No, there is just some amount of time between when a child’s only response is to scream for someone else to fix his problem and the more adult approach of realizing that his every whim is not someone else’s problem. There may be a legitimate difference of opinion about how long this phase should be prolonged - like…

Heavily armed citizenry is the real mistake.

It says Brew (I think) so it's probably iced tea.

The context that ultimately, everything will probably be okay. Kids learn that by growing up in a stable, or at least predictable environment. It’s how we sort out dealing with disappointment and loss. Bad or disappointing thins happen, the world doesn’t end, and things go back to normal.  Likewise with good things.  …

I’ve made it through the second boss and am ignoring the main plot entirely to do all the collectibles and side-missions.

Do you spend much time around kids? Because I’m my experience, the kids that develop emotional regulation early become much better problem solvers than the ones that don’t pick it up until later, if at all. What you’re describing is a cultural phenomenon, not an evolutionary one.

I think you’re kind of missing the point. For kids, the spilled milk, or the missing toy ARE the important events. They just lack the emotional regulation and life experience to put those things into context. The lives of children and adolescents are just as rich, and in some cases more so than adults. The idea that…

I always assumed as you age you learn coping mechanisms to lessen the impact of things that would normally trigger you, emotionally.

That is the weirdest fucking thing I have ever heard. I’m in the military and you can’t even get Soldiers to stand and salute the flag for 30 seconds during reveille and retreat, let alone standing for the anthem in their living rooms. (Seriously, go to any military base at about 1659 and watch people start sprinting,…

And this is the crux of the issue. For whatever reason, we have a legion of people who seem to have an almost exclusively binary logic. It’s as if the human brain hasn’t spent 400,000 years evolving to a place where it is capable of considering multiple inputs and understanding that the correct answer isn’t always…

He better have an album called “The Neal McCoy” or GTFO.

Sure.

Mmmmmm no?

Is being white really all that important to the character though?  The main thing is she’s the Emperor’s daughter and a source.

Well aren’t we using a tunneling electron microscope to arbitrarily split hairs on an atom’s ass?

Canon is nowhere as important as you think. In fact, canon is in many ways an obstacle to good storytelling, not a helper.

The level of bullshit and insensitivity in your comment is mind-boggling.

It’s not the same at all because representation of whites and non-whites is not equal to start with. The goal of racebending is to get closer to equality. So, for example, let’s say that, for every 100 white character in Western fiction, thera are 10 Asian character.

Agreed. The idea of Mongols, Turks and Roma NOT ending up in Poland and any point in history is just ignorant. I wish people would look at maps more often....

I am Polish and old enough to have read all the stories as they came out. This means that I have lived with these characters in my head for abut 30 years now and it’s really hard to imagine Ciri (and her mother and grandmother) as anything but green eyed blonde (the books keep referring her emerald eyes and ashen…