as he does a gothic, serious icon.
Before The New Narrative came down around Christmas time it just meant the elements of the current Right that were parroting views that were identical to the Woke to the point it was indistinguishable. The easiest example was that one thot on Twitter who kept saying it was degenerate and evil to have sexy, fanservice heavy women in video games and we should return to "trad values" by rejecting it.
It was the entire crux of "Goonergate."
Then literally over night everyone just collectively forgot that, and pretended it was a made up thing the Left was trying to use to psyop us, and now just parrot the viewpoints that have no consistency between them. Which happened absolutely organically, obviously.
So now its a meaningless term that just means "guys I don't like" and then "people who use this are tricksters trying to trick you!"
The actually evil people would still find ways to evade detection, while normal folks would be an open book to the Inquisition.
That's basically the foundation of how most of our laws versus freedom dichotomies work.
We let things go that maybe should be criminal, simply because we can never truly stop/prevent it for whatever reason and criminalizing it just drives it harder underground to prevent any attempt at confronting it.
And this only doesn't apply to the most awful and damaging of actions, CP, rape, hardcore drugs, prostitution, etc. Ones where there is no "ethical consumption" and thereby we cannot abide it in any form.
I think the setup for it as we have it in America is probably the most superior option, and all of the so called failings of it can be sanded off with better cultural and community action instead of more government and laws instead. If everytime a nigger got caught playing the knockout game, his family was shunned, his life destroyed, and social consequences were basically enough to internally regulate (whether his internally or just his family/neighborhood beating sense into him), then we wouldn't all need to give up our privacy to combat it.
I mean, probably 90% of the people who played it only did so once it hit Steam like last year.
I'm fairly certain the only "exclusive" for the PS5 that isn't on Steam by this point anyone kinda cares about is the Demons Soul Remake. And people still barely care about it and are still instead focused on Bloodborne getting off PS4.
The leak also told us everything we needed to know about the little pooner and so much of it makes therapists, women, and the entire progressive ideology look bad that they literally cannot ever release it without it blowing up in their face.
She literally had pages upon pages of femcel rage about some black girl she never talked to not letting her ass fuck her with her mythical dick that never goes limp.
Its probably allowed without much fuss because those videos are usually the most irrefutable and readily available evidence of a crime even happening and who was involved, and many other details.
AKA, the thing the guys who enforce the law need to actually enforce that law. And criminalizing it will simply reduce their ability to actually do anything, because by the time they arrive its already too late. Heck the only reason more people aren't arrested for this right now is because of privacy type laws that prevent them from just getting all our info instantly by asking.
CP is considered so heinous that the idea is likely that you aren't an innocent bystander if you witness it, you are an accomplice by not acting. Probably similar with rape in general, but I've not seen too many cases of that to be certain. You can say that's not a good standard but it seems to be how most people fall on the thing.
So, you can criminalize it all, but then you basically cut off a lot of the evidence and ability to actually enforce those laws to begin with. And in exchange you arrest a lot of people who were just sitting at a computer not currently hurting anyone, which is just thought crimes and a danger slope to go down.
There are plenty of holes with this idea, but we also can't live in an idealized world were we can just perfectly control crime through passing laws either.
Of all the ones I've personally met, its a problem of doing too much to accommodate them.
They are prideful and stubborn people who've lived a full life and conquered it, and at the end often want to just be left alone to wither and rot away in their homes without fuss. But too many people want to shove them full of so many meds and pull them into treatments that they simply do not want, even if it gives them more time to live.
A non-insignificant amount of old people right now would agree to it regardless of starving or not, because they are simply ready to die. Not even suicidally, but just to stop fighting off the ravages of age.
We just force them to stay alive, often against their own will, because a lot of people are horrifically selfish about holding onto them or just cannot comprehend someone not being afraid to die. So we stick them in homes, force them into hospitals, and generally just violate their entire autonomy.
Unfortunately for this line of thinking, and I guess fortunately for us, our feminists aren't nearly as organized, powerful and capable as theirs are. Meaning they keep self sabotaging before they reach the peak of the pendulum necessary to really push back hard enough.
Like, they literally had an all female shadow cabal install a puppet president in their nation and got caught doing it so hard she was actually replaced. We aren't nearly at that level yet.
Intersectionality stopped feminism in the West from reaching this peak level by fracturing trying to spin the plates of gays, trannies and every racial group too. A problem the Worst Koreans didn't have.
Rand has always been principle over logic. Its both his greatest strength and weakness.
So there are times he will be the best ally possible because he refuses to budge when everyone else is, but just as often if not more he will be the loudest retard because he cannot be reasoned with to compromise for the best outcome.
All of this is just a woman crying that her own movement got hijacked from under her, and now she doesn't get to reap the spoils of it anymore because her fucking actions had consequences and uplifting all these retarded groups means they now want a piece of the pie.
Because every one of these issues listed is caused by women originally. We had strict gender lines, until women wanted to wear pants. We had understanding of pregnancy's limitations, until it made post-wall women sad. We treated porn as dirty, until women wanted to be sexually liberated. We treated hookers as trash, until slutty women demanded to be treated better.
This is literally the things women voted and marched for, and the fucking obvious consequences of them. And now they want to cry about being oppressed in their little hugboxes.
TERF was literally a made up term by Liberal Feminist who believed in all the progressive talking points as they were being fed to them to differentiate from the radical feminists (the two important letters in the acronym) who were being big wrong thinkers by being heckin' transphobic on tumblr.
Its a literal schism by an activist movement that doesn't exist elsewhere because Intersectionality, the idea that all minority groups must march together instead of just for themselves, is a Western political idea.
Because Korean feminists don't need to worry about Nigger Rights and Mexican Pride, so they never had to cross that bridge.
Ratchet and Clank literally had a game just a few years ago as a PS5 launch title, and what it lacked in overt DEI it more than made up in "sterile, painfully modern" writing, with everyone apologizing every 10 seconds for offending each other.
. I never understood the point of achievements or trophies in the first place.
It gives you some restrictions to create a challenge or add additional flavor to a replay. Sometimes even teaches you ways to play the game you'd not even think about otherwise because its so outside the box. Like, I'd not even consider some of the tactics needed to get the Mastery/Brutal achievements in Starcraft 2 because its just a completely different method of play, and in turn widening my skill set.
I get that the majority of games use them extremely lazily as just checklists and dopamine hits, but that's not a flaw inherent to the system anymore than "yellow paint" means platforming is a failed mechanic.
One of the earliest iterations with Mass Effect on the 360, which showed them as literal roguelike upgrades to all future games you played. Halo 3 used it as a metric towards unlocking armor.
So it was just another version of unlockables at the time it came out, but like all things Microsoft they just lazily let it rot into the lowest form possible.
At least What a Long is so shockingly easy, and has been in the game for nearly 20 years, that its barely even a concern for most people.
I was there when it was brand new, and short of a few hairy specific achievements in it, it was a throwaway background thing you did just to get people engaged with the holiday (that they would ignore otherwise because back then it was just flavor with little reward). No one really stressed on it, and anyone who cared about getting it was gonna play all year anyway. So they just had to spend a few hours in the weeks long holiday to be done with it, and get all the numerous other prizes (the meta title per holiday, the numerous other specific rewards you could buy every year from the holiday vendors).
A much worse version of what you are talking about is the Anniversary/Xmas rewards. Because those are not only just once a year, but they are only that year. If you aren't playing November-December 25th, you just don't get to have it. And it wasn't until like 2022 in that they started letting you get old Christmas gifts as rare drops from a holiday boss, and the Anniversary ones were only available again during the recent 25th event, and only some of them.
Well you can thank Mr. Asmongold for that one. He is the one that took "mount collecting" from a niche thing some of us did for fun in the game into a competitive sport where you had to have every single possible mount to win "mount offs" and be able to pull obscure random and/or rare ones on your opponent.
It was literally one of the reasons he got big, because he kept going viral for winning "mount offs" until people started watching him to see the guy behind it.
Its the reason why WoW started having to have 100+ new mounts per expansion, with them being awarded for every rep, every obscure thing, and having a dozen new ones to grind. So guys like him could feel "epic and better than you" for having a Green Recolor of a common mount.
I hate that I can't just hate Brand anymore for being annoying, ugly and unfunny without being associated with the people who hate him for these retarded reasons.
Basically all the accusations I've ever seen leveled at him at either highly suspicious or "you looked at that guy and expected otherwise? You deserved it" level, not even vaguely a "maybe but I don't care" level.