Moreover, sickle cell anemia (SCA), a genetic condition that affects red blood cells, can affect anyone but black people are at a higher genetic risk for the disease, which has nothing to do with “structural racism” or any other sociological construct.
SCA lessens the morbidity of Malaria. That's why SCA is found in black populations more than white ones, because white populations don't live in areas with Malaria as much as black populations do. It serves as a survival tool, antithetical as that sounds.
"Slop" to me means very low quality food.
Pigs get fed "slop" because they can and will eat anything and don't give a fuck how horrible it might be.
If someone is eating something that gets likened to slop it's likely been so badly cooked it's turned into unidentifiable sludge that is still edible but you'd be hard pressed to know what ingredients were involved from the appearance, texture, taste, and smell.
they nerfed some of the fights too like the mud Melphits used to explode and do aoe damage to everyone in radius when dying.
Not surprising. My decades of playing games has taught me casuals/normies are utterly shit at noticing/reacting to things that aren't telegraphed days in advance, and even then some, so mechanics like "get out of the fire" and lethal death rattles are frequently changed because the player base is just too fucking stupid to move out the fucking way.
He never did it take the power upgrade from the Ring to the Fist of Conquest that everyone else did in that one episode.
Sure, it was pretty much given to them by Satan and they only stopped him from deposing Gaia because the Heartbreak kid sweet chin music's Satan in the face managed to resist the temptation of power while the other 4 were off literally making islands, volcanos, tsunamis, and tornadoes in a macro level, 4 way rock-paper-scissors game.
Maybe one day I'll show my game collection
How many copies of GTA V is there now?
I bought V four times.
30% of the human population is lost in WW3 according to Memory Alpha wiki pages but precisely which parts of the world that includes can be tricky to clarify. Many places were supposedly nuked like Washington, New York, and Paris but it also mentions most, if not all, major cities were destroyed and all governments too.
All of the Dax hosts were still Trill, and it was issues with the sixth host, Joran, that led to Sisko learning about the lie being told about just how many Trill could actually be Joined.
The fact that Jadzia was preceeded by Curzon was immaterial to the symbionts as the whole point of Joining was to maximise experiencing life. Which was also the reason resuming relationships was so taboo as it didn't add anything. The one time this gets explored in depth was the lesbian relationship and kiss the show had with Jadzia, while Ezri hooking up with Worf felt more like bad writing and drama for the sake of drama given how many episodes it lasted. Dax and Khan was a one off for the contained episode and while debatable how much it gets used as the tip of the wedge, didn't hang around longer than it should.
The show could have simply added a non binary Trill if that was the entire intention but for some stupid reason they decided to go that extra step and make the host human as well!
The whole episode where a rejected candidate steals the Dax symbiont shows just how significant the whole Joining process is to some Trill and modern writers thought it a good idea to canonise "permanent" non Trill hosts?
Idiots. Actual idiots.
I miss 10 minute Black Talon runs. Was great for getting slottable weapons and armour for companions back when that was kind of needed.
The change to the companion system was one of the few good things the updates brought, no more needing to bring comps you actively despised or wanted to space because it was your only healer option. Looking at you Malavai Quinn!
Stellaris does lean hard on various Sci-fi references throughout the game, like with Babylon 5 and the Fallen Empires. The awakening notification even has "Giants in the playground" as the confirmation button, a line said by Sheridan when discussing the opposing Vorlon and Shadow forces, as well as the neutral option to the War in Heaven forming/leading The League of Non-Aligned Worlds, also from B5.
The actual crisis events also match up with other themes like the Prethoryn and Tyranids as invading extragalactic fleets of organic ships whose only goal is to consume the galaxy.
Not what I was intending with my post. If someone is buying it I would only recommend they do so when the various parts are on offer in some way. The base game is frequently free in some deals/bundles and the actual DLCs can be as much as 75% off, especially on Xmas.
A good crew in TNG also had a diverse cast of different races
Keep in mind the character of Geordi La Forge is from Somalia. Ask any normies what race "the engineer from TNG" was and you'd likely get the same level of stupidity that labelled Idris Elba as "African American" because that's all that matters to such superficial topics 🙄
One of the dumbest things in a Nu Trek show was some random non binary human character with a Trill symbiont. Clearly it was done because symbionts bond with both males and females which obviously means gender isn't important so the show needed a character where gender was both important AND not important!
The reason this is dumb however is that the reason there are so few Joined Trill is that there are so few symbiont. It's literally as simple as a numbers game.
A DS9 episode even reveals that the Trill government statement about the very low compatibility amongst the population is a lie and far more of the population could in fact be Joined. The lie is perpetuated to prevent civil unrest from those who want to Join. The fact a future episode then has some random human Join, and even call attention to how normal humans can now successfully Join since Riker had to temporarily for plot reasons and prolonged exposure would have killed him, completely glosses over the point about how the Unjoined Trill population would respond to this where symbionts were being Joined with non-Trill over their own population!
It would literally cause a civil war! 🙄
Because women hate each other. Many accusations of witchcraft came from other "witches" who were simply making petty claims against other women they disliked for any number of reasons. I actually have ancestors who were part of this where one women who was already named as a witch, and therefore going to be executed, just went balls to the walls at the end and took half a dozen other women with her by claiming they were also witches. This wasn't in the USA so no urgot poisoning as is thought to have been related to Salem.