Yes, Avatar is critized for just retreading the Pocahontas storyline. But it’s a story after all, a bit of narratization is needed. As for the fact that they need the ‘big strong human to protect them’, yes, that is woven into the story too. Jake has both insider knowledge and intel. He not only knows what the human military contractor is going to do, he also knows the motivations behind their action, how far they are willing to go and what it will take to stop them. As such, his input is crucial to rally the tribes and get nature on his side. Only with the help of Grace’s memories is he able to rally Eywa to their side.

But the military doesn’t care. Jake is still in a wheelchair at the start of the movie. Only by accepting a highly dangerous mission, infiltration, is he given the promise of having his old legs restored. And he is only given this job, because his brother passed away and left the Na’vi clone behind. So they are not offering this to any crippled army veteran. And yes, there are some good apples in the military. They turn on the military.

How is it military propaganda? The plot is about a private military contractor destroying an ecosystem for profit, while there is nothing but good things being said about the way of life of the Na’vi.

No more FemShep on Liara action, that’s banned now. Future ME games will only feature the Quarrians, because they are already “veiled”.

Can’t Mamdani not simply void those executive orders?

Your priest father telling you that it’s just badly written fiction is based.

Hurricane-Gun, go!

Tough international law does not provide a clear definition of the term ‘terrorism’, there is a general consensus on this issue. According to this consensus, terrorism involves intimidating the civilian population while causing minimal damage to the enemy’s military capabilities, with the aim of maximising civilian casualties, particularly among vulnerable groups such as children, women, the elderly and the wounded.

Such actions were seen on 11 September 2001, when Islamic terrorists hijacked four passenger planes and flew them into New York and Washington, in what is currently recognised as the largest terrorist attack in human history.

Yes, clearly those heinous attacks on civilians are worthy of being compared to 9/11. Not Russia’s deliberate attacks on Ukrainian cities though, they are totally fine. This propaganda trash has nothing in common with actual reporting. Get it out of the news community.

Funnily, I heard he was wearing a bulletproof vest and the bullet ricocheted off of that vest up into his neck. If that’s true, his clothing did in fact get him killed.

Hmmm, yes, interesting. Regardless of what was said in the rest of the post, I agree with the part I understood.

This reads like an order for the lemmings with the right body parts

Interesting development. With how careful everyone was tip-toeing around Trump the last few weeks in the hope of getting him on their side, there must truly be no way forward for Zelesky to say this in public.

To go on a complete tangent here, chameleons also can’t blink and I found a dissertation-level website only about how they can’t blink and what the consequences of that are: https://reptilefriend.com/do-chameleons-blink/

But I initially thought that they can have their eyes blink independantly, which brings me to my next point: In the anime My Hero Academia, one of the heroes, Erazure Head, has the ability to block someone’s ability as long as he is looking at them, with the drawback that the effect ends when he blinks,which fucks up his eyes, because he blinks so little. And every time I see him, I just think to myself, if only that mf had learned to blink independantly with his eyes, which I am sure you can train if you want to, he could’ve completely negated the drawback of his ability.

Then again, MHA is full of this sittle oversights, which definitely lessen my enjoyment of that anime. Take the heroine Alien Queen for example. She can spray acid from her hands, an ability she doesn’t do very much with, which is why she is one of the less important heroes. She could however have trained to “sweat” acid to surround her body with an acid shield and if she had learned to spray her acid as a fine mist that the air can carry into your lungs, she could’ve become a walking violation of the geneva conventions. Missed opportunity to have villains simy choke to death.

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I am not. But Biden was a walking corpse for half of his term. We were robbed of Bernie, I am not going show any respect to a man and a system that did everything in their power to block Bernie.

Not to diminish what the soldiers at the front have to go through, but having to play nice with such a shit person as Trump, only for your country to still get less support than under sleepy Joe, must be painful beyond belief. I wouldn’t even last a day having to kiss Trumps feet.

Maybe it’s an american thing, but the only time it is acceptable to me for someone to wrap themselves in a German flag like that, is when they are an athelete and win a medal.

Wtf is a woman wrapped in a German flag doing over there?

PayPal is part of the problem though. They too have forced Patreon back in the day to clamp down on certain stuff. That’s one of the reasons why SubscribeStar got bigger.

To give you some background, this bonus would only be gained if Unknown Worlds hit certain targets by the end of 2025. Most of it would have been paid to the three men, with 10% set aside for 40 other employees at the studio.

So the “team” would get the bonus they say? Both parties can fuck off in my opinion.