Whoever here said "the way Souls fans act makes perfect sense when you realize they treat these games as boss fight simulators" was 100% correct. They see exploration and world design as tertiary set dressing to letting you fight 30 Malenias in a row
There’s a part in the book White Noise where the characters talk about losing their identity once they’ve aged out of being the primary demo for advertisements and marketing.I think about that every time I see nostalgia porn videos because they’re always just ads for old products
A really weird quirk of this game is that when playing the Institute route there's no evidence whatsoever that the Institute is actually doing this. A sort of bizarre deutercanonical fork where what the Institute's actual plan is retroactively depends on you joining them, or not.
the politics and ideology that went into the Prequels were absolutely spot on, it’s just the execution was the issue. Lucas predicting that tariffs, blockades, illegal wars, lib backsliding, and malaise would lead to American fascism via thunderous applause seems almost prophetic
People still don't realize that Anakin's combat style completely changed when he became Vader. His limited mobility forced him to rely on powerful deliberate strikes and overwhelming new Force abilities amplified by the dark side.
The fast agile Jedi Knight was gone.
Hummingbirds can pollinate up to 2,000 flowers a day and usually live around 4 years. She likely visited around 3 million plants before floating away on one she helped bloom.
The whole business model of basically every Silicon Valley company is to operate at a loss until they have monopoly power and then extort "record profits" from their customers.
At my previous 9-5 I got a cameo from flava flav in lieu of a previously guaranteed bonus and a meeting with HR when I was described as “less than appreciative for the kind gesture from my VP”