Cowboy Bebop and the Ghost in the Shell movies are great places to start.

Anyway, it’s not so much a change in what’s being produced as what’s being imported to the US. There was a good mix of shonen and seinen at first, but shonen sells more merch so we get a lot of it now. Just watch stuff tagged as seinen if you want more mature themes or more sex and gore.

This has been a problem for far, far, longer than you think. The silver age definitely had it, the golden age probably did, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it cropped up in the proto-superhero stories, like Zorro. It’s a consequence of having a long-form story where the narrative’s status quo isn’t allowed to meaningfully change and characters either aren’t allowed to die or aren’t allowed to stay dead. Recurring antagonists also can have much richer characterization and more complex relationships with the protagonists, which makes writing stories about them more appealing the more often they appear.

The usual trajectory for a new superhero or new incarnation of an existing superhero is to start off with street-level problems, then get a nemesis that has strong ties to those street level problems, then have the dynamic between the two grow in prominence to eclipse all other parts of the plot. The Joker, for instance, always starts off as either a mob boss with a gimmick or a serial killer with a gimmick, not far removed from the mundane crime Batman always starts with, but always winds up with a fixation on Batman and spawns stories designed as some commentary on Batman’s no-killing rule. Again and again and again, dozens of times over the decades.

Why? Because the dynamic between the two characters tends to be fascinating and results in audience engagement.

That pot looked flimsy to start with. Was the side just sheet metal?

You could also argue it should be given to Greece, Turkey, or Russia, since all three are technically successor states to the Roman Empire.

Median lifespan was also fairly close to ours even though the average was way down. High infant and child mortality rates skews things.

That’s actually shopped. The game’s writer said he wishes he wrote that line, though.

Any man who must say, “I am the king” is no true king.

• Tywin Lanister

I’ll be doing both with Linux as my primary and Win10 as a compatibility fallback.

Multiplayer games and ones that require Uplay or Origin (can’t remember their new names) have issues, but most single player stuff will run fine. You’ll typically have to run them via Wine or Proton, but Steam will handle that for you.

Because you have to sit to use the bidet?

There are also multiple lazarus pits under the city contaminating the drinking water, the pits are known to cause mental instability, and the city might be cursed.

IIRC, someone got with the author of that bit of code to ask how they came up with it, but they had simply learned it from someone else. So they tracked them down and found that they had also learned it from someone else. They eventually landed on Greg Walsh as the original author, but for a bit the code had no known origin.

Vantablack is a specific chemical product, not a color. If you can get something just as black via a different process they can’t do anything.

It’s a reference to the first level of Halo 1.

Isn’t Vivaldi Chromium? Would make it likely do be hit by the main branch dropping Manifest v2 support.

Don’t know about that specific picture, but the premise of the KOTH revival airing later this year involves an adult Bobby working as a chef at a restaurant.

And that’s after Mexico violated a non-aggression pact and conquered Arizona.

Ah, I thought they were talking about the bot that is or was on here that rated sources.

It’s supposed to be for the publication as a whole, not the specific article. No idea what metric they’re using, though.

Edit: Never mind, was talking about something else.