Hooyaah

Artery => blood

Eiffel 65 -> Blue Keith Urban - Blue Ain't Your Color

It has been over two months since I played NieR: Automata. It was the first 4K game that I played on my new Rig which has an Intel Core i7-3960X CPU at 3.30 GHz, 16GB RAM, and a NVidia GeForce GTX 1080Ti. I read a number of very positive reviews about the game and that's why I purchased and played it. I even disseminated some information at its respective wiki for the edification of fellow players. It is true that the game has a well refined synergy between visual, auditory (sound effects, vocals, music, etc.) which melds in a seamless confluence, transporting one into an experience that is simultaneously rare and unique. It is also true that the adventure is wondrous and one is drawn in wholly so that moving through the game is a sublime compulsion. One becomes so familiar with the protagonists and so fond of them that they feel like family. That is where the problem lies, in my assessment, because the developers made a singular but significant error, or at least a major miscalculation. There are no "good endings" but many endings, the majority of which are not only bad but fraught with sorrow, many with hopelessness, some that are just poor jokes. All of these I could discount if there were but one clearly "happy" ending where there is manifest hope and redemption, a reward for making good choices. It seems clear to me that Square Enix wished to make a statement against war and perhaps an illustration of the violence in and the futility of life rather that making a game that people would love to experience again and again reliving such joy. I have learned in life that the human creature can tolerate only so much of death. Death that occurs close to one, especially that of friends and loved ones fills said capacity much more rapidly. Perhaps this is a way to make gamers go on to buy their next game. I, for one, feel betrayed. A game should not make one regret playing it over and over trying to make things turn out "right" without that being a possibility. I do not intend to purchase or accept as a gift any more games of this franchise. Furthermore, I am no longer a patron of Square Enix.

immediate, decisive action

David Bowie & Mick Jagger -> Dancing in the street Blue Oyster Cult => Dancing In The Ruins

people will do things for you... => influence

Ben Franklin => $100.00 note

via any means.

Wishful Thinking -> China Crisis David Bowie - China Girl

?=> bug

the co-conspirators who

NEULORE - Shadow of a Man

comfort food -> poutine

Abney Park => Pity The Free Man Linkin Park => In The End

slang => colloquialism

"This is a drain from the Thylysium sewer system and it is spilling raw sewage into "Lower Thylysium." Here, where the common people live. Here, where the filthy water ponds, for there is no drainage system. I have witnessed children playing in this filthy, stagnant soup. There is poverty here and there is no knowing what ailments may already plague the impoverished denizens of this disregarded area. Now that I have a established a positive rapport with many senators and nobles here at the High Elven capitol and have amassed much gold, for which I have neither need nor desire, I shall have something done about this abominable situation."

and hastily intercepted

widget => doohickey

The Cranberries > Zombie The Cranberries => Linger

to DarkMatters => repository

company => welcome

knowledge => power

experience => wisdom

of radical interlopers

Chrisitna Aguilera Ft Ceelo Green -> make the world move Green Day => Boulevard Of Broken Dreams