A Sorcerer casts spells using Charisma, which is convenient since you also use Charisma to interact with NPCs. 

“What’s a Paladin” is an old, old meme referencing Ultima 9 where the protagonist can utter that non-sequitur in spite of being a Paladin himself. 

Ahsoka’s big threat is going to be Grand Admiral Thrawn, a guy you can’t just take on with a lightsaber and be done with it. 

In the book the sailors were mostly Russian with a Romanian first mate. The logbook had to be translated from Russian to English so presumably the captain was also Russian. 

The title has been given to a whole bunch of fictional character over the years. Please don’t tell me that you’re trying to use that name or title in actual religious context, because neither has even slightest theological backing in the real world Christianity. 

Although it never comes up in the novel, Bram Stoker himself already had the idea that if someone tried to photograph Count Dracula, the photo would either not show him or show him distorted and corpse-like. 

I have it but so rarely manage to get it work on enemies that actually need it. It has something like 20% chance of success against a powerful enemy and spellcasters tend to have extra resistances on top of that.

Except that the show hasn’t actually been marketed in any region where such bans would be in place.

Because, as another commenter explained, the atmospheric friction slows it down to terminal velocity; there is a maximum speed that things can freefall in our atmosphere. And since the object is just a small pebble, it won’t do that much damage on its own.

I get the feeling that there will be DLC adding more options down the line... 

I agree that plotwise the manga is far superior, but the film is still an audiovisual masterpiece. And you’ll have to recall that Katsuhiro Otomo, the author and artist behind the manga is also the scriptwriter and director of the film. That almost never happens, in anime or otherwise. So all the differences between…

The Spacers come straight from Asimov’s books, they weren’t invented for the show. And although Frank Herbert took plenty of influence from Asimov for Dune, there’s only superficial similarities between Asimov’s Spacers and Dune’s Navigators.

These haptic feedback devices aren’t remotely masochistic. Anyone imaging that they actually provide the sensation of being punched or stabbed needs a reality check to product safety regulations. They do nothing but provide a buzzing sensation in the general vicinity of your vide game hit, basically light massage. 

(the Empire now uses “spacers,” something to be explained later),

It didn’t invent the fast zombie trope, Return of the Living Dead had had those decades earlier. It did codify it for mainstream audiences, though. 

Sadly, at this day and age the real thing is often more absurd than the most ridiculous satire. 

Isn’t it practically tradition for acclaimed auteur directors to do a big mainstream blockbuster every once in awhile just so they can fund their next passion project with the profits? 

Ah yes, as we all know the French only started to riot about anything when video games were invented. There definitely isn’t any kind of historical precedent for rioting when the government tramples their rights. 

If you manage to get a bit further it becomes clear that it’s just a bunch of teens playing a game, imagining that they’re much deeper and smarter than they actually are, not actually having a clue about the rules they’re playing under. 

I don’t think that the two actually get a kissing scene in the original anime, though their behaviour definitely makes it clear that they are a couple. I’ve heard that the dubbers hated the mandate to erase their queerness so they did the most bare minimum that they could, resulting in the whole “lesbian cousins”…