That chart lacks context. The cost of living has drastically increased with each generation as well, far outpacing the increase in wages.
ytsedude
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Yeah, I think this looks beautiful. I like the idea of catching those wind streams and flying/floating around. Definitely keep an eye on this one!
I don't totally disagree with you, too. 😜
Every show is going to have its issues! I still skip The Great Divide most times I go through the series again. But it gets SO many things right. The character development, the music, the depth of the culture and bending styles.
I was cautiously optimistic about the show. I was worried why Brian and Mike left, but the costumes and casting seemed promising. Now, I think that might be why the show stings so much: it looks like TLA, it sounds like TLA, but it doesn't feel like TLA. It's a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Given the live-action record of the property, it's going to be difficult to get fans behind anything. But I would LOVE to have something new and amazing in this world. Hopefully the animated movies can deliver!
So what is a good alternative? "Scaled?"
Kinda looks like he has a hole going through him in the middle there.
Fuck the live-action show! All it's good for is reminding us how incredible the real show is.
They'll probably make the Guru try to kill Aang before he's immolated on-screen, which the live action showrunners love to do so much.
Ah. I have most but not. So I guess it's in one of the ones I'm missing, ha!
Wow. I don't think I've ever seen this one. Maybe it didn't make any of the collections...?
I know this is the ultimate cliche answer, but it's gotta be Sephiroth for me. The original FVII just caught me at that perfect time.
Spoilers ahead...
When you play through FFVII (the original, that is--I haven't played the remakes yet), you only just hear about Sephiroth at first. Then you see some of the carnage that he's caused: the President of Shinra dead at his desk and the super difficult snake boss piked on a giant stake.
In one of the flashbacks, he's doing freaking research. That sounds boring and bland, but it was a level of depth to a villain that most people (or at least I) had never seen before. In another flashback, Cloud as a new recruit is with Sephiroth, and the difference in power is incredible. Sephiroth makes child's play of this enormous dragon.
The final battle(s) is fantastic, and his theme song--hinted at throughout the game by Uematsu's classic score--is iconic. Phallic imagery aside, the Masamune blade is simple but super cool. And he freaking kills Aerith?! Can he do that?! A friend of mine stopped playing the game for weeks after he got to that part.
A lot of these things are super common in games now, and I know there are several games before FFVII that had characters with this amount of depth (FFVI comes to mind), but Sephiroth is just the coolest, man!!
It looks like there's nothing I can say to make you see, but even accounting for inflation, the cost of living has been outpacing wages for decades! That's why the average US worker in the 1950s could support a home with their wages alone, but today, two people working full-time jobs still can't afford a home.
That's because the cost of living has been outpacing wages.