4 for sure. 4 is a pleasant and seamless experience that leaves you wanting more. 3 is darker without necessarily being more meaningful or interesting, and left me feeling fatigued.

The stories are totally independent.

I saw some comics from a long while back that take place a couple thousand years before a new hope. In those, *all* the lightsabers look frizzy and out of control. maybe it’s an ancient lightsaber

The whole show is like that. The titans have creepy rictus or non-anime faces, looking like naked red cushing patients, smiling while they eat people. The show sets you up to have some hope, to think the nimble little tech people can defeat the titans. But no, this is the Game of Thrones of anime. there is no hope

When the titans suddenly appeared and starting eating everyone, Germany began building a series of giant walls. The titans were fast and numerous, and it’s presumed everyone outside of this German haven is dead.

O_O There's a list of genetic diseases only Jews get. They started as one tribe in one place, and didn't marry outside, even as they spread across the world. So it's basically one huge family, which defines a "race" or ethnicity pretty much in the extreme, compared to defining races by language, which is how most…

No, it's still an ethnicity both because of their unique genetics and because huge numbers of Jews, if not most, identify themselves as ethnically Jewish despite not believing in Judaism.

Persian origin, but it is still a name used by Arabs, mostly last name

Gulf Arabians never had a need for an unarmed fighting style. They used to use archery, one handed spears and round sheilds, with a short sword for close up. A few centuries ago they adopted long thin scimitars for mounted combat. Then came guns.

Jews actually have an awkward situation there, because it's originally and ideally a tribe that didn't marry out, with unique genetics, so it is an ethnicity. But this tribe stayed exclusive all this time because they had a religion unique to them... so it's also a religion... and since the 1950s Israel has been…

it's because people typically don't understand what's offensive, so they get hyper-careful. Offense results from using negative stereotypes that define people too narrowly,or exaggerating a trait uniquely tied to a negative stereotype. So like, a Greek girl with ancient clothes is cool because we see ancient Greece…

Shaheen is the word for falcon in old persian, but since Persia was very influential it's words were adopted by others. It's like how the English word hound originally french.

I took my shepard in an interesting direction, racially. He was basically a blond montezuma. Hooked nose and cheekbones and everything.

Um, where are all the extremely terribly shiny heroes all the last gen players are making?

Probably not. But the first one is excellent and really establishes the settings, history, and cultures very well. Without the first one, the mythology and factions of this game might seem meaningless.

I feel like every story has already been told. Everything is made of tropes. People criticize the most common ones for being "lazy" and emotionally manipulative, but one could easily spin that positively: The reason avenging a lost love is so easy and prevalent in storytelling, is because it's *good*. It strikes us…

But the whole "avenging my dead wife" thing *is* one of the tropes the feminists I know find objectifying and demeaning; a stain on any game/show/movie that uses it.

Maybe it was. -_o_-

Wolfenstein features a male protagonist killing other men, and has little to no female/lgbt representation. It's not sexist per-se, but it's "testosterone fueled", and that makes it frowned upon. I've read criticism that the female characters in MarioKart are overly-feminine and slower than male characters. Tomb…

Yes, people who play it loved it. New age internet "Feminists" have criticized it for using the wife's death as motivation for revenge, for being a macho murderfest, and for the use of sneaking up on one's wife to kiss her as a tutorial for how to sneak up on and kill enemies. Obviously there's zero connection to…