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So I'm basically venting my frustration here because I have nobody to really talk to about it in real life. I always say that I don't really have any friends, but I actually do have one, but one who I can only tolerate in small doses. The thing is, she has major anxiety problems (a thing she can't be faulted for), and I guess this carries over into the video game playing experience. The thing is, I've dealt with people of this sort before, who get SO angry when bad things happen (i.e. they die a lot) in a video game and instead of acknowledging that maybe they just need more practice, they start complaining that the game is badly designed, is bad, unfair, too hard, or some other variation/combination of these things. Or even instead of acknowledging anything at all, just remaining calm and not getting very visibly and audibly frustrated in my presence. It really makes me extremely uncomfortable, and takes all the fun out of playing a game together for me. I mean, the whole point of a game is to have fun, but with this kind of person, when they get like that, no matter how much you tell them to calm down and just relax and don't worry about how well you're performing, they just can't do it; they must continually yell at the game and complain about why its unfair and how "this shouldn't be this way" or "that shouldn't be that way" and inevitably, "I can't play this game anymore." *sigh* She's a huge Zelda fan, and she was having one of her fits while we were playing this other game, when she started talking about how this reminded her of the problem she had with Zelda a Link to the Past; that its way too hard because enemies knock you like halfway across the screen when they hit you and you fall and die (her words, not mine). I tried to say that its only seems very difficult because she's not used to that style of game, (because she really isn't. She grew up on Gamecube and stuff after that, and has very little experience playing 2D games), but she -insists- that its a design flaw and a problem with the game, to which I could only try to hide my frustration. All I could really say was that "there's nothing wrong with the game, you're just not good enough." Admittedly not the best choice of words, but if I had said, "there's nothing wrong with the game, you just need more practice is all." (which is what I really should have said), it would have basically conveyed the same message. Anyway, I guess that's the end of my rant. Sorry for subjecting you all to this.

Spoilers are very good but I usually don't overdo it. Let me explain - all I want to know is how the game plays, if there are a lot bugs and have an idea of how enjoyable it is. I don't really watch story spoilers because I want to enjoy it. However, I'll take a short summary as in if it's trash or not.

FF8. Most everyone seems to think it's one of the worst endings in gaming history and try to poke all kinds of holes in it. I personally think it was a great ending.

Parler was dropped from Amazon. I'm referring to the sites they are now currently using after they have been dropped from all the platforms. So yeah, many have fallen underground just like ISIS. Trump threatened to destroy Iran's heritage sites, which is against international law. And that was when republicans were claiming you can't destroy history or you will repeat it, which was when protestors were destroying confederate monuments across the country. Another hypocrisy by the fascist republicans. And as far as China, we have a failed trade war and we have wasted multiple bailouts for farmers. They are literally surviving off of the government which is socialism. But socialism is ok if you are the one getting aid right? That's what they believe anyways. We can debate economic issues between the two parties, but the last republican president we had this country fell into the great recession; the worse economic crisis since the great depression. And now with trump, he botched a pandemic response which screwed the economy along with the trade war. This economic fallout is always at the hands of republicans. Biden has to clean up the mess like Obama did. And yes, it's gonna get worse. I have no doubts. And when it does, it will be due to this failed pandemic response. But we have to go through it just like a bad divorce when you lose everything. But we cannot get the economy back unless we get the pandemic under control. And republicans have repeatedly shown that they are against trying to help the pandemic crisis.

Those who think the owner of a bakery has the right to refuse service to gay patrons now believe it's unfair for Twitter to refuse service to someone who incited a domestic terror attack on our Federal Government. Those who think that "corporations are people" and simply citing their beliefs should allow them to deny benefits required by law, to their employees, are now upset that Facebook is using their belief that peddling stochastic terrorism shouldn't be allowed on their network, to deny service. Those who believe the death of George Floyd was justified, that Blacks should just "comply", are losing their minds in stores, DMVs, banks and other public venues because they don't want to "comply" with mask ordinances. Those who said "get over it" after the 2016 election are now being arrested for Federal crimes, seditious conspiracy, because they refuse to "get over it". Those who said 306 electoral votes in 2016 was a "landslide" win, now say 306 electoral votes in 2020 was a "landslide" loss. Those who called those who didn't think it fair that their candidate got 3 million more popular votes but lost, "snowflakes", now think it unfair that their candidate with 8 million LESS popular votes, lost.

NFS Heat would be an OK game if not for the awful way it handles cops. They are indestructible and have infinite catchup. Which means the only way to loose them is by going on designated "cop loosing jumps" on the map. Which I found extremely lame. You can't just outrun them by skill. I swiftly uninstalled the game when I found this out.

Maybe try a new game or play one you haven't played in a long while. Something I've been thinking about doing is have a day of the week for certain games. Like Friday horror, Tuesday binge a series. That's what I did yesterday, nothing but Assassin's Creed games. Was fun too comparing them and adventuring in different atmospheres. Play a little, then put in another so you don't spend too much time on one in the series. I wouldn't mind having a classic game day in the week and play nothing but old stuff. I just might do that.

I would love to advise you whenever you want on it. I love that game and have played hundreds of playthroughs. I’ve logged thousands of hours on this game, done every side quest, and know virtually everything about it.

Damn in my elation I just realized they gave to Ubisoft...talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire. I'm convinced at this point that Star Wars as a franchise is absolutely cursed. What next? it doesn't work with Ubisoft so they give it to Activision?! (let me stop giving Disney any more ideas). Anyways, we'll see how this goes.