>>554147420
The heroes of Kuro

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>Trash in the Sky

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Let's hope for a revival of the old (true) Trails games.

With hardware prices exploding and set to remain high forever, or rather hardware being only available to AI mega corps and not consumers (see Crucial/Micron), the only way to play Trails games will be the PSP versions on a Raspberry, although these will cost $5000+.

The AI companies don't want private PC usage and data storage, because their aim is to provide a controlled, curated access of individuals to data, of course for a high fee. Just like people in WH40k are limited to like two square feet apartments and a daily ration of corpse starch, the peasants of the 2030's will have to pay fees for their 10GB of online storage where an AI monitors violations of the Online Safety Act, which will be punished by revoking access and alerting law enforcement. Private PC or data ownership will be a thing of the past.

Falcom, too, will be bankrupt; a just end for these hate-filled saboteurs who are committed to the mockery and destruction of the Trails series. When you force an on-screen walkthrough on gamers, the target IQ is of course below 60.

However, in this new digital stone age, Raspberries will dominate the PC market. One can imagine that there will be a new Golden Age of the Trails series, with people who are affluent and intelligent enough to handle a Raspberry discovering these gems.

The people who were old enough to experience the 2000's will be remembered as the information age's Greatest Generation, who didn't just have private gaming in their lives but witnessed 4chan, Falcom and anime prior to the Spenglerian decline into stupidity and laziness, including AI slop, phone posting and dumbasses who call random anime girls "waifus".

Like a distant beacon, the memory of this age of plenty will continue to shine while gaming, computer usage and the internet become the sole property of a few deranged and sick megacorps. Look at your PC, and realize it's your last one, set to die together with Falcom.

>>554147627
I don't like the Sky games so I am not poor

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For me, it's Towa.

>inb4 72 hours of the resident crazy screeching about SEAposters

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I told you! I told you focusing on the remakes was the right choice.
You see that Anon-chan? That's what I'm the CEO of a multi-trillion dollars company with a net worth of 10 millions, while you are a worthless nobody.

>>554147783
Don't worry there will be another "resident crazy" here in 72 hours after i get bored of rightfully mocking the shit out of you and leave or my horizon copy shows up

>>554147945
Ok ok just hurry up with the remakes

>>554147972
>engage in described behavior
>called out for engaging in described behavior
>admit to engaging in described behavior
Not even trying to deny your mental illness. Good.

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>>554147945
Fucking grim.

>>554148096
>called out
You pointing out that I'm attacking you for your race among other things is like thinking you were clever for noticing the fucking sky was blue

>>554147972
Don't spam the thread with your schizophrenia.

I’m surprised people from west are willing to play horizon knowing that there’s a cliffhanger instead of waiting for horizon 2 then playing it

>>554148190
>point out schizo
>yes i'm schizo b-b-but!
Haha, no way to undo your mistake of admitting to severe mental illness and shitposting intent. You are the schizo.

>>554148190
We need to ban SEA already. Or at least get flags.

>>554148173
funny how the numbers suddenly became unimportant the moment sky 1st overtook cs4

>>554148306
In some foreign language no one cares about speaking this probably made some kind of sense

>>554148301
Horizon 2 is many years away. No reason to not play now.

>>554148301
Most players don't visit this place and have no idea what Horizon's ending is.

>>554148173
Post the asian 1st numbers, too :)

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ACAB

>>554148372
Nice self-own, bro. You mald about imaginary Thai ladyboys and can't read basic English.

>>554148360
The numbers were unimportant the moment they were small and insignificant (which was always)

>>554147945
>losing to the remake
They're gonna push back Kai 2 even further now huh. God what a mess.

>>554148472
Shit English =/= Basic English
I get whoever you gave your life savings to for English lessons would've dome everything they could to convince you otherwise but it is what it is

>>554148378
Fair but hopefully the cliffhanger doesn’t cause them dread while waiting

>>554148385
That’s true, I really wonder what the reception will be. I think it will be mostly positive with the biggest complaint being the pacing. Everything else I think people will like though. Many westerners enjoyed Kai fan translation wise and bilinguals that picked up ps4 Kai in 2024 liked it

>>554148415
No need. The non-Asian numbers already BTFO every single version of any Calvard game. Kondo covets the PC market and has always wanted all his games on Steam, and that was with pre-Sky 1st numbers.

>>554148585
Passion makes a big difference.

>>554148641
This is coping and agenda driven

>>554148598
No way to save face now, schizo. You're mentally ill. In your admittedly short time here, you've engaged in severely schizophrenic and disruptive behavior. This is who you are.

>>554148656
I guess. Im still amazed he admitted the devs are demoralized from making Calvard. Usually you'd wanna keep that shit private lol.

>>554148713
Which number is higher? 2012 or 4874?

>>554148754
For real. How can they expect the fans to get excited when even the developers can't?

>>554148767
>which number is higher? Pathetically small number 1 or pathetically small number 2
You only care about PC because of your non-whiteness

>>554148853
>2.1k global psn ratings vs 4.9k global psn ratings
Which number is higher?

>>554148824
They need new blood or something. Or just stop outsourcing the writing

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RAPED and GAPED

>>554149008
b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but my narrative

>>554149008
Girl power......aieee

>>554148889
You mean asian region only vs global lol
And the numbers are still dogshit for both. Because no one but retarded children from financial and cultural dead end asian countries take steam charts CCUs the least bit seriously, let alone completely opt in user metrics

>>554149008
Why is this the only case in which the CLE version exceeds the EN version? It's usually the other way around.

>>554149142
Because steam is an asian majority platform and the game was a multiplatform global launch

>>554149142
CLE were giving thousands of copies away for free as a part of a promotion. That 14k should really be a 1.5k.

Why are Skyfans so insecure? :/

Kondo will never attribute trails survival to asian region countries no matter how much you post the steam numbers
You will never matter to anyone for any reason

>>554149142
Sky is actually very well regarded in China. It's seen as a classic.

>>554149190
Why does the western GungHo version, separate from CLE, Sky 1st have nearly 3x as high of a peak as any Calvard game?

>>554149242
Didn't Horizon become the best selling new game the month it came out? Sky didn't... Better hope Kondo didn't notice that...

>>554149242
Wrong again, was already proven that your useless number was asian region only for Kai
Which does nothing to make your numbers more or less useless because they already mean nothing
I would find it funny if it turns out you also pretend Atlus games flop while being orders of magnitudes more successful than any of these games

>>554149359
You mean in January, with no competition as opposed to release at the same time as Hollow Knight: Silksong, Borderlands 4, NHL, NBA and Silent Hill f? Haha... yeah, I wonder how Kondo feels about higher sales during busier months as opposed to lower sales in uneventful months...

>>554149324
You don't have to play 10 games to play First.

>>554149324
because its actually good

>>554149461
You'll have to back up your claims. Horizon has a record low of less than 500 ratings on PSN, whereas Sky 1st had 2k in the first day.

>>554149324
Because steam is an asian majority platform and the game was a multiplatform global launch
Non CLE peaks where SEA and north America overlap like everything else for a reason

>>554149475
So it really did become the best selling game of January... I guess we're going to see a Kai 2 AND a Kai 3 AND a bridge game after all! Thank you Rean and Van for saving Kiseki!

>>554149670
That's the thing. It didn't. Not even during an uneventful month.

seems like all the english pc releases have hovered around 2k peak with the exception of sky 1st doing more and zero and azure doing less than 1000 each none of them have really been that successful this argument doesn't really seem like it has a point, the series hasn't really grown in the last 5 or 6 years

>>554149582
You literally just backed up the claim yourself, thanks for doing that so I can just skip to calling you a retarded third worlder

>>554149741
The point is SEA wants to make the game that appeals to them look good by any means. There is no other point

>>554149648
Non-Japanese Asian players buy the CLE versions and the rest of the world buy GungHo. you realize we have language and region review data, right? kek
>>554149765
Nope. You're simply incomprehensibly stupid. You don't have the mental capacity to communicate effectively.

>>554150047
Concession accepted

>>554149741
The series sells about a million copies a year but that doesn't seem to translate into success for each new release they mostly seem to just sell about the same as always in the west. It's like for every new fan the series gains they also lose people who keep buying the new ones so it never really results in a net growth of people buying the new releases. Sky 1st worked out because it was able to appeal to newfags who had heard about the series but never got into it but for every person they can convince to buy all games up to the newest one there's just as many people who seemingly lose interest so you don't see that incremental increase in players from new game to new game that a growing series would.

>>554150047
>he was so quick to shit on the ps store review count that he didn't realize it ruined his own autistic rant
Loving every laugh

>>554150097
I'm glad I could shatter your delusions. Feel free to look at the actual review data and languages yourself. Your whole narrative hinges on SEA players buying BOTH versions of the game for the purpose of boosting the numbers, which would require a concentrated effort and multiple Steam accounts. Haha...
>>554150192
2.1k total global ratings for Kai, 4.9k total global ratings for Sky 1st. These are objective numbers. Separating them only shows how small the western demographic of Calvard players actually is. 400 reviews. According to your logic, the rest must solely be Japanese.

>>554150115
Sky 1st didn't "work out" by much. It's way too comparable to other games in the series with late ports, multi year long waits for translations and higher price points
I know a couple people that tried to get into Sky 1st but dropped it in favor of other things so I do agree that whatever entry point is getting used doesn't lead to higher sales for later (or earlier) games

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Jusis, all this "sails" and "bisniss" talk is boring me. Can we do something fun please?

>>554150115
People usually drop the series at either sky fc or cs4. It doesn’t help that there was a 3 year gap between cs4 and reverie that fucked up the momentum when there could have just been another 1 year gap after the pc release of cs4

>>554150442
CLE's been doing day 1 simultaneous releases in Asia for a while. It hasn't lead to impressive numbers on any platform. Up until Sky 1st, which blew up in every region.

>>554150281
All it requires is someone to buy the game in a language they can read. You already conceded that it's not just westerners that buy non CLE and you never even tried to dispute that steam is majority asian because even someone with a brain as tiny as yours knows that's a fool's errand so I don't know why you even bothered unless you think you're smart enough to talk your way out of this (you aren't)
Only concentrated effort here is you not just pretending piss poor player counts mean anything, but also that piss poor review counts mean anything when one set of numbers is just a more ridiculous metric than the other also ridiculous metric

>>554150798
GungHo Sky 1st has 3.2k written reviews on Steam. 1.7k of them are English reviews. 272 of them are Japanese. The rest are various European languages. CLE Sky 1st has 7.8k written reviews, only half in Chinese. You're severely delusional and this grand conspiracy of yours is something you need to seek help treating.

First just sold more in the west because Gung-ho ran the Japanese script through DeepL for a few more languages than normal.

>>554150980
Thank you for sharing more numbers that don't mean anything

Skykeks need to keep away from sharp objects and Sony's NA Playstation store

>>554151095
I just dispelled your last remaining delusions. The data speaks for itself. CLE is where your SEAnogs dwell. Europeans, Nips and Mutts buy NISA/GungHo. Thanks for playing. Better luck next time. Embrace the remake era. You won't get Kai 2 for at least 4 years.

>>554151215
The day falcom's investors start looking at incredibly small numbers of user reviews with the autistic fervor that you do is the day kondo can start getting away with doing whatever the fuck he wants

i wouldnt mind waiting so long for kai 2 if i felt like falcom were actually working on it but knowing that its probably not even in pre-production right now is bleak

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I think I'd like Daybreak/Calvard more if Feri, Quatre, and Bergard just weren't part of the cast and basically didn't exist. There's too many party members again and it's kind of a hassle when a few of them are just boring. I don't know why they keep doing this. Zero/Azure got it right and they just went full retard afterwards.

>>554151329
I see your shriveled up brain is now going on another irrelevant tangent when it can no longer form a coherent on-topic reply. Your cope was SEA boosting not only CLE's numbers, but GungHo's. That is not the case, as the available review data for both games, aimed at different regions, suggest. Now the number is just irrelevant so it doesn't matter anyway. You'll sit through remake after remake until they finally announce they'll be resolving Kai's storylines in a new, disconnected arc as a sideplot. Remember, it's just a game. Don't hurt yourself when this reality dawns on you.

>>554151540
the lack of self-awareness coming from this yn is astounding lmaooooo

>>554151540
>is not the case, as the available review data for both games, aimed at different regions, suggest
Things you did that proved this: 0
Intelligent things that came out of your mouth: 0
You can't escape the simple facts of steam or what your pointless numbers actually represent. You will never be treated as an equal by a native English speaker

>>554151760
I'm relaying objective information. You're emotionally denying reality. Lack of self-awareness, indeed. The /fg/ special. You see the source of my concern for your well-being.
>>554151836
Yep, all numbers are pointless. You know the cold, hard truth. It's a SEA conspiracy to boost the numbers, but in reality, we know Calvard is a success and the Sky remake is a total failure. We don't need any available metrics, only fee-fees. My fee-fee? Sky bad, therefore a failure, and Calvard the opposite.

Skytroons eating Ls? Must be a Saturday

Why is there so much tribalism between the arcs? I bet I'll even get a tribalist response to this question

>>554151974
Yes, we've finally uncovered the source of Sky's grand PSN and Steam numbers. There's a Southeast Asian conspiracy to make Calvard look bad in comparison. Sky didn't ACTUALLY have 20k concurrent players on PC. It was actually less than each of the Calvard games.

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Five (5) (V) (Go) (五) (ご) cute facts about Towacutest!:

1. She is canonically atowable!
2. She is mai Kiseki-fu!!
3. I love her!!!
4. Towacutest!!!!

>>554152024
>Why is there so much tribadism between the arcs? I bet I'll even get a tribadist response to this question
Scissors > shit > knives

>>554152119
>numbers
Review numbers* mind you lmao
We all know SEAs coordinate reviews on shit they like or don't like and then never shut the fuck up about them because no one else in the world really cares that much and just leave a review or a rating if the mood catches them (what normal people without gacha addictions do). You were on the back foot here from the start

>>554152691
No. Player numbers. Review numbers were brought up because we can parse them for language and country of origin. But yes, these are all fake numbers. All part of the grand conspiracy to make Sky 1st make Calvard look bad in comparison. We have to stop these people.

>>554151421
They finished the script supposedly last year. But that's probably the only thing they have done since it's not like writers have a lot to do with the remakes.

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think about it

>>554152024
There isn't tribalism, well at least not genuine tribalism
It all goes back to one specific poster that has a massive chip on his shoulder because Trails didn't go the way he wanted it to
This resulted in a lifelong goal of destroying the fandom and besmirching the series in hopes of seeing Falcom shut down

He cannot conceptualize that others might enjoy Trails because to him Trails died, and so if one is to enjoy Trails then he feels like one is asking to be mocked and belittled as one would have to be below his standards in order to enjoy a dead series such as Trails

Any time you see outrage being peddled, abrasive gimmicks being perpetuated or wars being waged he is behind it and using them as a convenient tool to make engaging with the fandom an unpleasant experience so as to drive people away from Trails

Unfortunately for him, his reach has been severely limited to 4chan, as he is not very intelligent nor moral so his act gets caught rather quickly on platforms that are able to filter him out
He might strike out every once in a while and attempt to spoil people on other platforms but ultimately he doesn't really achieve anything
He has been neutered and is more of a has-been bothersome poltergeist that still haunts /fg/ and occasionally leaves for /v/ when he meets too much resistance from the regulars here

All in all, it's just an unfortunate part of anonymity and all we can really hope is that his bitterness and anger will lead to a severely shortened lifespan
Until then, either mock his pathetic attempts at sowing chaos or ignore him as he has been reduced to a non-consequential fly buzzing in your ear

>>554152879
He's hellbent on denying dear Falcom's remake of Sky's success for whatever reason. That has to be tribalism since he hopes for the failure of one Falcom game but not another.

>>554152780
No, you brought up the reviews because the CCUs were contested and you don't know how to make an argument without waving some bullshit number in front of people no matter how small all your numbers are

>>554152879
This, the schizo who's angry Calvard has been aborted in favor of the new and improved Liberl Arc is a very sad individual.

>>554152997
Incorrect. >>554150980. They were specifically brought up to point out to your that your narrative of SEA boosting the GungHo/Western version of Sky 1st was schizophrenic.

>>554152879
And now he's going to reply to this post at least 5 times lmao

>>554152879
nice schizo rant skytroon

People salesfagging over a niche series that sells barely any copies is so fucking funny.

>>554152879
Reminder that the trigger for this individual's meltdown is Sky having very impressive numbers, acknowledged by Kondo himself, who suggests it not only did well, but did MOST WELL on that platform. That's right. An actual FACT has made this dude completely shut down mentally in rage.
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/trails-in-the-sky-1st-chapter-saw-the-biggest-response-on-steam-nihon-falcom-ceo-says-the-steam-demos-impact-was-enormous/

>>554153084
I'm not talking about what you claimed you were trying to do, I'm talking about what you were actually doing. I know what the SEA playbook is for making it look like there's a white English majority that lines up with them, this won't work on me.

>>554153402
This skyschizo would've called a 500 copy lead on daybreak 2 a huge win
He also totally ignored my accusations about shitting on Atlus games so he's probably a flopposter for other anti-SEA culture games like Metaphor that are 50, more successful than trails

>>554153453
You're talking about your schizophrenic delusions again, not reality, or you lack reading comprehension entirely. Either way, you're mentally ill. Actually the most deranged poster in /fg/ history despite your supposedly short time here.

>>554153604
Kai and Horizon have a 3.4k combined total peak. Sky 1st has 20k. Which number is higher? Oh, right. These are FAKE numbers.

>>554153425
>talked about the demo and user engagement
>nothing about sales
I've noticed how much you guys like articles from this site too, they're not as thick on the clickbait as gamerant but I haven't seen a single article from them that didn't have a misleading headline

>>554153402
Yeah, it's genuinely a riot seeing someone proudly post that a global release remake that should be the new entry point for newcomers... sold less than Atelier Yumia, the game considered a massive flop lol

>>554153770
https://dengekionline.com/article/202511/57153
>asked about which platform performed the best, he states PC did and that the demo had a huge impact
Haha, so not only are the Steam numbers impressively high, but the HIGHEST of all the platforms. Hmm.

>>554153868
Sky 1st's digital numbers are higher than Yumia's by every metric, though, and that game sold 300k in 7 days. Pretty cool for a Falcom game. Aren't you happy for Falcom?

>>554153992
I would be if you ever posted verifiable numbers for your claims

>>554153938
He said they got the biggest response to their fucking survey from steam users lol
It's time to give this up. Your Cambodian hovel will never be relevant to the direction of the series.

>>554153992
By digital numbers he means literally anything at all besides the sales btw

All this because Kai is doing well on north American PSN

>>554154174
Your MTL has failed you. Try again.
>>554154130
>>554154259
You'll have to wait for Kondo. All we have is Kondo bragging about the game's success on Steam and all of Sky's digital numbers being higher than Yumia's across all platforms.

Does it all boil down to Sky delaying Kai 2? Is that where this weaponized negativity comes from? Kinda funny you're posting in a Falcom general and with every post praying for a reality where they fail. Then you turn around and cry about people hating the series and wanting it to fail. Unhinged.

My asshole is bleeding, you did this!

>>554154368
Your precious automaton article says the same thing when you actually read it past the headline, this is not the time to hide behind Google translate

>>554154368
So you can't provide verifiable numbers? Figures haha

>>554154543
Kondo states in the interview that PC had the biggest impact by far and the demo is a big factor in this success. Must suck to be inherently at odds with reality.

>>554154665
You'd be more familiar with that I am. You can't get a complete sentence out without misrepresenting something

>>554154751
He says after spending several hours tinfoilposting about the SEA Sky 1st conspiracy. kek

At the end of the day you've both spent your morning on a pointless back and forth so I've no idea why you're trying to belittle the other guy for doing the same shit you did

Neither of you have achieved anything and now you're angry

Falcomsissies can talk about success once they have a game with a peak higher than 100k concurrent

>>554155028
You mean amused. We've encountered meme-worthy material here. Sky's not successful, actually. It's the product of a SEA conspiracy to make Calvard look bad.

>>554149324
>1st game of the franchise
>worldwide release
>multi language
Uoah, I wonder why

Vankid... calm down okay? It's not Sky's fault Calvard isn't selling more.

SEAbros... how could you do this to Van.

>>554154837
SEAs doing the same thing for trails that they do for literally everything else they have incentive to target is not a conspiracy, it's comedy for white folks most of the time especially when someone like you comes along where your whole identity revolves around it
I thought I made this pretty clear but the more you yap about user reviews and CCUs when they're as pointlessly small for these games as they are, the more the rest of us will just flag you as someone that engaged in boosting something yourself

>>554155324
Yes, yes. Sky isn't successful, actually. It's merely part of a grand conspiracy to make Calvard look bad because SEAcreatures can culturally relate to Sky. I'm with you. We need to punish the pesky conspirators. Van won, and they need to know it.

>>554155386
Your chatbot is generating redundant responses Zhang

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Cute and canon!

>>554155482
I already said I'm with you. Those pesky SEAmutts have gone too far. They made Van look bad, either by design or inadvertently by pursuing their agenda, and they and the rest of the world need to know Van won and continues to win.

The real irony is that Vankid is clearly Eurotrash, an irrelevant market.

Haha, I will have to get serious to deal with Southeast Asians... I will have to use *that.*

These exaggerated performative posts make me think there is some truth to the conspiracy desu

Our resident schizo really did not know how to deal with having his asian ethnicity called out did he kek
His posts are all basically the same thing over and over again because he only knows one way to say anything and you can really see the frustration in these responses

the autism levels in this thread are unreal

>>554155728
It's completely true, and I'm in on it.

>check /fg/
>unfiltered schizo babble
It's an average Saturday morning huh

>>554155804
I said this hours ago but these are just normal SEA antics. The reason why this board declined in quality so much over the last year and a half is because more of them moved in

Skybabs can't handle the bantz

>>554156065
I'd say unhinged shitposters like you are the primary issue this website faces. Here you are saying without a hint of irony that Sky is part of a SEA conspiracy.

>>554156104
You breathing is not a conspiracy

Why do all the white identitarian larpers post in favor of the openly anti-white arc?
Don't they realize it make sit obvious?

>>554156210
You've outlined the conspiracy and its purpose. To inflate Sky's numbers and make Calvard look bad in comparison. Do you think I'm a co-conspirator gangstalking you?

>>554156238
You see this is just yet another thing I can throw in your face. You will likely never understand this, but white people don't get insecure when they see cute brown girls or chink women with nice tits, we want to fuck them. Only other minorities that desperately want to be white think this way and try to peddle dogfaced asian women like that barefoot cunt from the French industry plant game to white people in a desperate attempt to fit in.

>>554156598
>True white people hate themselves!
>If you don't think you're inferior are you really white?

>>554156856
Haha, don't forget the rest of the context here. Schizzy's spent hours malding about nonwhites and their destructive purpose towards Van.

>>554156908
All to defend an arc that won't shut up about how whites are uniquely evil immigrants are superior at everything?
The arc that says nonwhite companies don't commit tax evasion?

>>554156856
The only reason you equate fucking other races with self hatred is because being nonwhite you only understand what being the conquered is like

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>>554157030
Are you checking your privilege like Daybreak wants you to?

>>554157030
>you only understand what being the conquered is like
Calvard is literally a white country conquered by nonwhites LMAO

Schizzy won't post his hand, by the way. Wonder why.

The more you spam the deeper your obvious lack of whiteness persists
No wonder you couldn't shut up about pointless user metrics for 5 hours

>>554157349
If only the schizobot had self-awareness, it'd find this post deeply amusing.

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>>554157231
Don't get infested with anti-immigration sentiment, whitey

nadia rizz

How frail must that guy's psyche be if he feels threatened by the sloppy inconsequential subplot of a niche JRPG series