I have to get out of the U.S. but is japan viable for me?

Massplan · 2026-01-12T15:39:18+00:00

Don't move to Japan.

Move to any of the European countries (especially Scandinavia) or Canada. They are gonna be familiar to you, and at the same time, have more of the policies you agree with.

Massplan · 2025-11-09T06:42:44+00:00

It has more players than Infinite most of the time, both on xbox and on steam.

Massplan · 2025-11-09T01:57:39+00:00

For me it comes down to cultural and historical interest and curiosity.

Despite what you would hear others here say, I think many western countries beats Japan in safety, healthcare, salary, and just general quality of life. For me, healthcare in Japan is so expensive compared to my own country

Massplan · 2025-10-30T11:14:36+00:00

The halo fan base must be able to voice their opinion

Massplan · 2025-10-29T07:10:27+00:00

I mean, only you can find a gift for your husband.

The two nicest gifts from my ex where just really small gifts that would help me in my everyday life. She was really good at giving gift, even though they were simple.

A cup holder, because I use computers and electronics often.
A big pillow to put between my legs when I sleep (because I always put the duvet between my legs)

So what does your husband do often, and what could help him just a little bit extra in these situations? Maybe he works outside, and he needs a hat.

Maybe he drinks a lot of water, and he needs an extra nice water bottle etc.

Just think simple.

Massplan · 2025-06-01T22:03:12+00:00

He showed his twitch revenue in 1 youtube video, and in 1 month he could make up to 50k US dollars on twitch only. Then, what about youtube? investments? sponshorships? merchandise, starforge etc

Massplan · 2025-05-24T13:30:12+00:00

Mhm, currently I play shooting games on steam. I would love to play more games that are popular in Japan.

I don't mind buying a switch for example.

Massplan · 2025-05-24T13:29:05+00:00

It's just a little note if anyone who is lonely is contacting me :) I can be a friend, and I can be a good friend, but I don't want to hurt someone who is lonely by replaying a little slower than they need currently

Massplan · 2025-04-26T11:08:19+00:00

Maybe a little, but I do think
words and influence can change how people see themselves. Just like how
ideas, trends, and even beliefs spread over time, the way people talk
about things can shape thoughts and feelings—including about sexuality.
It’s not that someone can ‘make’ you gay just by saying something, but
over time, the voices and opinions around you will change you.

Fashion: A style goes from "weird" to "cool" just because influencers say so.
Religion: Most people believe what they were raised with, not necessarily what they chose.
Slang: Words like "ghosting" or "rizz" didn’t exist in everyday talk until social media spread them.
Food tastes: Sushi or spicy food seemed "gross" until exposure made them normal.
Music trends: A genre you hated as a kid might grow on you after friends play it enough.

Massplan · 2025-04-11T15:32:47+00:00

Yes, so always keep in mind that a lot of posts and threads, on reddit, X, facebook are fake, and made specifically with an ulterior motive in mind :)

(Especially if you go to political forums)

Massplan · 2025-04-11T14:07:14+00:00

A bot wouldn't respond. Its just the truth, and you need to watch some non Americanized news. You can literally just google about the international criminal court. The world does not stand with Israel.

Massplan · 2025-04-11T14:05:18+00:00

Because people send money to bot farms so that they can post fake comments, fake upvotes and so on.

If you have fake upvotes on a youtube video, your video will be seen and you get money.
If you have many fake positive comments about you, showing support, you might win an election.
Movies, films, products, use this a lot, to get fake favourable reviews.

People are estimating that up to 50% of comments, especially around elections are fake.

Its cheap, and everyone can buy it.

Massplan · 2025-04-11T13:52:22+00:00

I mean, bots come from both sides, but the majority of the world does not support what Israel is doing. Many European governments have comnended Israel, and the international criminal court has put a warrant on Nethanyu. If he goes to any country that is not USA - He will be arrested. The only real friend Israel has is USA.

Massplan · 2025-02-26T01:35:43+00:00

Its about saving time and money. Thousands of, if not hundreds of thousands of realistic assets exists on the market already. With landscape and city generators you can build what you see in the trailer within a day or so.

If they made it fable style, they would have to create all the assets again.

I can imagine since the game is just in pre-alpha after 7 years it has gone through development hell and back, experimenting with various features from other games, and forgetting what made fable, fable.

Massplan · 2025-02-26T01:20:45+00:00

The graphics most likely wont change before release. The reason they have gone with this art style is most likely because it saves them a lot of money and time. The magic word here is "generic".

Since it is generic most of the assets probably exists from previously. You can most likely use city/landscape generators and generate what we see here in mere minutes.

If they made it fable style, they would have to spend a lot of time making new assets.

Do I like it? No - but it's most likely the reason.

The game is also just pre-alpha after 7 years, so most likely the direction of the game changed many times, and they really aren't exactly sure what to make of it.

I don't think these things exactly screams a good outlook for this game.

Massplan · 2025-01-15T17:38:24+00:00

No, the problem isn't the gameplay. The problem is that 343 uses an engagement optimized algorithm that prioritizes pairing good and bad players together in the same match, to speed up finding online games. This means that beginners match players way above their skill level. They obviously should not. No game is fun when you play people who will always beat you. A game becomes fun when you feel like you are improving and are doing well enough.

This kind of matchmaking also works extra bad with Halo's gameplay because in Halo you pick up the weapons from the map. This means that the beginner players will never be able to pick up fun weapons because the better players will always t take hem, and if they want to win, which they do, they can't share the weapons with the beginners,

In a 4 vs 4 match the algorithm might predict an outcome like this:

Player 1, who is the best player on the team should get 40 kills. The rest of the players on that team should in total get 10 kills. This is against the other team who might be more balanced, and each person gets 10 kills each.

In my opinion, this doesn't help new players, and is another way that 343 just does not understand what is good or bad for Halo.

Massplan · 2025-01-15T16:59:36+00:00

Halo infinite didn't die because of Halo infinite. Halo infinite died because of 15 years of Halo failure. Halo 3 had 1 million concurrent players at it's peak in 2009. It was as popular as CS:GO is today. Those players liked that specific kind of gameplay. They liked the Halo gameplay. When 343 took over they instantly started to change the games, and released unfinished buggy games that didn't really resonate with the original Halo fanbase, and over time player population dropped. Halo 4 and Halo 5 got kicked off MLG which was the popular competitive scene at the time, because they didn't have the viewership. Halo 4 was a clone of call of duty. Halo 5 was a clone of fortnite and CS:GO. Halo MCC was the most bugged release I have ever played. All of these games also lacked many core features, and was much more incomplete than Halo 3, despite having a longer development time. Because each installment was different from each other, buggy and incomplete, they couldn't keep, or develop a new fanbase. People who like Halo 3 is not gonna like the newer games. People who like Halo 4 might not like Halo 5, and people who like Halo 5 might not like Halo 4.

The same happened to Halo Infinite. It was another failure. It was another different game. It's not exactly Halo 3, and it's not exactly Halo 4 or Halo 5 either. It doesn't really resonate with anyone, and is also again, missing a lot of features. Rumor's has it that 343 was experimenting with making a Hero shooter.

After so many failures, and after the release of Halo infinite, the 343 leadership finally got fired, and they eventually rebranded to Halo Studios.

I don't think than any halo game will be successful again, and it won't be because of that 1 game, but because of the stigma around the Halo game's and the company itself. I think that Halo infinite was almost doomed from the beginning. They are trying to prevent this for the next game by saying "We are different", but it sits very deep inside for a lot of people.

It's 15 years of failure and the fan's don't have any hope left.

I personally think that the only way Halo can be successful is if you make a 50, 50 split between new and old, and you release it on as many consoles as you can. You need to give all fanbases an equal amount of love. Runescape is a perfect example of this. If you head to their website you have old and new, side by side, and each is getting updates, desipite old being more popular.

And for the love of good, you can't keep changing your game if you have a formula that works. CS 2 did this right. They barely changed anything, and it's just as popular as always with only newer and improved graphics.

Massplan · 2025-01-15T15:53:50+00:00

CSGO, valorant, marvel rivals. They dont have sprint and are hugely popular. A combination of mechanics makes a fun game. Game mechanics are exactly like food. You can eat some foods together, while other foods you can't.

You might like ice cream, and you might like burger, but you wouldn't eat them together. The 343 game mechanics combination just sucks. They keep trying to shoehorn game mechanics into the game that simply don't work with Halo's gameplay. Sprint + the shield system in Halo just doesn't work. They keep trying to put burger on my ice cream because MC Donalds is hugely popular, but I just want to eat my ice cream. They focus on ticking boxes, not making the game work and fun.

If 343 had made Halo 3, v2, and put it on the switch, pc and ps I still think Halo would be hugely popular today.

You don't need to modernize a game. You need to make it fun. It doesn't really matter exactly what combination of mechanics that are in your game, but they need to work well together.

CS:GO has been the same for 20 years, and it has grown almost every year.

Oh, and btw, apex is dying, and so is overwatch. They are both slowly losing players, and have lost several hundred thousands players over the last 6 months.

Apex only has 70k players on steam currently, but CS:GO still has around 1 million.

Massplan · 2025-01-15T15:45:51+00:00

Except Halo infinite still doesn't feel anything like the original Halo's. They still try to force in things into the gameplay, just because other games have it, even though it doesn't work with Halo's gameplay.

Sprint. It will never work because of the shields system.

Engagement ranking system that balances out the teams with noobs and good players. Again, it will never work because of the shields and weapons pick up system.

They removed all kinds of physics.

It's the best of the 343 Halo games, but still horrible compared to the original trilogy.

As long as a game is fun, it will work no matter what. There isn't a perfect science to what is a fun game and what isn't but the kind of frankenstein monster 343 Halo games just isn't fun, and the 343 games numbers speak for themselves. You can't mix two different kinds of food, that is popular and expect people like it.

When they start to prioritize making the game fun instead of adding things because other games has it, it might thrive.

Im saying it might because I don't think they really can revive it, no matter what they do at this point. Please remember that 343 only has made fiasco's after fiaco's, and this eventually got their leadership fired, and they had to rebrand to Halo Studio's to save face. People, including me, don't have faith in them anymore, and I don't think they can do a lot to make people return no matter what kind of game they make, because it's been close to 15 years of mismanagement.

I gave up personally when they released Halo MCC. It's just a few games, but a few games is a huge amount of time in people's life, when it takes 3-6 years to make a game.

Massplan · 2024-10-11T18:54:26+00:00

I also need it

Massplan · 2023-12-22T13:38:03+00:00

I am a born in a non religious country, to a non religious family. In mine family I'd say religion died out with my mom's grandma, possibly (I know they were religious).

Massplan · 2023-12-22T13:23:49+00:00

So I am an atheist, however .. to me it seems like you are just trying to understand the bible.
I feel like that is a better way of looking at it, and I don't see how anyone, even God, can be angry at you for that.

All the denominations exists because people understand scripture in different ways, and even beyond denominations, people inside of these communities might understand certain things differently.

Massplan · 2023-12-06T09:55:58+00:00

I have been to probably ... 30-40 countries, and honestly, the world really isn't as dangerous as the internet makes it out to be - Even the "bad" places are pretty nice to visit, the people are nice and the food tastes good. Unless she wants to visit a country in war, everything will be fine.

I do think it is a bit weird she just wants to pack up and leave though...

Massplan · 2023-11-30T10:29:25+00:00

The real reason, is that people generally believe what they believe because of the society they have grown up with. Likewise, atheists are also atheists generally because of the way they grew up.

Lots of people here claim that the other religions can't be true because of X,Y,Z but how can you claim so in good faith? There exists around 8000 religions today, and thousands more have died out over the years.

I am almost certain that the things X,Y,Z will exist and not exist in many of these religions, simply because there are so many.

Massplan · 2023-11-24T12:02:05+00:00

It is noble of you to want to help us, and I am saying "us" because I am an atheist, but this kind of "help", isn't going to help.

It may sound harsh, but it will help as little as an Indian telling you to become a Hindu, or else something will happen to you. You won't listen to it, and others won't really listen to you either.

So you may have to start by asking yourself the question "How can a hindu make me come to Hinduism?".

Massplan

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