… To indiscriminately beat up anyone who’s not rich?

Git gud or leave but no complaining allowed okay bud. No, the difficulty being too high is not a different complaint, it’s exactly what we’re talking about. The AI, the room setups and somehow every bug being placed exactly where you’re jumping, the runbacks, getting killed in 3 hits half of the time even though you have 5 HP, getting juggled to death into a spike trap or lava as soon as the first hit despite requiring 3 hits to die despite having 5 HP, getting hit when you’re healing and losing all of it, every single stupidest bug requiring at least 2 or 3 hits to kill and somehow up to 6 or 8 for the bigger ones when they all dodge everything and you have garbage range, anything that flies especially, constant pixel perfect coordination in your jumps, the need to be alert 100% of the time between environment traps and enemies and always have the perfect speedrun strat, on top of the resource management, this is all one complaint. It’s artificially way too hard and there is zero learning curve and no way to tune it down, and it would be less of a problem if you didn’t lose all the resources you were collecting for an hour of doing that loop. Take off some of those or loosen some positioning and it’s already much less stressful - literally any one mod is a big help already (no 2HP damage, respawn near your coccoon…) It’s ruthless, it allows zero second of paying a little less attention, it’s on purpose, and it is not the player’s fault for not running back to a string station that is not marked anywhere. This is not a healthy game to play, and it shouldn’t be justified by saying it’s for players who want to get very good at every single screen of it and no one else.

You want to buy Shakra’s map? Too bad, that room is empty now for some reason, and you have no idea where to find the map now, you don’t know Shakra comes back to the shop area and can be called with that ring, and since you HAVE NO MAP you don’t even know where to go at all anyway. Benches and bellways, same, you CAN’T GO BACK or safely rest and create a checkpoint until you have the funds to even unlock them, at which point getting your beads stringed becomes useless because you just spent them. See that mask shard and/or the simple key and you think it’d be nice to buy in your first couple hours? Your fault for not wanting to keep going back and forth between the docks and the shop to make a string, on top of going back and forth to the farming room for an hour at 5 to 15 beads per run in lava for the Deep Docks, so that’s 500 rosaries gone the second time in a row some stupid bug won’t get out of the way but also reads your every input to dodge every single time you even look at them. And even the first time you die, if you had no bench close by and no map, good luck even getting your coccoon back. What I’ve learned is to completely ignore those big stashes and strings of free rosaries because it’s all bait that you’ll lose in a minute and then permanently the next minute (that Greymoor bird house trap and Moorwing are NOT in the refund window). And learning that didn’t make the experience any better. That’s the difficulty problem we’re talking about, these are not two separate things, it’s literally the whole game. On its own, dying repeatedly is not such a big deal if all you have to do is redo that one jump or even that one series of 15 perfect jumps (fucking Karnak), other Metroidvanias do that too and they’re not awful. It’s everything around it and the permanent pressure.

This game’s trap is that people who played the newer Metroid or Prince of Persia think dying repeatedly in a lengthy, very hard bounce-and-dash maze is not a huge deal breaker even if this one ramps it up to “every screen is a constant challenge”, but they don’t know they should also have played Dark Souls and some other roguelikes first.

Not a lot of those in a 5 screen run back, I just need one more try to kill that boss anyway, I swear. Oh shit, it has another move shit he’s juggling 3 HP off me at once aaaand I’m dead again.

And that’s not counting the unexpected “oops you’re locked now, fight these 5 waves of enemies, also your coccoon is locked in that room too, good luck getting your shit back” on your way to anywhere. If that’s your first time playing the game, it takes a bit to pick up on how cruel the game is and to start thinking about how to handle that. I’m not talking about people who already know the game here. That’s not on me, no.

Why drop rosaries when you get killed in 3 hits (for about all of act 1 at the very least) and come across a dozen enemies that bait and dodge every input you make and spike traps within a couple screens every time you die and you get killed a second time on your runback anyway

See: Israel, Hamas. Reuters: “this news camera is Hamas.”

What do you not understand about criminalizing anti-fascism as a concept?

I’m a bit confused, I’m not sure if you mean the US or the UK, because both countries have done that, and both lands have been populated with that same method as well.

In the US? … Obama? (In a very big nutshell) as long as you don’t oppose stuff like the Dreamers and Obamacare (which you shouldn’t under this definition)

By the way, I think this bit

Conservatism holds that if things are pretty good, most changes are likely to make things worse and not better

Is the biggest discrepancy in each person’s understanding. If things are good…for who? What if they’re not? If they are for 51% of people, what about the other 49%?

If you understand some stuff is good for you and some stuff is very bad for everyone else, do you block everything?

If only your situation changes and nothing else, do you switch parties?

You built up your very own definition of the word while ignoring what any political conservative movement in the world actually does. You listened to someone’s argument on the concept of a definition, an idea that was stapled to a word in your head, without actually looking at factual reality. What you describe is simply not what any conservative party anywhere does.

Starting with the idea that you are conserving something that runs well and not spending resource on frivolous nonsense that doesn’t work - just look at everything a conservative party actually funds while blocking money for anything remotely humanitarian because they claim it doesn’t work, or based on the slightest disagreement about a boundary, while being themselves the very reason it doesn’t work.

Look at what is actually protected. And at who isn’t, based on not giving too much to someone you don’t think deserves it. Do those who already have all that deserve it?

Starting with your environmental conservationist sensibility and deducing (edit: typo) that you want to be a conservative is already super wild, it’s antinomic. You think you protect something from greed and selfishness, but those who who block progress are the selfish ones who hoard everything out of greed, using “this doesn’t deserve it” or “you can’t prove this works” as an excuse to keep everything. You are not safeguarding anything, and there’s zero place for environmental protection in any conservative party anywhere.

Connecticut is Jewish?

You’re only pronounced dead at the hospital AFAIK (or by a doctor or something), so even when your head just explodes, you have to wait until the ambulance makes it to the hospital to be pronounced dead. Doesn’t mean you survived until they decided that chest compressions weren’t working.

… Chicken isn’t _vegan?

Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin were also written in the same period (14th to 16th c.) and are also heavy-handed that way. Romance pushes Liu Bei as the perfect Confucianist ruler restoring the Han glory (the same one that ended ultra corrupt and lived in luxury while everyone was dying of starvation from taxes and disasters), while throwing as much shit as possible on Cao Cao the reformer and usurper of the Han, and Water Margin starts with the first half showing a whole bunch of characters suffering from imperial oppression building up a large rebel group, only to turn around and have them say “actually all we ever wanted was to be part of the imperial army, let us beat up that other rebel group led by an evil wicked wizard and die to prove it” in the second half (which is actually the more historical part of it…)

Those are 3 of the 4 greatest classics of Chinese literature.

They call him tennou actually (heavenly king) but then when they were forced to open up, they heard of Napoleon and they thought damn that’s cool, we’ll tell foreigners to use that too.

Tennou has been in use for over 1350 years, and in the late 19th c. they thought their governmental subdivision (provinces) more closely matched that of France under Napoleon III I think (departments).

and the grammar squiggles damnit, they lied!!1

It’s just a colloquial thing, a grammar book will tell you it’s wrong, but people make up new words and meanings for long enough and things become commonly accepted and understood. It’s also a cynical use of the word, and the fact that it feels off is also effective in telling you that the meaning should make you feel uneasy - for this word we are talking about a fascist government abducting people and actually everybody knows what happened, after all. It’s perfectly cromulent, it doesn’t have to be Tiktok lingo (but words like unalive may very well become acceptable too).

There have been empresses in the (distant) past, it’s just that now they claim it’s no good. They’ll go back to it they really have no one else. Picking a different family is NOT happening, the Japanese line is the oldest continuous dynasty in the world (mythologically allegedly 2680 years, historically reliably something like 1400~1500 years and possibly 1800). It’s a living treasure of humanity. They’ll give up the system before they pick a new line, and they’ll pick a woman before they give up the system.

You might have confused the full universe with the observable universe.

Right now, what we see at the “edge” of the observable universe is where it was less than 13.8 billion years away, because that light emitted back then from that spot took that time to reach us. But those things we’re seeing have since moved away, and AFAIK they are now estimated to be 47 billion light-years away (for a total size of 94 billion light-years across), which seems close to your 1/4 number.

Hey that’s how I gained 40 kg!

The idea behind that theory that the woman was one half suggests that prior to the split, it was one being who was half male and half female, not one man from whom woman was created. Also, that being was the one made in the image of God.

It makes some people angry.

Enki and Ninhursag https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.1.1&charenc=j

Enki, Sumerian god of water and knowledge, goes around distributing his semen to various goddesses for generations, and attempts to get busy with one who happens to be his great granddaughter, Uttu, after posing as a gardener. Ninhursag, the mother goddess of mountains, says no and takes out the semen from wherever he splashed it, then plants it in the ground. Various fruits, trees, vegetable, grass, plants grow from the place she planted it, and Enki eats them - to know what they are and determine their destiny because that’s what he does as the god of knowledge. No kinkshaming.

Shortly after, Enki feels pain all over his body. Ninhursag asks where it hurts, and it turns out the pain comes from the plants and basically the semen is spreading inside his body. The top of his head hurt, Ninhursag removes the source of the pain which gives birth to a god of vegetation; a lock of hair, his nose, his mouth, throat, arm… give birth to multiple goddesses like Ninkasi goddess of beer, Nanshe goddess of the sea.

And then his rib hurts, and Ninhursag gives birth to Ninti out of it. Ninti translates to lady of life / lady who gives life, but it’s believed that this part is a play on words that would mean lady of the rib. The Eve of Hebrew myth is thought to have been inspired by Ninti.

I don’t know about versions of biblical texts, but the tradition that Eve came from a rib may come from people who were aware that this story was derived from Enki and Ninhursag. This myth involves a garden and stuff associated with the land of Dilmun, which was at some point connected to Eden. Plus Adam as a gardener eating the fruit to gain knowledge. Adam eats the seed of the apple but more like his own seed.

ETA: oh yeah, apparently Ninti “lady of life” literally translates into chavah in Hebrew meaning “to live” or “to give life” which became Havah then Eve. so Eve’s name also carries that play on word with lady rib, except it was lost in translation (I’ll just assume Hebrew for rib is different).