By a lot of shit you mean a hoard of domestic employees that he definitely thought of as his slaves then yeah he went through a lot. He's never been meaningfully told, "no you can't have your way" by anyone
Eating something, drinking some water, getting as much sun as possible without getting burnt. Those three will take care of most of it to be honest with you.
Y'all I get that the news has to get paid for somehow but all the scummy shit they do to be able to make ends meet makes me not want to give them any money ever
The criticism is that in creating the midichlorians the force became less metaphorical and more literal. Before TPM the reason the Emperor lost wasn't because he had fewer "force points" than Luke or Vader it was because of a grander poetic narrative that some felt was cheapened by having the bigger number go brrrr
That's how I felt about getting into TTRPGs. I'm struggling to DM from published material and then I watch Matt Mercer assemble a world piece by piece from just his mind. Feels kinda intimidating but I keep reminding myself of the time gap of experience and realize that I can be that cool too given a little time
Or Simmons got more expensive faster than Larian wanted him too. As for redeemable I'm not quite sure I agree with you,
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Ketheric is a tragic story but he not only flipped sides to an unambiguously evil goddess and killed many in her name he went and abandoned her as well for Myrkul. Why would anyone let alone a goddess trust him?
Japan is next to two authoritarian nuclear armed countries that are both losing ground in geopolitics and have been for a long time. Now they can be all like, "these are just the jets we sell to other people, imagine how much better ours are"
Trunks look fine but the bush might not be, weird perspective mostly