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AlfredicEnglishRules 3 points ago +3 / -0

Some American had him as a direct ancestor of mine for a little while, so I did quite a bit of research to make sure it was fake. Sort of sad, but that's life.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 8 points ago +8 / -0

It's actually a bunch of combined stories from the midlands. Robin Hood and how he became the legend we know is a really fun history to study. There are people who believe there was a real person and those who believe he's entirely made up.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 2 points ago +2 / -0

That's what I meant. Anyone with talent doesn't work there anymore. The IP is all the company has left.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 5 points ago +5 / -0

Reminds me of the time when I was doing some character design for a job. I showed it to my wife and she asked why it didn't look like her. The character was in charge of a rum runners meet up point and killed people. She also commented that the other characters looked nothing like anyone she knew.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 2 points ago +2 / -0

That's a bit of a complex thing. When I worked with refugees in Phoenix I saw some insane stuff. No one was taught about anything cultural here in the US. Imagine if I told you I bought a nice phone from a 7/11 in Hawaii. Yours doesn't so it didn't even register how different they can be. Most people have small shops for groceries. American super markets dwarf them without trying. Then I stupidly brought them to Fry's which has books on the same aisle as car parts.

Basic stuff like how the toilets work can be completely new. No one teaches them about it, and then hands over blankets, clothing they don't understand, and food they don't know how to cook. Navajo Fry bread has a very similar story.

Then, when we told them various people were coming in they started to act weird. I didn't think about it at the time, but they would ask about background checks and worried that everything got through. I realized later they meant "Don't let this idiot in!"

That was for good honest people just trying to get through. Imagine the people who we were being warned about. Imagine how many of them got through because of how stupid we were. I met an Iraqi General who was basically ignored by interpol until a police officer told them directly who he was. He wanted to take down Saddam, but everyone in charge thought they knew better. I've likely spoken to terrorists and had no idea because no one told me to look or how to look.

It's this insane thing that only works if people think it through, and most don't.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 3 points ago +3 / -0

*Lara

It is going to be by a junior team. There have been a few games like this.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's why I get paid and hated at my little niche of the world.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 2 points ago +2 / -0

Dude, there's only one or two animators left from the golden eras of either. Don't fret it too much.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 6 points ago +6 / -0

Greenlit also comes from the entertainment industry. It means something is fully funded and could go ahead with production.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 2 points ago +2 / -0

That looked so Florida I had to check to see if I knew her.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 3 points ago +3 / -0

Nightmare Before Christmas The Grinch (DreamWorks) Muppet Christmas Carol Home Alone 1+2 Strange Exports.

I also watch a few Christmas marches with demons and Santa Klausen. Walk through of Christmas markets as well.

Honestly, I haven't really been feeling it this year.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 4 points ago +4 / -0

I fit a lot of her descriptions, but find myself wondering what she brings. What kinda kind of meat does she think I eat?

Honestly, she is just quoting a thing going around where a bunch of people -might be AI or fake- are posting demands that are even worse. The fact that she responds so strongly implies she doesn't actually want the things she says she does.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 2 points ago +2 / -0

I'm not denying you this. I'm saying much of our reasoning is based on a children first mentality. The hatred is response to that.

Japan doesn't care about their kids in that way at all, so there is little response to those ideas.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah, they're trying to force a buy out. To be honest this might become an intense bidding war. Paramount does not have this money.

WB also owns cartoon Network, Hanna Barbera, and DC. So there is a lot at stake.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 4 points ago +4 / -0

I don't know if it's child haters. Japan is very elderly centric. They have kindergartens for old folks to play in while their kids are at work. In much of asia the saying goes that they can have more kids while a kid will only have one set of parents.

A high trust society means the kids are safe for the most part.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 3 points ago +3 / -0

I think that's half the problem. They keep trying to take Palestine and someone demands they return it plus more.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 3 points ago +3 / -0

Stephen King basically wrote the Shinning while on vacation for a few days. That's why guys like him do cocaine. He also doesn't know how to end a story or think straight. That's the problem with cocaine.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 15 points ago +15 / -0

Most of Japan has stories like that. Kids are left to their own thing. You will find a kid hunting lizards 5 miles from town and no one is worried. That's why so many games from Japan have that set up. Miyamoto took it, based stuff on other rpgs at the time, and created Zelda.

Tolkien had most of his story created before he went to war. It was his childhood adventure stories. He just happened to be a linguist with a very strange and tragic life. He said that WW 1 was not very influential.

Hemingway was insane. He thought jokingly shooting himself was funny. No one knows if he meant the suicide. About half the time I was in classes reading his works I recognized fishing metaphors that my city bread teacher didn't understand.

Basically, people who don't understand how talent works make up stories because it makes more sense to them.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 2 points ago +2 / -0

Oh those. Ok. I sort of see it. I keep forgetting they're functional now. When they were part of the Future Weapon Systems programs it felt like the generals saw the prequels of Star Wars too much and wanted to play an RTS. I asked one if they combined and became a megazord. They were promoting future armor for soldiers as well, which looked like power armor from starship troopers. There was also a big promotion for blue force control.

It was as if the military got really geeky really fast, and a guy who had no idea was tasked with promoting it. Half of it worked in theory and needed a breakthrough in battery power to be useful.

Sorry, you hit me at a weird hidden nostalgia point.

That would be a very interesting military set up. I could see Space Force using it to be useful. Would grunts like it? They didn't like blue force controls.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 11 points ago +11 / -0

I don't think the other branches have the budget for crayons and ammo.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 5 points ago +5 / -0

Drone Corps would need benefits and awards to move up the ranks. Being able to sit in a chair that smells of everyone's farts is not one.

Also, we have space force and air force. Very remote work with benefits anyway.

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