
The characters, the world, the enemies are all cute and cuddly, ranging from bouncy slimes to the surreal and inanimate: yakuza with machine guns, smoking tree stumps with fangs, murderous bright red telephones.

(I would rather be playing Death Stranding.) The first 100 levels or so aren't bad-not anymore-even charming so long as you collect your login-rewarded hyper teleport rock-otherwise, you have to run from one location to another if I want to run I'll play Death Stranding. Looks like I'm playing Kanna, it's supposed to be one of the fastest classes to level. This year I bet that New World's player base wouldn't swan dive, turning the game into a flavor of the month by January. One year I said that NBC would run sympathetic headlines about Incels by New Years.

The bets are always inane, stupid, trivial. Every year around the holidays I lose a bet. Every year around the holidays I place a bet.
