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Ideally, enough for the development to be profitable, with a little bit extra to help start funding development on the studio's next game.

That's a big reason why AAA is unsustainable, and trying to increase their prices to make up for it. It's a lot harder to have development be profitable when you have to pay 5,000 people than when it's only 50.

god I really love the idea of just lore dumping some military atrocities on a reporter live, I feel like it should happen more

ahhh, the glorious days of TF2 lobbies, where players would have custom sprays that were almost always just porn. How far we've...oh wait a minute actually it seems like we've made no progress at all.

Nah, I think PC Gamer just doesn't understand how quickly I can forgive a hot muscle mommy. idc how many demons she's killed if she can hold me against her abs and punch someone's skull off for yelling at me

Idk, seems about a fifth of them can't recognize fascism when it comes home.

I actually played a mute language master who was an interpreting dancer.

It's a fun gimmick for like three sessions.

I mean, the biggest warnings of cyberpunk fiction have always been about corporations consolidating more power than nations. With that in mind, the genre hasn't been a warning for decades; just a mirror to our existing capitalist dystopia.

There's a lot about this list I find silly, but nothing is sillier than recommending the live-action One Piece. Surely if the goal is to watch the best media, you'd want to watch the original anime, as opposed to the strange live-action remake? There's some serious recency bias prevalent throughout the list, but that has to be the most absurd example.

You're too late. The other day someone compared Steve Miller to Goebbels, and I commented how that was an insult to Goebbels.

Honestly, what I love the most is the near-universally accepted idea that he's going to win.

Like, he only won the Democratic nomination. All these scum-sucking Republicans just have absolutely zero faith in hacks like Adams, Cuomo or the Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, and assume Mamdani's mayoral election is a foregone conclusion.

Honest to god, the U.S. propoganda sphere is unmatched. So much of that list is fully kept out of American schools, and the few bits they acknowledge are so whitewashed and sanitized that we could realistically call them fictional accounts. The average American legitimately does not know half of the fucked up things this country has done, which is why most of them still think the problem is Donald Trump, and not all of U.S. society.

Perhaps the greatest kicker is that Americans will criticize regimes like Russia and China for brainwashing their citizens with a straight face, so blissfully unaware of their own conditioning.

Dunno if you'd want to count it as a TV series persay, but easily Usopp from One Piece. The man goes through an incredible arc of self-discovery before the timeskip, gets hyped as having finally conquered his fears, only to get reverted to his typical cowardice gag every post timeskip arc.

All of the Straw Hats suffer from flanderisation in post-timeskip One Piece, but IMO Usopp's is the worst, since it reverts him to a flat character that's heavily uninteresting.