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My ol’ good Switch 1 will keep rocking my TV set until it breaks apart. I never asked for a Switch 2 anyway.

The true predecessor to Resident Evil is Alone in the Dark. Weren’t for that game, the first RE would have been an FPS game, according to RE creator Shinji Mikami.

No kidding.

Same here. Pretty disappointed with how the momentum created with Prometheus got lost in Covenant and then how the saga completely derailed with this last excuse of an entry. Romulus is an offense to the watcher’s intelligence and a spit in the face of long-time Alien fans. There’s no script there and it adds absolutely nothing to the series.

Classics like The Incredible Machine and Ultima 8 come to mind.

Great game indeed. It was really fun finding every secret thing.

Currently re-watching Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid season 2 (I probably watch the whole series once per year since it was launched); Recently finished re-watching the holy Gundam trilogy (Mobile Suit Gundam, Z and ZZ); Getting ready to re-watch SDF Macross and Macross: DYRL; Waiting impatiently for the next season of Spy x Family; Happy to have discovered Natsume’s Book of Friends.

Needless to say, all of the above are must watch.

The original “Mobile Suit Gundam” trilogy (79 up to ZZ), “SDF Macross” and “Macross: DYRL” come to mind. It only makes sense, since a good space opera requires epic soundtrack. And those are the really big ones. Evangelion also has a very nice opening theme.

As far as series go: If you need a good time, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid is a must watch; If you wanna get more serious, an epic space opera is also an important milestone, try Mobile Suit Gundam or Super Dimension Fortress Macross; Once you get used to anime in general, you can also try Natsume’s Book of Friends.

As far as movies go: Just watch every Ghibli title in their release order. Start with Nausicaä, which is pre-Ghibli but still the spiritual first entry in the set.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. They can swallow cat poop, marbles, nails… but not game cartridges! /s

Who the f*ck puts electronics in their mouth?!

PS: yes, it was a rhetorical question.

After Brexit, I’m not so sure the problem is who can Britain trust, but rather who can trust Britain.

I’m happy to find this post, because I can relate 100%. Yes, I do try to avoid these situations as much as possible, but like you said, sometimes you can’t, so I face them anyways. Why? Because just by being vegan myself, people around me will already question their own choices, in a sort of a silent activism. That sometimes leads to conflict, but it’s because carnists intrinsically know they are wrong. It’s just through the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance that they fight their own reason and we’re usually caught in that crossfire, because we’ve found the way out of the net of lies.

There’s a balance between standing my ground and showing everyone that my values not only matter but are well founded, and my own well being. I’m often not in the mood to endure a war against carnism everyday, when all I want to do it enjoy my lunch, so I check my own energy levels before making any decision. After being vegan for so long, two things usually happen: you don’t need to rethink about it anymore, because it’s so obvious, and because of that, the disappointment of interacting with people who still didn’t make the connection only gets worse.

When I share a table with carnists, they will more often than not make comments about how tasty their food is and such. I’m pretty sure some of them will weaponize what seems to be an “innocent comment” about their food just to try and make the vegans around them feel bad. They can always argue that they were doing nothing wrong, because of the status quo, even though they can probably notice they are making us vegans uncomfortable.

I don’t really have a manual for this, but I usually ignore them the first time they make these comments or depending on my mood I space out on purpose, to signal how alienating their comments can be to someone with my values. If they insist on the topic, I usually remind them politely about any random fact surrounding the obvious exploitation of animals. I try to keep it as cool as possible, with remarks such as “I bet the cow disagrees with that” and the sort. It’s surprisingly effective, as most not-die-hard carnists in the table will simply laugh out loud and there’s hardly any counter-argument the die-hard carnists could make about that.

That being said, this is easier said than done, and it took me many years to get to this state of mind. I used to be mildly depressed about this for a very long time. But when you are sure about your values, meaning you are sure you are (obviously) right about your stance, it becomes more natural. On the positive side, when I became vegan carnists were way more aggressive, because they had probably never heard about someone who would voluntarily avoid exploiting animals. Nowadays most people have heard of or directly interacted with at least one vegan, so they have become more silent and less prone to question everything. I mean, it’s on the Internet for anyone to read about it, if they really want to educate themselves.

Unfortunately not true. Some people still think Facebook is the Internet.

Not even that, you just need to emulate the original platform.

They could have also left the media out. I’m sure misinformation is spread through all messenger apps.

Yes.

It’s the other way around. You can download the same game in all of your consoles and actually play them at the same time. Something you can’t do with cartridges, because you can only play the game in the console where the cartridge is inserted. You’d need one cartridge per console to play the same game simultaneously. So digital games are objectively better for your scenario.

Exactly. Nothing new here. PS3 games were famous for requiring an install from the optical media to the internal drive first, and then also downloading some mandatory major update before running. The role of the physical media was mostly symbolic.

I came here thinking this was related to Dogecoin.