The aggressive monetization and the fact that content was stripped out, like tag team mode, played bigger roles in tanking the game. DOA5 initially went down the same “no, really, this is a serious fighting game” route but managed to succeed despite that.
If it’s the same study they always reference, it also excluded children under 1 year old because then it skewed back to diseases and birth defects as the leading cause. In other words, to get to “leading cause of death” someone had to seriously fuck around with the numbers. And liberals just go and parrot it. But climate change. That’s totally real.
Right. Origins. I vaguely recall the advertisements having the obnoxious tone of "ACTUALLY Stargate started with a WOMAN" to it. Also, it seemed mildly lore-breaking, like bad fan fiction. On top of this, reviews said it was painfully boring. But we all know Stargate shot itself with Universe.
Yes. Science fiction is inherently progressive. It requires an examination of technology's impact on society, or at least a person. War of the Worlds is an allegory for colonialism. Since the English ruled most of the world, it was necessary to introduce a people/technology not from this world to put the English in the role of conquered savages. The "progressivism" there, aside from the political messaging ("see how shitty it feels?") was to examine the impact of the invasion on the British. Star Trek's inherent progressiveness was to look at the impact of technology enabling us to be a spacefaring society. Not just new worlds and new civilizations, but also how it affected OUR civilization. Racial equality, communism, and all that. 1984, in contrast, looked at the way technology could enable tyrants by spying and controlling information. Also communism. The problem is "progressive" has changed from the thoughtful examination of the impact of technology on society to merely "we have gay people in it." Or, in the case of the Hugo's, "we have gay people writing it." That's meta progressivism, where the text is less important than who produced it.
That’s actually pretty god damn impressive.