They stopped doing "duck and cover" in the 70s and 80s because it was pointless. With 50s atomic bombs, you can survive if you take shelter, with thermonuclear weapons the only maneuver available is "kiss your ass goodbye".

Presuming you're telling the truth, all that proves is that you managed to interview a disproportionate number of Apple users. It doesn't change the fact that the Commodore 64 outsold every other computer (including PC and Apple) by a significant margin and was the dominant machine of the 1980s.

What is your sample size for this amateur poll you ran? Did you control for any variables? Keep any records? Can you show data at all? Also, what are the dates? Because Commodore was dominant from 1982 to 1992, and if your poll respondents only remember back to the 90s (when Macintosh became commonly available to…

You're just determined to be hostile and hateful. Not a fun way to live and not a good way to make friends, either. But clearly I can't talk you out of it, so good luck with that.

The plural of anecdote is not data. I don't base my statements on who I knew or what my personal experience was, I base it on cold hard sales figures. Data that totaled both US and worldwide sales.

Sales figures disagree with you. The C64 is the single biggest selling computer model of all time, and absolutely dwarfs all competitors combined in the 10 year span that it was dominant. You may have known more people with Apple ][ products (or maybe even a rare early Macintosh!) but the numbers don't lie.

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I never said "Americans solved all problems", I said that Imperial Japan was dismantled and occupied, and no longer exists. There is no continuity between that regime and the modern Japanese government. None at all.

What ARE you saying then if it's not a justification of what was done to this young woman? That's what this whole article is about.

If calling for an end to hate and violence is being dogmatic, then dogmatic shall I be.

You're the one making excuses for an unprovoked attack on a young woman merely because of her country of birth. Think on that, and look in the mirror. Hate isn't pretty.

Who the fuck said it was ok? Nothing that was done in that time of brutality was ok. But you're acting like Japan got off scot free and that's not at all the case. They were fucking nuked, get that through your skull! What worse do you want? How much more blood and suffering will it take for your hatred to be appeased?

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My, what a powerful argument you make! The clever wordsmithing, the impeccable and in-depth research, and the airtight, unassailable logic of it all really is breathtaking. I am so stunned by the force of your amazing rebuttal that I have no choice but to retreat from the battlefield of debate, wounded and humbled.

And it's own people. And Europeans ran around conquering and colonizing and genociding for centuries. America genocided the Native Americans. Rome conquered and converted all of Europe at one point. The list goes on and on and on. Humans are dicks.

"Japan's government has never apologized for their mistakes"

Not true. As long as I've been going to conventions there has been furry art and furry fans, and that's well before the internet. Every subculture has gotten more organized since the advent of the internet, that's the power of the thing. But trust me, you have predecessors that are older than you realize.

Wrong. Barbara was crippled in TKJ purely as motivation fodder for Batman and never intended to be seen again. She could have died off panel for all anyone cared at that point. Someone else entirely in a completely different title decided to springboard off of that story and salvage something from Barbara's discarded…

Well one of his earliest roles involved him being bitten by a hot older female vampire...

Perhaps so, but I'm pretty sure the EU has been wiped clean post the Disney acquisition. And it's perfectly acceptable to call a non-film novel out as dubious at best —after all, who wants to have to accept The Crystal Star and other such nonsense? But you are technically correct.

That's non-canon fanwank. The original line was pretty much a throwaway and had no backstory behind it at all. It might be a mistake, it might be a hint that Solo was talking shit. We'll never know and Lucas won't tell even if he himself remembers.

The whole "black hole cluster!" thing was retconned in many years later.

So the "official romanization" is wrong. It doesn't match what the word actually is, as pronounced by the Japanese themselves. They might choose to write it "Aerith" for some incomprehensible reason, but that's not how how it's pronounced. Aeris is far closer to what they actually say, and that is how I will continue…

Not true. The Japanese can't even SAY "Aerith" since they don't have the "th" sound in their language. Her name in Japanese ends in the syllable "-su" which is usually clipped to just an S sound. They don't say "Aerith" at all.

Here is a Japanese person pronouncing her name:
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