That movie was a bit of a pivot point for me. gate didn't quite start yet, the MAGA movement didn't yet exist, and ideological issues and all, it was a fun movie for what seemed like a less fucked up time.
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Rationality is a tool to achieve a goal. But the motive to have a goal has to come from a value system. Rationality is used to win a game like chess, but it gives no motivation why you want to play in the first place.
The leadership of Iran are irrational and have a value system that incompatible with Western values.
I've played such bideo bames for decades, and I've seen so, so many "main characters" that couldn't even entertain the thought of cooperating with others, at best accepting having disposable sidekicks.
The whole (I'm not spoiler alerting this because this is such a garbage story that I don't mind spoiling the surprise) "Sauron was just some dude that Galadriel randomly ran into after she jumped off the boat" thing was an amazing shark jump.
, like a lot of creativity-deprived techbros, is a very firm absolutist in Joseph Campell-like story cliches, so he had to have a "friend that becomes a traitor" moment because his own mandates said so.
It has an annual convention for the same reason it has internet spaceship jpegs (some are playable while many are not, even years after first sale) for hundreds or even thousands of dollars each.
I tried watching Rings of Power. All of that budget, all of those resources, and it was so bland. I drifted out before the "prestige TV" torture focus really kicked in, at least.
That'd be a good bit, especially because No Man's Sky is like the anti-Star Citizen: it was loaded with false promises when it launched, but over time, it got better and better and kept getting better until it genuinely impressed me as a day one hater, all without thousands of dollars needed to "pledge" for spaceship jpegs.
Mandatory cooperation games seem to have a sort of curse like that when they get popular enough. MOBAs with teams come to mind.
We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market... even when not universally accepted, is exactly what the internet needs today.
Every fucking tech corporation ever has said this.
"We got a few months of riot training left to do! Let's get it done, officers!"