AstroStelar

I've played the sequel series Mega Man Star Force instead, but am familiar with common discourse about Battle Network. The short answer is that you'll love it the more you play.

The netbattling is consistently solid, but the first game is a bit bare-bones on that front. It almost always improves with each new entry. Starting in MMBN2 there are transformations that become more interesting with each sequel. Some overworld sections can be annoying or padded out, particularly in 2. The story is cheesy for the most part, but it has impactful moments too. Heads-up, BN2's story is, uh, much more off the rails than the rest and weird and insensitive at times. Also don't try to 100-percent BN4, not worth it. BN3 is most often considered to have the best story.

Also, please check out the Star Force series some day! It has some of the best writing in the franchise and it was woefully underappreciated back in the day because of its altered battle system.

Also Mega Man Zero, a game about joining a robot resistance against a human-supremacist government that's genociding Reploids to solve a post-apocalypse energy crisis. Zero does fall into being a badass sigma male archetype a la John Wick and that's probably all they go off of

What is BMF? It seems to be a Hexbear inside joke and I don't get it

To me she just seemed to be scratching her nose, or maybe I'm just naive. I think the staff was already moving in place before she did it, Trump had already gestured the press to the door. How she glanced at him is a little suspicious, but I don't want to jump to conclusions.

As of 2024, China was responsible for 64 percent of the world’s utility-scale solar and wind construction, with 339 gigawatt hours of renewable energy infrastructure in the works

Mixing up power and energy :pain:

The source they cite says "339 GW" ffs

The CEO of Ford has this exact car to get a feel for the Chinese competition, as he puts it, and he loves it

From Wikipedia (emphasis added):

Revisionist Zionism is a form of Zionism characterized by territorial maximalism. Revisionist Zionism promoted expansionism and the establishment of a Jewish majority on both sides of the Jordan River. Developed by Ze'ev Jabotinsky in the 1920s, this ideology advocated a "revision" of the "practical Zionism" of David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann which was focused on the settling of Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) by independent individuals. Differing from other types of Zionism, Revisionists insisted upon the Jewish right to sovereignty over the whole of Eretz Yisrael, including Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan. It was the main ideological opponent to the dominant socialist Labor Zionism. Revisionist Zionism has strongly influenced modern right-wing Israeli parties, principally Herut and its successor Likud.

A rare reoccuring nightmare I have since childhood features me in a neverending storm avoiding and surviving a barrage of tornadoes, most being close calls and some hitting the area/building I'm in. I sometimes get them even as an adult.

Attack on Titan's fanbase has a lot of fascists in it who like the protag that goes "we must genocide the world to rid it of destructive Titans that killed my mom", which in the manga in particular is framed as just "morally grey". Together with sus statements by the author venerating a Japanese nationalist the series has been accused of doing apologetics for Japanese fascism and being a revanchist power fantasy.

As for Pewds, well...

always have been since 1776

See all the neoclassical architecture and Roman symbolism like the Phrygian cap and fasces in the seal of the United States Senate on Capitol Hill

a whitepaper more full of assumptions, assertions, and Despicable Me–themed hyperbole (“It’s time to steal the Moon” - really?) than actual technical details

next you're gonna tell me they secured funding from the Bank of Evil (formerly Lehman Brothers)

contradicted by empirical evidence

Anti-empricalist

Waiting for Jason Hickel's memoir now

If there is discontent in the United States, however, the conversation is not, When is China going to invade? Or, you know, We really hope Cuba starts amassing outside of Miami.