Pretty much any big name pizza place is the same story. A cycle of "make it smaller", "make it out of cheaper ingredients", "put less on it" and "make it cost more" has left most of them barely recognisable as pizza.
The best pizza near any of us is probably from a local family run pizza place.
The best value pizza is probably Costco.
I don't know why everybody else continues to exist. A mountain of brand recognition heading towards oblivion.
I suspect the only "change" that will happen is a large amount of money changing hands so they don't have to bother.
Double the price of petrol. That will make Americans desire small cars again.
They were probably mostly in the hands of Hezbollah members, if not fighters. This is probably why they went off in hospitals as well. Lots of medics who volunteer who's normal job is being a doctor in a Beirut hospital. Lots of logistics and people hiding weapons in the back of buildings for them.
They're not full time militants if I understand correctly. Most of these people will have civilian lives and jobs to go to.
Certainly some innocent family members died. There's no such thing as a completely surgical strike. It is better than what they've been doing in Gaza though, by several orders of magnitude. I don't think anybody can defend what's been going on there with a straight face.
World of Warcraft's pet capture system was actually very similar to Pokemon, including better traps with better chances of success.
I'm taking issue with the "got too big" part.
Nintendo are patent trolls, but I think we all know why they're going after Palworld and it won't be about confirmation screens.
Got too big?
I haven't heard anyone mention this since like a month after it came out. It's down to 20k players from like two million in January.
https://steamcharts.com/app/1623730
This is just Nintendo's standard glacial pace. We've had ROM sites up for a decade before they were taken down. No doubt some team of lawyers have been collecting a gargantuan hourly rate while putting together all the images of Palworld NPCs and how they're blatant Pokemon rip-offs.
And they're not wrong, exactly. There's a lot of Pokemon rip-off games about. Digimon, Yokai Watch, Temtem, etc. But only Palworld has had me see the screenshots and go "they're Pokemon". Even Aldi don't advertise their frosted flakes with a cartoon tiger in a red neckerchief. There are lines, and when you step over them lawyers tend to get involved.
Obviously saw how well it worked in the UK when we fucked our public housing up too.
Surprised Reagan didn't cotton on to that one.
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