Arachna

I hope cooler heads will prevail and it will not come to this but if it does.... it was a pleasure knowing you.

Thanks and I appreciate the sentiment. But I prefer for those acquaintanceships/friendships to continue on for a few more decades :)

From what I know, only one side threatened a nuclear option o far... Starting this would be... well, you know Fallout games Franchise? They present somewhat positive outcome. Positive in a sense, that there is actually something left after the nuclear war.

Yeah, at this point anything you could really meaningfully say with it has been said and it's just trying to slurp out whatever little milk is left in the FNAF tit.

It's basically a narrative shortcut to show a character thinks "tactically". And also gives said character a chance to use cliche dialogue talking about "pawns" and what not.

And then there is Legend of the Galactic Heroes where the greatest tactician in the series is awful at chess

You should see the chess match from No Game No Life where the pieces have wills of their own and refuse to be sacrificed because virtually no one would obey an order that requires them to die, something chess doesn't take into account.

The over saturation of the Joker in particular has me very... tired of him. Harley I kind of go back and forth on because now that she's basically DC's equivalent to Deadpool she can at least be placed in different dynamics so there's more you can do with her compared to Mr J.

The Joker kind of suffers from....how to put it....the idea is I'm going to go "Wow, he was behind it all! What a diabolical mastermind!" but it actually kind of has the opposite effect where I just stop caring explicitly because they make him behind everything that ever happens. If anything, it diminishes the impact.

As for Harley Quinn....I didn't dislike her, at first. But I don't feel like she needs to be a central plot character to every movie and game ,she's ever in. Not to mention, Poison Ivy who was one of my favorites, mostly has devolved into just being a prop for character shilling, the squealing clown schoolgirl and doesn't really hold any identity of her own anymore, other than "Harley's sometimes girlfriend."

As did I a long time ago. Eventually, however, I just figured that it's not worth hating the world.

There's always going to be a bumbling idiot out there somewhere, and everywhere, so what's the point. Best to just focus on improving your world rather than the world at large.

To quote a movie:

"You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You could swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go."

Basically, to me and with my experience, it's futile. Say what you want, bellow your curses, punch a pregnant woman, but it won't make you anymore happier, satisfied, or indifferent with the world, and at that point, what's the point.

Best of luck!

Best of luck to you.

For whatever it's worth, my fingers are still crossed for you.

Just means it's the start of the countdown to the next holidays!

Sadly, I think too many nowadays movie directors played too many videogames in their youth.

I'm sorry man. :(

If you can take a break, you should. Still, sorry to hear that.

Hopefully though, you've gotten high enough grades to shrug this off.

Anything made by Microsoft is a deal with the devil.

They can't even make a proper live chatting program without making it needlessly complex. Hell, their Windows Update destroys computers from time to time too.

Why the hell do I need to have a live account registered and sign up for the cloud to change a password on MY computer? If anything, it seems like just putting your password in five to six different places online would make you much more susceptible to hacking than actually benefit in you in anyway.

But....Winter is Cumming...

The grass isn't much greener on the other side. I'm in the middle of summer right now, and it's just too hot.

The Pacific isn't any better either. It's freezing cold in the morning, and that's saying a lot coming from the people who wear shorts and t-shirts as the usual attire.

The brain is such a complex thing. It wants to do something but it can't be assed. I hate it and I can sympathize with you, for whatever it's worth.

Know that feel. Hang in there. :(

I guess it’s the same problem I had with Three Houses. People say it’s such a clever deconstruction and all, but when you actually cut out all the over edginess, it’s just as generic and cliched as the games that came before it. Just because something is really edgy, doesn’t make it smart.

From what I've seen part of why 5 got hyped up so much was as part of the backlash that 4 got from when it was the Big Popular One(tm). Also, it's been long enough between mainline games that this is probably a lot of the audience's first encounters with these cliches.

That being said, after getting past a reaaallly lackluster intro phase, the game is growing on me. Still tired of seeing these egotistical pervert mascot characters that are supposed to be funny though.

I'm toying with this idea of like a typical anime highschool but...every character is a protagonist or antagonist and not necessarily of the same genre. Demon hunters, sentai teams, evil scientists, like...sure. Not going to say, it would be original, but there's a lot you could probably do with that kind of setting where the goal is to just impress you with how insane it could get.

"Don't be afraid it won't be perfect. The only thing to be afraid of really, is that it won't be."

I could see how that idea could work, though a lot of it would come from who/what is your protagonist (or at least the initial focus character who we're introduced to the world through if you wanna go for a more ensemble affair).