2020 was the last WTF year, which was covid in full swing, among other messes. So could be ominous, could be nothing, cuz every year has some bullshit.
Really, you could cut the headline to "Fetterman made his first post on truth social", and I'd still be disappointed, the rest just put a cherry on top.
USPS is obligated to deliver everywhere. Uncle Steve who lives out in the middle of buttfuck nowhere gets mail service just like Cousin Roger who lives in the middle of town. Shocking literally no one, having to deliver to multiple Uncle Steve's costs way more money then it brings in.
Then there's inflation, and also just less folks sending mail as a general thing because e-mail is instantaneous and free.
The pension funding requirement was the overwhelming majority of their losses, but that's been resolved as of 2022.
It was a villain speech, but sometimes the bad guys have a point. Remember the villain from the first James Cameron Avatar movie? He had this speech, which, gotta be real, he's not wrong.
If the only thing a Christmas movie takes is being set on or around Christmas, Batman Returns and Eyes Wide Shut are Christmas movies. Oppenheimer has a Christmas scene, is that a Christmas movie too? Clearly there's a line somewhere.
Bit of Xenogears where you can mount into giant robots for fightin'
Bit of Chrono Trigger where you can see the enemies and choose to run into them
Has an enchantment system you can use to buff your weapons
You can build out the skills on each character as well which is wonderful for customization.
Combat system takes a smidge to get used to since it penalizes you for spamming singular skills a bit too much, but it's not tough to work with.
If none of that does it for you, just wait a while until things calm down for you, not like it's going anywhere, and it's never hit 50% off so plenty of time for that to happen as well, which is my usual trigger for buying a game that looks good to me.
Thought DQ8 woulda placed where DQ7 was considering it was the breakout hit stateside, which in turn would suggest it did absolute numbers in the JP market, which has famously been hot for DQ games.
Vance doesn't have Trumps cult so he wouldn't be able to get away with any sort of Trump stuff. He'd try of course, but deffo get a lot more pushback.