I don’t think I said anything mean or derogatory towards you, just that Ghibli being regard as “anime movies” is strange, and that you might be dismissing something being recommended before really knowing what it was about. Apologies for any offence, though.

I don’t mind the expanding in Remake as much as Rebirth tbh. Remake’s does expand a lot of side character’s, but they feel relevant to the story. Marlene, Avalanche trio, hell Yuffie’s little side story, they’re all good additions. EDIT: ALSO Wall Market! Best addition by far.

Rebirth is where I think it went off the rails a bit. The game really feels unfocused with a lot of the side quests, and it really drags a bit until you get to the last quarter of the game.

Maybe it’ll feel better to revisit once we have the entire trilogy. But man, paying $70/ to play Rebirth feels a bit bad when it came out at the same time as the new Yakuza and Persona remake priced at the same point.

I’m usually with you on the “skip the quests you don’t like”, but it really doesn’t feel like an option for this series. Each of the remake games are priced at $70USD and it’s not even a full story, technically speaking.

It feels really bad to not do side content, because it feels like you’re not getting your “money’s worth” psychologically. But the side content varies so much in quality depending on the chapter that the game just feels like a drag. It especially sucks because the OG FF7 is such a well paced story IMO, with a good balance of action/plot vs silly downtime.

Calling Studio Ghibli just “anime movies” sounds so wrong…

Especially as you say you like fantasy, which Ghibli is famous for.

Jumping rope about to be a whole chapter LET’S GOOOOOO /s

And it honestly breaks the flow of the story sometimes compared to the original. Rebirth’s added content felt like busywork at times to make it seem like a bigger game than it actually is.

The Honeybee sequence in Remake is peak tho, and I’ll fight anyone that says otherwise.

I only heard about this because Coppola gave an interview about hiring “cancelled” actors so he didn’t seem “woke”.

Yeah no thanks, FFC. I still remember you defending and bankrolling a CONVICTED child predator.

Only Apple product I care about. God, the Android tablet market is so shit. I miss the Nexus line 😞

Time and a place, bro.

Flippant humor on an advice post about a deteriorating relationship due to serious health issues probably isn’t it.

There’s a lot of implicit assumptions about me and my ego in your reply by grouping me with some nebulous group of “childish”… tech privacy moralists?

You’re right, people should take a step back from their devices…

I would love to be a subscriber if Google could guarantee that they won’t take my viewing information and then sell it to other advertisers or data brokers, or use that info to push ads on behalf of those brokers in other Google products.

As it stands now, why would I pay with my money AND my data? Google shouldn’t get to double dip.

Where are you that therapists can prescribe? I thought only doctors of medicine/some pharmacists could.

That’s an insult to Philomena Cunk.

Link works fine? THR is a pretty large industry publication, doubt their servers would go down from lemmy traffic.

Probably what happens in Charles Dickens novel, except everyone has smartphones now.

But tech bros don’t think literature or history are important disciplines, so they don’t even know what happens in a Charles Dickens novel.

Ooh, you may be right. I also don’t have that set up.

I can’t read this without subscribing, and I have no idea how to opt out.

Yeah, this is a pretty westernized and infantilizing view. Way to take someone’s autonomy and compare it to -checks notes- slavery and involuntary human sacrifice.

Please read some eastern philosophy and history before making comments like this. Suicide isn’t stigmatized outside of Abrahamic viewpoints.

Self-immolation as a form of protest has millennia of history behind it, especially in Buddhism and Hinduism. Ancient Greeks have records of it. The Indus Valley have records of it. Ancient Chinese have records of it. Tibetan monks set themselves on fire in order to protest for an independent Tibet. Norman Morris set himself on fire at the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War.

Please don’t reduce an active form of protest against someone’s oppression as someone simply “killing themselves” and “shouldn’t be celebrated”. It’s a pretty narrow and callous world view that may reflect your experience, but not of wider human history.

Do we have a c/shittyfoodporn? Because this could do numbers there.