Thereās a small, wild-growing apple tree in my town. Itās there since I remember. Its fruits are small, not particularly good looking, but they are the sweetest, most delicious apples Iāve ever eaten.
I havenāt played tales of, but another modern game that gave me heavy chrono vibes is Chained Echoes. Iāve been loving it. Streamlined the right parts of jrpgs imo
I played that since it was free on XBox pass and loved it. Actually is the reason I picked up Chrono Trigger. I really hope the developer is able to create more games similar in nature. From what I understood it was just one person?
I have actually played a few of the more recent ones, Zestiria, Berseria, and Arise although I havenāt finished the last one. I also picked up Trails in the Sky series from the last Steam sale and they are quite good.
People are mentioning all the ones I would have added already. Maybe also the Dragon Quest series, but I haven't played any recent ones.
Also if you can stand a mobile gacha (also a Steam version) one of the writers of Chrono Trigger & Cross started the game Another Eden that is kind of a spiritual successor - gorgeous graphics, fantastic music, and yes some pretty nice storyline as well (mixed in with crap but you can't win them all:-D). Like... one of the main characters is basically Frog! šø (Another is essentially Lucca, and Robo, and Marle, etc.)
I will fly out to where this person lives. I will rent a car at the airport and, using Waze, will drive to their house. And thenā¦I will stand on the sidewalk across the street from them while glaring. Glaring AND scowling with disapproval.
Health wouldnāt be on there at all because fuck em
Defense would be spelled correctly and be so large that it would need to be on its own section, because the chart scale would distort things so badly that everything else would look like a sliver above zero
Education would be smaller than your immigration
Welfare, depending on the administration, would likely be some derogatory categorization for each group just to piss off their base
āotherā would be the best biggest thing after Defense and provide no details, because it would be corporate subsidies and that would look bad
Health wouldnāt be on there at all because fuck em
The US actually does spend an incredible amount of money on healthcare compared to other countries. Nearly $2 trillion in the budget for FY 2023 alone. Medicare and Medicaid comprising the majority of that spending.
The US spends about twice as much per person for healthcare out of taxes than comparably rich nations do.
The problem isnāt the budget, itās the cost. Healthcare is way too damn expensive in the US compared to elsewhere.
But remember, having all these private companies run the system is good, actually! The alternative is communism despite every other capitalist country in the world using the alternative!
This is very easy to find with a simple google search. Hereās the year-to-date spending for 2023:
$1.01T social security
$673B health
$636B medicare
$623B income security
$610B defense
$494B net interest
$220B veteran benefits & services
$201B education, training, employment, and social services
$89B transportation
$74B community and regional development
$179B other
I mean, we spend more on defense than the next several nations combined and we havenāt won a war in 80 years.
We spend more on healthcare than every other nation and itās still the most expensive healthcare system in the world.
We spend hundreds of billions on a welfare system that forces people on it to keep working until the day they die.
We throw out billions in kickbacks and āincentivesā to billion dollar companies.
I could go on with the numerous, seemingly never ending problems with the US, but the point is that our system is indeed bad and dumb. Nothing we have works, and all of it is extremely over funded and under delivering. At this point, tearing it all up and starting again seems like the easier way to fix things, and getting to that point is never good
Not only is it pretty common for a democracy to be pretty open about how they spend their tax budget, itās really common for these figures to be discussed when attacking America š
Social security is SELF-FUNDING, and even still lends money to the general fund. Yes, this a list of all government spending, but it isnāt what your FICA payment goes towards. Military spending is #1 for that.
I would really recommend Chrono Cross for the PS1. Itās set in the same world as Chrono Trigger but isnāt a direct sequel. It has some really great elements to it. I played it when I was a kid and I still revisit it every few years.
@Phyzaks For anyone not aware, there is a re-release of Chrono Cross last year! It's available on Steam and consoles: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1133760/CHRONO_CROSS_THE_RADICAL_DREAMERS_EDITION/ (even Steam Deck verified) The graphics and art is upscaled, partly with AI, and the results got mixed receptions. And "Radical Dreamers" is included as well, according to the Steam page. Just wanted to point this out, in case emulation is complicated for some.
Try Secret of Evermore. The combat is very different but the game allows for two players! One controls the main character and the other can control his pet dog. Itās one of the rare action RPGs of the time.
It remains, to this day, one of my very favorite games of all time. Top tier story, characters, gameplay mechanics, and musical score. Not to mention almost infinitely replayable. So much value packed into a single purchase. Enjoy!
I strongly believe that this should be the standard everywhere. Unfortunately most governments wonāt tell you this, because a few of them are busy building golden temples for their authoritarian leaders, and blowing half of it on cocaine while pretending itās the immigrantsā faults
Not only this, I think this should be selectable by taxpayers before they pay taxes so they can customize the amount that goes to each category. This would be the true democratic way of doing it. So, for example, based on your salary you need to pay 20k in taxes. Youād then select how much you want to go into Transportation, Healthcare, defense, education, etc.
This wouldnāt be truely democratic. It would rather be just like donations. Government spending works, because itās all out into the same basket. If it werenāt, then rich taxpayers would move the movey to projects they want - and as would have very little old-age welfare, because they donāt pay much taxes anymk6and every group in society would put the money into their projects.
This is a poor take, a few to vote is not the easy to go about this. Even owing taxes shouldnāt bar someone from voting as voting is about being represented and everyone deserves representation. Even hardened criminals.
Many people arenāt represented in America, e.g., DC, Peurto Rico, people who were in prison. Taxation without representation doesnāt exist in America.
This is but one of many sites which show a breakdown of where our money in the US goes. Having one that breaks down each personās personal contribution would be especially interesting, but a percent is a percent so if 20% of our money collectively goes to X, then 20% of what your paid as an individual will also go to X.
sometimes accessibility and user experience is more important than "its available if you look for it.: 99% of people donāt really have time, they have families, jobs, some leisure, cooking, paying bills, visiting family. etc. etc. So it should be easy and the FACT that it isnāt easy is purposeful whereas the Australian system is purposefully easy.
I donāt disagree with your sentiment, but again, it IS easy. It took me less than 10 seconds to find the link I provided. Sure, make it even easier still by including it with every tax return, but letās not kid ourselves - this shit is incredibly easy but average taxpayers just donāt want to bother.
I would argue average taxpayers donāt know it exists and a ton of them, particularly older ones have a very hard time with technology. Iāve had to show my mother in law how to get a url from her phone to her desk top, Iāve explained what the read mode means in Firefox, and numerous other things. Easy for you doesnāt mean easy for everyone.
The official mobile port is well done. I know it wasnāt always the case but after some past updates I havenāt had any issues with it. I picked it up on Google Play and it was worth the $8 I paid.
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