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Yeah, they got out and did an imitation protest. All spectacle and no substance. That doesn't bring people closer to doing real things, it's reinforcing the learned skill of denying that real things exist.

i'm almost completely positive these are supposed to be bounced off the ground before hitting whoever you're aiming at. they're absolutely not supposed to be shot like this.

Oh they absolutely are intended to be fired directly at faces and eyes and all that. There's a few lines of text and some pictures to play pretend that the impact is actually quite pleasant if you just do a trick shot off the ground, but they're designed with, and purchased with, the full knowledge that these are going to be used to pop eyeballs and break bones.

It's just a cheap and safe way - for the cops - to implement a good ol' savage beatdown.

Just gotta put it into Standard British (Gammon): So-called Glacial Meltwater from some foreign ocean is DILUTING our Pure British Water, and C02 is coming into our classrooms and forcing them to be stuffy and draining.

Though, alas, since it's a matter of "stop doing bad thing (to planet)" and not "please do bad thing (to foreigners)", there'll be no enthusiasm...

Bat-dog, because I was making jokes about a vampire dog being called a drachuahua earlier today. And while looking for art of a bat-dog I found out that the Buettikofer's epauletted bat is pretty damn close already.

I'll always recommend Land of the Lustrous/Houseki no Kuni. It's a beautiful adaptation. Androgynous post-post-post apocalypse crystal-coral humanoids living on an island paradise, bullied by Buddhist moon ghosts. Does get a bit dark towards the end.

Frieren, from your list, is also a wonderfully chilled watch.

Drawback of lifting interesting ideas from fiction, they often fail to consider the very different dynamic of shared creative storytelling.

Law and Chaos work for Elric and Amber, because the authors are only trying to tell one story and have full control of their presentation and interactions.

Same with Lord of the Rings leading, in DnD, to having Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit. Although again that was better in earlier editions (if overcomplicated) of DnD where the fighters gained power in the form of having minions.

Edit: Not that you can't have a game with bizarre metaphysics, it just has implications that DnD never cared to think through and apply clearly and upfront. There are endless arguments about Paladins murdering anything that pings their Detect Evil (among many other psychotic things Paladin players have done), because in-setting it's a divinely granted sense for cosmic objective badness. But since it's so dissonant with our real life expectations of behaviour, and not reflected in the setting at all, it leads to all kinds of (often contradictory) contortions by the writers to avoid just admitting that alignment is fucked if you don't want a setting full of murder-Paladins.

I think that would be only possible with genetics, and maybe only when young, since it'd be outright adding new perception rather than using existing channels like this... But you could possibly emulate it with goggles that spread out the target colours and squash the rest of the spectrum?

I kinda want a tapet lucetum myself...

Yeah, Phacelia isn't native to the UK, but is pretty solidly spread anyway - classic Victorian plant plundering, though at least this time it wasn't Giant Hogweed.

The phacelia in my garden is full of all kinds of bees, they love it. I can't recall any other plants getting more attention, and they're a pretty flower as well.

Well that's just it - it isn't easy at all. You need to have destroyed your self-esteem or narrowed your circle humanity or beaten down whatever quality prevents us from preying on others without suffering for it.

Like the call of the void - standing at the edge of a cliff, or behind someone who is, that misty sense of how easy it would be to jump or to push is a warning of a horrible potential that our deeper structures want to make sure we're alert to prevent.

If it's just a remake of Civil War, but everyone is dipped in gold leaf, half the soldiers are Really Very Big, the white house is like the Mines of Moria after a jetwash, the president is the size of an oil tanker, and the photographers are actually making magic paintings, it'll be a masterpiece.

Edit: and to step closer to the lathe, the story is told by the descriptions on each Elden Ring themed snack you can get from the concessions. Radahn Rum Punch, Malenia Mint (and blue cheese) popcorn, blah blah blah.

Shadows of the Erdtree, the DLC, is noteworthy for actually having a plot where things happen.

Even then I'd say it's still a pretty weak plot, and the delivery is awkwardly struggling against their usual style. Which is still an improvement Elden Ring desperately needed, and understandable when I have no doubt the direct writing style has suffered some atrophy.

Huh, saying that has actually made me a bit more optimistic for this adaptation, since they do show a consistent desire to improve and experiment. Not for the adaptation itself, but it might be a good learning experience if there's a lot of back-and-forth with A24?