Gambling addiction has very little to do with whether you are rich or poor. It has a lot to do with the way your brain’s reward circuitry is wired—namely, what’s called the “near miss” reward circuit.

No, it wasn’t that this was a controversial concept, or an ideal that was only followed by a few people. Samurai in the 1300s idealized the idea of pragmatism. The whole idea of “loyalty to death” as a beautiful ideal didn’t even really exist until the late 1600s. A samurai and his lord was a mutually beneficial…

If we’re going to talk about realism, note that the whole concept of “Samurai honor” was largely a peace time invention that developed during the long Tokugawa-Peace era of 1600 ~ 1850 or so, mostly during the 1700s.

One of my favorite Queen Elizabeth stories was when she photobombed people. Which she seemed to do like not infrequently, makign it seem like she did so rather intentionally when people were taking selfies unaware she was in that direction.

Many basic jobs can be replaced by machines, but it is very rarely economically feasible to do so. The more jobs you replace wiht machines, the cheaper it is to keep using people than machines.

Basic econommics suggests that unless you reach a tipping point where it is cheaper to replace minimum wage workers with…

Some writers just jump off the page. Some because of the beauty of their prose, some for the amazing thought that went into crafting a world for the reader, but they all make you FEEL something.

There’s a go fund me from what I believe is Mike’s family.

I majored in History, and through my Roman history classes, I met some of the coolest friends I made in college. One of them is now a professor of roman history in Michigan.

In a way, there’s truth to that, as students to have very limited free speech rights as part of school activities, compared to adults.

People worshiping at the altar of technlogy have been predicting the end of labor since like the industrial revolution. There’s basically zero evidence of any trend towards its realization.

The title page and the first 5-6 pages were in color, the rest in black and white.  It was quite a way to kick off the manga.

So, this is nitpicky, but Sailor Moon debuted as a manga in Feb 1992, and as an anime in March 1992, Sailor Moon in 1991 would be a blank sheet of paper.

I had the opposite reaction where I just could not look away or stop laughing. When Sailor Moon makes her appearance, I just started guffawing and could not stop.

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I would be more shocked at this, if it weren’t for the fact I just read about Horizon Worlds being released in non-english speaking countries in English-only,

If classic JRPG mechanics with some minor tweaks can be made to appeal to people who don’t like JRPG games, that’s actually an argument deeply in FAVOR of how much JRPG mechanics still appeal to all types of gamers.

I’m mostly a fan of hte FFI - X games as well, but FF7-R was a blast. It mixed the old ATB style with real time action RPG elements really well (on the other hand I hated combat in FFXII, XV unlike many other people).

A swastika on a red and white background are basically colored bars on a flag, so... yes. Agree.

It was weird to me as a Japanese American that many of my peers were watching Power Ranges without having any conception that they were watching a Japanese tokusatsu show.

I was too young to remember the 80s so I’ll have to take your word for it lol.