The whole point of this exercise is to make the entire globe abandon their roots and seek a foreign power to solve their problems, laying the groundwork to implement a global government once nobody has any connection to their communities anymore. MKUltra as all about figuring out how to break people's loyalties, and now here we are.
I mean, that was a very distinct possibility since they're playing both sides of the public discourse while people keep imagining it as right vs left. They don't care which of the two artificial political pillars they've built is responsible, only that they succeed in provoking the resistance to create a new empire for them to usurp, since they're too intellectually and morally bankrupt to actually create anything themselves, and can only take what other people make.
I'm just super uninterested in country shopping, despite it's abundant popularity these days. Sure things suck here right now, but that's exactly why we need good people more than ever. I'd actually really like to go to Japan for entirely unrelated reasons, but I'm specifically avoiding that at the moment because of the current situation here.
The natural world is abundant with variety. This creates problems for those who wish to standardize things to facilitate automation. Thus, those who can't easily be clearly defined and categorized are treated with hostility.
Surely someone who thinks like that must want a separate space to exist where all these assholes they don't like can congregate to do their own thing, away from the decent spaces where good upstanding adults spend their leisure time... right?
No, they actually can't stand anything that hasn't been sanitized for corporate commodification because the very existence of such things shines a light on just how shallow and hollow their products are.
Nah man, it's pretty obvious that it's a mockery of trans people. The whole problem with the trans 'movement' is that it's really shitty to attempt to deceive/coerce/force people to be involved in something they don't agree with. The devs here have done the exact same thing, unfortunately.
Deception/corruption fetish. They imagine that their deceptions pervert and destroy people's ability to perceive the real world, and they get off on the feeling of sexual power that elicits. It's the same sort of high that rapists get, but in a mental space instead of physical.
Pretty much this. I've tried watching it through a couple times, and it is genuinely enjoyable with likeable characters and some interesting plots, but it does go downhill to the point that it's just not very fun anymore. It feels like they were starting to experiment with grand narratives, but were still stuck in the serialized mindset of the older series, and never really hit a good balance between the two. Over all I'd certainly recommend watching it for as long as you enjoy it.
like the Dragon Ball Z Dub vs original. The Dub is what’s popular and generally what made the franchise what it is and what it became.
There are a few things that played into that though, which have nothing to do with translation. Probably the biggest factor is the absolutely phenomenal soundtrack that Bruce Faulconer composed for it, vastly surpassing the original Japanese score. Then, the voice acting for the dub was uncommonly superb, especially in an era where English voice acting was typically terrible. The last major issue I can think of is that it was popular before the Internet was, so most people like myself only had access to the dubbed version, either by watching it on TV or buying the VHS.
Reminds me of something I heard from a Japanese artist who did some work in Hollywood. They talked about how in Japan things were largely left up to the artist to create their own works, with some guidance, but when he worked with Hollywood the execs would constantly be asking for this or that minor detail to be changed for their own reasons.
Yea man, that's totally what I said. @@ By your logic there, why would I support people like you, who shit on me because I ask questions about things instead of toeing the line blindly for random strangers online?
I barely even play games anymore personally. Was just answering the question ger111 posed.
Personally I'm enjoying seeing who is only in the fight because they thought they could profit from it, rather than actually having something they believe in to defend.