Governments are bootlickers, but this is polling actual people who fully know what’s up despite their government’s best efforts.

You can also see a ring on his ring finger, so that tracks with the pinky.

Sure, here’s the exhaustive list:

Every accusation

another box office flop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Powers#Box_office_performance

Budge for the whole series: $112 million
Worldwide revenue for the whole series: $676 million

I’ve never heard anyone but himself make that claim this one time about asperger’s. I don’t know why anyone would believe that.

Biggots are trying to shoot that down by making payment processor companies like Visa and MasterCard threaten to cut off Steam if they don’t take down evil, satanist, socialist games that recognize that minorities and LGBTQ+ even exist. Can’t shove that down the throat of good Christian kids.

Just LGBTQ+, I wasn’t talking about LGBTQ+ porn as separate from “regular porn”. I’m saying biggots will censor non-porn LGBTQ+ too. I am separating loli porn from “regular” porn.

Free speech for the maker of loli porn but not for the platform that has regular porn or lgbtq.

Examples given in the article are:

Historically, Valve’s policy has only banned games that are “illegal or straight-up trolling,” but that has opened the people running Steam to an endless series of subjective value judgements. For years, sporadic reports emerged of developers making anime-style smut getting ghosted by Valve – presumably for the genre’s association with high school settings and underage characters. Similarly, Steam took direct action to pull a cheap, trashy visual novel called Rape Day from the platform in 2019.

Fuck that article BTW, pretending Steam is in the wrong and the quack would have “saved them some headaches”.

I mean, France does eat cheese, that part is accurate.

“Cheese eating surrender monkeys” was a well-known insult during the 2000’s for several years after France refused to help the US attack Iraq. The whole freedom fries period.

They went that hard also specifically because of the culture they had been boiling themselves into for a thousand years - life and death, hierarchy, the complete lack of value for an individual life, especially if they’re not nobility. They were doing that to themselves first with spears and swords and bows, and then when the outside world forced them to modernize, they took the guns and the chemical crap and did that to everyone around them. And they were good at disregarding all human life. At the very beginning, it’s the result of this culture they locked themselves in, where death and life lost value (thanks Buddhism, also a way to cope with what the powerful were doing to the poor); their history with Korea and China a thousand years ago then with Europe and the US is just a thing that happened to them on top of that.

The isolationism part, both 1300 years ago and 400 years ago, was adopted because lots of war was happening on the mainland that caused a lot of people to flee to Japan, and then because Europe was pushing religion. Isolation was not an unfair conclusion, if heavy-handed. Xenophobia is bad, isolationism is bad, being victimized and invaded is bad, militaristic culture is bad, religious extremism is bad, but I don’t know if you can pinpoint it on one thing. It all just came down to a really bad mix.

Kinda. Japan did have some long standing bad blood with Korea and China before that - but we’re talking a thousand years before. Centuries during which Japan pushed on its own internal war culture. Isolation did help a lot with that attitude, but here we’re talking about the period immediately after Europe shattered Japan’s glass bottle, so this particular forced opening was actually really really bad. Then they modernized and went on a rampage.

They started with some mild xenophobia because of chaotic immigration a thousand and a half years ago, fought off an invasion that pushed them further in, then Buddhism broke its way in, then Japan went full isolationism for 250 years, then the outside world broke that and caused further xenophobia, and that’s how this ended. So it’s more like they tried to quell one down with the other, and when the outside forced its way in with humiliation, they lashed out.

They both walked back everything the previous movie did, I don’t know why you’re insisting that Abrams was involved in the writing for 8. Abrams’ position as executive producer on 8 doesn’t mean what you think it means, he only gets that credit because he did the movie before that as part of the franchise, it’s not always an active role.

The writer of 8 was Rian Johnson. He threw away everything JJ blindly set up in 7, then JJ came back for 9 and tried to revert what 8 did. JJ has his own issues like you say, but the reason people hate 8 is Rian Johnson.

RPCS3 is the name of the emulator. It’s an acronym but I don’t suppose anyone knows or uses it off the top of their head. Like MAME, also an acronym AFAIK (as far as I know), no idea what It means, the acronym is the name of the emulator. So not really initialism.

A French movie did that one. Brice de Nice 3: I broke the 2

France already knows that Germany likes to take French rulers and claim them as founders of Germany. See: Charlemagne.

Some games replace it with giant splatters and smears of bird shit. Delightful.