I know the feel. My dog has a small basket full of toys, but only ever lugs around that dirty old ball he can barely fit in his maw. Got like half a dozen other balls, but nope, goes with the ratty piece of shit.
The problem lies with your cat. It's a cat. Their purpose is to deny you of affection, appreciation and the general acknowledgement of your existence save for the few times THEY want something from you they can't attain for themselves for the lack of opposable thumbs.
They doggies do sure love their smelly old comforts, regardless of hygiene concerns...perhaps a freedom few of us will ever be able to appreciate...
Oi, hey...oi! Ok, while I can't argue, how could you not want to give belly rubs to this majestic fluff ball??
Oh, your cat is cute enough, indeed, but I see that photo and hear the words "rub me, peasant."They doggies do sure love their smelly old comforts, regardless of hygiene concerns...perhaps a freedom few of us will ever be able to appreciate...
Oi, hey...oi! Ok, while I can't argue, how could you not want to give belly rubs to this majestic fluff ball??
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True, it is a give-and-take relationship somewhat. I console myself with the knowledge she can't open doors just yet though, so can be locked in a room if need be
I hate the fact they both charge the equivalent of a $60 game. It's to the point that we got Nintendo fanboys/girls making excuses saying see "Nintendo only charges $20 for its shitty online!". Even though Nintendo's online was still shitty, but at least free. Sony's was free too, and then they lied started charging $50, and then $60. I still have yet to waste $20 for a crappy online as most of the games on my Switch are single player. But before you know it, one day Nintendo will start charging $40, and then eventually $60, making them no different from Sony or Microsoft. The hypocritical fans will run out of excuses. I do not know if you have a PS4, but to mitigate this problem, if you have an EB Games/GameStop around you. Every year around Black Friday/Christmas time, they will have PS+ on sale for $40. Unfortunately, they've been steadily increasing the price. It went from $40 to $45 now. Who know, next time the sale might be $50. What PS+ used to be when they started charging heavy. These companies are not hurting for cash that much and are just making up excuses.
It's actually even worse for me, because I don't live in the US. My PSN account is US because that was the only option a decade ago, and now I'm stuck with it. I can't pay for things with a credit card, so I'm forced to buy the PSN cards from resellers.
Sorry about that. So there is no other way to change regions or make another account for a different region. I know it is a possible action for the latter. If you wish to switch to Microsoft, Nintendo, or stick to PC, I will never blame you.The funny thing is, even the nearest region (Singapore or Hong Kong I think) doesn't accept my credit card. So I might as well stick with US. I do plan to move to PC for the majority of my games, once I have enough loose change.
I don't think it's weird. I think all the big players have invested a lot of resources into researching new methods of monetization as well as strategies to get consumers to accept them. What they call "conversion" in marketing speak. And for the most part, they've been quite successful at this. Not all the time, of course. Sometimes they've failed, like on-disc DLC, always online and off course spectacularly with lootboxes. But then they quickly pivot to something more toned down or a bit different, something that strikes enough of a balance between carrot and stick to be palatable to most consumer. Currently that seems to be battle passes and GaaS. And as time passes and more people grow up with these conversion/monetization strategies, they'll eventually become normalized. There'll still be people who criticize these strategies, but they'll be too few to have any real (financial) impact. Sometimes others will actually come to the defense of these strategies against their critics.
Everyone knows here in the West we are puritanic and sex negative. In Japan they understand that a creepy old man can be a fun character in silly animes while here it's problematic because "what if that was real life or someone you know?"
I know you enough to know that you're adding sarcasm in to your post, it would not matter what side of world I was born on, I have my own set of standards. The pervy old man joke can be done right, but it has been done way too much in anime. Hell, just the perverted character in general. At it's best you can sometimes get a laugh or two when it is done sparingly or not a gag. At it's worst, you get shit like Junk Boy or Mineta (needs to die or go away) from My Hero Academia. Or Quagmire (needs to burn in hell), if you live in the West. You definitely don't want Junk Boy or Quagmire.
I'm more of an anime hater myself and I only know the character from Death Battle. I meant more conceptually than anything specific (because I don't know as many examples as you do). Speaking of Quagmire we can contrast the idea with another MacFarlane character: Ted. Does Ted get a pass for being a pervy, drug abusing and so on and so on main character and protagonist of two movies because he's a completely fantastical character? A potty-mouth Winnie the Pooh. These are truly uncomfortable jokes for a lot of people, and the sensibilities are certainly different over in Japan.
It's been a while since I've seen Ted 1, and I never felt the need to see the sequel. It just felt like Wahlberg & McFarlane needed another paycheck. Compared to Jiraya or Quagmire, he's better than either of the two. More so the latter if we're talking morality. When I last checked, Ted did not go after or solicit sex to teenage girls or the creepy jail bait wait. Quagmire is in his fucking 60s for God's sake! Another reason why I dropped Family Guy was because of Herbert the Pedo. That joke went on for way too long, was not that funny to begin with. Out of all the characters they killed off, I already know he still not dead yet. Family Guy also suffered the same problem, but even worst with characters you are supposed to like or sympathize, but they are such assholes, people like Paxton Fettel, Lucy (Elfen Lied), Alma Wade, or Johan Fucking Liebert look more sympathetic or reasonable by comparison. Some of the fucking vampire Nazis from Hellsing are more sympathetic than the entire cast. Vampire! Fucking! Nazis!
Yes. For refrence I stopped watching Family Guy since the middle of the 7th season, Nowadays, you can only get me to watch the first 3 seasons, but even then I have to be in really good mood to watch them....or that bored.
