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And it runs for what, hour and a half maybe? Portables need to keep in their weight class, and a nerfed 5070 and 32 GB of ram is silly. What's it gonna do, run cyberpunk on ultra long enough to get through the intro?

It has been out for at least a year. I think it's a good marketing play if nothing else. I know a lot of people that wouldn't play that bird game but would play a dragons game.

I think a big part of it is that narrative flip from regular magical girl shows. I didn't watch magical girl stuff when I got it recommended to me, but I also didn't get any spoilers, so it still hit well. Similar to One Punch Man if you haven't seen the decade of shonen, the parodies of them don't hit.

I didn't learn my mom was married one more time than I thought until I was like, 19.

Whether or not this is a sincere turn-around, it's too late. I think the best he can hope for is a quiet life of obscurity and small time good acts if he wants to fix his karma or whatever.

Why should we gamble on a former mercenary when there are options for leadership that didn't have a "problematic past" ?

Successful check, you believe your own words.

Time

Million dollar equipment has no soul

Every optional survey like this has incredible skew for people with free time and opinions they feel the need to share. In the US, that skew is old retired people, who typically lean religious, conservative, and capitalist. The 90% of people who hang up when cold called are not represented well.

Someone did some digging and linked Meta to shadow organizations sponsoring these bills, and suggested that it's a way to improve advertising because they can like real identity to activity. I have no evidence though

There was a channel called Let's Play, of rooster teeth/achievement hunter origin. Markiplier didn't have a channel until 2012. The Let's play channel first uploaded in Dec 2011.