This whole thing feels like one of those bits in cartoons where people are obviously acting out a pre-planned skit to try and fool someone.
As a Christian, I'm always skeptical of people who insist that prophecy always has to be taken 100% literally. As though God doesn't love His metaphors and parables when explaining things to us. People who think they can force His hand by playing Magic Spells: Gargoyles Edition are even shadier.
It was only mandatory on a handful of bosses, either ones that had you working to expose their weakpoint anyway, like the weird mollusk thing in the water area, or against the Chozo warriors, and they'd automatically put you in the finisher cinematic when their HP was low enough.
I liked how Metroid Dread did it. You have a dedicated "Melee Counter" button where you can interrupt certain enemy attacks to take them out more easily. Boss fights also have these attacks where landing the timing of the counter rewards you with a short cutscene of Samus styling on the boss in some way. Except it's not just a cutscene. You've still got complete control of Samus shooting at the enemy. And there are short periods where you can't directly shoot, so it's in your interest to find those moments and use them to charge your beam for maximum DPS. It very smoothly blends the flashiness and timing based challenge of a QTE with the standard run and gun gameplay. And there aren't any blatant button prompts beyond the standard "This is a counter opportunity!" flash you've already been getting.
It's showing another culture in its natural state. That's literally it. The whole point of the "cultural appropriation" nonsense has been to make everyone too afraid to tell stories about people with different backgrounds and customs for fear of accidentally being "racist."
I've heard bad things about this series. That it puts too much focus on the stupid humans and not enough on the Echidna we're actually here to see. This seems about right.
Seriously, how egotistical do you have to be to compare yourself to a literally endangered species? It's the sheer dishonesty of it all that really sets me off.
I've been using rad in my daily life for years.
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From what I've heard, calling Vivian a man was just Beldam being insulting. and the joke is everyone else, including the narration, takes her at her word because they don't know any better.
Either way, the whole thing is stupid and I hate that it's in what is otherwise one of the best games.
Not even close. The goombas were crass and rude and Goombella sarcastically leads them on before insulting them. It's like night and day.
In the original, the goomba thugs were hitting on Goombella, and that's what sparks the conflict.
Other changes include: Everyone knowing the giant dragon Hooktail is a girl right from the start, instead of her gender reveal being a surprise at the end of the game. No misgendering here! And "The Shadow Sirens" being changed to "The Three Shadows." Three guesses where THAT change is going....
Of course, Mrs. Mowz still sexually assaults Mario without his consent. Because it's funny when a man gets kissed by a stranger!
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I have pink earbuds because my blue pair broke and the pink were the only ones left on sale. They've served me well this past year.
I also play Kirby games and Dixie Kong is one of my favorite DK characters. Turns out pink is just a color. Who knew?
...I'll still prefer orange or blue if the opportunity presents itself, of course. I'm only human.
I show up and I see you ragging on the Fallout show...
...because the ghoul character has no nose....
Think I'll pass on this one.
I hope to see the magic words lose their power within my lifetime. That people stop walking on eggshells for fear of being branded heretics and shunned, or worse.
Seeing people joke about a baby like this gives me hope.
Considering we've got a bona-fide, true believer in the comments....
I personally thought you were mocking him, but even then I wasn't sure enough to vote one way or the other.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. What do they have against the bridges?
"Speak loudly and don't carry any stick at all."
The lowest trust society.
I was definitely thinking WWNS when I was writing it.
He can rest easy, now that his wife's killer has been brought to justice.
So....Mega Man: Fully Charged, then?
Respect their organizatonal identity, bigot!
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean."
-Matthew 23:27
My dad had some interesting insights into this as a retired Methodist pastor. Fun fact. In order to get this result, there was a suspicious delay of inviting the African delegations so they couldn't attend in time. Historically, they've always voted conservatively. How racist can you get? As I say, thank God for North Katanga....
They also cut off the option to secede once they got the vote. The one that was graciously put in place for THEM in case the vote didn't go their way. Vipers and scorpions, the lot of them.