Logistical and cultural reasons aside, I still think the biggest reason why Europeans don’t want air conditioning is because it would be conceding that one aspect of American life is objectively better than theirs lol
Believing that "people wouldn't do crimes if their basic needs were met" while also believing that "greedy rich people are stealing from everyone" never registers to the people who say this shit as inherently contradictory.
The same Nintendo that:
-Shut down the Wii Shop Channel, rendering most Virtual Console and WiiWare games unavailable
-Locked GBA, Genesis, N64, and Gamecube games behind a premium subscription paywall
-Said N64 and Gamecube games have horrific netcode and subpar emulation compared to unofficial emulators
-Shut down a rom site hosted by a couple and sued them for $12 million
-Shut down numerous fan games such as AM2R, Pokemon Uranium, DMCA Royale, and Link's Awakening DX HD
-Demonetized gaming Youtubers during the Wii U era for showing Nintendo games
-Offered said Youtubers a partner program that would hamstring them into being 'yes men'
-C&D'd The Big House during COVID for using slippi for a Melee tournament
-Shutting down a Splatoon 2 tournament when a few teams had Free Melee names
-Shut down a mental health fundraiser for making custom JoyCon shells (all within a month)
-Had several people arrested for modifying their Switch files
-Sell nearly 10 year old games for $70 and never putting them on sale
-Sell cardboard for up to $90
-Sell a tech demo for $10
yeah okay
This is something the scale modelers who worked on Star Wars mastered almost half a century ago
At 100 meters away, you see buildings on the hull
At 1 kilometer away, you see entire districts of structures
At 10 kilometers away, those districts become texture
They understood how detail compresses with distance and scale, and how to abstract it properly
Sadly, this art has largely been lost because many modern 3D artists are obsessed with showing detail and geometry at every scale to demonstrate their technical “skill,” without realizing that doing so often makes their work look less believable and, ironically, less professional
After buying Halo: Campaign Evolved for $50, you'll need to spend an additional $22 a month to play split screen co-op from your COUCH.
Requiring online subscriptions for something we've had easily and for free since 2001 is such a joke.
This is also only a recent phenomenon with video games.
It’s primarily because zoomers, to use their slang, have cooked attention spans. Putting the phone down and actually committing to a video game is too much to ask for with a lot of people.
That’s how bad it’s gotten.
The original big reveal of Halo 2 (which was meant to be long enough that it also contained all of Halo 3) was the Arbiter opening up an ancient Forerunner sarcophagus and seeing a human skeleton inside
You're all morally obligated to buy this, so that Vanillaware can finally realize that the personal computer is not a sign of heresy and they don't have to be on the verge of bankruptcy everytime they release something new.
Japan made repeated apologies for its actions during WW2 but more importantly the official position of the government is:
“we must not let the future generations, who have nothing to do with that war, be predestined to apologize.“
This is the correct attitude.
stop hiring celebrity actors and voice actors.
Stop using millions of dollars in mocap.
stop using AI to ensure people actually want to purchase it.
Stop making bad games.
It's LITERALLY that easy.