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Hairless cat breed then?

Wut?

Robert Emmet Odlum was the man's name. I don't know why these things omit people's names.

Traditionally, one of the things I've liked about the system as well is that status ailment actually can play a part in strategy. Most games status ailments have such a low chance of working that there is little point in trying. Edit - screenshot of my current crew:

I'm roughly at the same spot in SMT V. I'm not high enough to merge an Angel, though. I guess I shoulda whacked a few more demons. EDIT: Take it back, whacked a Mitama and by sheer luck killed it and boom, I'm level 10 so now Angel is a member of my party.

How goes the chucking of chairs?

Last time I tried to watch WWE wrestling, all I saw was WWE wrestlers talking at one another for an interminable amount of time. I hear AEW has its moments, but that it also has its share of silly.

I don't think that's the exact analogy that the prosecutors are making. I think their argument is that you can't create a dangerous situation and then also get to use deadly force claiming self defense. The clear version of what the Prosecution is arguing would be, Guy A punches Guy B in the face. Guy B isn't phased by the punch, and goes with a punch of his own to retaliate so Guy A then pulls a gun and shoots Guy B. I haven't kept up with the Rittenhouse case, so I can't say how much it does/doesn't apply, but I think its what the prosecutors are going for.

I saw I got a couple of confused reactions, and I think its about this bit above. So to explain...

More than likely, its because they were playing the Falcons. Ouch.

TNG: Descent, Part II Data is a tool of Lore, Jeordi gets brain-drained, Picard gives speeches and Riker and Worf rally Hugh. Okay, I guess. My brother pointed out that having a top ranking ships office be able to be so easily manipulated by an outside signal seems to really be a huge problem for Data and the crew of the Enterprise, which I hadn't really thought about but...yeah. If Lore could easily send a signal to dampen his empathy logic routine, then how easy would it be to just send Data wild whenever you wanted? Lower Decks "Cupid's Errant Arrow" Mariner suspects Boimler's new girlfriend is an alien predator of some kind. A silly episode that plays off on a story trope that happens a lot with Star Trek (stories about two people meeting and falling an love and one of them isn't what they seemed).

Supēsu Kobura aka Space Cobra aka Space Adventure Cobra, episode 2 "Kikai! Jigoba" aka "The Mysterious Zygoba!" This episode is all about giving depth to... Cobra is trying to leave Earth when he runs into a woman, Vivi, with a problem. Naturally he can't resist helping her as... Animation was still solid period TV animation. Less bright neon lights, so less trippy than the first episode, but still plenty of that 70s style to go around. Also, is it me or does Zygoba's motivation stem from...

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You know, there's something that really bugs me about this twitter conversation. Using etymology to build a logical argument. It just doesn't work. Contextually, if the people of the time didn't intend for pioneer to be a military term, regardless of its origin it wasn't a military term (also the root for pawn, peon and pioneer all come from the Latin for foot, but its easier to make a word sound bad if you use pawn and peon which have highly negative connotations NOW rather than using foot which doesn't). Speaking of bad, we refer to tough, admirable people as 'badass'. Which is turn is derived from 'bad' and 'ass'. Bad derives from Middle English (badde - "wicked, depraved") which in turn is believed to derive from Old English bǣddel meaning a "womanly man". Ass derives from arse which in turn derives from proto-Germanic arsaz meaning "buttocks". Therefore using the etymology logic displayed above, calling someone badass today means you think they have womanly buttocks for a man, because the actual intended interpretation of today is irrelevant in the face of where the terms originally derived and their original use. Anyhow, I don't get why people feel the need to rely on tortuous 'logic' based on word etymology which ignores the actual use of the word at the time of its use and in the context that would be understood at that time. I see it crop up from time to time and just don't get it why people think it supports their arguments.

It's the original ending of the Broadway play. Interestingly, that isn't the original ending of the film. The Broadway end tested badly with film audiences so they shot a happier, slightly ambiguous end for the original theatrical release. The original 60s film the Broadway play is based on has its own sorta downbeat ending.

The MegaTen games have had adult protaganists (Persona 2: Eternal Punishment's protagonist is an adult reporter for a teen magazine, Strange Journey's protag is a military man) but most tend to be high schoolers. I've heard that Japan sees high school as a time for learning and experimentation and that's why so many protaganists in stories (video game or not) are in high school; those with adult characters have the adults as people whose jobs give them the freedom to investigate and explore (reporter, military, royalty, martial artist traveling the world to train, mercenary).

Big Trouble in Little China

Heinz introduces Mars Ketchup

Must have had to renegotiate music licenses for the remaster.

Yup. You don't really start seeing a lot of people going hatless when outdoors in old photos until the mid-to-late 50s. My understanding is as more modes of transportation and buildings were being climate controlled, it led to hats, scarfs and gloves declining in popularity as functional items, as you weren't spending the majority of your time at the mercy of the outdoor temperature. I think some hats as business attire and for fashion took longer to winnow away.