I haven't actually seen Suzume yet so maybe I'll end up agreeing with you. I'm not sure if you've seen 'The Garden of Words' but that is possibly my favourite from him, despite being very short. Maybe that's part of the reason why it was so impactful - the shortened runtime cuts out a lot of the more distracting plot elements found in his other films and leaves you with a very distilled and pure Shinkai film.

I did look on xda, but I missed this one because it’s in the OnePlus 3 forum and I only looked in the OnePlus 3T forum.

Yeah I only found it by following links from an older (closed) thread which was posted on the 3T forum. Very easy to miss.

The 5T still has official LineageOS support here. You can also get a microG version here.

I watched 'Mother, Couch' (2023). It starts off as a typical dry and quirky (in that indie film festival kind of way) comedy but becomes something quite serious and contemplative by the end. It is very open-ended by design, which I think put a lot of people off based on their reviews. It's also not funny in a mainstream laugh-out-loud comedy film kind of way, so I think that's another reason why audiences were so split over it. I think it's quite a good film though, definitely worth watching considering its short runtime.

Makoto Shinkai films are much more about the overall experience, rather than the details I think. They always have this very strong bittersweet/poignant element running through everything (visuals, music, story) that leaves me with this very odd feeling afterwards. Japanese cinema in particular has this wonderful ability to subtly convey very complex emotions to the viewer so that you get to the end of a film and realise you have tears in your eyes without really understanding how or why they got there.

On the bright side, your pile of shame is now so big that you can live in it and avoid buying a house!

Possibly, although it hasn't stopped people from doing it in the past.

Thankfully I have so many games on my Switch that I am yet to finish or even start that I have absolutely zero desire to buy a Switch 2 and deal with this problem. Never been so grateful for my pile of shame lol

We didn’t buy most games when I was a kid, we rented them.

Many people still rent games, for even cheaper then they did back then. Xbox Gane Pass and similar services are popular for a reason.

I like that there's an option to play the original version now. My problem with Zelda remasters is that they're not always a great representation of the quality of the game at release. This is obviously not an issue for most people, but when I'm going back and playing Zelda games I missed at release I like to judge them on their original design because that's how I judged every other Zelda game I did play at release.

The majority of their servers support port forwarding. "Only available on paid tiers" is a completely meaningless crticism, because a) you wouldn't use a free VPN for torrenting unless you were an absolute moron and b) very few VPNs support torrenting in the first place because it requires so many resources. If you want a good VPN with port forwarding, you need to pay for it. Nothing about this makes Proton VPN "fishy".

It’s a monarchy really

Yes, this is actually a much more helpful way to think about Trump's approach to presidency. Here is Dr David Smith from the United States Studies Centre explaining this in a recent episode of PEP (excellent in-depth American politics podcast from Australia).