Not even close. But you’re doing your best to ensure that in your neck of the woods, it persists. After all, it’s “work world”, it’s not shitty labor legislation because people like you take it as the natural state of affairs.

Define “a shitty job”.

If they did they wouldn’t be laid off would they? Why would a company fire people in a department that brought in more money than their operating costs?

It’s actually pretty simple - you’d lose foreign-owned factories. Meaning large parts of a host of different industries, from pharma to cars. And local competitors couldn’t substitute, because they lack the necessary IP....

Spying in the 2020s: Post some random specs of a weapon system of interest in the right forum and wait for someone to correct you with the real documents :P

Then maybe the average American could afford to live in houses again.

I take it you’ve never worked in an international company?

it’s about making the world alive.”

One great programmer still has only 24 hours in a day. 

You don’t get to accuse others of their research being half-assed while acting as if statistics wasn’t a thing.

It’s almost like Tolkien super fans aren’t actually fans of fantasy or good television, they just like that one story where Frodo went here then there then that happened then there was a battle, etc. The Lord of the Rings is good because it’s good, not because it’s some exact story that is perfect and could’ve only…

I agree with you except I think the show should have taken more cues from Jackson’s trilogy on the costume front...the costumes in Jackson’s LOTR trilogy were elite. They always felt realistic and lived-in while preserving the elevated fantasy feel.

One scene that comes to mind is the beacon-lighting sequence. That was such a cool scene for so many reasons, and it did an amazing job of conveying the scale of the world and also the great distance between Minas Tirith and Edoras.

so if they had spaced this season’s story over like 500 years, you’d have a lot of scenes with elves going “Hey remember that thing that happened in 150 years ago in last week’s episode?” while looking exactly the same as they did in last week’s episode. I don’t think the passage of time would really come across, so…

Well, I don’t think the time compression’s necessarily the problem

Tolkien is always about the journey, and The Rings Of Power was smart to focus on the characters’ enjoyment of Middle-earth rather than simply rattling off plot points.

enforcing Christianity across the nation

That’s like saying it’s very reasonable to ignore every foul play in soccer because diving is known to be a problem.

If I get blind drunk and decide to drive around, I could very likely kill someone. But it wouldn’t be considered attempted murder because I didn’t set out to kill someone. It’d be vehicular manslaughter or negligent homicide or something like that.

Funny. After throwing all kinds of accusations of racist/colonialist ideology against Stray, now it’s one of the best games of the year?