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BioWare Is Dead — And It Died Years Ago. Stop Mourning a Corpse You Never Actually Knew. Let me say the thing that apparently nobody on the internet wants to say out loud: the BioWare that got shut down is not the BioWare you loved. It's not even a distant cousin. It's a ship of Theseus that replaced every plank, every beam, and the entire crew, then slapped the old name on the hull and sailed it into an iceberg. So when I see people posting weepy tributes, "end of an era" threads, and "gaming will never be the same" takes, all I can think is: which era, exactly? Because the era you're mourning ended somewhere around 2012, and most of the people crying about it were still in diapers when it happened, or at least acting like it. The People Who Made Those Games Great Are Long Gone. This is the part that everyone conveniently memory-holes. The Mass Effect trilogy and the original Dragon Age games weren't magic. They were made by specific, talented, passionate human beings and basically all of them walked out the door years ago, some of them practically chased out. Writers, designers, directors, composers. The people who actually understood what made those games work bailed on this studio and moved on to other projects, and a bunch of them started their own studios because they wanted to make the kinds of games BioWare stopped letting them make. What's left is a corporate husk wearing a legacy brand like a skinsuit. The logo is the same. The output is not. The New Mass Effect Was Going to Ruin the Franchise Anyway. And here's the spicy part: the cancelled Mass Effect? Good riddance. Who gives a shit. We all know exactly how that was going to go, because we just watched the dress rehearsal. Dragon Age: The Veilguard didn't just fail to live up to the legacy, it took a steaming dump on it, sanded off everything that made the IP distinctive, and handed back a sanitized and insufferable DEI woke lecture, a quippy little theme park version of a world that used to have teeth. That was BioWare's current creative ceiling. That's the studio that was going to steward Mass Effect. The best possible outcome for that franchise was for the next game to simply never come out, because a bad Mass Effect doesn't just disappoint you for a weekend, it retroactively contaminates the good ones. It becomes the thing you have to explain away. It becomes canon. It becomes the most recent thing the franchise said. A cancelled game is a mystery. A bad game is a scar. Meanwhile, the Actual Talent Is Making Something Better. The people who made Mass Effect good in the first place, a whole crew of them are making EXODUS, and it looks absolutely incredible. Not "incredible for a crowdfunded spiritual successor," not "incredible considering the budget." Just incredible, full stop. Better than anything BioWare had cooking, and it's not close. The proof is right there: the talent didn't evaporate, it relocated. It just didn't relocate at BioWare, because BioWare stopped being a place talent wanted to be. Which is the whole point. If you want the real successor to Mass Effect, you don't wait for the logo. You follow the humans. The logo has been coasting on borrowed credibility for over a decade. I'm Not Sad. I'm Delighted. I give zero shits about BioWare closing. Less than zero. I'm actively happy about it. Ecstatic. The bill came due and it's time to pay up. This isn't a tragedy, it's a foreclosure on a house that's been structurally unsound since the Obama administration and has been rented out to strangers ever since. I want the same thing to happen to a whole list of other studios coasting on ancient goodwill: Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Ubisoft, Halo Studios, The Coalition, and plenty more. Every one of them is a name trading on a reputation its current staff didn't earn. Ubisoft especially that one's not even controversial, that's just overdue. But Naughty Dog hasn't made the game people think it makes in over a decade, Insomniac is a Marvel content mill now, and Halo Studios is a name change pretending to be a fresh start. The pattern is always identical: beloved studio → founders and key talent leave → brand gets acquired or hollowed out → mediocre sequel →preformative surprise when the next one's worse → "end of an era" posts. Wash, rinse, repeat. At some point you have to stop being surprised. The Lamenters Are Ignorant and Blind. So yeah, the people crying about BioWare's death are, almost without exception, people who never actually checked who was still there. They see the logo and feel a feeling. They're mourning a vibe, a memory, a version of the studio that stopped existing before some of them even had a Steam account. And they'll do it again next time, and the time after that, because they refuse to learn the single most basic lesson of this industry: studios are not the people, and the name on the box is not a promise. BioWare is dead. It's been dead. The shutdown is just the paperwork catching up to reality. Light a candle if it makes you feel better, but be happy. This is the good outcome. The talent got out alive, and they're building something better while the corpse finally gets buried.

Man, I am REALLY enjoying Onimusha: Way of the Sword! The combat is great, Musashi is a genuinely likable character, and honestly, pretty much everyone in the game is likable. The story has really grabbed my attention, the villain is just an evil bastard and not another misunderstood bad guy we're supposed to feel sorry for, and the female characters aren't a bunch of insufferable feminist girlbosses. It's just a GOOD game. A FUN game. And that's really all I want! THIS is how you bring back an old video game franchise! Meanwhile, Gears of War: E-Day completely crapped the bed in that regard, as have so many other games from Western AAA studios. I personally think Capcom is hitting it out of the park this year. Resident Evil Requiem, Pragmata, and now Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Just fantastic stuff! And with the news about BioWare shutting down, I can't say I have even an ounce of sympathy for the company. NONE. The Western AAA gaming industry has been making terrible decisions for YEARS, and now they're dealing with the consequences. I feel for the individual developers caught up in the layoffs, but as far as these companies and their leadership are concerned, they brought this on themselves. Meanwhile, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese studios are absolutely KILLING IT! More and more, those are the developers I'm actually excited about. And speaking of which, I was SO relieved to hear that Phantom Blade Zero WILL be getting a physical release next year. I've been waiting years for that game, so I can wait a little longer. I'm NOT buying it digitally now just because I want to play it sooner. NO DISC, NO BUY! Seriously, just give me fun games with great gameplay, good stories, likable characters, and villains I can enjoy beating the crap out of. That's all I'm asking for. 😂

So, some of you may have noticed that I've been pretty much absent from here for the past month. The truth is, I really, REALLY needed a break from social media. I've been feeling burned out by it for quite some time, and I finally reached a point where I just didn't want to deal with it anymore. Between the constant negativity, arguments, outrage, drama, and people constantly going at each other's throats over every little thing, it just became exhausting. I found myself spending way too much time scrolling through things that would only leave me frustrated, annoyed, or in a bad mood. And at some point, I had to ask myself why I was even putting myself through that. Social media is supposed to be something you enjoy, a place to connect with people, share your interests, and talk about things you're passionate about. But somewhere along the way, it started feeling more like a chore than anything else. So I stepped away. No big announcement, no dramatic exit. I just stopped checking in and posting. And you know what? It's actually been really nice. I've been able to focus on other things without constantly feeling the need to see what's going on here. I still enjoy talking about comics, movies, games, and all the other things I'm passionate about, and I certainly haven't lost interest in any of that. I just needed to get away from all the noise for a while. I'm not sure how active I'll be moving forward, but I do want to start posting again at some point. I just don't want to fall back into the same habits that made me need this break in the first place. Sometimes you really do need to unplug and remind yourself that there's a whole world outside of social media.

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Well, my fears were VERY well founded. Against every instinct telling me not to, I allowed myself the tiniest sliver of optimism about this, and that optimism has now been completely obliterated. 🙄 What Disney has done with Jim Cummings is absolutely disgraceful. Jim Cummings didn't merely happen to voice Darkwing Duck once upon a time. He ORIGINATED the role. He defined that character's voice for an entire generation and continued returning to the character decades later. The fact that he apparently even recorded a pilot for this revival only to then be replaced makes the whole thing even more insulting. And who does Disney replace him with? Mark Hamill. 😑 I'll give Hamill exactly the credit he deserves: he's a brilliant voice actor. I'm not going to pretend otherwise just because I can't stand the man personally. His work as the Joker alone proves how talented he is. But I have absolutely ZERO affection for Mark Hamill anymore after years of his aggressively partisan political rhetoric and his very public hostility toward Trump and his supporters. So no, seeing his name attached to this does absolutely NOTHING to soften the blow of Jim Cummings being tossed aside. If anything, it makes me even more suspicious about why this happened in the first place. 🤨 And yes, I absolutely suspect politics MAY have played some role here. I'm not claiming I was sitting inside Disney's casting meetings or that I have some secret insider knowledge. I'm saying that I personally find the situation suspicious. Maybe Jim Cummings is conservative. Maybe he's a centrist. Maybe he's apolitical. Maybe he simply isn't anywhere near as aggressively liberal or politically outspoken as somebody like Hamill. I don't know. But when Disney takes an iconic voice actor who was apparently willing and available, who had already recorded material for the revival, replaces him without publicly explaining why, and then hands the character to one of Hollywood's most outspoken anti-Trump celebrities, I'm absolutely going to raise an eyebrow. Disney hasn't established politics as the reason, so I'm not presenting that as a proven fact, but do I personally suspect there could be more going on behind the scenes? You're damn right I do. 🤨 And then there's Seth Rogen, because apparently producing Darkwing Duck wasn't enough for him. No, naturally Seth Rogen also needed to cast SETH ROGEN as Launchpad McQuack. 🤦‍♂️ Of course he did. The man apparently looked at a beloved cartoon that existed perfectly well for decades without him and somehow decided that what Darkwing Duck desperately needed was more Seth Rogen. I am so unbelievably tired of watching Hollywood celebrities get their hands on beloved properties and seemingly turn them into playgrounds for themselves and their friends. I don't want Seth Rogen as Launchpad McQuack. I never asked for Seth Rogen as Launchpad McQuack. I never once watched the original cartoon and thought, “You know what would really improve this? Seth Rogen inserting himself into it.” At this point, seeing Seth Rogen's name attached to an old property I love doesn't inspire confidence in me. It inspires dread. 🚩 Then there's Disney itself, a company that has completely exhausted whatever benefit of the doubt I once gave it. I'm tired of watching Disney rummage through its own history like a corporate grave robber, digging up beloved properties because recognizable IP is easier to market, changing whatever it feels like changing, attaching celebrities to it and then expecting lifelong fans to squeal with excitement because they recognize the logo. Recognition is not respect. Nostalgia is not quality. Celebrity casting is not automatically good casting, and replacing the man who DEFINED Darkwing Duck's voice with a bigger celebrity name does not impress me in the slightest. 👎 This whole thing has reinforced a lesson that Hollywood has spent YEARS beating into me: stop giving these revivals the benefit of the doubt. I'm done. Any reboot, remake, revival, legacy sequel, continuation, “reimagining,” or corporate resurrection of something I grew up loving is going to be met with EXTREME, AGGRESSIVE and UNAPOLOGETIC CYNICISM from me until the people making it demonstrate that they actually deserve anything else. I'm done with “wait and see.” I'm done with “give it a chance.” I'm done with “maybe it'll surprise you.” I'm done getting excited because Disney dangled another recognizable piece of my childhood in front of my face and expected nostalgia alone to do the heavy lifting. 🥱 If Disney wants my nostalgia, enthusiasm, subscription or money, then they can EARN IT. Until then, I'm expecting the absolute worst and letting Hollywood prove me wrong for once. This is what I get for allowing myself even five minutes of optimism. 😒

I've been wondering why I haven't really been posting much lately, and I finally realized why. I simply don't care anymore. I have absolutely no desire to comment on the latest geek entertainment news, Comic-Con announcements, trailer drops, casting rumors, or whatever manufactured hype cycle the internet has decided to obsess over this week. I don't care if Spider-Man: Brand New Day ends up being amazing. I don't care about Avengers: Doomsday. I don't care about The Batman Part II. I don't care what got announced at Comic-Con. I don't care what movie is "winning the internet." I don't care what franchise is supposedly "back." Nothing excites me anymore. It's not because I'm trying to be cynical or contrarian. I'm just completely indifferent. The excitement I used to have for this is gone. Every week it's another trailer. Another reboot. Another sequel. Another cinematic universe. Another "game-changing" announcement that's forgotten two weeks later. It's the same endless cycle over and over again, and I've completely checked out. I've reached the point where I see these headlines and my reaction isn't excitement, anger, or disappointment. It's nothing. I scroll right past them without a second thought. The truth is, I care far more about creating my own stories than I do about consuming whatever Hollywood or the major publishers are trying to sell me next. That has become infinitely more rewarding than following an industry that rarely gives me anything worth getting excited about anymore. It's a strange realization, but it's an honest one. I've developed a profound sense of indifference toward modern geek entertainment, and I honestly don't see that changing anytime soon.

250 years ago, a nation was born on the belief that freedom was worth fighting for. 🇺🇸 For 250 years, that spirit has endured — through sacrifice, courage, and the unbreakable will of those who refused to let liberty die. Today, we celebrate not just America’s independence… but the ideals that built it. Life. Liberty. Justice. Hope. Happy 4th of July from Paragon Prime. 🦅✨ Here’s to 250 years of freedom — and the generations still fighting to protect it.

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I watched the BATMAN Knightfall Trailer and it hit a nerve immediately. The moment I saw it was Rated R, I felt that same frustration and disappointment all over again. Not just because of this one movie, but because of what it represents. Knightfall was never some ultra-violent, gore-soaked story in the original comics. It was dark, intense, and serious, but it didn’t rely on blood and brutality to make its point. That’s what keeps frustrating me about these modern DC animated adaptations. They keep taking stories that were already powerful and compelling and then adding all this extra violence, harsher language, and unnecessary brutality that was never part of the source material. They did the same thing with Long Halloween. It’s like they no longer trust the original material to stand on its own. They think they have to “mature” it by making it more extreme, like darker automatically means better. And that’s what’s really getting to me. This doesn’t feel like an occasional thing anymore. It feels like the standard now. It used to be that R-rated superhero content was the exception. Now it feels like it’s the default setting. It feels like the entire genre is doubling, tripling, quadrupling down on this obsession with violence, cynicism, gore, and deconstruction. Every time I hear about a new superhero project, it feels like it’s another variation of the same thing. A Clayface movie that is almost definitely going to go hard into body horror and violence. The Boys. Invincible. Even Dispatch, a superhero game I’ve had recommended to me over and over, is drenched in M-rated content and cynical writing. I just keep sitting here wondering if I’m the crazy one. Seriously. I feel insane sometimes because I seem to be one of the only people who is deeply bothered by this trend. Everyone else either embraces it or acts like this is what maturity looks like. If it isn’t violent enough, edgy enough, vulgar enough, or morally gray enough, people act like it’s juvenile or beneath them. And I just don’t connect with that at all. It makes me feel isolated because I keep looking around for people who feel the way I do, and I barely find anyone. I feel like I’m one of the only people on the planet who skipped Deadpool & Wolverine because it was Rated R. Everyone else treated that movie like some massive event, and I just felt disconnected from all of it. Like I was standing outside of the fandom looking in, realizing that what most people want out of this genre now is fundamentally different from what I want. And that’s a hard thing to sit with when superheroes have meant so much to me for most of my life. Because every single time a new superhero project gets announced, there’s still this part of me that hopes. I keep hoping that maybe this will be the one that reflects what I believe superheroes should be. Stories about selflessness, heroism, sacrifice, compassion, and moral strength. Stories that inspire instead of deconstruct. Stories that actually believe in nobility instead of constantly tearing it down or mocking it. But over and over again, I get disappointed. And it wears on me. It’s exhausting to keep hoping and keep getting let down. What makes it worse is that it feels like the options are getting smaller and smaller. It feels like the only choices left are either hyper-violent, nihilistic, deconstructed R-rated superhero stories where everyone is broken and morally compromised, or corporate, hollow, preachy stuff that feels more interested in messaging than storytelling. And a lot of the time it’s both at once. That’s what makes me feel so burned out. Where is the middle ground? Where are the stories that still believe in heroism the way Superman: The Animated Series did? The way Justice League did? The way Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes did? Those stories shaped my entire understanding of what this genre could be. And now it feels like the industry has moved so far away from that that I barely recognize it anymore. Maybe I’m too old-fashioned. Maybe I’m too rigid. Maybe I’m just clinging to something the mainstream doesn’t care about anymore. But if that’s true, that hurts, because this genre mattered to me. It still matters to me. And watching it slowly become something I fundamentally don’t connect with anymore feels like watching something I love get hollowed out in real time while everybody else celebrates it. I’m just tired, man. Really tired. And more than anything, I’m tired of feeling like I’m alone in this, like I’m the only one who still wants superheroes to actually be heroic without all the blood, nihilism, and ugliness piled on top of them.

This article somehow found its way into my news feed today, which tells me I really need to do a better job filtering what gets thrown at me. But out of sheer boredom — and maybe morbid curiosity — I read the whole thing. The entire idea of “nonchalant relationships” is one of the most idiotic and emotionally backwards concepts modern dating culture has produced, and the fact that so many young people embraced it so willingly says a lot about how badly social media has poisoned people’s understanding of love and relationships. The idea itself is absurd on its face. Somewhere along the line, a generation decided that acting detached, indifferent, emotionally unavailable, and uninterested was somehow the “cool” way to approach romance. And why? Because some influencer on TikTok said so? Because some emotionally stunted twenty-something made a thirty-second video telling people that caring too much makes you weak or desperate? It’s mind-numbing. Relationships are not trends. They’re not aesthetics. They’re not little social experiments you try on for content. They involve real people, real emotions, and real consequences. What makes this so infuriating is how fundamentally backwards it is. The “nonchalant” mindset teaches people to suppress the exact things that make relationships meaningful in the first place. You like someone? Don’t show it. You miss them? Don’t say it. You want commitment? Better play it cool. You’re hurt? Hide it. You care deeply? Pretend you don’t. It’s emotional dishonesty being repackaged as confidence, and somehow millions of people bought into it. That isn’t maturity. That isn’t strength. It’s insecurity masquerading as emotional intelligence. And it has absolutely fed into the toxic cycle of modern hookup culture. Situationships, ghosting, breadcrumbing, emotional limbo, endless mixed signals — all of it thrives under this philosophy. Nobody wants to be vulnerable because vulnerability became “uncool.” Nobody wants to be honest because honesty became “too much.” Everybody is so terrified of looking invested that they’d rather sabotage something real before it has a chance to become meaningful. That’s insane. And let’s be honest about where this comes from. This didn’t emerge in a vacuum. It’s the natural byproduct of a culture obsessed with instant gratification, endless options, and disposable connections. Dating apps turned people into swiping profiles. Social media turned relationships into performative status symbols. Hookup culture normalized detachment. Then TikTok came in and gave it branding. Suddenly emotional distance became a strategy. “Protect your peace” became code for avoiding accountability. “Don’t chase” became code for withholding effort. “Stay nonchalant” became code for acting like a robot. It’s all so hollow. What’s almost funny is now we’re seeing the same people act like “chalant relationships” are some revolutionary new discovery. Like wow, look at this bold new trend where people communicate, show effort, express feelings, and care about each other. Congratulations. You’ve reinvented what normal healthy relationships have looked like for centuries. That’s what makes this so ridiculous. A “chalant relationship” is not a trend. It’s not innovative. It’s not some brave new Gen Z dating philosophy. It’s just what a healthy relationship is. It’s love without the games. It’s effort without shame. It’s vulnerability without pretending it’s weakness. It’s sincerity. It’s emotional honesty. It’s giving a damn about another person. The fact that this has to be rebranded and hashtagged for social media says everything about how broken modern dating culture has become. We’ve fallen so far that basic human decency now needs a catchy label to be marketable. That’s pathetic. And that’s my issue with both sides of this. Yes, it’s good that younger people seem to be moving away from the “nonchalant” garbage, but the fact that they still feel the need to frame basic healthy behavior as some kind of trend means they still haven’t fully escaped the mindset that created the problem in the first place. They’re still letting social media dictate the language and framing of human relationships. Love doesn’t need branding. It doesn’t need labels. It doesn’t need trend cycles. It never did. What it needs is honesty, courage, effort, and vulnerability — the very things “nonchalant” culture spent years convincing people to avoid. And the damage from that mindset is still everywhere. Maybe the real lesson here is to stop taking relationship advice from TikTok altogether.

This Conan animated series is something I’m genuinely intrigued by. As a relatively newer Conan fan, I’ve been diving pretty deep into the character lately—reading the current run from TITAN Comics, The Cimmerian books from Ablaze Publishing, and even going back to some of the old 1980s Marvel material. The more I read, the more I’ve come to appreciate just how different Conan is from the kinds of heroes I usually gravitate toward. What’s interesting is that with Conan, I can fully embrace the brutality, the violence, and the savage nature of his world in a way that I usually reject in superhero media. I know that probably sounds contradictory coming from me, but to me there’s a clear distinction. Conan isn’t a superhero. He’s a barbarian forged in a ruthless world, and that world operates by entirely different rules. The same goes for Red Sonja. I don’t hold sword-and-sorcery stories to the same moral or tonal standards that I do when it comes to superheroes, because the genres are fundamentally built on different foundations.

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So there's a new HE-MAN cartoon coming out called Masters of the Universe: Tales From Eternia, and once again Man-At-Arms has been race swapped. This is a direct consequence of what happened with the movie. People keep acting like these decisions are isolated incidents, but they're NOT. The movie race swapped Man-At-Arms, and despite some complaints online, plenty of people still went to see it. They bought tickets, talked about it on social media, recommended it to their friends, and helped make it successful. The studio saw that audiences were willing to accept the change, so why would they go back? This is exactly what some of us warned would happen. People said the race swap in the movie was no big deal and that it was only one adaptation. Now the new cartoon is doing the exact same thing. Whether people want to admit it or not, once these changes are accepted in one version of a franchise they often carry over into future versions. That's why the "it's just one movie" argument never made sense to me. It never stays just one movie. That's the part that frustrates me. So many people claimed they didn't like the race swap, but then they supported the movie anyway. Some did it because they were curious. Some did it because they grew up with He-Man and couldn't resist the nostalgia. Some did it because everyone was talking about it and they didn't want to miss out. Others convinced themselves that as long as the movie was entertaining, the change didn't matter that much. But from the studio's perspective, none of those reasons matter. They don't see your personal justification. They don't see the mental gymnastics people use to explain why this particular race swap was okay while the next one won't be. What they see are ticket sales. What they see is engagement. What they see is an audience that kept showing up despite the controversy. So now we're getting another adaptation, and Man-At-Arms has been race swapped. Why would anyone be surprised? If the movie had been rejected by audiences, maybe things would be different. If the people who claimed to oppose these changes had actually refused to support the project, maybe the studio would have gotten a different message. Instead, the movie was rewarded, and now the race-swapped version of the character appears to be carrying forward into future projects. This is how these changes become permanent. First it's "just one movie." Then it's "just one cartoon." Then it's the default version of the character. New fans are introduced to that version first, merchandise starts using that version, future adaptations use that version, and eventually the original version becomes the exception rather than the rule. We've seen this happen in other franchises. Once a studio decides a change works and the audience accepts it, they rarely reverse course. Why would they? As far as they're concerned, they've already tested the waters and gotten the result they wanted. That's why I find it frustrating when people complain about these changes while continuing to support the products making them. If you buy the ticket, watch the movie, subscribe to the service, and generate positive buzz, then you're helping tell the studio that what they're doing is acceptable. You may not like hearing that, but that's how corporations interpret audience behavior. At the end of the day, studios don't care nearly as much about complaints as they do about results. And in my opinion, the reason Man-At-Arms is race swapped in this new cartoon is because the movie already normalized it and proved there wasn't enough audience resistance to make them reconsider.

🎮 Well, the mainstream gaming journalists are losing their minds over Stellar Blade again. This time it's Blood Rain, and from everything we've seen so far, it looks absolutely incredible. 🔥 Honestly, is anyone surprised? 🤷‍♂️ We watched this exact same circus play out with the first game. Same talking points. Same pearl-clutching. Same desperate attempts to convince everyone that players shouldn't like something that clearly appeals to them. At this point it's as predictable as the sun coming up in the morning. ☀️ The sky is blue, water is wet, and mainstream gaming journalists are completely out of touch with the audience they're supposed to be covering. The funny thing is that none of this worked the first time. 😂 I loved Stellar Blade, millions of other players loved Stellar Blade, and all the outrage and name-calling from gaming media didn't stop the game from becoming a success. If anything, it just made more people curious about it. 📈 So they can keep throwing around whatever labels and insults they want. 🙄 It's not going to stop me from buying Blood Rain, and it's not going to stop countless other gamers from buying it either. The people making these arguments seem genuinely incapable of understanding that players care more about whether a game is fun than whether it passes someone's ideological purity test. 🎯 At this point, Shift Up doesn't need to argue with these people. 😎 They just need to sit back, grab some popcorn 🍿, watch the same failed narrative play out all over again, and enjoy another successful launch. 🚀💰 Because if the reaction from the usual suspects is this dramatic already, that's probably one of the strongest endorsements Blood Rain could possibly get. 🤣🔥