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Early internet celebrities like AVGN are responsible for internet influencers cancer
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Nintendo Switch Online (and the expansion) are worth the price from a pure value standpoint.
What value? Charging you for allowing you to play online, something that was free at Wii and Wii U era and it's free at PC and smartphones? Having a subscription model for playing games on old Nintendo consoles instead of also giving you the option to buy these games so you can play them offline?
 
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Early internet celebrities like AVGN are responsible for internet influencers cancer
My argument is that I wouldn't blame any one content creator for the entire state of current social media. I think it would have developed the same way regardless.

Eventually, we were going to get these tropes. The people making exaggerated expressions into the camera, the staged bits disguised as spontaneous moments, the vague descriptions ("We were just walking..... then THIS happened") that don't deliver, the people posing in places that get them injured or arrested. I'm sure they would have all appeared anyway.

I tend to have a strong opinion because I've seen friends develop the social media disease. There are never enough exotic photo op moments, update posts, emergencies (complete with hospital bed pics), or hot takes for engagement. The effect it all has on people's social skills and mental health is surprising.

From that perspective, if I had to choose between those types and AVGN, I'd have to side with AVGN.

Going by the episodes I've seen, I can give AVGN credit for being what it says on the tin. Each episode is designed as a comedy review, and generally speaking, that's what it is. There's even effort put into the presentation: A theme song, a hand-drawn title card, props and costumes, and special effects. The episodes have a structure to them that doesn't overreach. One could argue an AVGN episode sets a better example than the alternatives above.

A devout AVGN fan can tell me if I'm off-track. I'm going by limited AVGN knowledge.
 
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Xenoblade series is painfully mid, like i gave xenoblade 1-2 a chance, could not sit through that grindy yappathon,
heck even FF6 was less grindy, and then i heard xenoblade 3 had a 30 hour tutorial....nah you're bugging if you
think imma waist that much time on a tutorial
 

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A mass public transit in the United States cannot work
There's like 5 different types of mass-transit by intended design purpose, and I agree on maybe one or two. The US doesn't have favorable density everywhere, but it does in enough places. And services that serve commuters and connect the edge of cities to center (and ideally themselves) are pretty much universally advantageous for freeing up road capacity. It'd just be great if the US could stop building hub and spoke transit with one central station - those only work for commuters, and only for one kind of commuter.

Look at a map of a somewhat meh local transit system in Germany. It cares to connect places beyond just the center point.
 

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Rare should have stayed as rareware
I agree. Letting Microsoft buy them was a mistake. The team that made Yooka-Laylee needs to get back on the horse and either make a true sequel to it, or another game. The factory game they made was more akin to Donkey Kong Country than the traditional Banjo-style games like the first one.
 

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There's like 5 different types of mass-transit by intended design purpose, and I agree on maybe one or two. The US doesn't have favorable density everywhere, but it does in enough places. And services that serve commuters and connect the edge of cities to center (and ideally themselves) are pretty much universally advantageous for freeing up road capacity. It'd just be great if the US could stop building hub and spoke transit with one central station - those only work for commuters, and only for one kind of commuter.

Look at a map of a somewhat meh local transit system in Germany. It cares to connect places beyond just the center point.
The thing is, they’re fine with the way things are now, and It’s gonna be really hard to convince a large portion of the Nation to switch to public transportation and gain more social trust (And considering how New York is doing, I doubt it be simple)

Not to mention we did tried to established a large public transit state wide in California. What was originally set to be finished in 2020 with only a $33 Billion budget is now changed to be finished in maybe the early 2030’s with an almost tripled budget.
https://www.latimes.com/local/calif...gh-speed-rail-consultants-20190426-story.html

Why Japan worked is because their cities were designed to have an entire interconnected railway transportation and it was easier for them since their country is still an island with a huge working population.

Our country is way too huge, with large plains and different communities from Amish to middle classes. It be too complex to adapt soon.
 

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Yeah, America can't have mass transportation because of the Amish.
Not just the Amish, regular citizens too. There’s no space unless you’re willingly wanna reconstruct the entire road system throughout to add subways, but for what?

From where I am, there’s a lot of people here that walk, but I’ve also notice the sidewalks here just end at random points. I believe establishing better conditions to sidewalks is the better choice
 

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