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Could the monarch technically (I know they aren’t typically involved in politics in recent generations) force a change? Is there any way to petition them to do so? I don’t really know the UK system or if this would actually be a good idea.

Noise-cancelling headphones and allergy meds (at least this time of year)

Japan has it (and, more recently, paternity leave), but using it can be harder. Old companies try to pull all kinds of BS to deny it or change the woman’s job or such. It’s getting better and enforcement is cracking down but, as with all things here, it moves slowly.

I don’t know that FF had a specific hero as it were. DQ I suppose did in that they were at least named and had some story. Megaman is a good callout, though. We did have them in the computer gaming world in the more nebulous sense (like how I see FF). I guess I’m also thinking about how hero is used here; is it an existing character with a backstory (more like DQ or even megaman) or some character you create (FF again but also all the old SSI games on PC and many others).

I was thinking of fighting games but OP said nowadays it seems that all games are made for teenagers and adults. and I kinda threw the early SF and MK games into that bucket.

I’d argue that xennials didn’t really either. I certainly didn’t think of Mario, Sonic, Doom Guy, etc. as heroes. The closest that jumps immediately to mind as a named person is the protagonist of Wolf3d whose name I won’t attempt to spell here, but even then I didn’t give a shit about his story which, if memory serves, amounted to a blurb in a manual.

My heroes were in print in books and I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with that.

I wonder what the Japanese source is. I thought we recycled PET and burnt all the rest for power here. I guess not.

When I was still a fairly small human, giving me a screwdriver was a great way to find disassembled appliances (and a somehow-not-electrocuted gradeschooler).

No more tax exemption. Even better, ban them.

Seems fine to me. I’d rather someone juggle than loudly play some instrument.

Counterpoint for the general case: games also have a much larger playerbase these days and manufacturing of cartridges and components can be done at much greater economies of scale. In many cases, there is no physical media manufacturing cost to a lot of the sales.

For the specific point: Gearbox/Take2 have lost all faith from me so, while I don’t generally mind some games being in that price range, there’s zero chance pitchford and his ilk are getting that from me.

Souslikes, yes. For metroidvania, I would disagree. You did not mention soulslike in your post, unless I’m blind, or else I would have said nothing.

New metroidvania

Hey, hi everyone. We here at IronRaven decided to make a metroidvania, in the style of Dieselpunk and the 20s, art deco, art nouveau and so on. Tell me, what is the most important thing for you in metroidvanias, besides their appearance?

I prefer dark meat but, if your white meat is always dry then you’re doing something wrong.

Chiaboard.

A lot are hobby/volunteer. I don’t know about paid jobs. Depending upon where in the world it is and what is found, some may get a cut of things found.

Just go to the normal human arcade with all the other totally real, normal humans.

This is terrible.

How’s the doom port coming along? /s

Looks really neat!

Wait 'til the pigeon pope hears about this; pope wars, all over again.

/ very poopy pope wars.

I don’t think it’s really profound but ‘perception is reality’. How a person perceives something is what they think is true and real, even if it isn’t.

I remember ours (I think both schools were built in the early 1900s) being rough but not that rough.