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Actually, I just remembered the long history of settler well-poisoning in the West Bank, which is probably an even closer analogy to smallpox blankets. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/200...
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Hospital and water purification facility bombings seem to be at least within the same general region of those.
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Demeter attempting to explain to Olympus's antitrust panel why it's ethical for her to have All the Uteruses.
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It's people pointing, laughing, and grabbing popcorn over the Trump/Musk feud.
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Jedi and Sith exist because people want to be Jedi and Sith, and by destroying the Force, she would be doing nothing but blinding herself to the consequences of her choices. She has to face her own Malachor just as you did.
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The in-game counterargument to this is also interesting. You, the player, have to remind Kreia that this is exactly the sort of abdication of responsibility she despises. Our actions shape the world, and the Force is simply another, more profound vehicle for that.
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Perhaps the greatest gift Moonrise has given the industry is that Hiromu Arakawa likes reusing her character designs.
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Counterpoint:
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It does not, except for in a weird little cult colony on the galactic fringe who one day decided to make themselves everyone else's problem. They were extremely surprised and displeased when everyone else did not play by Robot Jox rules.
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Stomping around in a cheap station-legal Mirandan knock-off of the old Oni scout-walker because while it doesn't have the range or reliability of a modern city mech, all that armour plating makes you feel like a real man.
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Tacticool pseudomilitary aftermarket mods for the mid-budget sports rig you bought halfway through your midlife crisis.
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Hephaestus: Improves food via application of high temperatures.
Persephone: Creates food by slicing organic objects into paste at high speed.
Hades: Provides long-term storage for food ingredients.
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Excuse you, Hephaestus is a toaster, and Persephone is a blender. I suppose this means Hades is a fridge?
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In theory, it's a vital part of the market ecosystem - when a private company fails, you need some way to cushion the blow and turn the scrap back into public wealth - but I'm sure you can see all the problems with that business model as a form of private enterprise.
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The official sales copy is that it provides rich people with an incentive to buy companies and then leave them in a better (more valuable) place than they found them, in order to profit from the trade. In practice, it's just asset-stripping the vulnerable.
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Land of the Lustrous would absolutely not work the same way in 2D, although that's a story about posthuman gem-people, so it's kind of a special case. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fvS-...
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Hard-bitten warzone doctor with a journalism degree piggybacking off the invaders' drone network to broadcast her stories between shifts in the hospital tent.
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She stumbles back to camp several hours later, awkwardly introducing her new mecha girlfriend to the team.
The power of love is a curious thing...
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Suggests that ironically, Labour's favourite 'I would simply grow the economy' answer is probably the right one for 'why are you not spending more on defence'.
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I feel like this could be clarified simply by asking voters to put their top spending priorities in order. All this tells us is that they think defence spending is nice, but not as important as other stuff they could get with the same money.
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Similar problems with Japanese mermaids, although that's at least slightly more logistically challenging.
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Aralith Deepweb was exiled from the Obsidian Palace after the High Council became aware of her browser history.
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I dunno, I can absolutely believe that Burchill's transphobia is home-grown, given *waves vaguely at the entire rest of her career*.
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Also, when a Gundam director decided to do a mecha show for Sunrise with an arrogant, murderous bisexual woman as the protagonist, the monkey's paw curled and we got Cross Ange.
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Nah, he actually chats with Fa late in the series about how they're both growing out of their bullshit. He's much calmer and more philosophical near the end, which is why Scirocco frying his brain is such a cruel twist.
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The most terrifying moment in the show is when the protagonist ever-so-slightly raises her voice from her usual calm monotone.
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With a generous dollop of one of PP's own key inspirations (Minority Report) as well, looks like. Be interesting if they throw in some Equilibrium as well for the full package.
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Of course, a female version of Mikazuki from IBO would be the proper sicko shit.
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Nah, early Kamille. Boy was properly unhinged in the first few episodes, and mellowed out a lot later on.
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Especially since Dread Persephone does actually leverage her skillset to do nice things for the people she cares about - sometimes even successfully. If it's awful and it works, is it actually awful?
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I imagine another part of it is the classic antihero justifications - she's in an awful position in an awful world where being calculating, ruthless, and extremely violent is just how you carve out a place for yourself to survive, usually at the expense of horrible people and horrible creatures.
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Pretty sure this is a House Marik heraldry variant. I can see the FWL being pretty good about trans rights (except for that one little creepy fundie cult lurking in its shadows).
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Allison Pearson surely has to be up there in the rankings? Also Rod Liddle for a certain definition of 'in the country'.
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I enjoyed how every other villain got moments of humanity and redemption, while Sabertooth was just 'nope, fuck 'im, let's have Magik turn him into mincemeat with a deliberately sloppy Limbo portal'.
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Sabertooth looking feral and inhuman (especially compared to Wolverine) is damned near half the point of him. I can respect the idea of brainstorming different costumes for monster-Sabertooth, though, if the 'Iron Age barbarian supervillain' look doesn't quite fit your story.
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I know this is a joke, but my little spaniel really does appreciate when people leave water bowls at the end of their driveways on sunny days. It's very neighbourly.
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G-Reco has Klimton Niccini and his father, Zucchini Niccini.
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He saw that the head of the new Federation SS was called Jamitov Hymen and figured he didn't want to stand out too much.
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"We have such sights to show you..."
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Though he's an honorary newspaper character because the early strips were rejected for newspaper publication before being released in a comic magazine. The publication routes were very closely interconnected.
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Ayup, and that's true all the way back to the original Golden Age comics and the sorts of villains they included - Superman typically beat up the sort of people who you, the working Joe reading the paper, would have a problem with.
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It reads as a denial that adult readers/viewers could enjoy light, campy entertainment as much as kids do, and makes them feel less secure in their appeal than their inspirations.
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I would argue that Superman and similar comics of its generation were more intended as all-ages entertainment rather than being specifically for children (which was why they were published in newspapers). That's an important aspect that 'for grown-ups' versions miss.
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I think that the film's trying to make some vague point about Superman not really being there yet as a superhero, but it doesn't take the next step of going into what that means and why it matters. Perhaps that was intentional setup for Batman vs Superman, but if so... eeesh.
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Provided, of course, that Wolverine is also wearing his classic outfit, because half the point of this one is serving as a warped mirror of that one.
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I feel like that's sort of true, but only half the story, given that every single film he does is in various shades of either silver or bronze. The Justice Leage Snyder Cut is damned near monochrome. It's less a narrative tool and more his default.
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Why. Why is the lighting so drab.
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Yeah, but even those are still held back by the aversion to colour, especially since they're supposed to be about adventure and wonder. Ye gods, man, this is a superhero movie. You can use more than just silver and bronze.
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Compare, say, the big Hong Kong fight in Pacific Rim, which has a clear flow and narrative and manages to be prettier and more colourful despite being set in a rainstorm at night.
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The action scenes are broadly comprehensible (you can tell who is punching who), but the storytelling within them is weak. Not much characterisation/plot, too much destruction for the sake of destruction. Also, they (like everything else in the movie) are let down by Snyder's hatred of colour.