Dutczar

I didn't, because I just assumed Elon actually would do some form of porn blackmail. It's obviously satire after a second, but it got me for a while.

See, that's the thing, that's bad. Generally the best solution is negotiation, dialogue and compromise rather than wasting people and resources of both sides. Unless the other side refuses to negotiate (fairly), which Putin does.

Putin is a kid refusing to talk with anyone because they don't give their toys to him, when he could suck it up and agree for both of the kids to share their toys.

How is "unwilingness to engage" a good trait?

Both of these sound like qualities of a coward. You could at least say he's somewhat cunning, and yet you phrased it like that. He doesn't even smile when hit, he didn't seem particularly enthusiastic when Ukraine ruined his idea of the invasions, unless I misunderstood.

I just checked some other articles from MRonline, it's claiming Ukraine started the war.

https://mronline.org/2025/02/26/yes-ukraine-started-the-war/

...and it's saying that it's because of the local small scale conflicts in Crimea, within Ukraine, which Russia then moved into?

Look, I'm not going to waste more time discussing here. Regardless of a few cases of bringing up by crappy parents, Russia has no right to kidnap children. Hey, even if Ukraine is taking soldiers by force, at least they give them basic training compared to Russia.

Russia? From Ukrainians? Is that what you mean?

I read it, I don't get your point

Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem (the Japan only one)

I was going to try to blind ironman like FE11, on the first Hard difficulty setting, but while losing my healers in chapter 2 and 3x due to silly boss moving and ambush reinforcements was funny, losing two seemingly important characters in turn 2, because of a Thief you can't kill in 1 turn without using a staff, was not. (They ended up not saying anything in the postbattle cutscene anyways, lol)

I'll still try not to reset, as per usual in FE (I LIKE losing units and trying out replacements), but not if I lose out on recruitable characters because I didn't figure out the puzzle solution for the first 3 turns. I did kill Matthis because he suicided into me, but fuck that guy.

To clarify, I meant that I'm fine with multiple things not being 10/10 (I was thinking of Metaphor as a 9/10 across the board, assuming a 10/10 is something I say about things very rarely) as long as some one thing is, like just the ending or just gameplay. I'm not consisent with that though anyways, I thought that Dark Souls 1 really does have 10/10 world exploration early on, yet I don't like it because of a lot of other problems. It's all really just gut feelings in the end, it was the best way I could explain why Metaphor feels like it's missing something.

Personally, I actually gave it a negative review. The exploration generally is very fun, but so much of the levels, activities, combat ranged from unimpressive to infruriating. It's basically carried by just being open-world Sonic, which is a formula for success.

I actually enjoyed the open-world HUB of Shadow Generations, and the game as a whole, much more. In fact, that game probably set my expectations too high, even knowing Frontiers was infamously janky.

In order, from the first? I have only played W3, but I do have the classics on the backlog, or at least W2.

Continuing Metaphor: ReFantazio. It's the most consistently polished game Atlus made (that I played) in years, though maybe SMT VV has a chance once I get to it. The only ones that come to mind are Persona 5/Royal (however much I prefer P3 and P4), and Etrian Odyssey V. Both of which had longer development times compared to their series, who knew?

My only complaint is that it doesn't have any 10/10 aspect that I'd love, most of my favourite games are somewhat flawed anyway, as long as they have that special aspect that clicks. But then, Persona 3 had nothing like that until the endgame, so there's still time for it to surprise me.

I started reading casually, currently Harry Potter to see what the fuss was about.

And I guess TV shows and anime too for years, but I usually only watch these while eating.