@Grummz The best female characters were never loved because they looked like men. They were loved because they were memorable, feminine, capable, and well written. Somewhere along the way, the industry forgot that.
I’m all for innovation, but “different” doesn’t automatically mean good. The industry seems obsessed with making companions quirky and random instead of memorable. When I think of great companions, I think of characters that add to the story and world. This just feels weird for the sake of being weird.
@Mangalawyer The moment I see a cute little companion whose entire purpose is to be “OMG LOOK HOW ADORABLE,” my interest drops. Give me memorable villains, dangerous worlds, and compelling characters. I don’t need a plushie mascot following me around every five minutes.
I genuinely hope this studio never gives up. It’s refreshing to see a game that seems focused on immersion, worldbuilding, and characters that actually fit the setting. Not every female character needs to be written as a flawless action hero. Sometimes kindness, femininity, charm, and authenticity are far more memorable. Wishing this team nothing but success.
@Pirat_Nation Nobody asked for Kratos to be replaced. We asked for a great story. Modern writers keep confusing those two things, and then act shocked when fans aren’t interested.
Not sold on this one. They keep swapping the lead and sanding the character down into the same flawless badass with no real flaws, then they ditch the heavy deliberate combat that made these games what they are for floaty fast stuff. And you already showed the Yotei numbers yourself, came in like 16% under Tsushima on units even with the higher price and all the hype around it. A sequel doing less than the sleeper that started it says plenty. Now its Kratos getting the same treatment. I want to be wrong here but ive seen this play out too many times..
Theres a real story here and this isnt it. The actual reporting is about pregnant teens being sent to a Texas facility that critics say lacks the right care, and some of them arrived already pregnant from assaults that happened before they were ever in custody. Nowhere does any of it say ICE agents are the ones doing it. You took a real situation and bolted a made up accusation onto it. Rage travels, accuracy doesnt..
This is all people were ever asking for. A healer in a yellow dress carrying honey, and a handful of perpetually mad people online are acting like its an attack on them. Somewhere along the way studios decided a strong woman had to be built like a linebacker, square jaw and all the softness scrubbed off. Thats not strength though, thats just a man with a ponytail. Amelie actually looks like a woman you’d want to protect. Kind, warm, easy on the eyes. The fact that a small loud crowd is melting down over THIS says way more about them than the character
This is the part that doesnt add up. He stands there with the trans flag promising to defend everyone without hesitation, meanwhile a big piece of the base hes leaning on for votes holds the exact opposite view, and in some countries that same doctrine is a death sentence for it. He knows that. He just counts on nobody saying it out loud. You cant be the loudest voice for one side and quietly bank on the other and pretend theres no contradiction there. Somebodys getting told what they wanna hear and it isnt all of them
The replies being off is the funny part. They want the engagement and the applause but not a single word back. Thats not bravery thats a marketing department covering its own ass. Same companies that wouldnt put a rainbow anywhere near their logo in a market where it loses money do this for 30 days here then quietly drop it July 1st. Its not a stance its a sales calendar. At least be honest that its about selling coatings..
Theyre really calling a kind looking woman in a long dress porn for right wingers lol. Thats how cooked it is now. She just looks like a normal pretty person and that alone sets them off. Nobodys asking for much here man, people just dont wanna romance a character that looks like it lost a fight with the character creator. Make her look like someone you’d actually care about. Apparently thats a crime now..
Five straight quarters of business investment falling tells you everything. Thats not bad luck thats companies looking at the place and deciding not to put money in. Three of the last four quarters negative now. Meanwhile theyre worried about everything except making the country somewhere a business actually wants to operate. Population literally shrinking two quarters straight too. You can only coast on government spending and vibes for so long before the math catches up and it just did
their state media rejects it, no regime on earth goes on tv and tells its own people they folded to Trump. Thats not news thats survival. Meanwhile the actual draft deal is moving, mines getting cleared, strait reopening in steps, and theyre still losing half a billion a day under the blockade. Watch what they DO not what state tv says. A country thats winning doesnt quietly negotiate while its economy chokes. The denial is for their people, the deal is for reality.
This is what leverage actually looks like. The blockade was bleeding Iran something like 500 million a day so by the time he lists the terms theyre already at the table. No nukes, open the strait, pull your mines, done. People spent a year saying hed start World War 3 and instead Irans economy is choking and theyre the ones asking to talk. And theres apparently already a draft deal in the works to reopen the whole thing over 60 days. Hard to argue with results like that..
They think this is some gotcha and its literally the thing I checked the box for lol. We spend years shoveling tens of billions overseas to countries that hate us and nobody blinks, but the second a dime goes to enforcing our own border its an outrage. The 75 billion last year made ICE the highest funded law enforcement in the country and good, thats a country actually deciding to control who comes in. Spend it here for once. More please..
Was like 350 billion a year ago and now its 1.8 trillion lol. And the 75 billion theyre raising is the biggest IPO thats ever happened, by a lot. People dont really realize that once it lists that high its instantly a top 10 company in the whole S&P so if you got a 401k or any index fund you basically own some SpaceX now whether you wanted to or not. Started as just rockets and Starlink and now its turning into this whole AI and space infrastructure thing
The number that says it all is 43%. Almost half of grads in their 20s are working jobs that dont even need the degree they went into debt for. Pulling espresso with a masters. And its worse for the advanced degree crowd which is wild, you’d think more school means more safety and its the opposite now. Some fields still make sense, you cant AI your way into being a surgeon or an engineer. But going six figures in debt for a degree that lands you a job a high schooler could get just doesnt add up anymore
He says the exact same line at every single stop. Same five adjectives word for word in Minneapolis, Boston, even over in Berlin and Manchester. Its not some passionate moment its a script he reads every night to sell tickets to people who already agree with him. A 76 year old multimillionaire charging hundreds a seat to lecture working people about who the real enemy is. The whole thing is a paid performance and they eat it up every time..