I don't understand how someone can look at things and go "yeah no need to look any deeper, I know enough already
I swear some people never grow out of the "I'm a big kid now!" mindset. Just like how little kids always seem to think is the age where now they suddenly deserve respect, lots of adults go "well now I'm an adult, so that means I know everything. It'd be embarrassing if I didn't!"
Pride is a hell of a drug.
It's a hard truth, but sometimes adding catgirls to a joke makes it funnier somehow...
see what'd i say? at LEAST 4 people couldnt handle the truth
Wait, was that a bug? I always figured it was just based on how insanely difficult it is to keep cities clean as they grow massive. You can still easily hold on to those cities, even very distant ones, by recruiting lots of peasant units to garrison the cities. The security bonus is based on the number of men you have garrisoned versus the number of civilians, and since peasants are the largest units by manpower, they grant the biggest bonus. You wind up with two rows of peasants that are only useful as bait in an actual battle, but give plenty of security bonus to offset the max squalor penalty.
Edit, actually it gets even easier if you keep recruiting peasants as a sort of population control even after the garrison is full. Send excess peasant units to your most recently conquered cities to maintain control and free up militarily useful units from just standing guard, and for certain cities with super slow population growth you can disband the units as they arrive in order to boost the civilian numbers. It's a makeshift, but effective way to transfer population from overcrowded cities to the empty ones.
Literally none. DEI straight up means treating everyone the same. They're working on giving it some fucked up negative connotations the same way they have with "woke" and "critical race theory," but if you look at the history and reality of where those words come from and what they mean, it becomes clear they're playing with language, trying to avoid looking racist to the general public while still implementing racist policy.
If by "this," you mean the reference towards Tubman, then you're wrong. Talking about the accomplishments of anyone who isn't a straight white Christian man IS promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion! DEI is a good thing! Opposing it is explicitly racist!
That opinion is "this group of people is worth less than another group," so yes she's a bad person
Ehh. The broad strokes had the potential to be interesting, but the presentation and details are awful. Actually watching the prequels is such a chore, with 75% of the time spent thinking "why," 24% "ooh pretty" (though a lot of the CGI hasn't aged well), and maybe 1% is an actual "hmm yes interesting."
Palpatine and populism had a chance to be interesting, but it's mostly done completely off screen, with lots of assumptions needing to be made by a viewer who needs to already have an understanding that this is the future Emperor. The closest we ever get to seeing the true corruption of the Senate is Palpatine's speech denouncing the Jedi, and even that winds up being carried hard solely by Palpatine's actor.
They completely ignore the moral, logistical, and spiritual questions raised by usage of a clone army. Coverage in EU and Disney doesn't count in a discussion of the prequels, but even there it's rarely explored. You'd think the whole point of clones vs robots would be to raise interesting questions by way of contrasting the two, but no, it's just so you don't have to feel bad watching the armies blow each other up.
Anakin and Padme. Good God.
There's so much more but honestly I don't want to write more of an essay. Apologies for the YouTube link, but this is a video I really like about what made the Jedi so special in the originals. I think most of the problems in the prequels parallel their mishandling of the Jedi--a superficial understanding that Thing Is Cool, but then missing the point thanks to a formulaic, blunt, needs-to-be-marketable approach to making the movies.
I dunno, they're more bearable than the sequels. I can even enjoy watching them; I grew up on them and can put on the nostalgia goggles to get through them, but under any examination they completely fall apart.
Because as everyone knows, political change only happens spontaneously, without any organization in the lead up, and people are famously fired up by sitting around at home until we all get the magic signal to go cut politicians' heads off
I did not but I'll give you an upvote anyway
Not sure which of the cabinet said it first, but for anyone wondering--this isn't satire. The "which 24 hours" is a real line Trump supporters are regurgitating.
Yeah and that's because a huge chunk of the base doesn't care. Republicans fall in line because they care, even if they only care because of moronic fearmongering. Dems won't stoop to that low, so the only way to make people care is to offer a candidate that energizes people to do the bare minimum.
At the point where we're making lab-grown dinosaur meat, I suspect the cool factor is way more important than silly things like efficiency. T-Rex meat all the way babyyy