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Yeah, the part where one of the key reasons behind the barest reforms was that their own militaries were becoming sickly, stunted, and weak… with drone weapons you have an excuse (albeit deeply flawed) to not even care about that!

Hmmm… you devil.

Welp, no choice but to watch five hours of shed-welding videos and gauge my chances of hilarious DIY accidents.

…I keep saying I won’t buy a cheap welder, then all these cool hobbyist comments. I don’t have space. Wait till after I can build a big shed…

Sorry, but I have already depicted myself as the cool hexagonal graph, and you as the - also cool - tetrahedra.

Ah, but have you considered that almost all zombies are actually magical or superscience? What’s important is that they set up the Gimmick that enables zombies, and then reason from that.

They should also grind their joints to dust pretty quickly, run out of energy, and go blind.

“The singer, who keeps his identity secret.”

If only we could figure out who this mysterious hoodlum is. Unfortunately, as a newspaper, we are not equipped for this level of investigation.

Whelp, time to read Starfish again!

They’re using “sees” in the fairly lexiphanicistic* sense of “causes X to Y”.

*Pretentious use of words. Ironic.

Do they do that lil’ hunch, puff out, and warble? Adorable birds.

You might like the Horror Vanguard podcast. It’s a left political look at all kindsa horror films, and it takes an honest joy in analysing them more seriously than most of them were intended to be.

And what I was told about the “bounder” one is that it keeps your hand close to being a fist, so you and your fellow ruffians can sucker punch some gentleman.

This one?

https://xcancel.com/BenceNanay/status/959793485334368256

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.