Metal Walker! A game on the Game Boy Color, got compared to Pokemon at the time because that's what it looks like but the gameplay was completely different. You had to knock your guy around an arena like a billiards ball and hit enemies to damage them, setting up multiple hits and avoiding the enemies bouncing back at you and hitting you for free.

It's wild that they don't even pay minimum wage. They should pay more than that of course but it's another one of those ways that society is blatantly biased towards the wealthy without even the slightest bit of plausible deniability.

would be opossed to the idea of somebody who setting fires

Actually I'm thinking it's more likely that they got rid of him on the chance that he knows something about fires and the telltale signs of arson. Lawyers might not want a bigot but they definitely don't want an expert on the Jury.

Simply shower when you feel gross.

It doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the game's historical setting if they grabbed a reenactment group's flag thinking it was period accurate, though.

The original Metroid instruction manual - at least in English - refers to Samus as "he" throughout, so it was definitely set up as a surprise at the time. Still, while it could be better I still consider it subversive and cool and something similar happening today would probably still piss chuds off.

The ruling class isn't interested in emancipating anyone, but they recognize that feminism and anti-racism are popular and can make money, which has resulted in what you're talking about.

Building bridges through society would be fantastic, but I don't think it's possible without a revolution, because you would need to wield state power to force those bridges to be built over the course of several generations and all the power structures that currently exist would resist it.

Merriam-Webster disagrees with you. People have referred to women as a political minority despite their numerical majority for a very long time.

Some Like it Hot came out in 1959, and is about two guys who disguise themselves as women to hide from the mob. It did gangbusters despite not being approved by the Hayes Code, and is considered today to be an all time classic.

I'm thoroughly in the "there are good ideas here, but they were let down by the poor writing and direction" camp with the Star Wars prequels. Telling a story about an idealistic young space wizard turning into an SS officer while the Republic he serves turns into a dictatorship could have been great.

So, basically liberals.

Statistically, I'm pretty sure support for Israel has dropped overall compared to what it was before Oct 7. Even if there was a spike in support immediately after Al-Aqsa Flood the fact is the news from Gaza is consistently horrifying and the Israelis themselves are consistently bloodthirsty and no amount of mainstream media spin can change what people have been seeing on social media nonstop for months.

Compared to the eventual turn on the Iraq War, this one has happened pretty quickly.

Didn't Canadians explicitly reject it?

As much as I think a ranked choice system would be an improvement, I don't think it solves the underlying problems of Capital's dominance of all of society's decision-making institutions and it's really just something for politics nerds to fixate on that regular people don't understand or care about.

Such an unnecessary scene

Man this applies to like half the scenes in that movie. George wanted every single piece in the exact place they were at the start of ANH, despite the 20-year gap.

But have you considered that when it works it's really funny.

A wingstop order I like which usually works out to two full meals costs $20 if I pick it up myself, or $50 if I door dash it, and that's with Door Dash premium which I bought a year of and realized a month later was a terrible idea and the only thing I could do was cut my losses by deleting the app and not using it anymore.

There's a history to headshots as a cultural object that's kind of interesting. They rose to prominence when the mainstream culture's perception of the "self" shifted from the heart to the brain, and art correspondingly shifted from portraying chest wounds as instantly fatal to portraying head wounds as such. I would posit that there was a corresponding material shift as well, as weapons became more accurate and more able to kill outright rather than indirectly through infection and shock, the depictions of their effects changed in turn.

This was a bit before video games were invented.

Also not enough can be said about how bad the US' doctrine was during the war. For a big part of the Vietnam War our strategy was literally to just walk patrols out into the jungle to be ambushed because we knew that our artillery and air power (in the South, the North had their air space locked down) would let us get a lot of kills while our conscripts were being shot at, with virtually no plan for actually holding territory or winning the loyalty of Communism-supporting villages.

Oh shit maybe that's the motive!? Iran's new president wound up being reformist so the guy wanted to get the bounty before it was rescinded.

Yeah cracking down on Discord will just open up room for a foreign-hosted and privacy-conscious competitor to take over. As long as it's an American company the NSA and Co have access to everything they need as if they were running the app as a honeypot.