All I have to say is that I sincerely doubt that From Software and MiHoYo were looking at H:ZD when they made their very successful games. That’s my only point, you are allowed to have your opinions about H:ZD - I’m not saying that you’re wrong.
BotW completely changed the open world landscape. Yes it was a bad Zelda game, it was by no means a mediocre game. That first experience is fucking magical, and has been recreated to great effect in Elden Ring and Genshin Impact (I shouldn’t need to point out how popular both of those games are).
You can dislike that it was a bad Zelda game. Calling it mediocre is just patently false. Granted, yes - I’ve called the game ‘Horizon: Zero Awards’ because it definitely should have won at least something. However, it was not more impactful than BotW.
It’s more like he’s hoping his car sprouts wings and turbines
The fall of Rome took over two and a half centuries.
Sometimes you need to accept things are broken and move toward fixing them, not blindly stumble forward expecting everything to right itself.
Well, it’s stated at the end of the paragraph that the about me was written by ChatGPT.
I think their point is that if the people making the games were given fair compensation that they would be more willing to sacrifice IP rights.
I don’t see what makes them think that other than their own personal feelings on the matter, but I think that’s the message.
People don’t like the things they believe to be challenged, and many people fail to recognize what is a belief and what is a fact.
It’s the problem with knowing enough to not know how little you actually do (know).
Disastrous, even
It’s a circle jerk, don’t get fooled into thinking this is some new version of trickle down economics
You can certainly make an argument for young kids, i.e. teaching fractions and literally how to count (counting seconds).
Teenagers? No, not really. They’ll all have phones or something to tell the time by a certain age and hopefully they know their fractions / how to count. It might as well just be digital at that point.
A strawman that may actually be true, given how much poison the rich have dumped into our environment.
Before they started realizing they need to pay attention
Then why is this hard to understand?
Do you stick your hands down your shorts to prevent the water pulling them against your skin?
How long has it been since you last swam?
Are ya’ll really confused about this?
I think that depends on whether you like Cool-Aid or not.
For the budding gardeners who might see this, do not use dogshit as fertilizer for the plants you eat.