I want to preface that the contents of this post is for informational purposes. I do not condone or approve of any harassments or witch-hunting or the attacking of anybody.
 
Richard Lewis recently did a stream talking about the terrible state of CS esports and I thought it was an important stream anyone who cares about the CS community should listen to.
Vod Link here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/830415547
I realize it is 3 hours long so I took it upon myself to create a list of interesting points from the stream so you don't have to listen to the whole thing, although I still encourage you to do so if you can.
I know this post is still long but probably easier to digest, especially in parts.
Here is a link to my raw notes if you for some reason want to read through this which includes some omitted stuff. It's in chronological order of things said in the stream and has some time stamps. https://pastebin.com/6QWTLr8T

Intro

• "The last month has convinced me, that we are going to be heading into a dark place for Counter-Strike esports in 2021."
  • "I think I've seen the scene essentially kill itself."
• "For the past 5 to 6 years, we've basically been in a holding pattern of people coming into our game wanting to run it, wanting to run all of the esports and wanting to profiteer and its been sort of a concerted effort to drive them off and push them away."
  • "We're spread way too thin."
• "If Riot don't get involved and stop the scumbags that have moved over to Valorant from getting their feet under the table, Valorant is going to have real problems."
• RL thinks too much has happened all at once for us to do anything except watch it play out, like:
  • Recent CSPPA strike against BLAST
  • ESIC failures and them not being supported enough
  • Teams cheating i.e. coaches/bugs
  • Widespread match fixing
  • The Pandemic
    • "People who try to hold bubble events are so incompetent and fuck up and people get the 'rona and its their fault."
    • "People who say Flashpoint is a bubble is full of shit and is a lie and people are now suffering for that lie."
      • "To save money they let people go home and break the bubble for a week."
      • "Not just Flashpoint peoples decision, they have a partner that handles the production." (hinting FACEIT)
      • "People are trapped in hotels essentially under house arrest because of COVID restrictions and has fucked peoples lives up."
• "It's all too much, all of this incompetence, all of this greed, maybe we ride it out."
  • RL says he has talked to the Riot devs (the ones working on Valorant) and says, "They are so cognizant of all the fuck ups and all the problems we have in Counter-Strike."
    • He continues to say that this is factored into their business plan and that we never had a competitor, but just so happens to have one coincide, when we are at our worst.

CSPPA - Counter-Strike Professional Players' Association

"Who does this union really fucking serve?"

• RL believes that the CSPPA is a mockery.
  
  • He points out the hypocrisy that they wouldn't strike for the pros who were kicked out of ESL Pro League, or for Jamppi or dream3r.
    • He also says ESL paid CSPPA and are racketeering and many other TOs have to pay them to get their "seal of approval"
      • He says they would strong-arm TOs saying "well if you don't give us the money, these guys are so we'll just have to commit to playing their event."
    • Also points out that they will strike against a competitor they are not in agreement with (Flashpoint)
    • RL: "It's what it says about every other time you haven't done it and it's about every time you don't do it now moving forward." "The issues they've chosen to ignore this year alone are embarrassing."
    • Then he points out that there was no strike for Valve qualifiers even if we have no major but Jamppi and dream3r can't play in them.
      • "and Valve have said 'Oh yeah we know actually their stories are accurate, Jamppi didn't cheat, now in a legally binding document. Yep dream3r did have his account hacked in a LAN café', but they still can't play. Where is the fucking solidarity? Gone. Doesn't exist. It's not important [because] it doesn't affect you." "That's what the union does right now, it looks after all the tier 1 people."
• He says the CSPPA doesn't represent all players all the time and has driven a divide where you have the haves and have-nots
  
  • "We have a tier of players that operate with impunity and do not help their tier 2 or tier 3 players out at all." "If you are not a tier 1 player you do not matter, they don't event ask your opinion."
  • He tells chrisJ to admit and own the fact that the reason he didn't speak up during the ESL Pro League debacle is because it didn't affect him
  • "They are looking after some players at the expense of other players. How the fuck is that a union?"
• He says the BLAST situation is a reasonable dispute and supports the players but is not the right time for a strike and have not even identified the correct enemy
  
  • He thinks players are lashing out now due to previous incidents and are upset that BLAST are working with ESIC
    • He stated that CSPPA shouldn't beefing with ESIC and they should be working in harmony
  • He says what they need to do is talk with the teams/organizations that have sold that right to BLAST
    • RL: "Your employers, the people who pay you that massive exorbitant salaries, when you don't stream and you don't do interviews and you offer no value beyond your ability to click heads and you get 25k dollars a month." "Why don't you talk to them about it? Oh right. You're happy to take away BLAST's paper, but you don't want to risk your own."
  • "I am seeing such unbelievable cowardice from the players here with the battles you choose."
  • "Where was the strike action when in the qualifiers for the world championship, there were teams and players engaged in huge conflicts of interest?" "Where was the strike action when your image rights were taken and sold to every league you've ever been in every union type organization you've ever been associated with like, WESA, to your org every time you sign a contract, to the leagues you play in."
    • "Your image rights are essentially worthless now, there's about 10 fucking separate parties that have them, and how many of them are giving you anything for it? Not much pretty much your org by the way."
    • "That's a big issue. Your image is you, your image is your brand. What are you doing about that? Nothing."
• He is also angry at SirScoots who is "popping off" at people on Twitter who all want the same thing, which is 'A unified Counter-Strike scene for everybody, that works for everybody, that has a sustained ecosystem that nourishes everybody.' "We don't have that now."
  
• He also says their rankings are a joke
  
  • "Just so happened, oh look TACO, that very important prominent member of the board, we pushed his team artificially up when they weren't even in the fucking top 20, not by a long shot."
• He also says the ineptitude of the CSPPA cost Flashpoint a monitor sponsor
  
• "Is it really a player association or is it like a fucking agency at this point"
  

ESIC - Esports Integrity Commission

"They have been put in an impossible position."

• RL says that Ian Smith, the founder of ESIC and who was done work in mainstream sports, is a good and honorable man who has dedicated his life to integrity and sports. He takes on both sides, ensuring match fixers are punished, but also doing appeals and ensuring those punishments were fair.
• "ESIC is a tiny organization" and are in need of money, "They didn't run a grift like the CSPPA did."
  • "Saying 'you want our support and you want the players to turn up you better pay us.' They don't do that."
  • "Had startup seed money from MTG and since then they've been pecking shit with the hens."
    • Ian Smith made sure that the money given by MTG (Modern Times Group, parent company of ESL, ESEA, DreamHack) was nothing more than startup money and wouldn't be in debt to them
      • Ian Smith sat down with other TO's not part of MTG and wanted to partner with them. They declined and called ESIC "ESL spies and we will never align ourselves with you"
  • "They only were just able to afford, hiring a PR guy on a full time salary to deal with the press and send out those releases you've seen, this year."
    • "They have a tiny group of staff investigating these things and they have taken on the biggest problems in our scene: the cheating, the match fixing."
• ESIC have had "unprecedented levels of cheating to deal with, because there's something wrong with our scene ever since we went online. There's something wrong with it, everyone's lost their fucking pride and self-respect and they got no passion for it anymore, so they think fuck it, what's in it for me?"
  • He calls out coaches who are talking about players rights when they would rob and steal from them.
    • Also says more coaches being banned are coming
    • He also points out flaws in community's reaction to the punishments to coaches bans: "Half of the cunts still have jobs and some of the cunts got new jobs. We didn't even shun the cheating coaches."
• ESIC have "found I think another 2 or 3 exploits like that one and they are investigating them all right now, it's going on right now."
  
  • "I know that there are going to be more names getting banned, again."
  • "So they're doing that on a skeleton crew while, investigating 3 continents worth of match fixing in MDL and semi-pro level CS." "They're doing this with half a dozen people." "They don't have any money or any help. People barely even fucking cooperate with them, they are treated like pariahs. It's ridiculous."
    • "Why are the CSPPA popping off at ESIC on my Twitter timeline, when you should be working together." "because its all about what's in it in for me." "2020, the online era of CS: 'What is in it for me?' How can I cheat, how can I get my paper, how can I bleed this scene one last time before I fuck off and play shooty shooty bang bang Riot Games babys first fps."
• RL says that in the CIS region, teams have gone to tournaments and have been eliminated multiple times by the same team. We found out they were cheating and those players who lost, have been cut from their roster, careers ended because of cheaters.
  

Stream Sniping

"They're all at it in the online era, they're all at it, they're all cheating, they're all using exploits, probably that see through smoke bug got used a bunch of times"

• RL talks about how there is no integrity from dead (the player), always denying when caught doing something
  • On the topic of 'BLAST never said we couldn't stream snipe': "Lies, BLAST never said you could do that, they had to sort of retcon it." "because what happened after that they fucking started snitching and squealing"
    • "Suddenly you had like, 10 of the top 15 teams in the world, staring into the abyss of being banned for 6-12 months in line with ESIC recommendations."
      • He says that ESIC was put in a tough situation and couldn't enforce the bans because it would have resulted in killing CS. What resulted was, BLAST, ESIC, and teams came together and gave them a warning and told them, in RL's words "don't do this again or you're gonna get got."
        • He then says the top teams brushed this off and didn't give a fuck
        • The new MiBR team playing Flashpoint, that wasn't involved in the previous incidents are doing it again (stream sniping). He gave credit to Flashpoint for the quick resolution and punishment and respect for cogu's response to the situation.
        • "ESIC came out and said, once more, 'Guys, zero tolerance from now on.'" RL then got upset at community's reaction calling ESIC "pussies" for their non enforcement and said if we want competitive CS we cant ban the top 10 teams.
• He points out how players have no integrity and will do anything for an edge as long as they won't get detected or banned or it's within a grey area.
• "All of this shit was mad avoidable, even in the pandemic era."
  • He talks about why aren't we filming them. Why aren't there representatives for leagues and tournaments making sure players aren't cheating?

Match Fixing

"How many years have we let our scene be fucking pillaged by these greedy cunts?" "We just let it happen."

• RL says that gambling and skins betting which existed in moderation was "accelerated and blown up by the Call of Duty greedy fucks."
  • "Never forget TmarTn was on the board of EnVyUs." "His website, CSGOLotto, they had a bunch of off-the-books sponsorships." "NBK promoted them. People forget."
• "Those people who had access to the skins, go to the players" "Even people like s1mple, best player in the world, even he scammed knives and skins off fucking fans."
• Owners of skin casino sites would approach pros and lend them skins to use in tournaments and possibly keep them after reaching a deal
  • Players would tip off inside info about matches and teams in exchange for skins. Info such as: roster changes, how they played in scrims
    • They would use this info to bet and subvert the odds on their sites. "That happened religiously, I can't even tell you how many times it happened."
      • "I had access to the biggest database of information, from an inside betting circle in NA, and it would take information and screenshots from other pro players, who were feeding them info in exchange for money or skins."
        • "Some of these players are still playing." "Incredibly, there are players still in the CSPPA today, complaining about the BLAST recordings, that were embroiled in this murky shit back then."
• RL also says that there were tournaments where teams contrived with each other, who should throw, who should win.
• "There's a handful of people that are trying to fucking clean it up, and you think you get something over the line and you see something like the CSPPA and it's run by corrupt fucking chuckle heads, and now you've got another corrupt body you have to fight on a fucking daily basis, it's demoralizing."
  • "It's too far gone. Our entire semi-professional scene is compromised."
• "It's rife guys, I'm not going to lie any more. It's not just China, it's not just Russia, it's here, it's NA, it's Europe, it's Australia, so much more than you think, so much more than we can prove."
  • "I get sent chat logs all the time […] and they're morons, these players, short-sighted, amateur, morons and they're doing it on WhatsApp." People would get cut from the bets because they want to make more money, then they leak the logs. He says, from the chat logs, they spread "little" bets across every site they can (400 to 1k dollars) to prevent shifting odds
• He says the scumbags who've fucked off to Valorant will do the same there if Riot doesn't do something and says Valorant "is an esports scene heading for a very early fall based on the sheer volume of scumbags that are already there."
• "That's tier 2 CS in a nutshell these days. They know they're never going to play in a major, so what's the punishment?"
  • "All of these tier 2 fucks that are fixing games now they are like the fucking mafia compared to iBuyPower" "These guys are working with organized criminals to fix entire seasons worth of games. That's what's going on in your tier 2 CS."
• "I'm literally being told that there are players fixing games at all levels of Chinese esports and motherfuckers with guns are turning up to team houses and stuff."

North America

"Everyone in NA has left we've lost a continents worth of support during this pandemic and Valve haven't said a fucking word."

• RL says the Call of Duty "goblins" that destroyed CS for years are the same people who are now trying to leave CS. "The nerve to treat a game where the fans, and the community, and the TO's were nothing but good to you." "To just kick the players out now and go and leave and say 'It just doesn't make financial sense.' Oh you'll slither back when we have a major though for them stickers won't you."
• There's a cascading effect in NA where people don't bother with CS anymore and people like Chaos suffer.
• He says NA team owners are incompetent for always wanting it easy and always wanting a guarantee on their investment without skill or nuance.
  • RL says he would be able to market a team correctly and would have a good ROI and also points out how TSM wouldn't even be bothered to tweet that their team, which was one of the best in the world, was playing at the Major.
  • He also says not all NA owners are like that, compliments and respects Jason Lake who nearly lost everything to keep Complexity going.
• He then calls out the incompetence in Infinite Esports when they acquired OpTic Gaming and bought an Indian CS team.
  • He says HECZ is not to blame here and that they couldn't tell forsaken was cheating when it was so obvious.
    • They measured his reaction time to the likes of dev1ce and s1mple
    • When an enemy showed up on his screen he won that duel something like 44% of the time
    • "was like the number 1 player in the world statistically"
    • He brought a laptop to their bootcamp and refused to use the high end PCs that hey provided
• He respects Andy Miller (NRG CEO) and HECZ but says that the attitude of not being able to easily monetize their teams is "piss weak" and there needs to be a risk.
  • He says Chaos EC shouldn't be cutting their roster and should be competent enough to be able to figure out how to make money off their team.
• He says there are still opportunities in NA and people are panicking and pulling out, and says Valorant will be the same if not worse.
  • He also says "bums" who couldn't even get out of groups in NA competitions, are making crazy money in Valorant and says it will continue to inflate.
• He also said that he heard rumors that EG (Evil Geniuses) are done.
• He also thinks that the rumors of a Valve franchised league from before was sparked up from "these lazy fabled weak NA fucking team owners basically trying to see if Valve would bite at the hook if it was dangled and they didn't"
  • Slasher says NA team owners are really in favor of franchised leagues because they want to make more money. "Most of the powerful team owners right now are on board with ditching this third party organization structure, or they are trying to play this power politics with all the TOs, and that is contributing to a lot of the problems there"
• RL says that Riot has proved they can run a franchised league (LCS) and will be profitable in 2021 which is what a lot of team owners care about and says the competition will only serve to snatch people away from CS.
• RL continues to say, "I am so sick and tired of what we have done to this scene, I am just exhausted with it." "I think we have legitimately fucked it, I really think we have. I think we're staring into almost like a CGS (Championship Gaming Series) wasteland in NA." "Counter-Strike esports is a fucking joke."

Talent

"TO's have treated CS talent like absolute human garbage for years now."

• RL says that people like Sean Gares and ddk switching over to Valorant isn't for financial reasons because they are making less over there.
• He points out that TO's can't even give talent a 3 month in advance calendar.
• Because of the pandemic TO's won't hire certain people and some people are working more hours for the same money.
• He says we as a community don't respect journalists enough which is why we don't have good journalists.
  • He also says DeKay is leaving the scene soon and that Thorin is close to leaving also
• He says he had to talk a caster down from quitting and was struggling to find reasons.
• He says that DreamHack told Vince they would hire him but not if he wants to stick with dusT and says that this is the norm in esports. "Constant leveraging of people against each other." and says this is why we don't have a talent union.
• New gen casters are getting put into shit situations and the community's reaction to them is adding fuel to the fire
• He says the reason Moses left was because of the terrible conditions
• He says that Anders had to constantly leave his family and kid because someone fucked up or broke promises and had to constantly tell his kid to their face that "daddy can't be home this weekend."
• He says that esports has always been a lie to sell you this dream, "Meanwhile there's about 2% of the cunts getting all the checks."

Valve

"Anything that Riot does, is better than Valve's inaction"

• Slasher says that the larger aspect of esports as a whole compared to other entertainment mediums and Valve's lack of inattention are the bigger problems. He continues saying that the fact that Valve let their game be ran as an esport, they need to take on the responsibilities of it.
  • Both Slasher and RL wants Valve to take control but not on the level of Riot Games, there needs to be a balance.
• In case it was ever a question: Gabe Newell has been to 0 CSGO Majors.
• RL calls Valve out saying they could have done something during the gambling era.
• He says Valve used to come to the majors, but doesn't think they do anymore.
• RL had met with Valve at the Cluj-Napoca Major and had tried to appeal iBP's indefinite punishment and had also gave Brax's life story:
  • A recent family member passed away, they had lost a lot of income, they had to live in trailer, iBuyPower did not pay any salaries, and was pressured by family to make money who didn't support his career.
  • RL said that Valve told him, "How dare you try and make us feel guilty." "We shouldn't feel bad about enforcing the only thing that matters that we need to make players afraid of: cheating and match fixing"
  • RL also tried to share other info about match fixing and nothing came of it
• RL points out that Source 2 or a new engine is not something you will want based on the experience of transitioning from CS 1.6 to CS:S. "Valve's track record with brand new engines being launched, not fucking great from what I remember."
• Slasher says "If there is anything the community should do, is pressure Valve to hire a community manager."
  • They say that we need a commissioner, a community manager (not the person who runs the Twitter who posts memes all day), then we need to have a circuit
• RL reiterates that Valve doesn't care about CS esports and says they need to change the culture at Valve to make them care about CS esports
  • Slasher says a systemic problem is making it so working on CSGO would be a bad decision for you as an employee for Valve
• He also hasn't talked to Valve in ages and have sent over bugs and cheats and doesn't get emails back anymore
• Slasher says we should be directing attention at the developer leads, pointing out Ido Magal, if he even is still the project lead
  • RL thinks that Ido and Brian are the only people that "vaguely even give a fuck about CS" and were the only people that RL recalled that actually read Reddit and paid attention from time to time
• "It is really fucking precarious. Somebody has got to step the fuck up and start giving a shit"
  • Slasher suggests org owners, with CSPPA, with ESIC, with TOs have a concerted effort against Valve
• "Riot Games are doing better things than Valve in the esports space" which is something RL didn't think he'd say.
• "People who used to be talent, working with unions, arguing with other talent, when the unions fucked them over, can't understand their perspective, TOs fucking over broadcast talent, broadcast talent wanting to leave and go and work for orgs, orgs having no money, Valve might take coaches away because all the coaches are cheating, ESIC has about 4 people in a fucking call doing the investigations, everyone thinks they're spies for ESL, ESL are just the evil fucking overlords wanting to rule the scene and will just somehow, like cockroaches outliving a nuclear bomb, and Valve are in a fucking holiday in Hawaii thinking about the next Dota character because they don't give a fuck about us."

Closing Statements

"We've peaked. If we want to sustain and exist, now is the time to figure it out. No esports lasts as long as this, we've already done 8 years. We've already broke the records. We have got to figure out a way to coexist and drive the negative forces out and we need to do it as a collective and we're not doing that."

• RL compared the Counter-Strike scene to the people on the Titanic who ran around with guns robbing people while the boat was sinking.
• "We have given up on being a respectable esports scene." "We are now a conduit to make money for those who want to just milk it, just have one last ride, one last roll of the dice. It's done." "What a fucking mess. What have we done to our fucking scene?"
• "There's just too much self-interest driving all of this." "I don't see a way we stop the dominoes." "When it's that bad, when there's that many dishonest people that ESIC have to come out and say that if we punish them all there's no one left. What does that tell you?"
• "How many opportunities have we had to clean house? How many times have we said, 'this must never happen again', and another scandal." "The entire skins betting operations was the biggest criminal conspiracy in esports ever executed and no one has been punished for it." "The people who could be driving that don't want to."
• "Right now people are fans of those organizations because the scene has value. It is worth being a fan of Astralis because they are excellent at Counter-Strike. It is worth being a fan of s1mple because he is the best player in Counter-Strike, maybe the exception of ZywOo. If the scene is devalued, if the scene loses its meaning, those things lose its meaning too, and people will leave, people will stop tuning into the games. I have seen it happen in multiple esports, this is not my first time at the rodeo. I am getting big Brood War vibes right now and I don't like it."
• "The role you play in all of this as fans, as viewers, as listeners, as consumers of esports content, it's absolutely imperative that you know who the good guys are. It's absolutely imperative that you use your voice. It's absolutely imperative that when things are bad, you know who, at least, is trying to make them good, and you have to apply your criticism to the right targets."
  • He continues saying it's no good in continuing to attack ESIC and saying how they are bad, ESIC have it hard
• He says CSPPA are on the right side of the argument on BLAST but have been on the wrong side of many arguments many times.
  • "If you are not willing to stand along side the weakest member of the union, with the least amount of influence, and the least amount of power, then it is not a union at all and you shouldn't pose as one." "You wanna serve a bunch of special interest do it, everyone else in esports fucking does, but do not pose as something you are not." "We love the players. I've been fighting for players rights for as long as I've been able to, but the CSPPA is not what we needed."
    • "They are not applying the pressure to the right people, they are not fighting the right battles, they are not helping their weaker members."
• He says what orgs have done by keeping or hiring coaches is bad. "When you give up on holding an appreciable standard, you've lost the scene" "Competition matters, rules matter, punishments matter, achievements matter, excellence matters" "If you start stripping that away, you have nothing" "You guys need to take that knowledge and apply it sensibly."
• "Valve has sold you all down the river, they sold everyone in the esports scene down the river, tournament organizers are selling their talent down the river. Don't hate on them for sounding tired after a 16 hour day. Don't hate on them because the hype for a matchup they've seen for the 20th time in the past 3 months, they can't be as excited or it sounds contrived. Support your guys, they're there for you, these are your people."
• "This community has got to start acting like one for the first fucking time. Just put the petty shit away, let's try and fix this fucking scene while we still have one to save."
• "You can't rely on Valve, you can't rely on ESL, you can't rely on the CSPPA, you can't rely on anyone." "Once again, it's gonna be the likes of us, the amateurs, the people who give a fuck, rolling up our sleeves and grafting." "I'm old and tired and I don't want to have to do it again. People need to pick up the torch and do it."
  • "Like Michal did, like Dudenhoeffer did. You see something wrong, fix it. You see somebody doing something wrong, call it out. If you think something could be better, let people know."
• "Vote with your wallets if you're not happy with the direction Valve goes in. If when we do get to the Major, they serve up another subpar, same old bullshit stickers and signatures package again, do not buy it."
  • "You're a powerful block and if you use it correctly we can fucking avert this disaster."
• "I'm not doing another year in this broken, bust-up fucking scene, where everyone is miserable, everyone is broke, everyone is tired, and everyone is trying to fucking rob everyone else, blind, while the fucking people who are meant to be protecting you, are just fucking enhancing it and lining their own pockets."
  • "I'm not doing it anymore and you shouldn't want to do it either."
• "I stand by every fucking thing I said. I mean it, because this game fucking matters to me, this scene fucking matters to me. I put my life into this, my adult life, and to see it in this state is fucking sad."

I love New Vegas, its my favorite game of all time. And it is for a lot of other people too. This unfortunately means that its almost impossible to say anything negative about the game on Reddit without getting massively shat on. The only point you seem to be allowed to criticize is the bugs, which gets rebutted by "but they only had 18 months to make it" or "Bethesda was in charge of QA", as if any of these things excuse it for you as a customer.
So now that the game is 10 years old and most of us have played it tons of times, I thought it would be a good time to make a thread where we can actually criticize this lovely game. I'll start, now bear in mind this is of course all degrees of subjective so don't throw "uR nOT obJEvTiVE" at me just yet:

1. The bugs has to be meantioned first. The game ran horribly at release and still did for a long time after. Its first many years later with patches and mods that we reached something that can be called mostly stable. I'm playing it right now only with stability mods on and it still crashes about once every 1-2 hours, and its still very buggy and janky.
   
2. Caravan, this game's made up card game, is horrible. Firstly its very buggy somehow. I am surprised they couldn't even bug fix a solitaire-like card game, but here we are. Secondly even when it works its not very fun. It takes minimum 3 cards to make a caravan and only one king or jack to ruin it. It means it heavily favors just fucking up your opponent and hope you win the war of card attrition. The game used to be stupidly easy but was then patched so now the AI will spam kings and jacks constantly. After I got the 30 games achievement I dropped it. Lastly the game doesn't do anything with Caravan. There is no quest to become the Mojave champion or such. I get this isn't needed but it would have helped make it interesting. The only other games in the game are casino games which all depends on your luck stat. I would love being able to play high stakes Caravan.
   
3. Cut content. Roleplaying is best when you actually have good reason to join both sides. In Fallout New Vegas the NCR gets the majority of the content. If you side with the Legion you can finish all the faction quests in a few hours, meanwhile the NCR has so many quests I always have to check the wiki to remember them all. Its such a shame. It doesn't help that for 3 of the endings you can work with the NCR but only 1 for the Legion. I don't get this when in 2 of those endings you end up double crossing the NCR anyways, why not allow the player to double cross the Legion? The difference being that the NCR will stand down and the Legion will then try to fight you and your army.
   
4. Caesar's Legion is weird. I love most of the faction. I love the ideological conflict between a faction trying to redo democracy but running into the same problems with corruption vs a brutal but safe dictatorship. I like talking to everyone and its cool to see how different peoples' options are of the factions. Some just hate the Legion outright because of their massacre. Some see the value of having a safe society, Cass mentions how she considered running her caravan in the Legion instead of the NCR because its safer. Its cool. However I can't get over the fact that this faction is a big ancient Rome LARP. They run around in football gear. Why not just make them look normal, or similar to Romans but not literally Romans. Its such a well crafted faction that gets ruined by this pretty silly design.
   
5. Independent is basically the House route but with you instead. You don't get to choose what your plans are other than your interactions with the small factions, which also doesn't feel special. You don't ever get to use your securitrons. It would have been extremely cool to be able to send your army with you to wipe out or subjugate factions instead of just doing the same quest you do if you side with House. Again, you are also forced into a choice between an uneasy alliance with the NCR where you double cross them, or killing both major factions. You can't make it clear to them beforehand that you don't want to be annexed.
   
6. The economy is poorly balanced. In Fallout 3 you barely made any money and vendors were just as poor, so it took a long time to accumulate wealth. Most players would just use gear they found instead of paying for it at a store. In Fallout New Vegas you can easily have 5000 caps by the time you reach The Strip. I had twice that when I reached it 2 days ago. Stores have tons of money and are more than willing to buy all your junk. The economy just breaks when vendors are willing to buy all the crap you pick up at such high prices as NV has. I think you can get them to buy for 90% of their value, that's fucking insane. I try to not level up barter too quickly as it just makes the game too easy but I also hate crippling myself like this. The game's vendors need to be selective about what they buy and how much they pay for it. You need 2000 caps to inter the strip, that's pretty much nothing. The game even gives you tons of ways around the credit check so clearly they meant for it to be a hurdle.
   
7. The map. I'm not saying its bad, but going from Fallout 3 to NV makes you miss the feeling of being able to go in any direction and always find something. New Vegas is very railroaded. It has a ton of mountains and invisible walls to make the player go specific places (Edit: a lot of people are citing this one setence and using it to rebut me, guys read the whole damn thing). I can still let myself get lost in Fallout 3, in NV I always know exactly which way I'm supposed to go. The game has no counterpart to F3's Andale or Oasis. There are no small outskirts places for you to discover in some random spot. All the towns are along the main roads, with a handful of cool places that are off the beaten path. I love following the road through Primm->Nipton->Novac->Boulder City->Vegas, its an excellent experience for following the main story and finding a ton of side content, and I love they gave returning players the option to head straight north and try their luck. But when I just want to do some side content I always feel like I have to follow a track. I AM NOT SAYING THE MAP IS BAD. Just that it follows a certain design that some don't like. I like it when I just want to do the main story, its a really nice experience that way. But if you want to just go in any direction like in a Bethesda RPG you will get disappointed. There are tons of invisible walls and mountains in the way. Imagine if you started in Freeside instead and just had to get the cash to get into the strip (more than 2k). Then you can choose to follow the I-88, go towards Jacobstown, Bitter Springs, do stuff in Freeside or the other communities around Vegas. Would be a great alternative start for returning players.
   

Edit: some extra

1. Combat is ass to say it bluntly. For some reason people always excuse the poor combat in RPG's because its not the games' focus or because its almost tradition at this point. I don't see why I as a player and paying customer should make excuses for a product I paid for. Its embarrasing how poor the AI is in the game, how poorly combat works and how unbalanced the game is. I can go through a ton of the game with my Couriers Stash 10mm and Vault armor and just blast entire legion or NCR camps, and then suddenly difficulty can turn on a dime and an enemy can kill me in 3-4 hits. Difficulty in RPGs is such an important thing as it directly influences your decisions. In Fallout 1 and 2 I did my best to not bite off more than I could chew. In NV can do pretty much anything other than go to Sloan at the start, which is a part that most have noticed too.
   
2. The selection of guns is fine, but not armors. Without ultimate edition you don't get any good early game armor in the game. The only option is leather armor. Mid game you fight to get either power armor or combat armor mk2, and late game is all about Riot Gear from Lonesome Road. They could have made armor interesting by giving it stronger buffs and debuffs. PA and metal armor has a -1 to agility but often +1 to strength. Why not give such traits to all armors and maybe even make it stronger? Too much of the armor is also faction armor which you don't want to be wearing unless you are infiltrating somewhere.
   
3. Speech is too much like Fallout 3 and not enough like 1 and 2. In 3 and NV dialogue either ends in a skill check (too often speech) or you having to do a task if you can't pass the check. What's being said is largely unimportant unless it leads to a different outcome. In Fallout 1 and 2 dialogue was much more about reading each option and thinking about how the character you were talking too would react. You often couldn't just [speech] 50 do what I want. NV has a few moments where you actually does have to argue and its some of its strongest parts.
   
4. Crafting could have been more. This is more of a "what could have been" argument, but personally I don't see why you shouldn't be able to craft a lot more guns or armors. I don't want Fallout 4's style of somehow being able to craft tons of pre war objects you clearly don't have the tools to make, but just having a good selection of makeshift guns and armors would have made crafting and also survival much better.
   

These are my thoughts. Please feel free to share yours!

Hey, folks, Steve here again. As my name implies, I'm a slot techician, which means I fix the machines and get asked if I can rig it to win so many times, it might as well be a Friday Evening, Pre-Recorded sketch.
Like my other stories, any names, brands, amounts, and locations that may appear have been changed for anonymity. Procedures and timelines may be changed if altering them does not break the flow of the story. Industry-standard terms (e.g. "TITO") have been left as-is.
This happened a few months ago, so some details are fuzzy.
It was a somewhat peaceful night so far in the casino. Calls for doors and other stupid-easy miscellany were down - so far, all save one or two calls were legitimate issues. At about 7:30, I was replacing some of the heads on the thermal printers (and chatting with $sup about the price of tea in China) when the radio crackled to life in my earpiece.

$radio: "I need a slot tech to 2-Charlie-1501 for a patron dispute."
$me: "2-Charlie-1501, be there in a minute."

I knew the voice on the radio as Jenny, one of the better attendants. She was one of the better ones out there; she'd troubleshoot and do everything she could before calling us, and if she called in a patron dispute, it almost always meant one of two things: either she herself did not understand (and in such a case she'd hang around while I dug through the game rules and explained it to the patron), or she had already explained it to the patron and the patron refused to believe her.
I set the printer parts aside and hiked upstairs to 2-CC-1501, where the patron was rambling on at her about how she saw this and how it did this and why didn't it pay her? Jenny saw me coming and stepped me aside to brief me:

$jenny: "She says she won several times while playing this, but I can't find anything in the game history."

I nod and Jenny goes back to deal with the patron while I check the credits on the game (zero), turn the audit key, and start doing my detective work. The game's history only goes back 20 games, so I start at the most recent and work my way back - there's some little wins here and there, but nothing on the scale that the patron was claiming - just ten credits here, fifteen there, so on and so forth - nothing out of the ordinary since they were playing 3 reels on a penny-denom 5-reel Royalty Mach 6 game.
After thumbing through all twenty games, I turn my attention to the game's internal logs. Nothing out of the ordinary shows up, just the usual start-of-play, end-of-play, start-of-play, end-of-play, ticket print, and audit stuff. And then I notice the timestamps.

03 Sep 19:34:36 2020 - Entered game recall 03 Sep 19:33:07 2020 - Audit mode - ON 03 Sep 19:26:51 2020 - Service Request - OFF 03 Sep 19:21:37 2020 - Service Request - ON 03 Sep 17:55:49 2020 - Ticket removed 03 Sep 17:55:46 2020 - Ticket print XXXXXXXXXXXXXX0001 $3.57 03 Sep 17:55:46 2020 - System authorization successful ... 

...Huh, that's over an h. I check the game recall screen's timestamps, and sure enough, the last play was a bit over an hour and a half ago.
By now, the patron's finished their tirade, so I turn to them.

$me: "How long ago were you playing?"
$patron: "A few minutes ago! Can't you see it?"

I turn back to Jenny, lean in, and softly advise her to call her manager. I hear her call for one and I go back to ticking boxes off the Standard Dispute Checklist - button test, video test, touchscreen test, the usual suspects. While I'm checking the logs one last time to make sure I didn't miss anything, Beth - the department manager on duty - arrives.
Beth was a good manager. She took care of everyone in the department, and I'm actually disappointed she left at some point between this story and now.

$beth: "Whatcha got, Steve?"
$me: "She says she was playing a few minutes ago and was winning - quite a lot - and it never paid her. Last game recall says the last game played was at 5:54 this evening."
$beth: "Okay. I'll call Big Brother¹ and get them to run back the tape."
$me: "Alright. Buttons all tested good, touchscreen's dead-on."

Beth nodded and dismissed me, and I went back to fixing the printers in the tech shop while she did the needful.
A couple of hours later, I see her back-of-house and talk shop with her.

$me: "So what's the story on that dispute at 2-Charlie-15?"
$beth: "Oh, it was the demo. Surveillance saw her watching the demo for a few minutes before she called an attendant."

Reels turn on, electronic bells ring, and most likely, someone up in the surveillance room was laughing their butt off that day.
¹ We use a discreet codename for Surveillance when we're radioing them. We don't actually call them "Big Brother", however - that's just the anonymized name I chose for them.

Artist: Joji
Album: Nectar
Label: 88Rising
Release Date: September 25, 2020
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Background
Not many artists have had a come-up as interesting and eccentric as George Kusunoki Miller, a former YouTube comedian/edgelord turned moody R&B singer. George first got his taste of internet fame as FilthyFrank, a character he described as everything a person should not be, he played the notorious persona on YouTube for over 6 years and eventually had to retire it due to him losing passion for it and suffering from stress induced seizures, which playing the character often caused.
Throughout his time as FilthyFrank however he began experimenting with music, mostly of the satirical kind at the start, his first tracks were under the FilthyFrank persona, the first one being Who's The Sucker, a dumb track where he somehow manages to rhyme "nicer" with "vagina", go figure.
A few years later, alongside the satirical rap, Joji began to make what he would consider as serious music, and this is where the timeline gets a bit messy, as he put out multiple tracks under multiple different aliases and the lines got blurred pretty fast, so I won't focus on aliases too much, but rather on the music he put out, around this era he released the therapeutical Medicine, the slow and melancholy We Fall Again, and Dumplings, which was Joji's best attempt at a trap banger.
In 2015, he birthed the Joji alias, released two singles on Soundcloud under that name, and announced a project called Chloe Burbank Vol. 1, the project was later scrapped and is probably sitting on Joji's hard drive, unfinished, however, the two singles he put out, thom and you suck charlie, were the tracks that put him in the spotlight, not to mention that to this day, there are some of his fans that believe these 2 tracks are his best and will not be topped, but that's a discussion for another day.
Following the overwhelmingly positive reception, Joji began to put out more tracks and singles, both under the aforementioned alias and Pink Guy, which was a character that blossomed into a satirical rap project, but I won't be covering that too much, and will focus on what he did as Joji instead, most tracks Joji put out were met with positive reception, some of the tracks, such as worldstar money, ended up on his debut EP as well.
Sometime around early 2016, Joji ended up signing with 88rising, a label focused on building the bridge between east and west, he explained in an interview that he was initially a consultant for the duo behind the record label, however, once the duo noticed his music and how well it was received, they asked him to jump on board and he instantly took the chance, getting signed alongside the likes of Rich Brian and Higher Brothers.
The label immediately undertook Joji and began distributing his catalog on their YouTube channel and helped him release more music, which was a couple of singles in the earlier half of 2017, and his debut EP in the latter half, the EP, known as "In Tongues", was met with mixed reception from fans and critics alike, with some describing it as his most concise body of work so far that is oozing potential, and others describing it as a bleak project that fails to set Joji apart from the sea of artists on the same wavelength as himself.
Following the release of the EP, Joji began working on his debut album, known as BALLADS 1, the album's first single, YEAH RIGHT, was released on the 8th of May, the track was first believed to be a standalone loosie as it was released 5 months before the album itself, however it ended up being on the album and was confirmed as the one of the singles alongside SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK, CAN'T GET OVER YOU, which features a production credit from non other than Clams Casino, and TEST DRIVE.
The album was well received, and was praised for containing a wider variety of sounds than its predecessor, it felt like a natural progression for Joji's sound and was a step forward towards a more mainstream approach whilst not sacrificing any of the rawness that Joji's older stuff had, which seemed to be what most fans were expecting from him.
Moving forward Joji stayed mostly silent throughout 2019, appearing on the second 88Rising collaboration album, which was negatively received due to it's lack of creativity and sub-par performances from most label signees, he also appeared on Rich Brian's sophomore album, The Sailor, and released which is now known to be as the first single from Nectar, Sanctuary, a synth based poppy track that previewed a vocally improved and more confident version of Joji.
What was assumed to be a loosie turned out to be the beginning of an album rollout, as half a year later Joji released Run, setting a new standard for himself both instrumentally and vocally, and a couple of months later he released Gimme Love, a double sided track with a fun, catchy beginning and a melancholy ballad driven ending, the last single, Daylight, was released on the 8th of August, the instrumental was produced by Diplo and the track itself sounded like Joji's attempt to break into the mainstream.
Without warning, he also released two tracks that he classified as "NOT SONG", the first being Pretty Boy, which actually ended up on the album with a Lil Yachty feature, and the second being FTC, which sadly did not end up on the album, both tracks had videos and it seemed to me at first that the purpose of both tracks was to serve the lore that Joji has built around the album, which I will be touching up on in this write-up.
A day before the album's release, he put out Gimme Cum, an enigmatic track with a mysterious message.
Nectar itself was pushed back from it's original July release date due to the pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests, the album however was released on the 25th of September.
Album Lore
If there's one thing George is no stranger to, it would definitely be worldbuilding, as he has proven time and time again that he has a knack for it, especially with his FilthyFrank YouTube channel, where he managed to create characters, locations, and an entire universe out of a few satirical characters, his lore was adored by many and even though visually he never wrapped up the story he did release a book that served as closure for the FilthyFrank lore.
This album's lore is not as straight forward however, and there are multiple theories doing the rounds on the internet, personally I will go by what sounded most convincing to me in terms of timeline and storyline, however do feel free to expand on what I've said or correct me, George has left multiple things left open to interpretation therefore I would not be surprised if there were multiple different meanings to the same thing.
Our story begins in the music video for Gimme Love, where we see a young Joji who appears to be a small time engineer that is eager to climb through the ranks of the company he is working for, as he rises however he appears to become more stressed out and agitated at all times, lashing out at his coworkers and breaking down consistently, throughout the music video we can see that the more he progresses, the more roadblocks he runs into, which causes his behavior to become more psychotic and manic, as the shots move forward we see him accept awards, lead his very own research team, run failed experiments on his coworkers that causes them to bleed, and eventually receive military covert status, which did not come without sacrifices, as we see him smile less and less throughout the video.
In the second half of the video, we see Joji steal the rocket he helped build by locking out his crew members, and launch himself into space, disappointing everyone he worked with and stabbing them in the back he appears to be quite happy however, eventually his mood flips as he is faced with two choices, engage or eject, the following shot does not allow us to see which one he picked as we are facing his back, all we see is Joji making the choice and gearing up for what's to come.
The lines get blurred around this spot and many people have different theories as to which video is the right one chronologically, personally I believe Daylight comes next, and my theory is Joji is having some sort of fever dream featuring his previous coworkers, most notably the older people who went through layers of plastic surgery, who appear in the music video for FTC, where they are seen wearing badges that features the same organization Joji worked for, throughout the video they are seen rummaging through the wreckage caused by Joji, clearly looking for something specific, which ends up being the award Joji won.
Back to Daylight, Joji appears to be some sort of intern working for the director and the actors, towards the end of the music video we can see Joji waking up from the aforementioned fever dream, clearly in a daze, as the shot widens we see that he is alone, in a barren wasteland, with nothing around him except for a tent and what appears to be a device used for communication, he plants a few seeds in the soil and sits by the device, hoping for a sign of life.
Next comes Run, where we are once again met with Joji having a nightmare, the entire video symbolizes being trapped in a place you don't want to be in, as Joji appears to be in a never ending limousine with people he has no interest in whatsoever, towards the end of the nightmare we actually see Joji running across a massive wasteland, the same wasteland we saw him in at the end of the Daylight music video, throughout the video, we see Joji become consumed by the soil itself, which I would assume is a representation of his fears back then, seeing as he was alone and had little to no hope of being saved whatsoever.
Joji wakes up from this nightmare and appears to be in some kind of spaceship, if the videos were released chronologically, we would be completely lost at this point, lucky for us, we already know what the spaceship is, as we see a picture of the Sanctuary crew in the final shots of the Run music video, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the crew is the ones that saved him from death and picked him up from the mess that he placed himself in, hence the name Sanctuary, which means refuge or safety from pursuit, persecution, or other danger
The crew itself is seen in action in the music video for Sanctuary, where Joji appears to be fighting and defeating some sort of one-eyed alien supervillain at the start, however, once he is defeated, both Joji and the crew themselves become aimless, as they are living monotonously without a goal, thankfully(???), one of the crew members sees this and decides to take matters into his own hands, by surgically removing his own eye, which portrays his transformation into the new supervillain, and following this up by killing a crewmember and escaping on his own, once again giving the spaceship it's own purpose.
Unfortunately the music videos that were put out after the release of the album appear to be too subtle for me to think they are connected in any way, shape or form, there are many theories of course but I can't help but feel like that most of them are a reach.
The most plausible explanation for this lore that I can think of is that the whole escaping from earth on his own, landing in a barren wasteland, trying to plant seeds in it, and eventually being picked up by a group(88Rising, wink wink) is a metaphor for his transition from FilthyFrank to Joji, the barren wasteland stands for how hopeless he felt at the time and the seeds symbolize the loosies he was slowly dropping before ditching his channel to become an R&B superstar, which if true, solidifies the idea that George was done with FilthyFrank long before he actually left the channel itself.
Regardless, I thought the lore was very enjoyable and it was nice to see Joji back in one of his elements at least, most fans would have been disappointed in me if I had not touched up on it a bit seeing as it was a huge part of the albums release and they are intertwined in some sort of way.
Review

When it's lovely I believe in anything What does love mean When the end is rolling in

• Ew

It is important for me to preface this review with the fact that this Joji album is not like anything we've ever heard from him before, this is not the one man army, garageband using, sample meshing Joji that we knew in the past, this is Joji with an entire team behind his artistic vision, a whole group of people working with him to help him push his sound to the next level, and unfortunately, while the quality of the music has clearly went up, when so many people have their own input on something eventually the lines get blurred and the album loses its artistic direction and cohesion, which is one of my only complaints with this album, and I'm glad I got it out of the way first.
Artistic direction and cohesion aside, this album contains some of Joji's highest highs to date, especially the singles, that's not to say that there aren't some deep cuts on here that shine as well, but once you listen to the album in it's entirety you quickly understand why the singles were chosen as singles, especially when you consider how sonically different they are from the non-singles.
Sanctuary, the album's first single, is a sweet, poppy and synthy track that features a high pitched and melodic Joji, some of the track's lyrics are somewhat abstract but they are quite visually descriptive and that's always a plus in my book, the instrumental itself is quite spacey and has a nice retro vibe to it, already a huge step forward from what we've already heard from George, the track's climax reaches towards the end and gives us a beautiful bridge,with Joji crooning about wanting to be held by a significant other.

I fell for your magic, I tasted your skin And though this is tragic, at least I found the end I witnessed your madness, you shed light on my sins And if we share in this sadness, then where have you been?

• Run

Run is one of the more cinematic cuts on this album, the track is truly a double edged sword because although it's one of Joji's best, it has set an extremely high standard for both Joji and the album, leaving fans such as myself worried about whether or not he will ever reach a similar high, the production is clean, Joji's vocal lines are as dynamic as ever, the guitar melody is infectious, the lyrics are better than anything Joji has ever written and he is putting his heart and soul into every word, the electric guitar solo at the end is also something worth mentioning, which sits perfectly right in front of Joji's distant and wide vocals, ending the track on a strong note.

Look into your heart and let me know Do things turn black and gray as they go? When I'm far too gone, can you show me love? Give me love

• Gimme Love

The lyrics above come from the album's third single, a 2 sided track that starts as a bouncy, percussive, fast paced, and catchy song, with Joji chanting and pleading to be given love, softly singing about being surrounded by apathetic people, after the second chorus the entire song comes to a halt in order to make room for a mellow guitar and Joji's harmonies, which are absolutely stunning if I may add, the track, much like many other tracks on here, ends on a cinematic strong note with a string section and a grandiose piano.
The final single, Daylight, is no doubt unexplored territory for Joji, the instrumental, which was produced by Diplo, starts off slow and minimalistic, with a simple yet groovy bassline, and reaches its apex on the chorus, when it suddenly becomes extremely lush, heavy, and thick, the track is most definitely a solid attempt at modern day and mainstream pop music, clearly made with the intention of receiving radio play.
All of the singles show up in the first leg of the album, which is absolutely phenomenal, the opener track, Ew, starts off light and easy, with a somber and distant arpeggiated piano backed with Joji's soft vocals, who's singing about heartbreak and the loss of many relationships, sounding as bitter as ever lyrically, the chorus includes a grand string section and a chord progression that is fully panned to the right and sitting all the way behind the mix, and surprise surprise, the track itself ends on a cinematic strong note, much like many of the other tracks on here.

I've got no aim, a million rounds, is nothing real? A hundred pounds of heavy steel, it feels so loud Tied to my chest, it feels so loud I'll take a peek to across the peaks This grass is neat and I'm quite unique But I'd like to be, but I'd like to be

• MODUS

Up next comes MODUS, a moody track that has an intro similar to the opener track but later on has Joji melodic rapping to a murky trap instrumental, with Joji of course sounding better than ever, lyrically speaking, many of the themes on this album are similar, Joji is mostly singing about relationships, heartbreak, and the need for a significant other, the lyrics themselves give the album a nocturnal, bitter, hopeless vibe, which is what we've come to expect from Joji's music nowadays.
The third track, Tick Tock, is a plucky banger of an instrumental that has Joji rapping over it with pitched up vocals on the chorus which is something that's a little bit reminiscent of his older, more amateur work, the vocal layering on the verse is also something worth mentioning, really showcases Joji's dynamic range and how much he improved as a whole, the track is nothing groundbreaking in terms of what we've heard so far and remains lowkey for the most part but is without a doubt one of my favorites on this project.

On Nectar, one of the yet-to-be-announced tracks was produced when the artist was only sixteen years old. “I’m excited to see if it sticks out or not to the listeners.” he reveals.

• Joji Interview with Schön! Magazine.

While not officially announced by Joji himself, it is safe to say that Upgrade is the aforementioned track, a small interlude that seats itself in the earlier part of the album, the track starts with a grandiose piano, which is quite unnecessary if you ask me, because once we have it out of the way all we get is a very obviously barebones instrumental made from a different time, the telltale sign being non other than the ukulele that we have seen in George's earlier work.
It upsets me that Joji has not made this fact much more known because this track has been consistently the subject of criticism by critics and fans alike, but at the same time I understand, because at the end of the day George left that track in there for the die hard fans, not the critics.
Up until this point there is no doubt that Joji has played it safe, sure the album is much more grand and cinematic than its predecessor, but there's no denying that the signature sound is still there, we still get the hazy and moody slow bangers, if Nectar was only the first half then Joji might have had a strong album in his catalog, maybe even a classic, but I understand him wanting to expand and experiment with other sounds in order to grow as an artist.
The midsection gets a little bit tricky, as Joji begins to get out of his comfort zone and the album features start appearing, to me it sounds like Joji did not know how he could keep the listener interested in the second half of this album and decided to opt in for a bunch of features as a quick fix, some work out fine, some better than others.

Handsome young man, never pull up on time Lookin' in the mirror, lookin' good should be a crime, crime All this pain I'll never let show (No) My real thoughts, you'll never know (No)

• Lil Yachty on Pretty Boy

I never really listened to Lil Yachty that much aside from the obvious hits he had over the course of his career, but he clearly shined on this track as the feature, for starters, the track is very light-hearted, definitely one of the more lofi tracks on this album, the highlight for me without a doubt is the bridge, which sounds like something straight out of Pink Season, George was clearly having genuine fun with it, some even speculate that most of the bridge was made using samples from his earlier work as Pink Guy.
High Hopes, which features Omar Apollo, is one of the more lowkey cuts in here as well, the percussion on the instrumental and the detuned guitar on here remind me of some of Joji's stuff from BALLADS 1, unfortunately however the track doesn't stand out much, at least not as much as Afterthought with BENEE, another track where Joji's melodies and vocals shine through once again, and BENEE's feature definitely adds some character to the track, at least enough to the point where the feature made some sense
On Normal People, Joji recruits childhood friend rei brown, in an attempt to capture lightning again after their first collaboration, Once In A While. Unfortunately lightning didn't strike twice here for me and the track felt quite lackluster and uninteresting, especially for such an anticipated track and when compared to their first song, many of the tracks and collaborations on the second part of the album really felt like Joji just trying to recapture the magic of his earlier work, and while some of those attempts did work at the end of the day it does feel like a cheap cop out.

Oh, understand, girl, I'm out of sight To the other side, I don't want no stripes Got my insides loud like motorcycles Girl, don't notice it, I don't notice it

• NITROUS

Another example of Joji attempting to recapture magic is NITROUS, which marks Joji's second time collaborating with Clams Casino, the track is very reminiscent of their first track together, both Joji and Clams Casino however killed it, the track's instrumental is very murky and nocturnal, much alike most of the album, but that doesn't stop Joji's delivery, which is very fun-loving and upbeat.

By the way you move, I know you want me to Tell you all the rules, I know I'm searching too Give me all your clues and things to guide me through The end of the world, the end of the world

• Mr. Hollywood

Produced by the one and only Kenneth Instrumentals, Mr. Hollywood is one of the more heartfelt and personal tracks on this album, Joji is singing about his evergrowing popularity and how it will never affect what is important for him, which in this case is the girl he's singing about, like many other tracks on this album, you will often hear something that will remind you of Joji's older work, in this case it is the ad-libs on the chorus, which are very reminiscent of his ad-libs on BESIDJU, regardless the song has at least a bit of substance which makes it one of the more commendable tracks.
The final run of this album is where Joji flips the script here, there are a few tracks that have questionable artistic decisions, such as Reanimator, with non other than Yves Tumor, the track serves as an instrumental interlude before the final two tracks, however with a feature such as Yves Tumor I honestly expected much more than what we got, and what we got is basically a 3 minute track, with the first minute and a half being nothing than a drone-y, synthy instrumental, and the second half being quite a lackluster performance by Joji and his guest, much like some of the other tracks on the album, it seems like it received a similar treatment, where the track was initially unfinished and still half-baked, and rather than attempting to finish the track they opted for an easy way out, which in this case was making more than half of the track an instrumental and then calling it an interlude just to be safe.

"that weeknd synthpop track sure is doing huge numbers, maybe i should also make a synthpop track as well"

• Joji, probably.

I would be down to argue that if Blinding Lights by The Weeknd had not existed, 777 wouldn't have existed either, Joji's constant attempts at breaking into the mainstream and commercializing his sound have always left a bad taste in my mouth as it felt like it came from a place where authenticity is lacking, nevertheless I find it bizarre to make a track that is very similar to one of the most successful tracks of the year and not attempt to push it at all, that's not to say that 777 on it's own is not a good track, however there's no denying that the sound selection on the instrumental, some of the flows, and the chorus itself hold blaring similarities to The Weeknd's track, I understand why he would make such a track however and find it admirable at the very least.
Thankfully, the album ends on a strong note, the final two tracks are both beautiful even though they're worlds apart, Like You Do, is a quintessential love ballad from Joji, a stripped down instrumental with beautiful piano chords and a laid back vibe, Joji is singing about his current partner and how what they have might not work out, even though he feels like they're perfect for one another, the closing track, Your Man is a massive change in tempo, with an upbeat, electronic, deep house-esque instrumental, we hear a Joji that is optimistic, which is a nice change of pace, especially considering how bitter most of his albums and projects have been up to date.

Since I met you All the gloomy days just seem to shine a little more brightly Consider what we've got 'Cause I can never take you for granted

• Like You Do

Conclusion
There's no denying that some tracks on here sound like a bastardized version of Joji's signature sound. Joji is trying his best to commercialize his sound without sacrificing the rawer elements of it, which unfortunately results in a jumble of sounds. This album is not free of criticisms as there are many issues in here that need to be worked on, it's much less cohesive than its predecessor and at times sounds like a bunch of rough ideas put together in order to create the world's most average musical equivalent of a photo collage, but if we were to just set all of that aside and just look at this album for what it is, then there's definitely something in here for everyone. George might have not made a classic, and he certainly hasn't found his sound yet, but this album is an indicator that he's on to something, and once again I am already anxious to hear what he has in store next.
Talking Points

• What did you think of this album? Is it a good follow-up to BALLADS 1?
  
• Do you think Joji works better alone or when he has a team behind him?
  
• Do you think Joji will yet again set another high standard for himself next project?
  
• What are your predictions for Joji's sound in the future?
  
• Now that he's more keen on having features, who do you think would compliment Joji's sound the most?
  
• Favorite tracks?
  

I've been seeing a lot of posts where people are upset or complaining that they didn't get anything after spending "x" amount of money.
I just want to put my two cents in there since this is how I look at the game. Before spending any money on primogems, consider these things:

"If I get this character with $x, is it even worth $x?"

You're essentially paying to play with a character. Except in this case, paying for a chance to play with that character. What about the people who have spent thousands on this game? After getting Diluc or Mona for $3,000, was it worth it?
Think of all the things you could buy with that money. A Nintendo Switch costs $300. A game costs up to $60, and you know what you're getting. Rent money is $1,000-$3,000. The list goes on.

You're never guaranteed anything.

The ONLY exception to this is pity rolls. The maximum you'd need to spend is 28,800 primogems (around $400+) to guarantee getting the featured character on the banner. This is assuming that you didn't get any 5-stars before hitting the pity the first time, your first pity wasn't the featured character, and you hit the pity a second time to guarantee them.
Is any single character worth $400?
Other than the featured character, it can be REALLY difficult to pull any other character. You want Diluc? If you roll on the featured banner, its 50% chance you'll get the featured character. That means 50% chance you'll get a different 5-star. Since there are five 5-stars at this moment (not counting the featured), you have a 1/10 chance of pulling Diluc when you get a 5-star from this banner. On top of that, it's a 0.6% chance that you'll even pull a 5-star to begin with. As for the standard banner? The chance is even smaller with all the weapons thrown in.
To those complaining that they spent $100, $500, $1000 and didn't get what they wanted, you were never guaranteed it to begin with. It's all RNG, you aren't owed anything because you spent money on the game.

There will always be a new character that you'll want.

So you spent $400 on getting Venti. You needed him, he's your favorite character right? Of course you had to spend for him, he's the best character you've ever seen and you couldn't enjoy this game without him.
A few months later, a new character is released and you're in awe. Their skills...their looks....their element...you NEED them.
Well, that's another $400 you'd have to shill out to guarantee them. What's that? You only want to use them if you have their first constellation? Well better get that credit card out again, looks like you'll need to pull some dupes.
This is a never-ending cycle. I've run into this feeling countless times in video games. The new shiny thing will always be tempting you.
Not to mention power creep. New characters are often made to be better than older ones. As the game progresses, people who don't have newer characters are often at a disadvantage (mainly with DPS). In a gacha game like Genshin, it would be very expensive to keep up with this if power creep occurs within this game in the future. It's best to make the most of what you have.

Gacha = Gambling

When you go to a casino, do you walk in expecting to win millions? The odds are never in your favor when gambling. Rates are low for a reason. If everyone could spend $50 and get the exact characters they wanted every time, Miyoho wouldn't be making as much money as they are.
Gacha games have always been about gambling for characters. As stated previously, you're neverarely guaranteed anything, and by the time you've gotten what you wanted (unless extremely lucky), the company has already gotten what they wanted.

Don't be blinded by sunk-cost.

Sunk-cost is the idea that you've already put so much into something, and it'll go to waste unless you continue putting resources into it to get it. Do not be blinded by this when doing gachas.
Say you spent $100 and didn't get Qiqi. You've already put so much into the game, and not getting her would mean your money went to waste right? What if it would take another $1,000 to get her. Would that be worth it? It's best to cut your losses and walk away. Thinking about the sunk cost of something is what gives many people difficulty walking away, and causes them to over-spend.

Your party has limited space.

Yes, I know abyss is the exception. But overall the majority of the game only allows 4 characters at a time. You can't play with them all. It feels real bad to put a character you spent a lot of money on aside because they don't fit your current comp anymore.
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This comes from someone who is largely free-to-play in games like this. The only gacha game I've ever spent money on was Love Live a few years ago. I spent $125 and never got a single ultra-rare with my pulls. From that I realized what I was doing. Even if I could afford putting $30 per 10-pull, was the card I was going to get really worth that? No.
I learned from that experience and see gacha games for what they are.

Glorified gambling.

PS: If you are aware of all this and still want to spend $$/disposable income on primogems, by all means go ahead. But for many people it's easy to lose sight of what they're really paying for. I hope this is helpful in some way.
Feel free to disagree with any of this, but this is my perspective on the game and I get really sad seeing so many posts on the subreddit about how depressed people are after spending and not getting anything, and feeling entitled to it.
TL;DR: It's easy to sink lots of money into this game if you don't recognize you're gambling and never guaranteed anything. This is a warning post, not a criticism of anyone.
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EDIT: As reddit user u/zapzya summarized: "...not everyone actually has the financial stability to invest in such a product, yet will do so anyway because they are not particularly knowledgeable in gambling mechanics or because shady tactics like the currency change ($$ genesis crystals primogems fates) actually work."

throwaway, also on mobile if that matters
I (16F), got a job a few months ago. It's been nice having extra money, and as of right now it's all mine because I don't have any bills or responsibilities. I am also starting to save for a car.
My mom (37y.o) has never been the saving type, lives paycheck to paycheck and uses credit cards instead of a savings account. She isn't a gambling addict but, any extra money she has goes to the casino. She also frequently borrows hundreds at a time from my grandmother to throw in a slot machine.
I highly disagree with this lifestyle and want more financial security in my life when I get older. If there's ever an emergency, my mom either has to use her nearly maxed out credit cards or borrow money from my grandma which only causes more stress and debt. [One of her biggest stressors is her car, for some reason she has the worst luck and has to put a few hundred into it every few months, which she uses her credit card for.]
Whenever I comment on it she says it's her money and I have no right to be in her business because her bills are paid on time and there's food on the table, so after a while I left it alone.
My problem started a while ago when she low-key asked me to borrow money to go to the casino. I laughed it off and said no, but I've had a bad feeling ever since. The other day she asked if I'd let her borrow a few hundred if something happened to her car, and I said yes but I really don't like the idea.
I don't want her to start borrowing money from me like she does my grandma, I don't want her financial irresponsibility to be my problem, especially as I enter adulthood. She could easily have a savings account but chooses not to. I also don't want to borrow money from her ever because I hope to plan my finances in a way that provides stability and backup plans that don't include other people. On the other hand though, she has provided everything I've needed and plenty more throughout my life. I can't tell if I'm just being a selfish, entitled daughter.
So I guess my question would be, is this sort of money-borrowing relationship something that should be expected as I start having an income? And would I be the asshole for cutting her off from my income entirely?
sorry if I rambled alot, im not the best at summarizing
Edits: I'd like to clarify because I might've given her too bad of a rep, she would never steal my money. If I borrowed her money she'd give it back at tax time. (which would maybe be okay now, in December, but say she tries this stuff in march or something- I am really not comfortable waiting a whole year) That being said though, since she's more comfortable with my grandma, she'll try to persuade my grandma to let her keep some of the money instead of having to pay it back, and my grandma lets her sometimes. And I don't want her to expect that sort of treatment from me, ever. At the same time though she's poured thousands into me over my lifetime so maybe giving her a few hundred wouldn't be the worst... I don't know
Edit 2: I see alot of people saying if she really NEEDS the money, I should give it to her. But my thing is- she always would've had the money, she just allotted it poorly and is now in a bad situation. It's not like she doesn't make enough for the things she needs, she just chooses to spend her money elsewhere so idk. Does that still count? like I feel like maybe I'd be more open to helping her out of bad situations if she actually attempted to change her lifestyle but it seems like money down the drain when I know she's just gonna do it again. She's a very stubborn lady haha
edit 3: oh my god everyone is calling my mother an addict. I dunno how to feel about that. maybe here ill provide some more specific numbers because maybe you guys are picturing something worse. I'll let you decide
so before covid, she'd go to bingo (lmao bingo) around twice a week. Each session costs $100-200 and atleast part of it each time would be borrowed from my grandma I think. every year when she gets her tax returns she pays off some of her bills and uses pretty much the rest for slots, which is more expensive (she'd reasonably spend $2k on it probably, whether all at once or not) since covid only slots are open so when she can borrow money from my g-ma she will go with her.
I think my grandma likes this system because she doesn't get that much taxes back anymore, but now she gets a big wad of cash from her daughter (probably around $3k?)
I dunno I might've overexaggerated it in my original statement. It's probably self destructive because she doesn't have the money for it, but Im not so sure it's gambling addict behavior. You would think addicts would spend more and go more often. she hasnt been going as much since covid but she still spends money she doesn't have on it. very on the fence about it right now I guess :/

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DR. SEUSS' THE GRINCH 2018 | MA/HD | $6
E.T | MA/HD | $5
EVERYBODY KNOWS | MA/HD | $7.50
THE EQUALIZER 2 | MA/SD | $3
THE EQUALIZER 2 | MA/HD | $5
THE EXPENDABLES 3 | UVHD | $4 [NOT MA]
THE EXPENDABLES 3 | ITUNES | $3 [NOT MA]
EXPOSED | VUDU SD | $3.50 [NOT MA]
FANTASY ISLAND | MA/HD | $9
FERDINAND | MA/UVHD | $6
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY UNRATED | MA/HD | $4.50
FIFTY SHADES DARKER UNRATED | MA/HD | $4.50
FIFTY SHADES OF BLACK | iTunes | $5 [MA]
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY | iTunes 4K | $4.50
FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY | iTunes HD | $6 [NOT MA]
FOCUS PICTURES 10 MOVIE SPOTLIGHT COLLECTION | MA/HD | $45
FORD V FERRARI | MA/HD | $6
THE FOREST | ITUNES | $4.50
THE FORGER | UVHD | $4.50 [NOT MA]
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $8 [NOT MA]
GAMBIT | MA/SD | $2.50
THE GAMBLER [2015] | ITUNES | $4.50 [NOT MA]
THE GALLOWS | MA/HD | $5.50
THE GALLOWS ACT II | VUDU HD | $7.50 [NOT MA]
GIFTED | MA/HD | $5
GODFATHER CODA | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $8
GODZILLA [2014] | MA/HD | $4.50
GODZILLA 2000 | MA/HD | $6.50
GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS | MA/HD | $6
THE GOLDFINCH | MA/HD | $7
THE GOLDFINCH | MA/SD | $3.50
A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | UVHD | $4.50
GOOD BOYS | MA/HD | $6.50
THE GOOD LIAR | MA/SD | $3.50
THE GOOD LIAR | MA/HD | $7
GOOSEBUMPS | MA/SD | $3
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH | MA/HD | $5.50
GRETEL & HANSEL | VUDU HD | $7.50 [NOT MA]
GRETEL & HANSEL | VUDU SD | $4 [NOT MA]
GUEST HOUSE | VUDU HD OR ITUNES 4K | $7 [NOT MA]
GUNS AKIMBO | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $8 [NOT MA]
HACKSAW RIDGE | UVHD | $3.50 [NOT MA]
HACKSAW RIDGE | ITUNES | $3.50 [NOT MA]
HALLOWEEN [2018] | MA/HD | $6.50
HAPPY DEATH DAY | MA/HD | $6
HAPPY FEET 1 & 2 | MA/HD | $9
HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS | ITUNES | $4
THE HATE U GIVE | MA/HD | $6
THE HATEFUL EIGHT | VUDU HD | $5.50
HELL FEST | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $5.50 [NOT MA]
HEREDITARY | VUDU HD | $7.50 [NOT MA]
THE HIGH NOTE | MA/HD | $7.50
HOLMES & WATSON | MA/SD | $4
HOME ALONE 2 | MA/HD | $5.50
THE HOMESMAN | VUDU HD | $5.50 [NOT MA]
HORRIBLE BOSSES | MA/HD | $5
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 | ITUNES | $3 [NOT MA]
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS [2000] | ITUNES | $4.50
HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES | UVHD | $6.50
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 | MA/HD | $5
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 3 | MA/HD | $7
THE HUNGER GAMES COLLECTION | VUDU HD | $15 [NOT MA]
THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE | VUDU HD | $4 [NOT MA]
THE HUNT | MA/HD | $7
THE HUSTLE | ITUNES 4K | $7
I AM VENGEANCE: RETALIATION | VUDU HD | $6 [NOT MA]
ICE AGE | MA/HD | $4
I FEEL PRETTY | ITUNES HD | $5.50 [NOT MA]
INSTANT FAMILY | iTunes 4k | $5.50
THE INTRUDED | MA/HD | $7.50
THE IRON MASK | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $7 [NOT MA]
ISN’T IT ROMANTIC | MA/HD | $7.50
I STILL BELIEVE | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $7
IT 2 FILMS | MA/HD | $9.50
IT'S A VERY MERRY MUPPET CHRISTMAS | VUDU HD | $6
IT'S A VERY MERRY MUPPET CHRISTMAS | iTunes | $5
JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT | UVHD | $3.50 [NOT MA]
JASON BOURNE [2016] | VUDU HD | $4
JAY AND SILENT BOB REBOOT | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $6
JIGSAW | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $4.50
JOBS | VUDU HD | $5.50
JOBS | ITUNES HD | $6
JURASSIC PARK COLLECTION | VUDU HD | $18 [4 FILMS]
JURASSIC PARK COLLECTION | MA/HD | $20 [5 FILMS]
JUST MERCY | MA/HD | $7
JUST MERCY | MA/SD | $3.50
THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING | MA/HD | $7
KILL BILL VOL.1 | VUDU HD | $6 [NOT MA]
THE KILL TEAM | VUDU HD | $8.50
THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND | MA/HD | $7
THE KITCHEN | MA/SD | $3.50
THE KITCHEN | MA/HD | $6
KNOCK KNOCK | VUDU SD | $3.50 [NOT MA]
LADY BIRD | VUDU HD | $5.50 [NOT MA]
LAST CHRISTMAS | MA/HD | $8
THE LAST FULL MEASURE | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $7
THE LAST WITCH HUNTER | VUDU SD | $3
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN | MA/HD | $4.50
LEPRECHAUN RETURNS | VUDU HD | $6
LIGHTS OUT | MA/HD | $5.50
LIGHTHOUSE | VUDU HD | $8
LINE OF DUTY | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $7.50 [NOT MA]
LONDON HAS FALLEN | VUDU HD | $4.50
THE LONGEST RIDE | UVHD OR ITUNES 4K | $4.50
LOOPER | MA/HD | $6
LOVE, SIMON | MA/HD | $6
LOVE THE COOPERS | VUDU SD | $3
MA | MA/HD | $5.50
MERCURY PLAINS | VUDU SD | $4 [NOT MA]
MIB: INTERNATIONAL | MA/HD | $9.50
MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE | UVHD | $3.50 [NOT MA]
MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE | ITUNES | $3 [NOT MA]
MIDDLE OF NOWHERE | VUDU SD | $3 [NOT MA]
MIDSOMMAR | VUDU HD | $8 [NOT MA]
MINIONS | VUDU HD | $4
MINIONS | ITUNES 4K | $4
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT | VUDU HD | $4.50 [NOT MA]
MISS YOU ALREADY | VUDU SD | $3.50 [NOT MA]
MONSTER HIGH: WELCOME TO MONSTER HIGH | ITUNES | $3
MORTAL [2020] | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $8 [NOT MA]
MORTAL KOMBAT LEGENDS: SCORPION'S REVENGE | MA/HD | $7
MORTDECAI | UVHD | $4.50 [NOT MA]
MOTHER | VUDU HD | $4 [NOT MA]
MOTHER | ITUNES | $4 [NOT MA]
MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN | MA/SD | $4.50
MY HERO ACADEMIA: MOVIE | FUNIMATION | $7
NINJA TURTLES [2014] | VUDU HD | $4.50 [NOT MA]
NINJA TURTLES [2016] | VUDU HD | $4.50 [NOT MA]
NOBODY’S FOOL | iTunes | $5 [NOT MA]
NO GOOD DEED | MA/HD | $4.50
NON-STOP | ITUNES | $3
OBVIOUS CHILD | UVHD | $5.50 [NOT MA]
OUIJA | UVHD | $3
OUIJA | ITUNES | $3
OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL | VUDU HD | $4.50
OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL | ITUNES | $4
OUR BRAND IS CRISIS | MA/HD | $5
OFFICIAL SECRETS | VUDU HD | $5.50 [NOT MA]
OFFICIAL SECRETS | ITUNES | $4.50 [NOT MA]
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD | MA/SD | $3.50
OVERDRIVE | VUDU HD | $4 [NOT MA]
OVERDRIVE | ITUNES 4K | $4 [NOT MA]
PARASITE | MA/HD | $6
PAVAROTTI | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $8.50 [NOT MA]
PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS | MA/HD | $5.50
PET SEMATARY [2019] | ITUNES 4K | $6 [NOT MA]
POPEYE | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $7.50 [NOT MA]
PSYCHO | MA/HD | $6
PLAYING WITH FIRE | ITUNES | $5.50
POMS | ITUNES HD | $5.50 [NOT MA]
THE POSSESSION OF HANNAH GRACE | MA/HD | $8
THE PRODIGY | VUDU HD | $7.50 [NOT MA]
POWER RANGERS DINO CHARGE HERO | VUDU SD | $3
POWER RANGERS SUPER MEGAFORCE: SKY STRIKE | VUDU SD | $3
PREDATOR COLLECTION | MA/HD | $18
PRICELESS | ITUNES | $4
THE PURGE COLLECTION | MA/HD | $12 [4 FILMS]
QUEEN & SLIM | MA/HD | $9
A QUIET PLACE | VUDU HD | $4.50
A QUIET PLACE | ITUNES 4K | $6
RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD | VUDU HD OR ITUNES 4K | $6 [NOT MA]
RAMPAGE | MA/HD | $5
READY OR NOT | MA/HD | $9.50
REPLICAS | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $6.50 [NOT MA]
RESIDENT EVIL: DAMNATION | MA/HD | $5.50
RETALIATION | VUDU HD | $8 [NOT MA]
ROBIN HOOD | VUDU HD OR ITUNES 4K | $6.50 [NOT MA]
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW | MA/HD | $6
ROGUE 2020 | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $7.50
ROUGH NIGHT | MA/HD | $5
SAW | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $6.50 [NOT MA]
SCOOB! | MA/HD | $5.50
THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL | MA/HD | $6.50
THE SECRET: DARE TO DREAM | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $6.50
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2 | MA/HD | $6
SERENITY [2019] | MA/HD | $6
SGT. STUBBY: AN AMERICAN HERO | VUDU HD | $6 [NOT MA]
SGT. STUBBY: AN AMERICAN HERO | iTunes | $5 [NOT MA]
SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE | VUDU SD | $3 [NOT MA]
SHREK: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION | MA/HD | $21
SHAFT | MA/HD | $7
THE SILENCING | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $8
SHIVERS | VUDU HD | $7 [NOT MA]
SMILEY FACE KILLERS | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $7.50 [NOT MA]
SNATCHED | ITUNES 4K ⇒ MA | $5.50
SOME KIND OF BEAUTIFUL | VUDU SD | $3.50
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG | VUDU HD OR ITUNES 4K | $6.50 [NOT MA]
SPACE JAM | MA/HD | $6.50
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING & FAR FROM HOME | MA/HD | $8
SPIDERMAN: HOMECOMING | MA/HD | $5
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE | MA/HD | $6
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE | MA/SD | $4
STAR TREK: BEYOND | iTunes 4K | $4 [NOT MA]
STAR TREK COLLECTION | ITUNES 4K | $15 [NOT MA]
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE: BERRY BAKE SHOP | MA/HD | $4
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE: BERRY TALES | MA/HD | $4
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE: CAMPBERRY STORIES | MA/HD | $4
SULLY | MA/HD | $5
SUPER TROOPERS 2 | MA/HD | $5.50
SURVIVE THE NIGHT | VUDU HD OR ITUNES 4K | $6.50 [NOT MA]
THE SWING OF THINGS | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $7.50 [NOT MA]
TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES | MA/HD | $6.50
TENET | MA/HD | $9.50
TERMINATOR: DARK FATE | ITUNES 4K | $6 [NOT MA]
TOMB RAIDER | VUDU HD | $6.50
TRANSFORMERS COLLECTION + BUMBLEBEE | VUDU HD | $20
TRANSFORMERS COLLECTION + BUMBLEBEE | itunes 4K | $20
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION | UVHD | $3.50 [NOT MA]
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION | ITUNES 4K | $4.50 [NOT MA]
TREMORS: SHRIEKER ISLAND | MA/HD | $7.50
TROLLS/TROLLS 2 | MA/HD | $10
TROLLS: WORLD TOUR | MA/HD | $6
THE TURNING | MA/HD | $8
TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN 1 | iTunes | $4
TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN 2 | VUDU HD | $4
TYLER PERRY’S A MADEA FAMILY FUNERAL | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $6 [NOT MA]
TYLER PERRY’S BOO 2! A MADEA HALLOWEEN | VUDU HD | $5.50 [NOT MA]
TYLER PERRY’S HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED | VUDU SD | $3
UNBROKEN | UVHD | $4
UNBROKEN | ITUNES | $3.50
UNCLE DREW | UVHD OR ITUNES 4K | $6.25 [NOT MA]
UNFORGETTABLE | MA/HD | $5.50
UNHINGED | VUDU HD | $7.50 [NOT MA]
THE UPSIDE | iTunes HD | $5.50 [NOT MA]
US | MA/HD | $5
USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE | VUDU HD | $5.00 [NOT MA]
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS | VUDU HD | $4.50
THE VANISHING | VUDU HD | $7.50
VICE | MA/HD | $8
VIVARIUM | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $9
THE WAR WITH GRANDPA | MA/HD | $9
WARCRAFT | VUDU HD | $4.50
THE WAY BACK | MA/HD | $7.50
WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS | VUDU HD OR ITUNES | $8.50
WHAT MEN WANT | VUDU HD | $5.50 [NOT MA]
WHAT MEN WANT | ITUNES 4K | $4 [NOT MA]
WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY | VUDU SD | $3.50 [NOT MA]
WHILE WE’RE YOUNG | VUDU SD | $3 [NOT MA]
WIDOWS | MA/HD | $5.50
THE WILD LIFE | ITUNES | $4
WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: 1971 | MA/HD | $6.50
WONDER PARK | ITUNES | $6 [NOT MA]
WORLD WAR Z | VUDU HD | $4.50 [NOT MA]
WRONG TURN 6: LAST RESORT | MA/HD | $4.50
XXX: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE | ITUNES 4K | $4 [NOT MA]
Z FOR ZACHARIAH | VUDU SD | $3.50 [NOT MA]

TV SHOWS:

BALLERS: S2 | iTunes | $5
BALLERS: S3 | UVHD | $7.50
BALLERS: S3 | iTunes | $5
BAND OF BROTHERS | ITUNES | $8
BAND OF BROTHERS | GP | $7
BATMAN: THE COMPLETE ANIMATED SERIES | VUDU HD | $25
BATMAN BEYOND: TV SHOW | VUDU HD | $25
BIG BANG THEORY: S8 | VUDU HD | $8
BLACK SAILS: THE COMPLETE SERIES | VUDU HD | $18
BLACKLIST: S2 | VUDU HD | $8
CHERNOBYL: S1 | VUDU HD | $8
GOT: S1-S8 | VUDU HD | $32
GOT: S1-S8 | GP | $24
GOT: S4 | VUDU HD | $8
GOT: S4 | ITUNES | $7
GOT: S4 | GP | $7
GOT: S5 | VUDU HD | $8
GOT: S5 | ITUNES | $7
GOT: S5 | GP | $7
GOT: S7 | VUDU HD | $8
GOT: S7 | ITUNES | $7
GOT: S7 | GP | $7
GOT: S8 | ITUNES | $7
GOT: S8 | GP | $5
GOTHAM: S1 | VUDU HD | $8
HANNIBAL: S3 | VUDU SD | $5 [NOT MA]
HIS DARK MATERIALS: S1 | VUDU HD | $13.50
THE LAST SHIP: S5 | VUDU HD | $9.50
MY DINNER WITH HERVE | VUDU HD | $4.50
MY DINNER WITH HERVE | ITUNES | $3.50
MY DINNER WITH HERVE | GP | $2
THE OUTSIDER | VUDU HD | $12
RICK & MORTY: S1-S3 | VUDU HD | $20
RICK & MORTY: S2 | VUDU HD | $7
RICK & MORTY: S3 | VUDU HD | $7
RICK & MORTY: S4 | VUDU HD | $12
SCHITT’S CREEK: S1 & S2 | VUDU HD | $9
SHARP OBJECTS | iTunes | $6
SHARP OBJECTS | GP | $4
THE SOPRANOS | VUDU HD | $35
THE SOPRANOS | ITUNES | $28
THE SOPRANOS | GP | $25
SUPERGIRL: S5 | VUDU HD | $9
TRUE DETECTIVE: S3 | VUDU HD | $10
TRUE DETECTIVE: S3 | ITUNES | $7
VEEP: THE FINAL SEASON | VUDU HD | $8
THE WALKING DEAD: S9 | VUDU HD | $10
WATCHMEN: S1 | VUDU HD | $8.50
WESTWORLD: S3 | VUDU HD | $12
THE WIRE | VUDU HD | $35
THE WIRE | ITUNES | $28
THE WIRE | GP | $25

DISNEY ANIMATED & LIVE

101 DALMATIANS | MA | $7

101 DALMATIANS | GP | $6
ALADDIN 2019 | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
ALADDIN 2019 | GP | $6
ALADDIN [ANIMATED] | GP | $5
ALADDIN: THE RETURN OF JAFAR | GP | $7
ALADDIN & THE KING OF THIEVES | GP | $7
ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY | MA | $7
ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY | GP | $6
BAMBI 1 | MA | $7
BAMBI 1 | GP | $6
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST [ANIMATED] | GP | $6
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST [LIVE] | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $6.50
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST [LIVE] | GP | $4.50
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: THE ENCHANTED XMAS | GP | $7
BIG HERO 6 | 4K UHD/MA | $8.50
BIG HERO 6 | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
BIG HERO 6 | GP | $6
BOLT | MA/HD | $8
THE CALL OF THE WILD | 4K UHD/MA | $7.50
THE CALL OF THE WILD | MA/HD | $7
THE CALL OF THE WILD | GP | $6
CHRISTOPHER ROBIN | MA | $7
CHRISTOPHER ROBIN | GP | $6
CINDERELLA [LIVE] | GP | $6
CINDERELLA 1 [ANIMATED] | MA | $7
CINDERELLA 1 [ANIMATED] | GP | $6
DISNEYNATURE: BORN IN CHINA | MA | $7
DUMBO [LIVE] | 4K UHD/MA | $8
DUMBO [LIVE] | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
DUMBO [LIVE] | GP | $6
FOX AND THE HOUND 1 | MA | $7
FOX AND THE HOUND 1 | GP | $6
FOX AND THE HOUND 2 | MA | $7
FOX AND THE HOUND 2 | GP | $6
FROZEN 1| 4K UHD/MA | $8
FROZEN 1| GP | $6
FROZEN 2 | 4K UHD/MA | $9
FROZEN 2 | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $8
FROZEN 2 | GP | $7.50
HERCULES | MA | $7.50
HOCUS POCUS | 4K UHD/MA | $7.50
HOCUS POCUS | GP | $6
THE JUNGLE BOOK [LIVE] | 4K UHD/MA | $9
THE JUNGLE BOOK [LIVE] | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
THE JUNGLE BOOK [LIVE] | GP | $6
THE JUNGLE BOOK 2 [ANIMATED] | MA | $7
LADY AND THE TRAMP | GP | $6.50
LILO & STITCH 2 | MA | $7
LILO & STITCH 2 | GP | $6
LION KING [LIVE] | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
LION KING [LIVE] | GP | $6
LION KING [ANIMATED] | 4K UHD/MA | $9
LION KING [ANIMATED] | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
LION KING [ANIMATED] | GP | $6
LION KING 1.5 | MA | $7.50
LION KING 1.5 | GP | $6.50
THE LITTLE MERMAID | 4K UHD/MA | $9
THE LITTLE MERMAID II: RETURN TO THE SEAS | MA | $6.50
THE LITTLE MERMAID II: RETURN TO THE SEA | GP | $5.50
THE LITTLE MERMAID III: ARIEL’S BEGINNING | MA | $6
THE LITTLE MERMAID III: ARIEL’S BEGINNING | GP | $5.50
THE LONE RANGER | MA | $7
THE LONE RANGER | GP | $6
MALEFICENT | 4K UHD/MA | $9
MALEFICENT | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
MALEFICENT | GP | $6
MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL | 4K UHD/MA | $9
MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL | GP | $6
MARY POPPINS RETURNS | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
MARY POPPINS RETURNS | GP | $6
MARY POPPINS [1964] | GP | $6.50
MOANA | 4K UHD/MA | $8
MOANA | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7
MOANA | GP | $6
MULAN 2020 | 4K UHD/MA | $7.50
MULAN 2020 | MA | $6
MULAN 2020 | GP | $4.50
MULAN 1 | 4K UHD/MA | $7
MULAN 1 | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $6
MULAN 1 | GP | $5
MULAN 2 | MA | $7
MULAN 2 | GP | $6
THE MUPPET MOVIE [1979] | GP | $7
MUPPETS MOST WANTED | MA | $8
MUPPETS MOST WANTED | GP | $7
THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS | 4K UHD/MA | $9
THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS | GP | $6
OLAF’S FROZEN ADVENTURE | MA | $7
OLAF’S FROZEN ADVENTURE | GP | $6
OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL | MA | $7
OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL | GP | $6
PETE’S DRAGON | MA | $7
PETE’S DRAGON | GP | $6
PIRATES 5 | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7
PIRATES 5 | GP | $6
PLANES | GP | $6
PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE | GP | $6
POCAHONTAS 1 | MA | $7
POCAHONTAS 2 | MA | $7
POCAHONTAS 2 | GP | $6
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG | 4K UHD/MA | $8
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG | GP | $6
QUEEN OF KATWE | MA | $7
QUEEN OF KATWE | GP | $6
ROBIN HOOD [ANIMATED] | MA | $7.50
ROBIN HOOD [ANIMATED] | GP | $6
SANTA CLAUSE 1 | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
SANTA CLAUSE 3 | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
SANTA CLAUSE TRILOGY | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $17
SANTA CLAUSE TRILOGY | GP | $14
WD: SHORT FILM COLLECTION | MA | $7
WD: SHORT FILM COLLECTION | GP | $6
SLEEPING BEAUTY | MA | $7
SLEEPING BEAUTY | GP | $6
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS | MA | $7
SPIES IN DISGUISE | MA | $7.50
SPIES IN DISGUISE | GP | $6
TANGLED | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $8
TANGLED | GP | $6
THE SWORD IN THE STONE | MA | $7
TOMORROWLAND | GP | $6.50
A WRINKLE IN TIME | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $8
A WRINKLE IN TIME | GP | $6
ZOOTOPIA | 4K UHD/MA | $9
ZOOTOPIA | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
ZOOTOPIA | GP | $6

PIXAR

BRAVE | 4K UHD/MA | $9
BRAVE | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $8
BRAVE | GP | $6
A BUG’S LIFE | 4K UHD/MA | $8
A BUG’S LIFE | iTunes 4K → MA 4k | $7.50
A BUG’S LIFE | GP | $6.50
CARS 1 | 4K UHD/MA | $8.50
CARS 1 | GP | $6
CARS 3 | GP | $5
COCO | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $8
COCO | GP | $6
FINDING DORY | 4K UHD/MA | $8
FINDING DORY | ITunes 4K → MA 4K | $6
FINDING DORY | GP | $4.50
FINDING NEMO | 4K UHD/MA | $8
FINDING NEMO | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7
FINDING NEMO | GP | $6
THE GOOD DINOSAUR | 4K UHD/MA | $8
THE GOOD DINOSAUR | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7
THE GOOD DINOSAUR | GP | $6
THE INCREDIBLES 2 | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7
THE INCREDIBLES 2 | GP | $6
INSIDE OUT | 4K UHD/MA | $8
INSIDE OUT | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7
INSIDE OUT | GP | $6
MONSTERS, INC | ITUNES 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
MONSTERS, INC | GP | $6
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY | 4K UHD/MA | $8
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY | GP | $6
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS | MA | $7
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS | GP | $6
ONWARD | 4K UHD/MA | $8
ONWARD | MA/HD | $6
ONWARD | GP | $5
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET | 4K UHD/MA | $6.50
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $6
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET | GP | $5
RATATOUILLE | GP | $5
TOY STORY OF TERROR | GP | $7
TOY STORY 1 | GP | $6
TOY STORY 3 | 4K UHD/MA | $9
TOY STORY 3 | GP | $6
TOY STORY 4 | MA | $4.50
UP | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $8
UP | GP | $7
WALL-E | 4K UHD/MA | $8.50
WALL-E | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
WALL-E | GP | $7
WRECK IT RALPH | 4K UHD/MA | $10

DC COLLECTION

AQUAMAN | MA/HD | $5
BATMAN V. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE | MA/HD | $6
BIRDS OF PREY | MA/HD | $9.50
DCU: BATMAN & HARLEY QUINN | MA/HD | $6.50
DCU: JUSTICE LEAGUE: WAR | MA/HD | $6.50
THE DEATH AND RETURN OF SUPERMAN | MA/HD | $8.50
DEATHSTROKE: KNIGHTS & DRAGONS | MA/HD | $7
JUSTICE LEAGUE | MA/HD | $5.50
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK: APOKOLIPS WAR | MA/HD | $9.50
JUSTICE LEAGUE THRONE OF ATLANTIS | MA/HD | 6.50
LEGO BATMAN: DC SUPER HEROES UNITE | MA/HD | $6
REIGN OF THE SUPERMAN | MA/HD | $6
SHAZAM | MA/HD | $5.50
SHAZAM! & WONDER WOMAN | MA/HD | $10
SUPERMAN: MAN OF TOMORROW | MA/HD | $6.50
SUPERMAN: RED SON | MA/HD | $6.50
WONDER WOMAN: BLOODLINES | MA/HD | $6.50

MARVEL

ANT-MAN | GP | $6
ANT-MAN & THE WASP | 4K UHD/MA | $7.50
ANT-MAN & THE WAS | GP | $6
AVENGERS 1 | GP | $6
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON | 4K UHD/MA | $8
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON | GP | $5.50
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR | MA | $7
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR | GP | $6
AVENGERS: ENDGAME | 4K UHD/MA | $7
AVENGERS: ENDGAME | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $6
AVENGERS: ENDGAME | GP | $5
BLACK PANTHER | 4K UHD/MA | $9
BLACK PANTHER | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
BLACK PANTHER | GP | $6
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER | GP | $6
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER | 4K UHD/MA | $9
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR | 4K UHD/MA | $8.50
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR | GP | $6
CAPTAIN MARVEL | 4K UHD/MA | $8
CAPTAIN MARVEL | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
CAPTAIN MARVEL | GP | $6
DR. STRANGE | 4K UHD/MA | $8.50
DR. STRANGE | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
DR. STRANGE | GP | $6
GUARDIANS VOL. 1 | 4K UHD/MA | $9
GUARDIANS VOL. 1 | GP | $6
GUARDIANS VOL. 2 | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
GUARDIANS VOL. 2 | GP | $6
THE INCREDIBLE HULK | 4K UHD/MA | $7.50
IRON MAN 1 | GP | $5
IRON MAN 2 | 4K UHD/MA | $8
IRON MAN 2 | GP | $6
IRON MAN 3 | 4K UHD/MA | $8
IRON MAN 3 | GP | $6
THE NEW MUTANTS | MA | $7
THE NEW MUTANTS | GP | $7
THOR 1 | GP | $5
THOR: THE DARK WORLD | 4K UHD/MA | $9
THOR: THE DARK WORLD | GP | $5.50
THOR: RAGNAROK | 4K UHD/MA | $8
THOR: RAGNAROK | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7
THOR: RAGNAROK | GP | $5.50
X-MEN: BEGINNINGS TRILOGY | MA/HD | $16

STAR WARS

ROGUE ONE: A STORY | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7.50
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY | GP | $5
SKYWALKER SAGA | GP | $35 [9 FILMS]
STAR WARS 4-6 | 4K UHD/MA | $22.50
STAR WARS 1-6 | GP | $25
STAR WARS 1 | GP | $6.50
STAR WARS 4 | GP | $5.50
STAR WARS 5 | GP | $5.50
STAR WARS 6 | GP | $5.50
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS | 4K UHD/MA | $8
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $7
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS | GP | $5
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $6.50
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI | GP | $4
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER | 4K UHD/MA | $9
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER | iTunes 4K → MA 4K | $8
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER | GP | $7

So, I just completed the game from A to Z, cleared everything apart from the baseball bat police icons. And while the game is not a perfect game, due to lack of polishing in many of the existing mechanics, bugs and "missing" features, it was an amazing emotional ride. I just feel like talking about all (since I feel I've exhausted the content but need more), the good and the bad, and what we could expect in the future.
I'll be talking about many things, especially story related. If you don't want spoilers, please stop reading now.
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
First off the bad.

• The bugs. Obviously it sucks, but it will get fix gradually so there isn't much to expand on. Made for good moments when it wasn't immersion breaking.
• The gear system. I personally hate systems in which gears get outdated by level. Especially when the exact same gear change stat with level. Since we can buy some of the gear, it isn't too bad since it is fairly cheap. But when it comes to unique items, it is impossible to keep them up. Since the upgrade cost scales to infinite, you simply CAN'T upgrade your guns and clothes till the end. Factor in that materials becomes rarer and rarer the higher quality it is, and it is unsustainable. What I suggest is to either streamline the upgrade cost of every item, or simply give them fixed stat. You already gain stats through attributes and mods, there really is no need for stat to scale with level on gears.
• The police system. Honestly, what we have now is a place holder, a simple band-aid just to say there is a police system. I believe this will be patched eventually. But at the same time, in games like GTA/RDR, police is mostly just a pain in the ass unless it is mission related. Yes it would be nice to have something more refined: patrols, police spawning out of map and going in, you needed to dodge em... but I don't think it is what will make the game more enjoyable.
• The combat AI, is pretty bad, but honestly I can't remember a game where I said "wow the AI is so good it makes the game amazing". I guess the best I've found was the Alien in Isolation. But then again, the AI is too good it just makes everything frustrating. Fixing some things like synchronizing attacks, backing up melee when they engage, and have more awareness overall could help it make better.
• The NPC AI, could use help in the city. Having a wider range of response, staying true to their handicaps, not disappearing, actually moving around with Time Skip, driving around your cabike, etc. It would make the experience more enjoyable.

Now on to the good.

• The interactions with story NPCs is just outstanding. The best I've played in any type of RPG. The poses we take are so casual and well done, sitting, leaning, eating. The first person makes everything so intimate, and makes you notice all their expressions so well. The amount of time we sit face to face, them talking, looking around, than straight into your eyes, its all so real. Also, the fact that people actually talk over each other before they finish makes conversations super fluid. 99% of RPG games just finish 1 audio before starting the next. The overlapping feels SOOOOOOOO great.
• Almost everything that is modeled is just gorgeous. From the city to the model, everything is so detailed. Obviously some things were cut short... looking at you french fries and liquids... but other than that, it is beautiful.
• The story actually got to me. I felt wanting more and more. I was actually demoralized to find out how short the main story is because I felt it could be expanded so much more with how massive the world they built is. The character's emotions were too real at times. You can see how much time they spent refining all the endings. They were all pristine. The amount of emotions I felt during my first play through was unmatched in some aspects from any game I can remember. The unease and feeling of sickness when deciding what to do, and when learning about how we are basically doomed. The melancholy of the nomad ending. The shearing fucking happiness from seeing Judy at the camp, and then receiving her message in the credit. The straight up horror and disgust from the corpo ending. How everything is so dark I just wanted to bash everyone. The straight up despair from the suicide option. Seeing Judy in that state and say these exact words made me burst in tears as if I inflicted that pain to someone real life. I felt bad for days, thinking that's how my wife would most likely react. Honestly, just such a wide range, which just shows how I connected with these fictional characters.
• The gameplay, while it could use tuning, was actually good. I went a mix of stealth (with breach and quickhand) and exclusively melee. After I found out of the keep my armor stacked up, it was actually very OP and just fun. Maybe too easy even on hard, but still enjoyable.
• The side quests were great. The characters are again very unique and authentic. I wanted to expand on every single side quest! I needed more of Kenny, more of the Peralez, more Delamain, more Rogue, more more more. (I count Judy and Panam as main story tbh)

Now to what they could add and refine to make the game we have now better.

• As I said, seperate clothes and guns from stats. Clothes with mod slot only, and guns with fixed stat and mod slots. The point is to scale your stats through attributes, perks and cyberware implants only. There are enough to make it works. Just add more mods to fine tune your gains and armor and thats it.
• Add more customisation. Some car tuning, mainly color to match your outfits. More outfit choices, especially in color range. It should be easy enough to have what we have more colors. Add a barber for beard and haircuts. Add tattoos and eye customisation to ripperdocs. Just more things to make your character exactly how you envision it. I also believe CDPR will work on that eventually, that it was cut short by management to focus on the main game.
• Add more interactions with the characters, especially post story. I think receiving random texts from Takemura, Judy, Panam, Blue Moon, etc. It is easy to add more of them, as it doesn't even require voice actors. Once their mission is over, getting them on and off would be amazing.
• More side actions, like mini-games with friends, going to "dates", just a kiss/hug option with your romance once their mission is over, actual repeatable races with actual race AI, a casino with some games (slot machine, blackjack..), I think these could add just enough to decompress between missions and feel more immersed.

Anyway, I just felt like talking about it even though only 3 person will take a look at this wall of text lol. Let me know how you feel and what you agree/disagree, etc!

Upon entering, you see your new daily quest.
-"Win three games with neutral hero tavern heroes."
You can't afford to rent one of the new neutral heroes from the Neutral tavern because you already blew through your gold loan for the year. (3000 gold at 15% interest rate though; that's a bargain you couldn't pass up.) Even though the quest reward is 4000 blizzard bux which you could use to trade for 400 exp or 20 gold, you decide it's probably smarter to spend your 10 gold to reroll the quest for something you can complete.
-"Invite two NEW friends to Hearthstone and have them complete a purchase"
Jackpot! This is the most rewarding quest you could have rolled with an insane 10,000 Blizzard bux payout(That's 1000 xp or even 50 gold!)
You glance over at your gold loan balance. You still have to pay back 1000 gold before the next expansion or you'll be hit with interest, and this would go a long way in keeping that from happening. Unfortunately, you can't use existing friends for this quest. Fortunately, thanks to the free trial-turning into a subscription fee a week after download, you can just find two gullible random people to download the game and chances are that a week later you'll receive the quest reward.
You exit the Journal tab and go to play some casual.
"You have (3) games remaining in the punishment queue. RNG will be affected until you are removed, please be more considerate in your future endorsements."
That's right, you had linked your social media and reddit accounts to your battle.net account because of the pack giveaway at the time. Unfortunately, this was part of the new, "Punishment queue" system in which players who spread misinformation about the game have various in-game probabilities reduced so as to properly educate them about the damage their lies have caused. You feel a slight tinge of regret for your post about how "I missed rent this month so I could buy the bundle and didn't recieve legenderies." Blizzard had deemed it "Community harmful" and you had been placed in the punishment queue as a result of your callous and harmful words. Still, the alternative is not playing the game and that isn't an option.
You queue with the least RNG based deck you have, Casino mage, to try to mitigate the punishment queue. The card design is really cool, with a lot of the cards in the deck being re-imaginings of the old Scholomance set but with a little more focus on random card generation and RNG. Your opponent is playing KENO Demon Hunter. You hope that they aren't a "Leviathan" class player and could only afford half the guesses allowed.
The game starts and the Keno card appears on your screen. It's as you feared, he has 50 of the 68 spaces on his Keno card paid for. He hits 4/5 of his numbers and starts the game with his 4/4 weapon, as usual.
You just cut your acidic swamp ooze's too because they put your deck's IGV(Ingame value) below the threshold for being able to queue. Unlucky.
Your opponent missed his combo for the OTK, but it still rolled a 5 on his, "Dicey odds" spell card, allowing for 5 additional attacks from his hero this turn. You're thrilled to get a turn so that this game counts against your punishment queue total. If your opponent defeats you before you get a turn, you don't get credit for the game. It's been like this for over a year and people still don't know whether it's intended or a bug, but nobody wants to risk additional Punishment queue games by asking.
You're still really looking forward to the next set, "Forwards from Arthas" and know that all of the problems with the metagame will likely be fixed once and for all when it finally arrives. Time to preorder.

So I bought a car for my mom 2 years ago using a loan with my bank. The vehicle is registered under my name only. I am on her insurance policy. She is the primary holder. She got into an accident recently and took the car to the mechanic for repairs. She received the insurance claim check and chose to spend the money on something else instead of getting my car out. I get a call a month later from the bank telling me about the situation (I was unaware of what was going on and assumed everything was being handled). They tell me that the mechanic is processing a lien on my car and its going to get repossessed if I dont work it out with the mechanic. The mechanic is asking for a total of 5,400 which includes 1950 in storage fees for 30 days. I only have about a fifth of that. Shes only willing to take the 3 grand then the rest in payments and she wants a decision by the 21st. I do not have 3 grand. I tried to apply for many loans and have been denied. Im wondering what my options are at this point. Do I let the bank repossess it? Is the car worth getting out? Will bankruptcy be my best option? I still owe 17,000 on the vehicle and I have over 6,000 in credit card debt that I've accumulated this year due to the first covid lockdown. I've heard of surrendering a vehicle but not sure how that would work and I would think I'd still have to pay the mechanic to do that.
I tried to keep this as short and straight to point as possible. If there's any questions I will gladly answer them. Any help is very much appreciated. I am 27 and made the wrong decision by trusting my mom and I dont want to make another bad decision. Thanks ahead of time.
EDIT: Here are some more details to clear up any confusion in my post.
•My mom has a gambling addiction and it has become worse. She's homeless now and spends all her time at the casino. I realize now that I'm an idiot for buying her a car when I was aware of her gambling habit, but at the time I was convinced that everything would be fine. She has been making payments on time but even if she couldn't make the payments, I would take care of it because I could afford it. That was my thought process at the time when I bought the car but it never occurred to me that she could pocket insurance money if an accident happened. She had me thinking everything was fine and she was gonna get the car from the mechanic but I had to find out the truth a month later from the bank.
•I dont know why I wasnt contacted by the mechanic or insurance. I dont know why it took a month for the bank to call.
•I spoke to the insurance company to ask why the check wasn't issued out to me or the mechanic and I was told that legally, since my moms the primary holder, she can request the check be sent to her under her name even though its only my name on the registration.
•The mechanic filed the lien about a week ago
•The car is worth 12 - 13k right now. The bank has the title.
• I am located in California

I think this list speaks for itself. Thank you for this year Nano community and see you in 2021 for even more fun! We are only getting started 🚀
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• Introducing Nano P2PoW - Decentralized proof of work
• Stress testing of the main network with a new record of 235 CPS
• Nano Game made with Unreal Engine
• Announcing NanoDevList - Financial support for devs working on the Nano protocol and projects
• Anonymity research update
• The Nano Xmas Tree - it's back!
• NANO is now available for free in nearly every country in the world via WeNano App
• Nano added to CoinEmbed - A new payment processor service
• Gonano, a command-line tool written in Go for creating and managing Nano wallets
• WeNano SpotChat Update: 17 Nov, 2020
• Earn Nano from playing Just Cause 2 Multiplayer
• NanoGift for YouTube has been approved for Chrome, Brave, etc.
• Introducing Nanomart!
• Unreal Nano: A 3D transaction visualizer with VR and multiplayer support built with Unreal Engine
• [Released] Unreal Engine Nano Plugin v1
• An exchange has been released to trade Reddit Moons/Nano
• Introducing NanoGift for YouTube
• Nano based patent granted to RoboCash / FynCom!
• Disaster Nano Node - my backup survival principal representative for this uncertain world
• Bitcoin vs Nano - Solving the Double Spend Problem
• WeNano Community Update: 01 Oct, 2020
• September Nano Community Project Award: Srayman
• The Nano Foundation announces Deepa Mardolkar as Chair of the Advisory Board
• Introducing Nano Arcade — fusing Nano with Space Invaders
• Update from the Charity Project in Sierra Leone
• Athena V21.2 Release Now Available
• A proof of concept implementation of atomic swaps between Bitcoin and Nano has been released
• RoboCash app now pays you for every blocked call
• 2000+ Games and DLCs, from Steam, Playstation, Xbox, and all main platforms, now available at PlayNANO
• Nano demolished its previous beta stress test record today. 1465+ CPS
• DegenTrader.com allows you to get Nano currency with fiat in just a few clicks
• Introducing Nendly, the Notion-Friendly Forum
• August Nano Community Project Award: SonderDev
• Introducing MoonPay to WeNano
• Announcing WeNano Business for iOS and Android
• New onion faucet
• BrainBlocks Announces Sunset
• Nalli, the SMS supported wallet is now on the App Store
• New Nano record last night! 161 peak CPS on the mainnet
• Nano as the backbone of Financial Communications
• Nanowallet.io says bye
• Experimental ledger pruning - V22
• PlayNANO now allows users to top-up their mobile phones
• NanoKe - Play on NANO Blockchain
• Nano is now available on the Guarda Wallet Mobile App
• Article: The security of using Nano
• Optimizations bring back to 0.3 seconds per PoW
• The Nano Foundation has joined FITSPA Uganda to help amplify Nano as the go-to digital money solution for the people of Uganda
• July Nano Community Project Award: Nault
• Nault wallet redesign
• Development update: Increased work difficulty upgrade status
• RoboCash app in Google Play - Try the Nano-powered phone spam blocker today!
• Say hello to the new ultra-secure remote/offline signing feature in Nault!
• Introducing PhraseFile: A file-based 2FA method for Nano seeds
• NANO Founder Colin Lemahieu LIVE with Barely Sociable
• V21.1 Athena release now available
• NanoFusion - Project Update and Next Steps
• Announcing the winners of the $75,000 Nano Build-Off
• June Nano Community Project Award: Nano Tip Bot
• The re-birth of NanoVault: Nault
• Nano now available on GuardaWallet
• Interview with Colin LeMahieu - Hosted by Keyword: Crypto
• RoboCash Beta + NanoCenter Update
• Notes from Nano Foundation Dev AMA on Discord
• You can now buy NANO instantly or recurring using Buy Crypto on Binance.US
• Nano Repeat - Subscription Bot for Discord
• New version of CSGO - Nano tournament released
• NanoTicker upgraded for v21 with new features and improved data accuracy
• V21 Athena is live on the Nano network!
• Competition to come up with the best marketing ideas to increase Nano adoption
• Community-made marketing video: 10 reasons to use NANO instead of the Dollar
• The Nano Faucet Distribution: Visualized and Analyzed
• V21 Athena RC1 Released
• Nalli, the new mobile wallet with SMS support is now available for iOS in TestFlight
• NanoAuth - Authentication service (Build-off submission)
• NanoWire - Sell/Buy unused bandwidth (Build-off submission)
• Nano Profile - IPFS hosted profile picture network for Nano (Build-off submission)
• NANO Connect Messenger - Message app with Nano transactions (Build-off submission)
• Nanoom - Service for pulling Nano payments (Build-off submission)
• Bloesem - App with nano rewards to stay focused (Build-off submission)
• Nanowall.link - Content monetizer (Build-off submission)
• Nalli - Mobile wallet with sms support (Build-off submission)
• Upstart - Digital content hosting and sale platform (Build-off submission)
• Natricon Update - Natricons are changeable now
• Introducing TIX Wallet - Simple web wallet
• Nano on Tap - Docker backend (Build-off submission)
• Natricon - Icon identifier for accounts (Build-off submission)
• Nano-it-all Live Trivia Competition (Build-off submission)
• NanoSpider - Block explorer (Build-off submission)
• NANO Espresso NFC - Coffee machine acceping NANO payments (Build-off submission)
• FlappyNano - Flappy Bird against friends (Build-off submission)
• Linuxserver.io Nano Stack (Build-off submission)
• Sendr.space - Social media platform using Nano (Build-off submission)
• InstantCash - Point of sale for Android (Build-off submission)
• May NCPA Community Award Winner: Natrium
• NanoBlog - Decentralized blogging using IPFS (Build-off submission)
• NanoRequest - Payment link generator (Build-off submission)
• CoinChores - Teach your kids about Nano (Build-off submission)
• Polyrun - Workout rewards (Build-off submission)
• KojoSlayer - Battle RPG (Build-off submission)
• Rock Paper Scissors Online (Build-off submission)
• Nanotify - API and web callback platform (Build-off submission)
• Nano Connect - Free distributed RPC proxy (Build-off submission)
• Buy NANO with USD in Trust Wallet
• PlayNANO - Games (Build-off submission)
• Vola Wallet - iOS (Build-off submission)
• NanoRPCProxy - Now with a secure websocket layer, including free public subscriptions for block confirmations
• BlockHunters - Augmented Reality Game (Build-off submission)
• Nano Repeat - Subscription Management for Vendors (Build-off submission)
• Alexa Nano Bot is now live on the Alexa skill store (Build-off submission)
• 'How to use crypto' article (featuring Nano, because it's so easy)
• Nano now accepted at TravelbyBit after merging with Travala
• Nanolytics - Network stats (Build-off submission)
• NanoGift - Browser extension for site donations (Build-off submission)
• nPass - Web content payments (Build-off submission)
• FakeFork - Nano dashboard for tabletop gamers (Build-off submission)
• Play with Nano - (Nano Build-off submission)
• TheNanoBot (Build-off submission)
• Nano RPC Proxy - A fully customizable and secure backend for node calls (Nano Build-Off Project)
• NanoFusion (Nano Build-Off Project)
• NanoPaint (Nano Build-Off Project)
• Natrium v2.2 Released on iOS and Android
• Nanoce.net - Nano powered gaming tournaments
• Millions of Brave browser users can now seamlessly purchase, deposit, and convert NANO
• Happy Birthday Nano! Nano turns six today
• New Nano Center Bounty: Unity3D Plugin
• RoboCash alpha APK - stop spam calls with Nano
• myNanoEmbedded - Lightweight C library for IoT
• April NCPA Community Award Winner: Json
• Nano ecosystem april 2020
• Alexa Nano bot
• WeNano light for Android is out
• NanoPvP is Back better than ever!
• Nano Charts V1.13 - More Accurate Pie Chart Data, Binance True Holdings and Help Boxes
• Nodes CLI obersever: new CLI tool in php4nano repository
• Nano Foundation - CryptoFriendly AMA Recap
• Nano available on the new Binance Widget
• Great beta results for v21
• A new faucet has launched - TetraLoom
• Privacy research project update - Funded
• Nano RUM dispenser
• Announcing the Nano Build-Off - A $75,000 competition to incentivize nano developers
• March NCPA Community Award Winner: MyNano.ninja
• Nanocurrency on Reddit reaches 50,000 members
• Nano Foundation AmA with Atomic Wallet - Summary
• Counter Strike: Go Nano
• Announcing Earn-Nano.com - Collection of places to earn Nano
• Nanoquake JS Season 2
• LuckyNano 2.0 Released
• DeMixor, music vocal remover, integrates Nano
• Announcing EarnAcademy.cc — Earn money by learning and answering questions
• Bidali enables gift cards and phone top-ups with Nano
• Announcing the Nano Community Project Award
• Raesonic browser-based racing game with Nano microtransactions
• Announcing WeNano for iOS
• Binance rolls out credit card purchases of Nano, one of 12 coins supported
• Nano is now in the list of cryptocurrencies on Wikipedia
• Nix/NixOS integration
• NanoGhana Meetup
• Nano work cache available (golang)
• A Simple Nano Block Lattice Explorer on Tor
• Nano is now available on Simplex platform!
• Binance adds BUSD trading pair for Nano!
• Nano on Wikipedia!
• V21 Athena - Feature Review
• Release: New Nano wallet sweep tool
• NANORoll - Multiplayer Roulette Casino Game
• A New site that lists NANO merchants (among other crypto) - Weacceptcryptocurrency.com
• You can now update your representative in Exodus Wallet
• NOWPayments is supporting Nano now!
• Nanowallets.guide - A brand new feature guide to all Nano wallets
• Magnum wallet is now open beta on iOS
• RoboCash NanoCenter project, funding complete!
• Visualizing Nano Beta Network at 750 CPS - 20k tx in 28sec
• Results of recent Nano Display Ads Marketing project
• The Nano Center for Community Funding: NanoGhana Meet-up - Funded!
• NanoArcade - New Game Released
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• Proposal for Nano Node Network Optimizations
• Presenting KeyTools - A brand new set of secure high-performance Nano web tools

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