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2025 and 2026 are going to go down as some of the best years for JRPG's in history.

Final Fantasy Resonance though...Man, this is the first time I've cared about the IP in years, if not decades. Feels like it's testing the waters for an FFVI remake.

And I'll throw in Brigandine Abyss and Another Eden (Switch) for good measure. And a good chunk of Dragon Quest remakes too!

Crazy, crazy good showing for JRPG's rn.

Final Fantasy Resonance is VERY close to becoming to most played Final Fantasy game in the history of Steam 👀

I told you.

I told you all. I told you over two years ago. I told you over two years ago that Vivek Ramaswamy isn't an American and never will be.

And what did you say?

OMG you just don't like him because he's brown you horrible basement dwelling racist. That's what you m not stupid. I know better than to be right too early.

Now I'm going to repeat myself. Vivek Ramaswamy is not American. Everything he says or thinks about America, he must mentally translate into the closest equivalent concept from his own culture, rather than understanding it in its own right.

When he says that the founding fathers "sacrificed their honor", he reveals that he does not understand what Americans mean by honor. He is instead translating it to the third world concept of "face" or "izzat", which is not what we would call honor at all, but social standing or reputation with the existing power structure.

Similarly, when he thinks that Amy Acton is somehow compromised by having been raped at the age of 12 by an adult charged with her care. Under third world values, this is a loss of "face" for her. Under American values, it's considered dishonorable to rape kids.

But the largest and most obvious clue, the one that should have dialed you all in, came earlier. Came two years ago.

You know the one.

The issue isn't that he called Americans lazy and mediocre. That's just third-world woofing, and we can absorb a simple insult. The third world insults us constantly now that we are selling them smartphones and internet access. Around here, we call that "Tuesday".

No, the significant point here is that he revealed his complete lack of understanding of how Americans innovate and succeed.

Being dragged into cram school by a tiger mom every summer, to drill trigonometry problems, may be how the Chinese and Indians personally succeed in their societies, by passing examinations and winning secure niches in their society's top institutions gaining much face thereby.

But this is not how Americans succeed, and it is not what propelled America to the pinnacle of civilization, technology and wealth.

We succeed by how we cultivate, motivate, and allocate talent.

This is something you can't explain to third-worlders, no matter how many times you repeat yourself. If they could understand it, they would not be third-worlders, because their countries would long ago have turned into first world countries.

They just think we are saying that we are so talented that we don't need to work hard. That we are so much smarter than they are that we can watch Saved By The Bell and have sleepovers and go to prom while they are drilling math problems.

This might actually be true. Our average IQ is about 20 points higher, give or take.

But that's not what's really going on here.

What's going on here is that Americans do work hard... but not in the context of an institutional pipeline set up by the state.

Americans work hard by playing.

When two American kids invent heavier-than-air flight, they don't do it by going to drill trigonometry problems and sitting for the state college exams. They just play around with kites, and bicycles, and bicycle kites, without asking anyone's permission or blessing first.

And they keep obsessively tinkering until something works.

They are working hard. But they are not working hard because someone is standing over them with a whip. They are working hard because they are obsessed with bicycle kites.

Americans greatness comes from three guys in a shed. We innovate by fooling around.

Is every American like this? This talented? This obsessed? Of course not. But the secret sauce has another ingredient, and that is respect for results, not for credentials or riches or titles or izzat. If some American shows up wearing stained overalls, with straw sticking in his hair, and says that his name is Jimmy Ray Hatfield, and he reckons he just mighta dun figgered out this fusion containment thing, ya'll, then Americans don't throw sticks at him.

We say... show me.

Guys like Vivek don't get that. They don't understand that in America, credentials and job titles are just something you pick up along the way to learning to actually make something, and it is the making of something, not the titles, that we consider to be success.

Vivek in office would be a disaster for Ohio, not only because he is a grifting scumbag, but because one cannot foster American greatness if one does not understand what makes America great.

The greatness of America is in its people. If the republican party does not realize that, then it must be replaced by a party that does, because the goal is not for republicans to win, the goal is for America to win.

And TransAmericans are not Americans.

This is an excellent video by @Patriotdadev77! The Bridging movement is highly manipulative and the blocking movement is dangerous. I wouldn’t talk to them either.

It’s very unsettling to know after @DataRepublican @iamlisalogan and I found their recorded meetings and started posting about them, they were discussing us.

It really is like the CIA is creating them in a lab! ☠️

Funny, everyone who has called @DataRepublican a paid shill has been awfully quiet the last few days.

Turns out she may have saved our Republic. Seems like apologies might be in order.

Done with the first chapter of Final Fantasy Resonance and just...wow! I think it's what World of Final Fantasy tried so hard to be.

It's part Octopath Traveler
It's part Persona (ha!)
It's part SNES-era Final Fantasy

And it doesn't try to hide ANY of it. It does not waste your time.

Part of me also feels like the HD-2D side of Square-Enix is trying to steal some of the spotlight from the FFVII Remake folks a bit. So far, it's been been a full-on tribute mostly to FFVI. In some ways, it may actually be BETTER than an FFVI HD-2D remake.

This one's getting DLC and sequels. It has legs. A lot of us waited a LONG time for this.

And...the English voice acting for Final Fantasy Resonance didn't even make it out of the very first castle. Good lord, is it bad! @SquareEnix

Great intro though!

'Super Mario Bros. 3' was released on the Famicom 38 years ago today in Japan.

Facts 😂💯

My wallet's tired, boss.

🚨🚨🚨🚨This means it's pretty much over for the Democrats in Arizona this election unless they engage in the most blatant obvious cheating. I've lived here half my life, was the former Maricopa County Elections attorney, and have NEVER seen Republicans equal the Democrats with ballot returns before an election, because they are more likely to vote in person on Election Day than Democrats. And I just heard Republicans are now ahead. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

◯HD-2Dの表現が一段上のステージへ
◯2Dなのにここまでの演出力。往年のスクウェア時代を思い出すクリエイティブ
◯「ドットのまま進化していたら、こうなっていた！」のファイナルファンタジーでした
◯音楽の質が非常に高い
◯テンポが良くて気持ちいい
◯めっちゃオモロい
#FFレゾナンス #ffresonance

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37 million views and counting after the Atlanta Falcons make one seemingly simple change to their X profile picture.

The team's throwback falcon design is drawing comparisons to Nazi-era imagery, with social media users flooding the post with jokes, memes and AI-generated e calling it "the bird reich," while others are questioning why the 2-4 Falcons are focusing on their profile picture instead of their performance on the field.

But the design dates back to the team's early years in the 1960s, and this isn't the first time a Falcons profile picture has sparked these comparisons.

Are YOU paying attention?

I always avoided Dick Tracy games because of how bad the NES game was. But this looks badass.

Well, there 28 stadiums that won’t be hosting any World Series games, so I’ll take what we have…

Does anyone realize how close we were to having World Series games played in a minor league stadium?

The Tampa Bay Rays fixed Tropicana Field just in time!

“Ilhan . . . Ilhan . . . Ilhan . . . Ilhan not gonna live here Nomar.”