When WotC came up with Kaya, Ghost Assassin they at least had the good sense to make her foil worth buying for the art if nothing else.
She's a $5 junk plainswalker, but the foil art has her phase through a door as you tilt it. Easily one of the coolest foils they've ever printed and runs over $100.
our own soldiers are forbidden from fixing their own stuff
"Canon is only important to certain people because they have to cling to their knowledge of the minutiae." -Leonard Nimoy
I'm going to once again dredge up my old go-to, Mobile Suit Gundam, because short of Gilgamesh nobody's IP has been subjected to more dead horse beatings than that V-finned monstrosity.
And from Gundam we can see one simple rule:
"If you're going to do your own thing, it had better be good."
What do you think Johnny learned from his experience of being flogged?
To read his fiddly little displays properly before letting a nuke off the leash.
There wasn't much higher meaning to it, he got a little cocky and stupid after that march and the letter, and needed to have it beat into him that when you're launching a fukking nuke you do it by the book.
He knew it, his superiors knew it, and the whole mood of it is: "Seriously? You've been here this long and you're still this dumb?"
"Sir, yes, sir!"
Himmler's Walther PP came up for auction at Rock Island Auctions a few years ago. Brownells did a video on it.
If the future doesn't belong to whoever's focused and cruel enough to steal it first and fight for it, who does it belong to?
Raccoons.
Humanity will be dead in a thousand years. The trash pandas will inherit the Earth.
Well, China is just going to have to decide on that.
I'm evaluating the solution on it's efficacy of solving the immediate problem.
And I'm not even taking the most direct path. Present Genghis Khan with the problem of the state needing more children and he'd get right on that.
It wouldn't.
In the absence of hard evidence to the contrary we stand with the last time it was tried, during which it DID work.
Not in modern times.
Define modern.
They are expected to work
Yes, that much is implicit. I'm simply saying that the state use its power to decide what work is permissible.
Marriage is after all essentially contractual prostitution.
Or at least it used to be.
And yet still falling so short of the actual Nazis.
It's very simple. Bar women from most professions and the problem sorts itself out rather quickly.
You'd think China of all countries would have the legal powers at their disposal to use what works.
"Finally."
No really, it's nice that someone finally recognizes that yes, AoV and TI2 aren't the only goddamn regulars here.