We celebrate challenges overcome. We celebrate the things that make us unique. We celebrate our achievements.
We don't celebrate the things that come for free, or are easy. We don't celebrate things we all have the same, because why would we?
You might not get a banner, a party, or a cookie for being a cis-hetero person, but you probably have other challenges or unique features that are worth celebrating. You don't have to be included in everything to be included in anything.
Everyone knew BG3 would "a success," but it hasn't just been a success, it's been a nuclear bomb of a success.
Optimistically, people were expecting to get around 1 million in sales. Total. THAT would have been a GREAT SUCCESS. Today I think it has around 10 million on Steam alone, 10x the "hope we get there" number.
Imagine taking a job and hoping for a $10,000 bonus for good performance, and then your boss drops $100,000 on your desk. It's that level of joyful shock.
The determining question for whether or not it's the same is this: Are you the physical matter of your brain, or the electricity running through it? In the first case, sleep isn't death. In the second case, it is. I would argue that you're closer to the electricity than the brain matter, since an unpowered brain is how we define death.
But REALLY it ultimately doesn't matter, if you think about it. An exact clone of you created after any kind of destruction of consciousness is no different than the original you had the destruction never occurred. We just intuitively really do not like that idea.
You don't need a distant science fiction MacGuffin for this. Every night you lay down and "die" for 8 hours or so, then your consciousness turns back on and you simply trust that it wasn't altered too much in the interim. We know very well that the way we think can change from one day to the other, so who's to say you're really the same person?
Too different to compare. These are all tearjerkers for sure, but in sort of a happysad way, like "so sad that we lost it but so happy that we had it." There is something good and warm that you can identify with, and the hurt comes from it being taken away too soon.
Happy Sugar Life is obvious from the outset that there will be nothing good or warm, there is no hope or anything worth saving. The viewer knows this, but the characters don't. That's what makes it so painful (in a good way) to watch unfold.
I'm a huge book fan, and I have to say that book purists are the worst.
The show has made some changes that I don't love, and some of the characters aren't portrayed as I imagined, but for the most part it has been wonderful to see one of my favorite fantasy series brought to life, and to be able to enjoy this world with new fans. I always expect screen adaptions to make creative changes, since things that work in a book just don't work on screen sometimes, and I'd say the changes and presentations have been pretty sensible for the most part.
For every change I dislike there's at least one I appreciate, and all of the actors are killing it (with what they are given at least, looking at you weird Lan funeral scene). I'm looking forward to how they handle the story going forward!
Everybody romanticizes Karlach forgetting the part where she was a hellknight for 20 years and had a GREAT time with the wanton slaughter aspect. Absolutely revels in chopping up people she doesn't like. She's a sweetie deep down but also for sure got anger issues.
Flash drives are not a lasting medium. You'd need something like a quad-layer blu-ray, which is not cheap and has slow read speeds compared to solid state storage. Also nobody has blu-ray readers anymore. Also blu-ray publishers are tiny. Also the expense of distributing physical media.
So we've arrived back at the beginning - you can have this cake and eat it too, but you're going to have to eat the expense yourself. Imposing it upon the entire consumer market is selfish and wasteful.
"You asked me what cake I like, then you didn't bake me that cake, then you were upset that I expressed disappointment that I didn't get the cake I said I liked after you asked me what I like"
is a metaphor for the more abstract concept of
"you prioritize your desire to impress me over actually pleasing me, and I do not recognize the importance appreciating your efforts even when they fall short, and both of us are too self-absorbed to understand the emotional needs of the other and make compromises so we can both feel loved"
Everybody thinking it's about the cake when it's not at all about the cake.
The event is a metaphor for how both people in the relationship are incapable of effective communication. Don't think about it as a single event, imagine this as the 100th time something like this has happened, both of them 99 times brushing it off, but eventually snapping.
Most of the worst fights I've been in throughout my relationships have been sparked by something stupid like this, but the fight isn't ever about the cake. The fight is about all the other times there was a slight, a feeling of disrespect, a failure to understand each others' needs. I broke up with someone once over a vegetable while making dinner - it wasn't about the vegetable, it was about both of us being unwilling to compromise for each others' idiosyncrasies, which had already happened dozens of times before we were unable to agree on a vegetable. The vegetable just made me realize the root problem.
This is also why the AITA story is useless to make any judgments on. If she has a consistent pattern of ignoring his requests, then she's the problem. If he has a consistent pattern of being ungrateful, he's the problem. High likelihood both are the problem to some degree, but no way to know without investigating the pattern of behavior over a long period.
I've already said that I appreciate your efforts. I'm not going to block you, your work is valuable. I'm just explaining that you ARE going to be criticized for what you choose to post, and you shouldn't act surprised. If you really don't care about whether or not the stories you are propagating have merit, then just ignore anyone who pushes you on it. Consider attacks on "OP" to be the original author of the article, not you.
Or, be more selective about what you post, if the approval matters to you. Consider it constructive feedback.
You post a lot. I see your name come up non-stop. That is great! It is really appreciated. I'm certainly not doing that work.
You also post quite a bit of inflammatory clickbait without having any personal knowledge to back it up. That's a bit confounding. At the bare minimum, you need to be prepared to accept criticism for that.
I can personally say this is the second time you've posted a FF16 ragebait article and gotten offended when prodded about the fact that you yourself haven't even played it. Why are you spreading information that you don't even have the ability to evaluate?
As a fan of souls games and mech games, I wouldn't be TOO worried. OP is overstating the problem. I sympathize, because this is indeed a different Armored Core, but it's nothing at all like a souls game. It's still a mech game and a good one, but it's not as technically deep as previous AC games while also being dramatically more difficult.
I would say in older AC games having a terrible build vs a great build meant the mission was either literally impossible or braindead easy. In AC6 a terrible build means the mission will be much harder, but still perfectly doable, and having a great build means the mission will run smoother but may still be quite challenging since threats are generally a lot more deadly than they were in previous titles.
I can totally understand how that can kill the vibe for someone who wants to seek victory in the build screen and enjoy the rewarding power fantasy during the mission, but it's still a great mech game with a lot of meaningful variety.
Proof of this is that while, yes, AC purists are upset that this game is more action-y, there are just as many Souls fans who are mad that the mech building game they bought is - get this - actually a mech game and not just Robo Souls.