Too depressing and a whole other genre.

Also, everything is CGI.

It isn’t, they did a shitload of stopmotion for all the monsters.

Black already has a white square queen too.

The funny part is when those texts included “prophecies” of what that guy planned to do, but then he fucking died, and a few hundred years later, the people were like “oh those prophecies? Yeah no, they’re for… this guy here! See, it was all true.”

I mean, France does eat cheese, that part is accurate.

“Cheese eating surrender monkeys” was a well-known insult during the 2000’s for several years after France refused to help the US attack Iraq. The whole freedom fries period.

A prison for zionists and ICE officers “doesn’t look good”?

He didn’t die because of the coma, he died of starvation! Because he couldn’t eat, because he was in a coma.

Same when you have AIDS, you don’t die of AIDS, you die of the smaller infections that would never have killed you if you didn’t have AIDS in the first place, we all know it’s AIDS that killed you. Doctors aren’t dumb, they know that the cause is the drug that put him in the state that caused him to drown. He wouldn’t have drowned without the drug. That’s why drowning is a secondary cause, the drug is still the first. Like when you get drunk and pass out in a puddle and drown, the cause of death is alcohol, by means of drowning.

If somebody is drunk driving and crashes and kills themself, I don’t think we’d report alcohol toxicity as the primary cause of death.

It is literally drunk driving. Well, crashing while under the influence.

Not to be unnecessarily mean to the dead guy, but you have to be pretty stupid to do a large amount of a drug that is very well known to make you pretty much unconscious while in a body of water.

I see you have no concept of addiction.

They went that hard also specifically because of the culture they had been boiling themselves into for a thousand years - life and death, hierarchy, the complete lack of value for an individual life, especially if they’re not nobility. They were doing that to themselves first with spears and swords and bows, and then when the outside world forced them to modernize, they took the guns and the chemical crap and did that to everyone around them. And they were good at disregarding all human life. At the very beginning, it’s the result of this culture they locked themselves in, where death and life lost value (thanks Buddhism, also a way to cope with what the powerful were doing to the poor); their history with Korea and China a thousand years ago then with Europe and the US is just a thing that happened to them on top of that.

The isolationism part, both 1300 years ago and 400 years ago, was adopted because lots of war was happening on the mainland that caused a lot of people to flee to Japan, and then because Europe was pushing religion. Isolation was not an unfair conclusion, if heavy-handed. Xenophobia is bad, isolationism is bad, being victimized and invaded is bad, militaristic culture is bad, religious extremism is bad, but I don’t know if you can pinpoint it on one thing. It all just came down to a really bad mix.

Europeans do not want their countries to be flooded with migrants.

Far right parties love to say that even when there are no migrants flooding them.

Kinda. Japan did have some long standing bad blood with Korea and China before that - but we’re talking a thousand years before. Centuries during which Japan pushed on its own internal war culture. Isolation did help a lot with that attitude, but here we’re talking about the period immediately after Europe shattered Japan’s glass bottle, so this particular forced opening was actually really really bad. Then they modernized and went on a rampage.

They started with some mild xenophobia because of chaotic immigration a thousand and a half years ago, fought off an invasion that pushed them further in, then Buddhism broke its way in, then Japan went full isolationism for 250 years, then the outside world broke that and caused further xenophobia, and that’s how this ended. So it’s more like they tried to quell one down with the other, and when the outside forced its way in with humiliation, they lashed out.

The question is, who is allowed to point out that RFK is a mass murdering liar, without opening the way for someone to declare that Sanders is a liar. Would a board of doctors, however big, have the authority to demote and lock up RFK? Do they file a complaint to a higher court that the Supreme Court will throw away? You’d have to revamp a lot of shit like not having the top court in the country be nominated by the president and such.

Salvatore Ganacci in City of the Wolves, yeah, but he was actually pretty good and funny. Ronaldo was trash though.

Aside from the obvious “the audience we’re targeting will attach more to a 15 year old detective or 13 year old world saving hero”

Things like school settings mean an easy way to introduce as many characters you want to come up with, and at the same time, force them to socialize, so that’s an infinite pool of plotlines to throw in, for starters. For another, this age range also means you’re dealing with a population that is likely to stir up drama because they don’t have the tools to handle various issues, they’re more vulnerable to new emotions - this one is still valid outside of the school setting for fantasy or mystery settings. In your late 20s and your 30s, you’re expected to be more set in your ways, not learn new things, be less of a social disaster, and also not have any way to meet new people outside of the company you work at (which is why that’s the other popular slice of life setting). Don’t worry about how adults can still be plenty of a mess either way, but the target audience doesn’t care about that either.

Check out the OG Star Fox boxart on SNES, it’ll look familiar. Both US and Japanese versions.

Ministers and senators yeah, presidents no.

That’s the point, they have no incentive to abuse it - also it’s mostly an advisory position, saying “nope, this law you’re trying to pass is unconstitutional, this line can’t stay”. They don’t actually do anything themselves, and I’ve never heard of a case of someone trying to bribe them to reject something.

This has been the proper phrasing since the beginning of police and newspapers.

That’s the oldest story of a human hero, there’s more in myths and cult practices that’s just straight up all of that. The cult of Inanna / Ishtar had non binary people, men taking the role of female mourners and singers (gala / kalu), passive males “whose maleness Ishtar turned female” and “effeminate” cultic personel, women taking male military roles, women given a “spear” by Ishtar (kurgaru or ursal, literally man-woman), male palace attendants for the female quarters (presumed to be castrated but not necessarily), “childless men” / childless castrates working in administration, actual statuettes clearly depicting a woman’s body but marked with a male name in a female role… And then there’s the myth of Ishtar getting stuck in the underworld in which the only being that is able to go free her from Ereshkigal is Asu-shu-namir, neither male nor female. While they escape, Ereshkigal curses the non-binary to always be in the shadow, an outcast, subject of suspicions, but Ishtar counters the curse with a blessing that they’ll be a wise healing prophet (pointing to the people in her cult). We’re talking from the Sumerian period, to Old Babylonian period, all the way to Neo Babylonian period, from before 2200 BCE to after 800 BCE.

By the way, the Inanna / Ishtar cult, goddess of love and war, was the most popular, universal (present in basically all cities), long-lasting cult of the Mesopotamian civilization.

No no, close enough.