Maybe you know him better than we do Natalie, but what the fuck? He would do anything anyone said to him he seems like he is barely awake most every time I see him speak. I imagine they get one of his little kid sex dolls and put it in a doorway and he just follows it around, I really don't think he will have to be 'convinced' of anything.
I think regardless of if it is fiction or not, people don't like their interests being messed with or wrongly politicized. And even if people here aren't interested in One Piece, a lot of us are just sick of tranny stuff, so any (seeming) defense of it would be looked down on.
While there is plenty of blood, there is very little death in OP, just a handful of useful deaths like Ace and Whitebeard, as well as Gol D. Roger to setup the show. Most bad guys aren't killed, and just get left to escape/attack again/etc later. There is next to 0 sex in One Piece, just some sexualized designs on women and the traditional trope of a pervert/come-on-strong character like Sanji.
It's a show for children, its not a show for adults specifically, it's in shonen(young boy) jump, is broadcast in Japan during primetime when kids would normally watch anime, and is hugely popular over there.
Japanese people are just more subtle with the way they deliver this kind of shit, and even if Ivankov is considered a tranny for any reason, he still calls himself a new kama and is part of the new kama group. They are just a separate thing for that country since they haven't been pozzed as much yet.
Thats fair, I genuinely like the game and modded I think it really bumps up the QoL and enemy/armor/building variety which were my only small complaints before.
These type of games for me are a big hit or miss, I'm not even looking at Palworld as an option, and games like Rust just don't appeal to me at all, despite being similar. Valheim is one of the few that works for me to play in this kind of genre.
I honestly suggest a modded version of Valheim over this, but thats cause from what little I have seen it reminds me of Valheim and I really like their systems. I'm not big on pet stuff, I liked Pokemon because of its turn based RPG styles and so this doesn't appeal to me at all really.
No plans to try this for me, maybe some day when I've gotten through everything else that interests me and a friend wants to play it.
I'll be honest I don't think this is as despair-inducing as you guys seem to think it is. A lot of their money at this point comes from the MMOs and Gachas, so it will most likely just be applied to Gacha stuff. Yoshi has already said multiple times that NFT/Blockchain won't be coming to the MMO so that isn't much of a concern.
FF16, while it's pacing and story did kind of fall off, I thought was quite fun. It's not going to be a contender for best FF of all time or anything, but I enjoyed the game and the combat system so it wasn't too bad.
The second installment of the FF7 remake looks absolutely beautiful but I fear the story will continue to unravel and become worse, so maybe take that with a grain of salt.
Other companies have done us so much worse over the past several years, that considering using some new technology (and hearing from a CEO doesn't mean much to me honestly) as opposed to becoming as hyper woke as western studios is not much of a concern for me yet.
I've never really thought about it to be honest, not sure quantity matters much, but it does in the case of you having only played 5 games or some abysmally small amount.
I'm going to guess I am in the area of 300+ but it could be higher, if the minimum was 1 hour.
I've got about 200 games on Steam, some through bundles, some from trading Steam items and getting cash that way, I've 100% completed about 30 on my Steam account. I've had every console since SNES, except the Xbox One and whatever the current Xbox is. So maybe it is higher than 300+, cause I used to love renting games on weekends and it was very normal to do that with my parents as a child.
RPGs, especially jRPGs are what the vast bulk of my game count would be, fun to think about and I'll have to ask my friends some time and see what they think their number is.
They aren't implying what you are saying by any means, they are stating that when they back someone, they are very likely to win.
I still don't think Israel should even be part of a conversation with American politics because I don't think the two should be related at all.
This is by no means a new 'cope' they have been saying this for a long time and it's because women hate accountability and now have access to the internet and found out they no longer even have to have accountability in any way shape or form (serving the only actual purpose they have).
I'm super excited about the new MH, that was the only announcement I cared about, and I knew a newer, bigger MHW was coming, didn't know it would be MHWilds for another generation of MHW acronyms...
I tried to watch the Game Awards but I mean it was just miserable dogshit almost for the entirety of it, so I saw about MH this morning.
I'm also in a pretty similar boat, I don't have any desire to move to Japan but visiting seems fun, so that avenue was closed to me a long time ago when I made that decision.
In terms of finding friends or people, I've not really had luck other than at work - some people I can get along with on a hobby and personal level, and others I've found good friendships in things I'm less interested in but still view positively, like guns, hunting, sports, their families and values in general.
Outside of that I've got my high school group I'm still very close with, even becoming adults at this point we have all grown in different but similar ways so that's been great to have.
And when looking for new people, every online space I've found has just been horrific for finding real friends. For finding a community or people that resonate with me, maybe KiA is the only place, but other than my random comments I don't really 'know' anyone here other than the common users in passing. I'm happy to have a place where I can find some unpozzed news and some people to commiserate with from time to time as we see the degeneracy take over and increase.
If you find a good place or make a good place to find something like what you are looking for, feel free to share it with us so we can find that kind of refuge too.
I'm guessing you or most people don't care, but by the end of the DLC for the first game, your main police ally turns evil and you have to take her down, so I'm guessing that "positive relationship with police" is totally gone for the Spiderman 2.
Man, I've liked Spiderman since I saw the cartoon as a child and I actually think the first game was pretty fun to play - I got it on PC with the re-release myself. I didn't bother with the Miles version cause honestly I just don't care about Miles.
I could tell from the marketing so far that this was going to be pozzed but now I can't even play it without some sort of grounded commonwealth mod because Insomniac got so butthurt people modded out the gay flag textures in the original. They just had to make it more invasive.
I am a big Monster Hunter fan, I'd suggest MH:World, 30 bucks and may be on sale at some point, 50 bucks with the expansion Iceborne(huge expansion, tons of content - about as much as the base game). This is not the newest one (Rise/Sunbreak) but I think its one of the best games ever, and has tons to do. People still play online if you are ever looking for help, and you can do everything solo, except maybe some event quests that are super challenging at endgame.
It's essentially a bossfight simulator with some gathering, crafting, and I think beautiful maps to fight in. The wide variety of weapons and general learning curve to the game makes it really satisfying. Mods are also available for it to give it some QoL boosts if you are into modding.
I think as a concept it is pretty good, opportunities for discussions with people living in really different worlds at this point. Most of the women however are so fucking offensively stupid, narcissistic to an extreme degree, and absolutely refuse to listen or do anything but argue specifically to argue that the conversations are useless.
Repeat guests (on the OF girl side) are just there to cause arguments and they refuse to understand even the most simple of logic 99% of the time.
That being said there are some pretty good clips from the show, but I think sitting there and watching/listening to the full podcast would just be a massive waste of time.
You know I do think that could be a possibility, it could be half routine half his actual dementia but we will likely never really know.