The only year that even comes close is 2016. Hillary winning was supposed to be the final eternal triumph of liberalism, so they went all out with the early celebrations.
@ErisaEnjoyer@pixelprayer@Airdorf I know what you mean, but the "bad graphics" in question are not bad, but constrained to the time of the Atari 2600/Apple II systems. They're actually really good within that framework--easily readable, clear, scary...and that's not even mentioning the rotoscoping.
@KevOnStage Trampolines are something I never thought about! Grew up in The South, and both upper middle class and working class families seemed to have trampolines in equal proportion, but to your point, a lot of rural lots had a big backyard. Above-ground pools were common too.
@Benirhea@Fred00738342098@historyinmemes Now let's look at WWII. We put the Nazi leadership on trial in the Hague, however, that punishment was targeted. We created The Marshall Plan to help Europe get back on its feet. Mercy, instead of vengeance. In the history of modern warfare, paradoxically, mercy has worked out.
@Benirhea@Fred00738342098@historyinmemes Let's look at World War I, in contrast--the victors sought to humiliate and punish the defeated, Germany in particular, and the direct result of that was the feeble Weimar Republic and the hyperinflation of the Deutschmark that enabled the rise of Nazism, which then led to WWII.
@SkabVt@wot_heat Amazing clip. Sometimes just doing the thing is all it takes, because they know you wouldn't dare...until it's too late and you're already doing it. What was the song, by the way? Perfect fit.
Finland tracked every gender-referred adolescent in the country for up to 25 years.
Their psychiatric needs didn't improve after 'gender reassignment'. They surged.
A landmark peer-reviewed study just dropped. Here's what it found. 🧵
Star Wars editor Marcia Lucas reacts to The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi:
"Now that she's running Lucasfilm and making movies, it seem to me that Kathy Kennedy and J.J. Abrams don't have a clue about Star Wars. They don't get it. And J.J. Abrams is writing these stories— when I saw that movie where they kill Han Solo, I was furious. I was furious they killed Han Solo. Absolutely, positively there was no rhyme or reason to it. I thought, You don't get the Jedi story. You don't get the magic of Star Wars. You're getting rid of Han Solo?
And then at the end of this last one, The Last Jedi, they have Luke disintegrate. They killed Han Solo. They killed Luke Skywalker. And they don't have Princess Leia anymore. And they're spitting out movies every year. And they think it's important to appeal to a woman's audience, so now their main character is this female, who's supposed to have Jedi powers, but we don't know how she got Jedi powers, or who she is. It sucks. The storylines are terrible. Just terrible. Awful."
What was the biggest crime that Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Rian Johnson committed?
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying “please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.”
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned. “It doesn’t look like my doll at all,“ said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me.” the little girl hugged the new doll and brought her happy home.
A year later Kafka died. Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
“Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”
@GamingAndPandas@PandasAndVidya When Adam and Eve (or early man, however Genesis actually played out) were tempted by the serpent, all animals--not just snakes--chose an allegiance with God or Satan that largely holds to this day. There are species working for evil and some working for good (with exceptions).