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The FPS wasn't the undisputed ruler of video gaming in popular culture until Halo, Call of Duty, and Gears of War took over the landscape, yeah. Sure there were Quake tourneys in the 90s but they were for nerds.
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The 90s are the decade of the FPS? Sure there was Quake on PC, but I definitely remember fighting games in the arcades being way more of a cultural phenomenon. The FPS' heyday as king genre of video games in popular culture was the 2000s with Halo and Call of Duty. Quake LAN parties were niche.
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Old enough to remember when this was the hot new thing. I remember the transition from DOS to Windows a few generations earlier.
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As someone who grew up Catholic going to Sunday School, this is absolutely wild as a way to study the Bible. Ours was about learning the stories and reading them in context (with a huge focus on the Earthly ministry and teachings of Jesus).
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Very polite of Mr. Miladin to state that God is on Canada's side here.
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The Trump v. United States decision basically declared the US presidency an elective monarchy anyway, given that it places the office as explicitly above the law.
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Canada's exported a lot of deeply terrible right-wing figures ourselves, we probably shouldn't be throwing stones. Steven Crowder, Gavin McInness (admittedly neither were born here, but they grew up in Canada). For the other way around, Ted Cruz was born in Canada but grew up in Texas.
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Props for picking something straight out of my childhood with this one. Not many Goemon fans out in the wild.
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This is a fact I am more aware of than I would prefer. Someday.
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The original trilogy was a metaphor for the Nixon administration and the prequel trilogy was a metaphor for the GW Bush administration. I was just talking about the Disney sequel trilogy meaning we lost out on a proper George Lucas Star Wars metaphor take on the Trump administration.
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Nobody, he's Ultraman.
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The Ultra series is perfect, yes.
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The Discworld quotes were why I followed this account in the first place. The rest has been a pleasant extra.
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The 2077 rules in the CEMK do a lot to spice it up (admittedly I play a Netrunner, the role that's probably been spiced up the most). We're due to get a 2077 setting book proper eventually as well.
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It's a really good product! My experience making characters for it, playing it, and running it got me to buy the entire RED line (and Cyberpunk 2077, once on Steam and once on GOG). You guys should feel proud of the work you did.
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That does make it a lot worse, yeah. And it was already bad.
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Joe Biden is also of Irish descent and is one of the USA's few Catholic presidents.
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I have not thought about Senor Cardgage in at least a decade. Thank you for the reminder.
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That one does open if I click Keep Reading but then it demands that I make an account if I want to scroll down.
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This assumes they think mothers need to be mature adults and not baby machines who have all their decisions made for them by a mature adult man. Notice how they're also horrified by single mothers and think a mom being the one who makes the decisions in her child's life will screw up the child?
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Clicking "Keep Reading" on any of these leads to a dead page.
And yeah, 1980s understanding of gender was pretty much you're either born into the body you have and happy with it, you're a crossdresser, or you're "a woman/man trapped in a man's/woman's body". Those were the understood options.
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Never said he liked being a girl more. That wouldn't really be "genderfluid man". By the end of the manga he generally prefers being a man with a male body, but he's perfectly comfortable being a girl sometimes. Early on in the manga it's something he tolerates for a tactical advantage.
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The genderfluid doesn't come from where he got it, it comes from how he adapts/adjusts to it. "Genderfluid man" seems like a pretty accurate descriptor for how Ranma ends up.
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"Genderfluid guy" seems like an accurate descriptor for that. He defaults to male but sometimes he becomes a woman on purpose.
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The audience for this post is small but I'm in it.
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I appreciate the N64 aesthetic of the one on the right.
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Is this from a real lawyer's guild? Beautiful.
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Wasn't this how rich Romans used to do it? Have their dick-measuring contests by funding massive public-works projects that would make the general populace like them? How do we bring that back?
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I was thinking of Monsterhearts, which came out after Apocalypse World (2012 vs 2010) and also uses PbtA. I always assumed the Sex Move stuff was something Monsterhearts innovated/added on to the base system for its subject matter and theming, but apparently it was already there from AW.
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Wait, the sex moves come from the post apocalypse RPG and not the one about playing horny horror-romance monsters?
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Is this just relabelled JRPG vs WRPG
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Players who get the joke think it's hilarious and great. Unfortunately, there's a lot of whiners.
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Is "woke fillings" their "avocado toast"?
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Gen Z has finally accepted the torch we carried throughout the 2010s of unreasonably outraged headlines accusing us of killing industries and beloved cultural touchstones.
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The outrage tourists who do this kind of thing are never actual fans of the source material. If they watched it, they certainly weren't paying attention.
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This website is what the Internet was meant to look like.