don't go in a space shuttle
As awesome as it was in concept, that thing was a safety nightmare from the very beginning. With every other manned spacecraft if something goes wrong during launch you can blast off and land the capsule safely in the ocean, but with the shuttle there were large portions of the ascent and descent profiles where, if something went wrong, you were going too fast to turn around but too slow to make it to space so you were just hosed.
I tried to think of a second rec that's also vegan friendly and came up short. Could be an interesting story - isekai'd into a world where you're expected to hunt monsters, but you reject the premise and become a high fantasy Steve Irwin protecting endangered magical creatures instead.
You know, even when I was a kid I thought Magneto's plan in the first X-Men movie to turn everyone into mutants was fucking baller and they should have let him do it. Just 'cause that one guy turned into a water monster doesn't mean that would be the default - the X gene expresses way differently in everyone who has it.
An no, I don't think giving every human the X gene constitutes genocide, that's fucking stupid.
Shot by a rental cop in a fucking Walgreens. You could burn every Walgreens in this country to the fucking ground and it would still be less of a loss than a single person's life.
It sucks but criticizing poor countries for their environmental record is often an excuse for rich countries to deny them any means to improve their situation. Unless those rich countries are willing to come in and pay to build and maintain a shit ton of renewable infrastructure, they don't have a leg to stand on.
Actually, Marxists should let capitalists do all the bad things and never oppose them.
V I Lenin
Sony tried to market the PS3 as a multimedia entertainment hub - in hindsight it was an idea ahead of its time, since that's what basically all Smart TVs are now - but the $700 price tag made it unattainable during the critical first year of sales.
it also launched with "install other OS" as a feature, which they removed later via an update.
The original X-Men trilogy was pretty good slop. It was before all of the personality had been sandblasted off of superhero films and you could cold open with a scene at a Nazi concentration camp.
Critical support for people taking as much money as they can from the US Government.
:inshallah:
imagining future Americans getting mad at the global acknowledgement of the Korean and Vietnamese and Iraqi genocides.
:inshallah-script:
Everyone here is talking about the stories, but I want to add a point about how the hobby itself makes you really buy into the universe.
There's this concept in tabletop that sometimes called "Your Dudes", which basically describes how incredibly attached you get as a player to an army if you take the opportunity to customize them. My own Sisters of Battle aren't just pixels on a screen that I spawn in when I have enough command points, I remember painting literally every single on of their guns, liveries, and armored corsets. I've thought of names for each of the squads and applied little color variations to them so I can tell them apart on the board. I know the names of the sergeants and exactly what bits and pieces of wargear I attached to each of them so I can swap them in and out based on my army list. I have a whole backstory about how they come from a feudal planet and their liveries are super colorful because it's their family's banner.
Anyway I think that people who actually play the game get way more attached to the universe than in other hobbies, and that drives them to want to bend over backwards to explain why their faction is the Good Guys, actually.
I remember when I was a teen a news story about malls playing a high pitched sound that old people couldn't hear in order to annoy teens into leaving was going around. Never encountered it myself though.