Spelling Bees are getting harder and harder: https://x.com/TBC_on_X/status/2042229616346300504
That's just because of licensing. Japanese companies don't want to bother with the rest of the world or don't have the market reach. So they license their anime to crunchyroll but exclude Japan because they've already got that market covered and don't want extra competition.
Only one I watched so far is "Easy going territory defence by the optimistic Lord".
Pretty decent but it suffers the usual shortcomings: MC is an overly goody two shoes and the story felt rushed, especially the last 2 episodes. Like they had to get it over with but ran out of episodes to tell the story. Other than that it's the usual isekai fare which i generally like.
Hollywood is too far gone. It's just a bunch of rabid liberals and BLM-style activists screaming into the void at this point. Add to that that they have rules everything has to be woke shit to even be considered for an award and there's no way they're capable of producing anything good these days.
Best case it'll collapse the Western welfare states that only exist to extract money from citizens to import 3rd world refuse.
Worst case, governments have realized that huge inflation is the golden ticket for them and they want to keep it going. Governments are the primary beneficiaries of inflation because it devalues their massive debts and increases tax revenue. Thus, literally everything they do is against the interest of citizens.
I never understood the appeal of celebrities selling random products, especially ones that already exist aplenty, like soda or alcohol. Sure, for them it's about making money but why would anybody buy that stuff? It's just relabeled regular products with a markup for the name.
The first thing I saw of that game was this image of the main character. Looks like some Asian or maybe Inca boy, I thought. Which was weird because it was supposed to be set in medieval Europe. Then I saw that was supposed to be a female knight on a quest of chivalry.
They really can't help themselves.
IMHO there have always been two indie game eco systems: the one where the game doesn't matter, only everything surrounding it. You know, the bad amateur games around politics, art slop, nostalgia bait, meta crap like who the dev is, etc. Stuff that gets hipsters gushing but nobody actually plays them unironically. And then there are games by small professional developers who actually design gameplay, but that's "boring" and doesn't make for a good article so they get less hype.
Well, at least Hungary can import anti-tank barriers for their Christmas markets from Germany toll-free thanks to the EU.