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Friday, February 11, 2022

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is going to be great:

With the same staff that made the masterpiece Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and four years to improve the graphics and gameplay, we're looking at one of the best games ever made.

The composers are the same -- Yasunori Mitsuda leading his talented underlings Minami, Kenji and ACE.  The previous soundtrack is one of my favorites of all time, so this seems like a promising start.

The character designer is the same -- the same character designer who gave us the incredibly beautiful Nia, Homura and Mithra.  Nia might be the prettiest girl ever.  On top of that the dozens of other blades in the game were all impressive too.  So this seems pretty promising too.

The game is coming out this September, not long from now.  I can't believe we're getting Xenoblade 3 before FF7 Remake Part 2.  Jesus, Square Enix, get a move on. . . As a result it's set to be the game of the year.  And it's on the Switch, which I own, unlike the mythical PS5 which no one can buy, so I can actually play it unlike Tales of Arise.

It's a huge disappointment for Kamila Valieva, who I've seen skate so beautifully not just here at the Olympics but in her earlier competitions as well, be disqualified for doping.  She was performing at an unprecedented level for a woman so the doping charge seems plausible.  Then we have Russia's history with doping which makes it all the more likely.  But there are still appeals to be made and twists and turns in the story, I won't insult her until everything has been proven.  The fact is Russia has an entire stable of great female figure skaters, which means even without Kamila they'll win easily.  Did they all dope together?  If not, how can all of them do quads but only Kamila needed to cheat to succeed?  Something is weird about this story.

Russians have dominated female figure skating for something like 12 years now, were they all doping too?  And why on Earth do you find a positive test in the middle of the Olympics?  Shouldn't this have been discovered long before she competed?  They could have slotted in some other great female figure skater to the team competition and easily won gold but instead they wait until after she's skated and then disqualify the whole team.  That's ridiculous.  The top three female figure skaters in the world right now are all Russian.  Anyone from Russia could have delivered them the gold, but now due to a technicality it's being stolen from them.  That's not fair to all the other Russian skaters or the other female figure skaters who were denied the chance to be a part of said team.  All because this positive drug test was discovered halfway through the Olympics instead of done at a proper time well before the Olympics.

And it's not like she was caught by Olympic testers.  It was a sample they took from her months ago and only bothered to test in the middle of the Olympics, after it was too late.  It's so absurd, pointless and stupid.  Why didn't they test it before she competed???????????????????????????????????

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