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It’s why so many of the DC stuff is so boring. These are superpowers that have minimum viable characters wrapped around them. The only interesting thing that can happen to them is changing their powers.

I watched this movie, and they really tried to make it interesting. She starts as a total screwup and arcs towards greatness. But none of the motivation makes any sense and so most of her decisions come down to “if she didn’t do this the plot wouldn’t move forward.” Frankly, that’s how almost every superhero movie feels now.

I think the problem with this movie is that a) it wasn’t for kids and b) it wasn’t for manchildren who wear clothes with Batman logos on them. Not a lot of market left after that.

Yes, the infamously radical left wing rag The Economist.

“We aren’t really being persecuted, but imagine we were? Wow, that feels bad. That bad feeling justifies anything we want to do.”

The conservative thought process in a nutshell.

The birthright citizenship case really made it obvious. Three judges straight up said “I will ignore the explicit text of the constitution if the right person wants me to” and they’ll do it again

we can’t just downvote it away

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That stinks. Solving out-of-game issues with in-game actions is a sign of a bad DM.

Give someone the power of life and death and they’ll start to equate attacks on them with attacks on the state which deserves death

A lot of the early (1789) revolutionaries were from the nobility and even the clergy. Many of the reactionaries were up and coming bourgeois who were about to make their way into the nobility. Sorry Marx, you got a few things right, but that one was an oversimplification.

The vast majority of the victims of the reign of terror were commoners. The nobility were underrepresented at the guillotine, besides a few obvious high-profile cases.

It appears as though Robespierre legitimately lost his mind at some point. He attempted to introduce a “cult of the supreme being” with himself as high priest that focused on adhering to his own idea of virtue. Anyone not virtuous enough, which was effectively literally everyone else, was liable to be executed.

Early in the revolutionary wars, the revolutionaries had arrested so many people that the Paris jails were super overcrowded. Some people didn’t want the armies to leave Paris for the front lines because maybe all those jailed people would break out and cause trouble. So Marat proposed that they reduce the incarcerated population… by killing them all. September 1789 was a bad month to have been a petty thief in Paris.

So many of the popular notions about the revolution are distorted or just ass-backwards.

This sounds great! Except nowhere do they say how much one will cost, they’re currently in the “drive demand before campaign launch” phase.

I bet it’s gonna be like five hundred bucks. That’ll suck.

1. I’m really curious about the smoldering interstage
2. Recovery isn’t reuse (yet) but is a good start
3. Catching it with basically ropes and pins and stuff is probably a lot easier than the Starship chopsticks

Gamerant and all of its sister sites are just the worst writing on the internet. Shitty takes and shitty business practices.

These double-lobed asteroids always look so cool. Like, not that long ago if this image was in a science fiction movie I would have said ehhhh unlikely but here we are looking at them