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  • Yeah. I've yet to see porn that was lit like the final season of Game of Thrones.

  • American-made PlayStation games were using X for confirm and O for cancel long before the Xbox came out. It's probably partially because X is blue and O is red; we don't have cultural context for the symbols, but we do have cultural context for the colors.

  • Technically, Thanksgiving actually celebrates the brief period before the genociding began.

  • Strange New Worlds is also a potential entry point.

  • It's not that the Darksaber felt heaver to non-Force-sensitives, it's that it felt heavier because Din, and Sabine, to a lesser extent, didn't feel worthy of the blade and was subconsciously rejecting it. It's a general property of lightsabers rather than a specific property of the Darksaber, but other blades don't have so much meaning and cultural importance making that kind of psychological block likely to happen.

  • The 7 to 10 migration was pretty standard. MS has typically supported a Windows version through the lifetime of its successor, only stopping support about the time the release after that comes out. XP was supported until 7, Vista was supported until 8, and 8 was supported until 11 came out. By the usual pattern, 10 should have been supported until 12 came out, not two years after support for 8 was dropped.

  • It won't work. LLMs work on probability. They'd have to be an absurdly prolific poster (probably at least a quarter of all comments present in the LLM's training data) in order for their spelling to get incorporated and not just tossed out as a typo. I've never seen LLM text misspell 'the' as 'teh' and that's an incredibly common typo.

  • D&D actually has mongrelfolk as a hybrid of basically everything.

  • Ah, so that's what happened to Hank during Instrumentality.

  • Playing as Emily in 2 is really fun. You have the option to ignore stealth, go all out with your powers, and still not kill anyone.

  • Also, as far as everyone knows, Superman doesn't have a civilian identity. It's pretty public knowledge in most continuities that his name is Kal-El, that he's a Kryptonian, and that he lives in the Fortress of Solitude somewhere in the arctic. Sure's he's in Metropolis a lot, but he also clearly has something going on with Lois Lane.

  • Same in Oregon.

  • I imagine Alaska being red is more about dying from the cold than the law.

  • That's what the old half-dragon template was for.

  • Romanticism of swords, in particular, also goes back an extremely long time. They're harder to make and more expensive to maintain than other weapons so they've been associated with the nobility, the only people that could consistently afford them, for thousands of years.

  • IIRC, a horse can output more than one horsepower in bursts, but can sustain one horsepower all day.

  • You should try chicken, tomato, jalapeno, and pineapple on a pizza.

  • The first Red Angel was Burnham's mom. The second Red Angel was Burnham, because of-fucking-course it was.

  • Narnia and Dune are so up-front about their messages that after a couple books it stops being subtext and just becomes text, so they're technically correct there.