It’d still be the same. It doesn’t have to be shot-for-shot for a remake or reboot to carry on the spirit of the original.

Which she’s only doing at the behest of her master, who literally programmed her. Docile does not mean inactive. It literally means “ready to accept control or instruction.” Metropolis fits.

We too often interpret the Second Amendment in the context of how our government is structured today, instead of how it was structured in 1789.

I saw this first hand in biology.

An important note: The damage was likely substantially lessened because the shooter didn’t have an AR-15 style rifle.

But I don’t like everything to be displayed in numbers like that. In order to preserve the integrity and illusion of the world we’ve so carefully built, I’d rather players just get an impression of the weapon being stronger because it is made of stronger material. We do display hit points, though, somewhat to my…

They knew people would catch on. They’re not dumb.

On the latter - yes. 100%. Trump would start WWIII on the Korean Peninsula over nothing. I guarantee it. Bolton has long been a proponent of a targeted strike against the North to destroy their nuclear capability, while H.R. McMaster was reportedly the strongest voice against it.

I see it. But the lines are different today. Nuking one city was shocking but it wasn’t outside of the scale of destruction we were capable of. The firebombing of Tokyo just a few months before killed more civilians than either nuclear bomb. By some measures, it was more horrifying. When the isolated fires from the…

With Putin and Trump there is no line. The one thing we have going in our favor is that Putin rightly believes he’s stronger if Trump is stronger. So Putin will test our limits, but never enough to jeopardize Trump’s standing with his own base. When you develop an intelligence asset like Trump, you string it along for…

Yeah. Based on our current nuclear stockpile, it’s the line that’s about 7,500 times worse than the line we crossed at Hiroshima. And despite how much worse that line is, it’s still very very close to the line we crossed back then - close enough that today we can’t cross one without the other.

Russia’s GDP is also hovering around $1.5 Trillion, down from a peak of around $2 Trillion.

If I recall correctly, the family’s worth is in the 10s of millions and its mostly tied up in the father’s metalworking compnay.

Luke not kicking ass is perhaps the interpretation that is most faithful to the original trilogy.

Back in the late 1940s, and early 1950s, there were lots of proposals for how we could prevent a war hawk President from launching all our nukes on a lark. One academic proposal was to surgically embed the launch codes in the chest of an aide who was at his side at all times. That way, in order for the President to…

You just gotta except that these people all speak in code. “The Media,” “Globalists,” “thugs,” etc., all have special meanings that are readily understood by their audience, and therefore the meanings can go unsaid.

Toys R Us started out as a Chapter 11 too. It doesn’t mean it’s not going anywhere.

You’re missing my point. I’m not trying to characterize a ‘typical’ conservative.

A big question is just how you define a “conservative” character. You could say that cops in crime procedural are all conservative. They’re usually good, clean, upstanding and successful, with straight, nuclear families. And they like to fight unambiguously evil, vile criminals. And the only time they encounter…

Based on my read, that’s not exactly what she’s doing.