But the Magisterium is the Catholic Church run by Evangelicals. In Lyra’s universe John Calvin became the Pope and then eliminated the rank entirely, and generally integrated Evangelical teachings into the new church’s theology.

You can tell just by watching that it’s not one to one. The robot does approximations of the operator’s movements but that’s it — approximations. Hands are a lot more complicated than the two options that the controller has to offer: grab and let go. And so is gripping objects.

The human has to work at limited speed as not to go beyond the robot’s capabilities. The robot doesn’t match the human’s movements twitch for twitch, finger for finger. The grabbing action is done by clicking a button in the human’s end and it’s up to the robot to actually pick the item up. It’s not remotely as…

Why would it be macho? It’s not like they even taste bad. 

But so are shrimp. 

A lot of Japanese would say “what’s that?”. The Japanese public education isn’t unfortunately very good at covering their country’s WWII era war crimes. 

Don’t forget the organ meat. If you want to stay healthy on nothing but mean, you’ll be needing that liver. There’s a reason why carnivorous animals start from the guts. 

Season 2 is the worst part of the show. It’s only the seasons 3 and 4 where it truly starts finding its ground. The first season would be good but it tries to work through too much stuff in too short a time, since the showrunners didn’t know if they’d get another season. The 2nd season was rushed through and it shows;…

The most common way I’ve seen is have the second monitor in portrait mode. 

I just bought a new monitor because my old one had been acting up a little from time to time. I was looking forward to finally getting to use two. Then, before I had the time to set up the new one properly, the old one died for good.

It was released in 2005, actually. It just proved massively unpopular and will become non-canon with Cyberpunk Red. 

It was released in 2005, actually. It just proved massively unpopular and will become non-canon with Cyberpunk Red. 

Seriously. Israel is — at least supposedly — a democratic country, and the ability to criticise the government is a fundamental foundation of the democratic system. If you criticise Israel because its Jewish inhabitants you are an anti-Semite, if you criticise it because of the actions of its government, you are…

Those guys weren’t absolute monarchs, either. They had to share power with clergy and aristocracy, too. Sometimes one tried to wrest all the control to themselves, like Akhenaten, but that usually ended poorly.

Divine right of kings is actually a very brief chapter in the European history; it started around the 16th or 17th century and ended in the 18th. It was a transitory period between feudalism and civil government, when power was being consolidated from aristocracy to a centralised system.

They’ve actually steadily increased their testing. They started out doing very poorly with the testing and government regulations, but have managed to pick up the slack decently. But the most important part in keeping the infection in check has been the people’s voluntary efforts, not anything imposed on them from…

It’s a show about building little Gundam models and having glorified video game battles with them. 

That’s Macross, a different franchise. ;-)

Kotaku Australia posted a compilation of the gameplay clips without a commentary, that includes a part of the boxing quest:

You might have been thinking the non-game footage CGI trailers.