I've played Midsword countless times, but it's only now that I'm experiencing Siegfried and Percival both surviving a turn and then charging into battle the next.
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Every day, you interact with unpleasant people in order to earn money, which you then use to buy the things you desire (99% of which are useless trinkets and knick-knacks) or at least just to avoid being thrown onto the scrap heap of life and dying of hunger. The cost of living is constantly rising, and work takes up all your time. At some point, you realize that all you do is work for food, transportation, and a vague prospect. Some people are not satisfied with a standard salary, so they go into "business" - they invest in an unreliable startup, and if you're doing too well, there will always be someone who brings you back down to earth, and you can't do anything about it.
No matter how good and hardworking you are, 90% of it is determined by chance. Put in all your effort, and you still won't be able to overcome the son of a prosecutor or protect yourself from life's misfortunes. By the way, while you're working like a dog to make ends meet, earn money, and try to achieve some kind of happiness in the chaotic game of life, someone else simply buys whatever they want, including that girl you wanted to marry. They can afford it. By the way, if you were not born on the right side of the world, you are by default not fully-fledged, and you will never achieve the same level of life or consumption as those who are luckier.
And somewhere there, on the benches near the entrance, sits society - a poor, starving rabble that loves to gossip about this and that, flatter each other, or criticize those who do not fit into its paradigm. It has no money, it doesn't know how to hustle, it doesn't know how to plan and live within its means, it's just a cheap worm, living off handouts from its government. Therefore, it is extremely happy with any cheap gifts, and for each one, it gladly sits down with a bottle and drinks deeper and deeper, closing its eyes to the fact that it is not even considered a human being, and all the decisions made from above are primarily aimed at interacting with a very small group of billionaire fat cats who support this scheme with their money. Sometimes the plebs think that something is not right in life, but the administration assures them that everything is fine, and they just need to be a little more patient so that everything will be fine.
So, what does this have to do with Shadowverse?