Almost every aristocratic character who *has* a tragic backstory, has it happen or made worse by their world's veneration of magical bloodline powers.
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Almost every aristocratic character who *has* a tragic backstory, has it happen or made worse by their world's veneration of magical bloodline powers.
One bizarre example that comes to mind is Fire Emblem Three Houses, which, despite being a game from a franchise where once upon a time a mechanic existed encouraging pairing characters together because of their child's potential stats, understands this perfectly.
In reality, the question of whether eugenics work is irrelevant, because the true evil of eugenics is in what they mean for people they're inflicted upon.
Good eugenucs narratives understand that, and then expand from there.
There is an upsetting amount of popular media that seems to genuinely reflect the idea that eugenics are bad *because they work*. There are a lot of reasons for this, from distrust of power to biovonservatism to simple lack of thought, but it boils down to this.
Sara Kestelman's performance single-handedly transforms Kreia from just another awkward and corny Avellone mouthpiece into something more profound.
There are so many moments that *only* work because she exudes a genuine, grave sense of pathos. The way she delivers her monologues makes us implicitly assume "That's Meaningful And Important", because of how it's said.
Kreia's VA being Legit Very Good at a bunch of very specific aspects of playing that kind of character is the main reason she's as compelling as it is.
Don't worry, considering their history (especially recent history) with it, I'm sure Bungie shares all that antipathy and more.
Of course, that is a double-edged sword, because NK is *so* sanctioned it can just lob a missile in Japan's gener direction every time it wants to make a point.
The main problems for smaller states are that nukes and delivery systems for them are unbelievably hard and expensive to make, and that the nuclear club *will* form a united front and sanction you into poverty.
Not only America, to be fair. Ukraine's example shows that no assurance of safety will matter if a neighboring superpower decides "you know what, I'd like to get some of your land, as a treat". Especially if it's the party that gave the assurances in the first place.
kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it
Anyways.
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Appreciate the clarity
Well, there's a *third* driver in the works, maybe it'll work better.
Like I can't stress this enough, if you have a second drive for games, do *not* play fuck fuck games with the linux ntfs driver, reformat it too.
It's *recommended* you do. Linux has 2.5 ntfs drivers, and all of them are dogshit.
An important note: while *games* mostly work on Linux, because Valve spends a *lot* of money paying people who make Proton and the parts it's built from, *apps* are another story entirely. Depending on what you use day-to-day, this might be either an inconvenience or an intractable problem to you.
Proton is a part of Steam. If you can install Steam on a distro (you can on most of them, the question is almost always "with how much effort").
For non-Steam games, you can use apps called Lutris and Bottles which also manage the Win-to-Linux machinery for you.
An image of Lae'zel caressing the Gith egg with the caption "My child will not be allowed to use chat gpt. He will be smarter and stronger than the other children and he will kill them easily."
Nerds have been going woo year of the Linux desktop forever. Satya Nadella is actually doing something about that and deserves respect.
Antisemitism *is* the socialism of fools, after all.
Danny devito in always sunny stating "you would have to be a real low life piece of shit to be proud to be an American."
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays
Russian Federation is, sadly, not even a contender at this point. We have phased out Proton despite being unable to replace it and are barely hanging on to our ability to launch Soyuz. Our space program is a disaster.
...USSR still lost though, because there's no more USSR. And a number of its small losses along the way have roots in, among other things, the fundamental problems that did it in.
I don't think America won because the overall space race will never be over, unless we catch Kessler Syndrome or the planetdeath disease, at which point we all fucking lose.
My opinion on the whole thing is that the concept of the space race is inherently stupid. And also that it'll be ongoing for as long as we can launch things into space, but the USSR lost it by ceasing to exist.
cant.stop.laughing
AI couldn't make this