I am reminded of TF2 where you get an achievement for causing someone to ragequit.
It was actually confirmed in canon (or at least, very heavily implied) it was Palpatine who killed Padme. The TLDR is that even with the medical tech, Anakin was too far gone to be saved. So he used the force to siphon Padme's life force into Anakin. Why? Because Anakin betrayed the Republic, the Jedi Order, his best friend who was like a brother to him, everyone just to save his wife. And in the end, his vision ended up happening and she died anyway, except now Anakin had ruined the entire galaxy.
Therefore, this knowledge would further break Anakin and force him into being Darth Vader, Palpatines nice obediently little dog. And at least in the old EU, Palpatine even told him this at one point and dared Vader to strike him down in hatred. And when he instead bowed because he felt he wasnt strong enough, Palpatine was just like "That's what I though, bitch."
Because, you know, even if that wasnt entirely written down on paper yet in Ep. 6, it does make it that much more important when he finally does betray Emps to save Luke.
True, but they were typically never counted in the Comic Book sales list IIRC.
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That is another reason they didnt stand a chance. With comics, your options are "Superheroes", "Superheroes", and "Action packed fighter things".
Meanwhile, with Manga, you have actiony from mechs, actiony from insane fighting, slice of life, romance, ghost stories/horror, and sometimes a combination of multiple.
And even with doing that, all evidence points to the fact they have hit their peak and are on the backslide. Their industry is leaving for new places, their money is worthless (which is why they keep having to crackdown on its trading, and dont let it leave the country). They are spending trillions of dollars for trains and roads to nowhere because they have to keep people employed. It still isnt enough and there is absurd unemployment in the youth (30%+). Their military is still unproven and the handful of times they have tried to commit it it has lost (to African warlord militias no less). And the BRI is slowly falling apart as nations that joined it realize it is not working for them, only China.
But dont worry. When it eventually collapse, it wont because of Communism.
And yet people still ask why DC and Marvel sales are so low.
Marvel and DC wish they were merely low. It has gotten so bad for them that new comics sell almost as much as back-issues, while Manga makes up almost 90% of all new comic/graphic novel sales.
or power armour so we can duel with chainswords.
Me, the Imperial Guard main: Lol. Lmao. calls in Basilisk barrage
After that, they'll literally just leave. They are globalists. They aren't going to fight to hold the ground under their feet when they can go somewhere else.
To that end, I am sure it is merely a coincidence that there are reports that a lot of the usual suspects in the Corporate and Political world are buying up so called "doomsday bunkers" for millions of dollars in New Zealand.
Meanwhile, for as massive of a misstep that they made by firing Blain Pardoe, Catalyst Games Lab has been handling the Battletech/Mechwarrior franchise surprisingly well. Because at the same time GW was squashing their fan animations, CGL took the creator of a popular fan series and had him help with their newest game, or at least on the trailer. As well as canonizing the character and micronation of one of their most popular community members ("Tex" of the Black Pants Legion, with his character Randolph P. Checkers of Van Zandt).
What, the SJW's lack imagination? Perish the thought. Next you are going to tell me that the only thing they can do is tell literally the same story over and over again but only changing which skinsuit they wear to tell it, because no one wants to listen to them and they think a new skin will work.
The funny thing is, there are already fan-theories and alt-timelines of things like the Dornian Heresy and the superior Roboutian Heresy.
But those are fan-theories, and you dont see any fans pushing to make them canon. Like I said though, luckily GeeDubs seems to know better and is sticking to their guns on the topic.
And the only Disney Star Wars that is actually given any sort of praise (Rogue One) was directed by a guy who actually watched other movies in order to keep the world building in place. And one who also had a vision and push his foot down on making sure it was carried out.
The one good thing I suppose is that, from what I have seen, for all of the hate they get Games Workshop has been pretty adamant that female Space Marines is a line they will not cross. To the point I have seen them even respond along the lines of "Just play Sisters you dumb nerds!" when people complain too hard. I have seen an increase in female characters in the Guard, but that has never been an unusual thing and lore for them has existed for a while.
This insanity is all over the place with the Leftists right now. They are really, actively, supporting mass murder and genocide.
I have seen some people claim it will be as damaging to the Left supporting this as it was for them to support the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. Where all but the most die-hard Leftist looks at them and says "What the fuck is wrong with you?!" and gets turned away.
Perhaps too much to ask with a lot of what is happening, but I imagine in decades from now we will be talking about "Hamasies" in the same way we talk about Tankies.
Just for what I know, here in my state (Kansas) we have 4 tribes (Iowa, Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, and Prairie Band Potawatomi). At least from what I have seen from living in the area, most of the tribes and their members around here take an attitude of "What is in the past is done. Let us walk forward hand in hand instead of with clenched fist." But they are also doing ok for themselves, as I have driven through the Kickapoo reservation and forgot where I was until I drove past their museum because it looked a lot like everything else around it.
But when my family was on a road trip one time, we drove through a Sioux reservation in South Dakota on the way to the Badlands. It looked like we had entered a damn third-world country (with the road to match). I am sure it is just a coincidence that the Sioux are one of the more activist minded tribes (though I imagine it is to cover up corruption from Elders).
Depends on the tribe. Most do indeed, but there are a handful (usually the Lakota) who still get pissy about it. When you see a tribe complaining about something, it is almost always Lakota. Others are even on the based side (like the tribe in Nevada that decided to take exactly zero shit from Eco-Protestors and rammed their blockade).
And for all of the talk about how this is about derailing the Saudi-Israel deal that was in the works, I dont imagine the Saudis are going to do too much since they have never really cared for Hamas (what with them being backed by Iran and all that).
Hell, if anything they may take an attitude of "If you agree to look the other way (or even help) if/when we go kick the Iranians ass, we will keep our mouth shut as you go be the 800 lbs gorilla rampaging through Gaza."
Sure, you have Leftist trying to give their usual apologia toward Hamas. But for the vast majority of normal people, I think they crossed some lines and made a lot of people willing to let Israel do whatever it wanted.
To play devils advocate, a ton of Americans were killed at that music festival that was happening over there. So going and parking a carrier off the shore could stand as a show of force.
Now that is not to say I know which way this goes. But I still lean toward us staying out of it outside of our typical current levels. But it is a possibility.
A two-state solution could work
It definitely wont now, because I guarantee Israel is going to go apeshit and just flatten everything. Especially after the mass civilian casualties that have been inflicted, and after the only reason Gaza exist as a base for Hamas is because Israel gave it up expecting reconciliation.
That said, unlike with Ukraine, I am not on team "Money and bullets." Israel has their own military that is quite advanced, their own funding sources that more than cover their cost, and their own arms industry that is some of the best in the world. They dont really need extra help to do what they will do.
About the only real issue I am seeing is that it only got this far on the grounds of "What complacency does to a motherfucker", and so I imagine there will be heads rolling. But even if it gets rid of Bibi, I imagine he is going to be replaced by someone even further right chanting "peace was never an option" (unlike what I have seen some Leftist saying).
Yes, next month. Unfortunately, under the EA license, but at least from I have seen they are handling it properly. The most track of any DIRT/WRC game with new nationalities for tracks (like Japan), all seasons for each track, improvements to the handling model to make it more realistic, the usual of newer Gen rally cars (including the new Rally 1 hybrids), and even the ability to make your own car for experimental divisions.
And of course, when they showed gameplay, it was with someone who clearly knows how to actually drive.
Meanwhile, WRC is actually looking like a worthy successor to DIRT. Hopefully the motorsport side of Forza sticks to its roots. But why get someone who doesn’t know their driving to show it off? (We know why. Asian.)
In a manner of speaking. Essentially, you build up cities and armies on a turn based world map. Building up your cities let’s you gain more income to support bigger armies, as well as unlocking new units to make up your armies. And much like IRL, your army is typically going to be made up of mostly militia or regular forces, with elites being rare due to high upkeep cost.
While it is turn based on the overworld, when your army attacks a city or another army, it turns into a real time battle, where your army is made up of what you actually brought, and you move them regiment by regiment.
For the better ones, I would recommend Total War Rome 2, Shogun 2, Fall of the Samurai (a standalone expansion for Shogun), Attila (the hardest one though), or Three Kingdoms.
Also, for city builders, Cities:Skylines 2 is about to come out and it looks like a pretty major step forward for the genre.
I second this attitude. I think there are too many people wanting things set based on their personal preference rather than just saying “this isn’t for me” and moving on. Obviously, it is different on real people, but much like you I am very much anything goes on drawn or written work.
To go with my own example, I am not generally a fan of skimpy outfit looks. I find chainmail bikinis to be an active turn-off and consider looks like this to be vastly more appealing to me in terms of turn-ons. I am not going to demand everything meet my standard, and I am not going to say someone is a perv if they like the chainmail bikini look.
Maybe I just lucked out. I have had no shortage of games in the last few years, many of which are (like I said) superior quality to anything AAA and almost all of them without even the inkling Woke to them.
It is the main reason I scoff whenever I hear people saying that gaming is in some sort of gutter right now.
Or I could get strategy games that push the envelope of what was done before and cover topics that have never been done before, like the Czechoslovakian Legion doing their run the long way across Russia.
The beauty of Indie is that there are just as many instances of "better than AAA quality" games with excellent stories and great characters, just as much as there are the woke ones.
You want to know what is the fun part? For all of them pushing this sort of stuff, my fiancé just recently discovered Thrawn through second-hand Ahsoka stuff. She like him enough to look up more stuff, and then discovered the Original Thrawn. And now that has become her autistic obsession because she likes the OG more than Disney Thrawn.
This is probably why they try to pretend all of that stuff doesnt exist.