This is a pretty basic answer but The Dark Elf Trilogy could be incredible on film if done properly. Drizzt’s early life is one of my favorite character arcs in fiction and Menzoberranzan is an exceptionally interesting society. It could even just be a series mostly focused on the first book and then ends when he leaves the city or when he goes topside so they could really flesh out just how fucked the dark elves are.
Yeah that’s cod for you, just avoid the most popular of games from every genre but especially shooters. And if you’re into milsims you straight up have to go to private communities. Unfortunately it’s an unavoidable thing that just keeps getting more rampant and more extreme, something has to change meaningfully irl.
On a more positive note I do want to shout-out Guild Wars, I have almost 900 hours in GW2 and like 350 hours in GW1 but still have not run into this issue a single time. That community really does an exceptional job at keeping the toxicity out, you’ll see some ignorance but never a full blast of pure dumb hatred.
Authoritarians have endless enemies and boogie men, the Nazi went after way more than just Jews exactly like the US is against way more than just brown immigrants. It’s always all minorities, immigrants, queers, leftists, socialists, scientists, historians, they will just keep adding to the list until there is nobody left if they have control for long enough.
Millions of people all paying a sub with many buying dlc and mtx.
50% of US citizens read at 5th grade level or lower. This doesn’t sound too terrible until you remember that those tests are actually comprehension tests. Majority of us have less comprehensive abilities than we expect out of children, and this was before the “ai” boom, you know it’s gotten exponentially worse already and will continue to decline at an ever accelerating pace. We genuinely are some of the dumbest motherfuckers our species has to offer.
Department stores do carry sex toys. Obviously not Kmart since that hasn’t been a thing in like 20 years but Target and such places do have them on the shelves.
Not a Democrat. And if I believed in some “sacredness of popularity” I would be defending Trump…like you keep doing.
Are you positive you are not in cult yourself?
What cult am I in? I’ve spent my entire life advocating for human and worker rights against both parties and every organization in the US government. I’ve been personally blocked by countless US reps and law enforcement organizations across the country.
You were literally arguing antithetical statements and jumped to baseless name calling when you were called on it. You can’t claim somebody lost to Trump over their ability to discuss policy when Trump himself is the de facto worst policy speaker in the entire history of the country, dude even routinely shits on his own policies and verbatim states that whoever signed them in is the worst president ever…while taking credit for the things democrats passed after he shit talked it while it was up for debate.
Are you sure you aren’t in a cult? Right wing authoritarianism is just as popular in Europe as it is in the US, how are you making sure you aren’t being misled into believing contradictory things…like the statements you made here.
Listen to her speak, she is actually really good at presenting her policies, the issue is nobody will pay attention to her and she won’t lie to get the attention she feels she needs like Vance has stated he does. Remember during the 2024 election cycle when she literally had to chase down reporters? There are endless examples of her walking up to the press and trying to discuss policy just for them to shut her down without a chance to speak… meanwhile those exact same people were doing anything to be the 9 trillionth person to report on whatever nonsensical blatant lies and hate were spilling out of Trump’s mouth at the time.
And all of that aside…how in the fuck are you going to claim somebody lost to Trump because they were bad at presenting policy? Trump has the poorest speaking abilities of anybody in the entire history of US politics, same with his displayed understanding of policies, laws, governmental structure, constitutional framework, etc. He is literally the absolute worst we’ve ever had at all of the things you say are the reasons the other side lost.
If you don’t mind trading the endless progression treadmill for actually fun content then Guild Wars 2 is where it’s at. Genuinely the chillest, most helpful community and the best open world content in the genre.