There’s a small, wild-growing apple tree in my town. It’s there since I remember. Its fruits are small, not particularly good looking, but they are the sweetest, most delicious apples I’ve ever eaten.
I haven’t played tales of, but another modern game that gave me heavy chrono vibes is Chained Echoes. I’ve 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 haven’t 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! 🐸 (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 then…I will stand on the sidewalk across the street from them while glaring. Glaring AND scowling with disapproval.
Health wouldn’t 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
“other” would be the best biggest thing after Defense and provide no details, because it would be corporate subsidies and that would look bad
Health wouldn’t 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 isn’t the budget, it’s 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. Here’s 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 haven’t won a war in 80 years.
We spend more on healthcare than every other nation and it’s 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 “incentives” 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, it’s really common for these figures to be discussed when attacking America 🙄
Social security is SELF-FUNDING, and even still lends money to the general fund. Yes, this a list of all government spending, but it isn’t what your FICA payment goes towards. Military spending is #1 for that.
I would really recommend Chrono Cross for the PS1. It’s set in the same world as Chrono Trigger but isn’t 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. It’s 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!
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