Wasn’t it that he’d deescalated, disarmed, and cuffed the guy and another cop just shows up and executes the passive, already captured person?

My even hotter crank theory is that much of geriatric mobility issue is caused by just becoming sedentary. We somehow recognize being a couch potato is bad for you, except if you’re over 60, at which point any movement kills you or whatever.

As I understand it that’s also why broken hips have such a high mortality rate: the injury itself isn’t particularly dangerous, but even with a hip replacement regaining mobility is difficult and painful and if someone doesn’t manage it they’ll be bedridden and suffer a pretty rapid decline over the next year or so.

To take this entirely too seriously because “[media] sucks now, when it used to be so good!” is like nails on a chalk board to me: all media mostly sucks and has always mostly sucked, but how much of [given media type] stands out as excellent from the sea of low-grade dregs that’re always being churned out just varies from year to year and for the most part I can’t help but feel the amount of good media in any given year is on average increasing and reaching new peaks more regularly.

So memes aside, I can’t help but feel like “modern anime sucks” is something that’s been being said forever and has at times been true, but currently isn’t. I mean like there is awful slop and there’s consistently been awful slop running all the way back forever, but the past few years have had some of the most gorgeously animated and all around good series ever. Like Sakamoto Days, Dandadan, ZOM 100 (and the same studio is coming out with Witch Hat Atelier some time this year which I am very excited for), Frieren, I personally don’t like a lot of things about Dungeon Meshi but it’s still highly acclaimed and objectively a great adaptation, and so on. Even something like Solo Leveling is mindless slop but it’s extremely pretty and inoffensive mindless slop with an amazing soundtrack.

How many series from the 2000s were as good and memorable? There definitely are some, without question, but I feel like people look at a handful of iconic, lasting series coming out of an entire decade and hold them up as what it used to be like, yet when I go back and look almost all of the stuff that was airing alongside that is all like the worst moeblobs you’ve ever seen, ecchi shit, and bottom of the barrel shonen action slop, and if you go back and watch it was run through with just rampant misogyny and random homophobia and a lot of that was inserted into even the “good” iconic series back then too. I mean that’s still, obviously, a problem but goddamn if it didn’t used to be so much more rampant and worse in general.

Like if Frieren were made back in the early 2000s it would probably somehow be made to be a harem anime centered on Stark who’d be the “real hero” and be given all the big dramatic moments that Frieren has in the real version, and either Frieren or Fern would probably have been given that awful extremely affected raspy mewling voice that the worst anime always makes some female character have that’s supposed to sound “innocent” or some shit and make all the misogynistic otaku hogs squeal and buy dakimakura and vinyl figurines. And also it would be 90% OC filler slop, cut most of the characters in favor of new, worse ones, and completely mangle all the themes and plotlines.

From what I’ve heard, the KMT are weirdly the more moderate and pro peaceful cooperation and commerce with the rest of China party now despite their history, and the DPP are the fully US aligned extreme right party that’s more like the old KMT. AFAIK the KMT are still US-aligned nationalists like they always were, but they’re less warhawkish and just want the status quo to peacefully continue.

You can have titans, primarchs, and aircraft in 2,000 point games.

What the fuck. Like I remember flyers being given normal rules in 6e, but the rest sounds wild. Do the superheavies still have X strength attacks or did they at least get reigned in?

If you’ve played any time between 3rd. and 4th., you’re probably familiar with changes not occurring for years.

5e was when I started, but that was all true then too. Extremely slow to update things, with a lot of army lists being one or two editions old at that point. I remember hearing relatively positive buzz about them starting to issue updated army lists in 6e, but never really got back into it.

4-people tweek the numbers to reaffirm the idea

This is also the step before the first. The entire foundation of neoliberal economics is literally built on “well, uh, the real numbers didn’t make the model work so I made up these fake numbers that made it look nice, at least. Don’t worry, they’re intuitively correct!” and pure vibes.

What have they changed? I haven’t played since 5e and haven’t looked at the rules since 6e.

My friends, sobbing: “Nooo, build a real house for once, don’t just burrow into the nearest hill like a rodent and dig an inscrutable warren of crawlspaces and deadly pitfalls every fucking time we start a new minecraft server.”

Me, wordlessly humming diggy diggy hole:

You’re missing one step in that: when those counter-terrorism programs were first rolled out the western media railed against them as being too soft compared to the preferred western strategy of random air strikes and entrapping alienated kids with fake terror plots. It was only years later, when the programs were being wound down as no longer necessary, that the western media started pushing the “genocide” conspiracy theory.