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Yeah that workplace had a lot of people with weird attitudes toward poverty and crime. I remember another guy saying that he thought the punishment for stealing should still be chopping off the offender's hands. This guy's own niece was homeless and he kept complaining about there being a homeless encampment in town. The incident where my two coworkers agreed homeless people should be gunned down had a pretty big impact on me because it seemed to me like they were fairly normal people before then, I would sit with them at lunch and could talk to them, which is unusual because I normally struggle a lot with forming any kind of worthwhile relationship with coworkers. I couldn't tell if it was more that they were psychopathic or just that the culture I live in is so fucked it trains people to think that way. I do think one of them was sincere and the other was more just trying to suck up to the highest-ranking guy in the room. I ended up quitting that job like two days later and came relatively close to joining Canada's growing homeless population myself. Yeah that makes a lot of sense that which parts of the Bible a believer would focus on would largely come from their own personality. It can be hard to avoid just looking for confirmation of your own pre-existing prejudices for people of all beliefs. Besides nepotism, I think the big logical problem with the mythology in Rand's work is that it vastly underestimates how collaborative every human endeavour is. Capitalist big wigs WANT people to believe that they are Galt-like figures and their companies and products are dreamed up from the ground exclusively by them, but the reality we get is usually more like Thomas Edison pretty much stealing patents from his employees or even just Spotify paying the actual artists behind the music they stream a miniscule percentage of the profit they bring in. Yeah Ben Shapiro is a brainlet, he just sleepwalks through the same idiotic talking points he heard from other people. There was a period of my life where I actually unironically listened to him and some of his homies like Jordan Peterson which will probably always remain one of the bigger embarrassments of my life.

Now that you mention it, there really has been a distinct void in good Pokemon TCG video games which is definitely something that one would expect to have a solid market, I mean there were loads of Yu-Gi-Oh games back in the Game Boy and DS eras and also so many Pokemon spinoffs that seem less financially solid than a TCG one. It would've inevitably switched over to a live-service online app for playing the TCG eventually as with Yu-Gi-Oh but The Pokemon Company has noticeably failed to a deliver a decent version of that for fans either. Yeah I'm not sure why Nintendo is going with this really staggered release schedule for their retro games on the Switch, maybe they're thinking that they need new releases coming onto it consistently so people stay subscribed but idk if that holds up, I feel like it has value just to maintain access to a big collection of good retro games and most people probably always have some more they'd like to try. I also wish they would let you buy the games individually so you could have them without needing the online but yeah, Nintendo just really likes to make things difficult for their customers I guess. Game Boy/Game Boy Colour carts have a really short battery life for the save functions, it was probably their biggest shortcoming and the Advance mostly fixed it with carts still being able to save though time-based events in games like Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire don't tend to work any more and the store here can't replace those batteries. It doesn't bother me much because it's not that obtrusive on the games but it does end up making getting a Milotic even more annoying.

I think the main criticism I've heard of the Gen 6 games, specifically X/Y, is that they just throw a lot of free stuff at you until it makes the campaign feel kind of trivial. It was the one that reworked EXP Share until it was completely overpowered right? I tend to regard this type of thing as one of the least important flaws in game design since a player can just choose not to use the more unbalanced stuff the game gives them. The rivals being your childhood friends does seem like the kind of potentially interesting idea that a Pokemon game just wouldn't really have the character writing chops to fully explore. Without knowing what it's like in game, flying battles sounds like something that could be either really cool or just a complete window dressing on a normal battle. Oh yeah I hadn't really thought about how a monotype run would interact with that whole base mechanic where you have to use the auto battle. I always just picked a couple of Pokemon that had a type advantage and rolled through those things, did you have to keep going back to the vending machines for the fire base? O yeah Ice is generally considered a terrible type, I always associate it with great Pokemon like Lapras and Cloyster or just think about using Ice Beam as a fantastic coverage move on water types but defensively it's so bad, I can see that being hard with a lot of bad matchups throughout the game.

Yeah it's hard to think of a way to really expand those two stories in Gen 9 without massively reworking the game since your character arrives after they have already taken place. Supplementary material could definitely be a worthwhile way to do it though I agree that would end up being separate from the games themselves. Oh that's interesting, buying the games purely as a utility to transfer to Gen 6, I hope you got a decent price for them. Those games are insanely expensive right now, like into the hundreds of dollars for just the cart. I never had B/W 2 either but I am a little curious to try them since the aversion to Gen 5 Pokemon isn't as game-ruining for me.

Star Trek and X-Men are definitely woke right down to the core. Starfield had that too with that one man on Youtube who famously freaked out over the game having a pronoun selector during character creation. That is probably even sillier because Starfield is a Bethesda game and therefore too safe and bland creatively to really be woke while from my understanding BG3 does have some other stuff that could be read as woke - I know gay people exist in the game which is already too woke for some people. The anti-woke Steam curator even had the gall to call Hypnospace Outlaw "woke" for including "anti free-speech messaging" while simultaneously being a list of games that violate the type of speech the creators want to exist. Laughable as it seems and obviously driven by online content farming and brainrot as it is, this type of thing is the subject of a major woke vs. reactionary "culture war" in the US, with for example mass requests for schools and libraries to pull books from their shelves for including "controversial" subjects like having a gay person in the book. With the Republicans having won basically every branch of government in the election last week we may even a big increase in legislation to this effect. Yeah I see what you mean about how some parents don't really love their kids so much as they like a version of their kids that only exists in their head and is under their control. It probably comes from some form of narcissitic personality trait. My mother is actually kind of like that though she applies it with even more superficial things than sexual orientation such as preferred hobbies. Yeah Amphibia had good characterization all around. I did feel like Marcy, Sasha and Grime were a little more fascinating but Anne and Sprigg brought a lot of the heart that made the series work. And yeah the overarching narrative is a big part of why both shows work, I think the way Gravity Falls managed to seed hints toward its central mysteries throughout so many episodes was one of its best traits. In the excessively long time since my last message (I've been having a hard time behaving like a functional human being this year...) I have started watching Owl House, I think the last episode I watched was 13. I'm not as hooked by it as I was by Amphibia so far but I do like how it makes the viewer continually reconsider their perspective on characters like Amity. So with having enjoyed all 3 of Gravity Falls, Amphibia, and Owl House, have you watched any of the other popular modern cartoons such as Infinity Train?

Ooh, how was Princess Peach Showtime? I thought that one looked pretty promising when they revealed it but haven't gotten around to trying it yet. You can't go too wrong with Unicorn Overlord though it probably won't blow your mind, and I think people who played the first Dragon's Dogma generally liked the second. I think the only other 2024 game I rounded out the year with was The Plucky Squire which I enjoyed for the art style and creativity though I was disappointed by the game design. I want to play Zelda Echoes and a few others but most of my disposable income has been going toward overpriced retro games at my local game shop like Breath of Fire IV and Vagrant's Story that I've wanted for years but never been able to get my hands on.

Hey, can you review a movie on a request?

I read your Neon Genesis Evangelion review. Your MAL should be deleted for this sin. NEVER. EVER. WRITE A REVIEW. AGAIN!

Your Evangelion review is the absolute most trash review I have ever read³

Yes please review the Aria series

Can you review Aria series?

Greetings.

Your Evangelion review is actually fire.

Your Evangelion review is the absolute most trash review I have ever read²

Your Evangelion review is the absolute most trash review I have ever read.

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2nd half definitely was much of an improvement in comparison to its slow and schlocky first half, I liked how hopeless the world of Teknolaiz was in the 2nd half

that's a nice elaboration.
hope you review the remaining Symphogear seasons :)

Yeah, i mean im not saying outlaw is bad or anything just my personal thoughts but it's still one of my favourite space comedy

Like obviously SAC is superior to LOTGH in every way, even most of GITS scenes are more iconic than LOTGH, Even Gundam 0080 war in the pocket as a war drama shits on LOTGH which does not drag on for ages, Yes, u are right about LOTGH's design but Reinhard (Char Aznable rip off) still looks pretty cool as a character but still i agree, One of the only character i actually liked there was Yang rest were pretty meh, i would say

Btw what's with this anime called Texhnolyze. It was so damn depressing at the end, I don't really get depressed so easily but this one kind of hit me in the feels. I thought i would hate on this cause the start was so goddamn awful but the slight changes in the characters in the 2nd half especially ichise and the reveals were amazing. The relationships were weak but i mean it's pretty obvious like someone like ichise who is basically a beast would have a poor communication skills. That subtle change in Ichise basically becoming more open to the world really hooked me up cause i mean he has no one in this world who he can look up to and that small thing like giving him flower which was given by Ran meant a lot to him

These were some of my 2 cents on the series which i surprisingly really liked

Ah okay, that sounds fairly similar to Canada on the political level. I do like hearing about American corporations failing in Europe, I remember laughing at a Quora post where a proud Austrain described how Starbucks failed in her country because the coffee is such poor quality that "they couldn't give the swill away". Good for you Österreich! Do you get a lot of weirdos over there with the "pull up your bootstraps" type of ideology who unironically love the Musk and Trump types or is that more of an NA phenomenon? I've heard there is a bit of a concern about a rising far-right in Europe including a close call where it looked like Le Pen's party might win in the French elections earlier this month. One of the weirder things over here is that this type of thinking is actually quite popular in working class and manufacturing type areas, it was my coworkers at a steel factory who memorably told me the solution to homelessness should be "gunning them down in the street." Yeah Christians protesting gay marriage and all that is so hard to wrap my head around just from a theological perspective - that is, while Paul and Leviticus do identify it as a sin, who could read the Bible and think the best way to spend their time and energy living a Godly life is to protest people's secular weddings when there are so many other things the book identifies as sins that harm people so much more and were actually mentioned by Jesus? The greed I can at least understand because it's just people acting in what they perceive to be their own self-interest (incidentally the more time goes on the more I regret the influence Ayn Rand's writing has had on North American culture...) Is it just people mindlessly acting according to the prejudices they were taught growing up? Also I'm probably harping on this too much at this point but yeah the U.S. medical system is one of those things that just makes me so sick, especially the arguments people use to try and defend it. I remember hearing Ben Shapiro say that socialized medicine would involve slavery for doctors. No Ben you fucking cretin, look at every other country that has it, being a doctor is the same as any other job you just get paid by the government.

O yeah it would be more the Mother 1 treatment than the Star Fox 2 treatment for TCG2. Integrating Pokemon Home for the Stadium games seems like a pretty elegant approach, though releasing the Gen 1 and 2 games for Switch would be a huge help especially since the 3DS eshop is closed now so you can't legally access those versions of the game any more. I found out a game shop in my town can replace the batteries on Game Boy/GBC games so I'm thinking about getting my Pokemon Yellow done to play Pokemon Stadium on my friend's old cartridge.

I do remember reading someone who strongly felt Sun/Moon were the worst Pokemon games (this was before Sword/Shield came out) explain his feelings. He basically said that the story and campaign were generic and unchallenging. I have a hard time fully understanding why someone would feel that was true of Gen 7 to a greater extent than other Pokemon games though... I mean look at how bare-bones the narrative and world building are in Gen 1 for example. I do know some people miss the rivals in the first two games being jerks compared to how friendly Hau is, and I'm with them a little bit because I've always loved Blue but again I'm not sure about singling out Sun/Moon for this when the rivals are generally very friendly from Gen 3 onward with perhaps the exceptions of Cheren and N in B/W. I've never finished Black which is one of those weird cases where I have a much higher opinion of a game than I have hours in it, I've never played Gen 6 though I might try and pick up a copy one of these days (I've heard it's a little lacklustre but I think I just didn't have much money to spare when it came out,) also never played 8, and I've only beaten 7 and 9 once... this really reinforces the point that I'm a poke-boomer lol. How did Gen 9 with all bugs go? I feel like that's probably still the hardest monotype to bring to the end of the game but then the difficulty in Scarlet/Violet is kind of a joke...

In terms of being able to comprehend the story and guess the twists I totally agree the story explains itself well as it goes, and yeah I think I knew who Cassiopeia was from her first appearance and that the Prof couldn't leave the crater at the very least from early on... though I don't know if I figured out she was a robot until they started really dropping hints with her glitching out and all that. I just meant that I would've liked to see more of the Team Skull kids getting to know one another and hatch their plan and all that as it happened since we only really see one flashback per skull leader for their story, and likewise with the Professor discovering the zero area and meeting Koraidon/Miraidon and that relationship. I still haven't played the Gen 3 remakes, I'm definitely interested in them though. I'm very partial to the old 2D Pokemon graphics but it does seem like the remakes add a lot to the game. Yeah that's totally valid on Gen 5, for me I respect the idea of only having new Pokemon and like that it makes me try new ones instead of falling back on old favourites from a game design and strategy standpoint, but I can totally see it harming the game a lot considering how forgettable the designs on the Gen 5 Pokemon tend to be. Did you end up playing Black and White 2? I know they add some of the older Pokemon back into the maingame and I've heard they're quite good, though I don't know if the critters they bring back are the ones you want.

Haha Star Trek going woke! That's so funny to say about the show that had the first interracial kiss on TV. This is when I really start to understand people talking about "the death of media literacy" even though really takes this dumb have always existed, they're just able to be broadcast further with the internet. Anti-woke cancel culture gets absolutely absurd, I found a Steam Curator called "Woke content detector" that tells people not to buy games with "woke" content, and judges them woke if they have any content that goes against the most laughably reactionary ideology imaginable, such as including "anti-colonialist messaging" or "anti-patriarchy messaging" by featuring a storyline where a woman leaves her husband after he hits her. It started to feel like satire after a point and I still hope it was. True, you don't have to look nearly that far back, hell the panic about D&D being "Satanic" is a super public example that's still only a few decades old at this point. Yeah being concerned about what sexuality your kids will grow up to have is so baffling, it's crazy to me to hear about parents kicking their kids out of the house for being gay. I mean even if you grant that such a decision would change their sexuality, which makes no sense, how can someone feel like they would rather their kid be homeless, alienated from family and straight rather than gay? I'm glad to hear you liked Amphibia too, it definitely had some good character development and plotting with things like all the change Sasha went through and it brought a lot of the charm that the best kids' cartoons get by on. I'll be looking forward to seeing Owl House.

btw since we talked about the games of last year, have you played any good ones this year? I started Unicorn Overlord recently. It's made by Vanillaware but kind of puts me in mind of Square's "HD-2D" games taking on Ogre Battle (where Triangle Strategy was Tactics Ogre), so I'm having fun with the core mechanics but I find the aesthetics and the narrative rather bland.

Hey. How have you been? Have you watched any interesting films or live-action shows recently? I saw Tokyo Story, In the Mood for Love, and Pygmalion. They were good films. I didn't think I'd like Pygmalion, especially since it's from the 1930s, but it impressed me with its good dialogue and story. For live-action shows, I recommend The Americans and Better Call Saul. I watched some of HBO's Oz last week. I didn't think it was a good show, but maybe it was good for the '90s.