Got it. So braids aren’t the issue. Thanks.

Are hair extensions required for braids? The article here says the school specifically cares about the hair extensions, but also refers to braids in general as though they were the same thing. This is something I am honestly not familiar with, and I don’t understand.

As opposed to releasing it anywhere else. Note that he doesn’t say he sold it on TPB, or expected it to only ever be available there. Just that it was the sole original distribution point.

Never said it was a serious engineering challenge. But at the same time, it hasn’t really been done. Some people would genuinely like a device that’s been designed primarily to sit nicely on a table or countertop, and be pleasing to look at rather than a kludge of hardware. It sounds like that’s not something that…

Basially all the Autobot characters in these movies have the personalities of young children. Angry, homicidal preteens in giant robot bodies. With Optimus as the only slightly older teen who occasionally SEEMS wise, only to go on to throw epic tantrum fits when things don’t go his way. Which the other kids think is…

Was a bit of an unusual turn of phrase. I think that, plus the under the breath delivery, may have contributed more than the accent would have to difficulty in understanding.

Because a purpose-built device, done well, would be superior in form, function, usability, and durability than something the average person can construct themselves. Plus some people would just rather spend money on a solution someone has already put the time into than to do it themselves.

Er, you seem to be taking my observation as an attack, and that’s not my intent at all. I just wanted to point out an interesting historical antecedent to the issue we’re seeing today that you indirectly referenced. I thought it was interesting.

Yes, but my point was that you used it specifically in the same breath with Dracula, which at the time was NOT public domain at all. It was essentially equivalent at the time to the people now making fan games and having to change them to remove the copyrighted elements. It’s just interesting.

Kind of aside the point here, but I’m amused you called out Nosferatu here, given that it specifically exists because someone wanted to make an adaption of original IP (Bram Stoker’s Dracula) and they couldn’t get the rights. So they changed a few details and did it anyway. It seems very relevant here somehow.

I think the real commentary here isn’t so much that having an added narrative is bad, but rather that a very specific and focused one has been added that detracts from the larger presentation. The net effect is a reduction of the overall richness of the experience.

Have car “races” ever been a problem? Pretty sure that was a motivating element of the plot of Cars 2. The bad guys were all “lemons”, IIRC.

People act like it’s a massive, mind-blowing existential question.

It’s not uncommon to see pop out manipulator arms on the car characters.

Cars 2 had a barely-thwarted terrorist bombing plot, so that isn’t much of a stretch.

The analogy doesn’t work. It’s not comparable to the glass being easily broken. It’s more like if every single car by a manufacturer had the exact same key, so people were using the cars of any random person who didn’t get their locks change to go commit untraceable crimes.

I had to grin at the cape toss bit. It’s a classic Sigma move.

Knuckles wouldn’t go white (from the skin getting stretched) in that position. They’d go red (from straining to hold the hand open and firmly in place). Which they are. Guy is freaked out.

And what they don’t call out here are the kids who attend because they think they have to, even if they don’t want to, even if they know they could technically opt out, because they are aware of the damage it would do to them socially not to attend. It’s not really possible to get those kind of numbers, since by…

Oh, you’re right, it does literally say that. You win? Go you.