Why design routes when “open world”? PS2 ass graphics. Horrible frame rate and performance. Unnecessary number of shops with no life at all. Because “you can take the challenges in any order” none of them have any actual interest or difficulty. First main line pokemon game I ever DNF’d.

Arceus turned the whole game into pokemon snap with balls. Or the safari zone. It wasn’t good, unless you like playing pokemon games to catch every pokemon as fast as possible

Legends Z-A was the title for the switch 2. I mean, Scarlet and Violet was clearly supposed to be the switch 2 title (its obvious they developed the game for that hardware) but they needed to rush it to get their one game a year quota.

I’ve played every main-line and reboot pokemon game since they came out. I didn’t finish Scarlet and Violet, it was so bad, also didn’t finish Legends Arceus cause it was so lazy, and I’ve never played Legends Z-A. They’ve stopped putting in any amount of effort, so why should I bother to play them?

I’m on year 5 of mine. Literally no issues

Them being cosmetics doesn’t change anything. People want cosmetics, they made a gambling system to get them, easy-as.

Slightly less than half

Nah, Texans don’t like cowards. A firebrand is exactly the person needed. Anyways, picking candidates on electability is exactly what primaries are for. If you can’t win a primary, you aren’t exactly electable, are you?

I would be gobsmacked if that happened.

Honestly, yeah. Thought that maybe it was earnest. Sure doesn’t look it now, though.

Nah, fuck that noise. Corpos can suck it

No, your first comment “asking” how the Arab slave trade compares is the whataboutism.

But let’s finish this, shall we. How does the AST compare to others? The history of slavery in the Muslim world between 5th and 20th centuries had between 6-10 million victims. Meanwhile, the Atlantic Slave Trade had 12‐15 million victims stolen from Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries. Meaning more were taken over a shorter period of time, requiring a more violent and genocidal act to accomplish. So, the stealing was worse.

And, remember, unlike the Arab slave trade, those aren’t the only victims. All of the African diaspora in the Americas are descendents of generations of the most cruel form of slavery humans have ever devised. An active, ongoing genocide as people were constantly displaced from their loved ones over and over again. They weren’t allowed any privacy except during church (for a religion forced on them). They had to marry in secret. Their children were taken from them, never to be seen again. Their hair was shorn for “wool”. Their dead were taken for leather and their bones used to process sugar.

Oh! And in America, at least, they’re still being used as slaves (13th amendment) to this day.

So yes, again, this was the worst crime humanity ever committed. Sit the fuck down with this shit. Trying to fucking whatabout the goddamn Atlantic Slave Trade.

Hey, sick fuck, you’re the one who wanted to play whataboutism. Not me.

Yeah, and you’re saying that the forced relocation and genocide of African people where they were then forced into chattel slavery doesn’t compare. Bro, why the fuck are you playing this game, dude?

Chattel slavery, the result of AST, is a supremely fucked version of slavery. Children of slaves were slaves, so this incentivized “breeding programs”, which, beyond the nonconsensual nature, often included violence and forced incest. Christian justification at the time was that they had to punish their slaves “to save them from their sins”. The sin being their skin color (see, the Curse of Ham)

Arabic slavery had no generational component, since children of slaves were born free. Muslim practices of slavery had owners free their slaves at the end of their lives as a way of cleansing sins. Not defending either, but you wanted the whataboutism. So, there ya go. One is clearly worse than the other. Congrats?

Fuck. Whataboutism on the fucking transatlantic slave trade? Jesus fucking Christ, brother. This is fucking stupid, man. What the hell are you doing?

Path of the Giants Halfling FTW

Yeah, no shit. Need to make things that people buy in order for that to budge. Tariffs don’t do shit for “trade deficits” (which, like, what does that even mean if you’re the global currency?) and never will.

Winning 60% of the rounds, and you still haven’t more money than the player who started with more. Is that not proof of the concept?

Also, yes, this game tickles in a good way.

No, what?

The premise is “people wouldn’t choose to do certain work unless they were coerced into”. I retorted “I want that work you think I’d have to be coerced into doing”

Manual labor is undervalued, making it “one of the jobs that people have to be coerced into doing”. By stating my desire to do it above “high value, mental labor”, I undercut their assertion that there are jobs that require coercion to get performed. There are people who want to clean, cook, do manual labor, do administrative work, accounting, cleaning up shit, building, basically everything a society needs to exist. Coercion need not apply.