In my most recently played campaign, I was playing a character that was eventually supposed to betray the party. I got killed long before that for being a general problem character.
So my character had gotten a horn early on that, when I blew it, summoned a literal army of subservient goblins under my command, which we used to build/defend our base of operations. Unrelated to the TPK, but a funny thing came out of it because of the TPK.
Kujo (the character) was probably close to true neutral, not doing good or bad unless it personally benefited him. At some point he gained a potion that, if he didn't drink some of often enough, would turn him into a spikey godzilla-man of some sort. Kujo loved this cause it made him stronger in every regard.
At some point, while wandering around a town, Kujo came across a couple of kids from the local orphanage, and chose to "adopt" them (he basically said 'you're coming with me' and never spoke to anyone at the orphanage). After Kujo gave them some 'soda' (which were just extras of the potion from earlier) one kid sprouted wings from their back and the other turned to living stone like the Thing from Fantastic 4.
A few adventures later, one of our party members is getting testy over Kujo's chaos, and brews a couple of the potions with poison in them. As they watched Kujo down one of the poison bottles with no effect (level up had coincidentally JUST given him poison immunity before that session), and watched him try to hand the extra potion to the kids (who needed it as well).
At this point, the person trying to poison Kujo jumped into action, not allowing Kujo to poison a child with the potion that they had made to kill Kujo. Immediately casts Disintegrate, which I passed the save for somehow, and Kujo beats it as fast as he can, chased by the other player.
I don't remember how, but I failed some kinda save during the chase and fell prone, allowing the other player to catch up. Between the Near-disintegrate and other spells thrown from the player at this point, Kujo was lucky to be alive. Which the player corrected almost immediately by curb stomping what remained.
Now, remember those goblins? The entire army that was effectively running our base and doing all the logistic stuff while we were out adventuring? The one that was summoned when a horn was blown? Summoned by Kujo?
Yeah they all just popped back out of existence with his death. Everything that was being done at base suddenly stopped. Our support network was effectively gone. We went back and the few non-goblin allies we had were cleaning up the mess, putting out fires where goblins disappeared while holding torches that fell after the goblins proofed, picking up tools/supplies that had been dropped, everything.
Honestly that whole campaign was just fun, and the TPK was the cherry on top that made it so much better.
Using median makes it a loaded statistic skewed in favor of the minority (in this case, the wealthy).
Over half the country is living paycheck-to-paycheck, so that median number is already in the 'well-off' category by default, making them irrelevant to the main point of discussion.
To give two sides of answers to your question: I played the early MK games on the Sega Genesis, and I would say start where you want.
As others have said, the new canon for the series starts with the 2011 game. But honestly, the 2011 game is very similar to the OG games. If you only played the OG, then the new games will only be a better version of what you played up until that point.
If you only played the new ones, it gives prominent backstory to various characters, and the gameplay is almost identical. It's a great starting point for newcomers.
Biggest difference is that the new games try to make everything one seamless story, the idea being comic book multiverse things, where in one universe, Ryu isn't the God of Lightning, but a simple student at the temple. Stuff like that.
TL;DR: There's no bad place to start in the Mortal Kombat games.
What if we're in one of the sad states that has 'right to work' laws?
For those unaware, 'right to work' laws at exactly the opposite of how they sound. They outlaw (or at least restrict) union presence in their state, you know, so employers don't have to deal with unions and can therefore do what they want with their labor force.
Can we actually just ban articles that use 'slam' in the title? Unless it's two physical objects colliding? You know, actually slamming into each other?
I'm so fucking sick of this piece of garbage hyperbole.
I think for fitting the syllable count, "we didn't scratch the CD," fits better. I know being a disc doesn't make it a CD, but nobody cared at the time anyway lol
Edit: still, I want this to be a Weird Al song, and your lyrics fit the theme perfectly
Man, DD just keeps losing to CD Projekt. I remember DD originally came out for console right when I made the switch to PC, and when they finally released on PC? Same exact day as Witcher 3 release.
Something something shadow of giants.
Like honestly, DD devs clearly don't think things through, and if I didn't absolutely love the first one, I wouldn't be giving 2 as much slack as I am.
Sorry, not laughing at you, the idea of game journalism having any integrity. That said, it's likely an issue with editors pandering to their CEO or other boss, but still.
Most of them I guess, I only just learned there's 2 types, one for Americans and one for whoever else is dumb enough to not use metric. Imperial units are dumb, inconsistent, arbitrary increments that make little sense. Metric is uniform, even increments of ten/hundred/thousand no matter how far up/down in scale you go.
Measuring distance, the smallest increment imperial has is the inch. 12 inches make a foot, and 3 feet make a yard. The next increment up is a mile, which is 1780 yards, why the giant leap?
Meanwhile with metric, no matter what you're measuring, the next step up is just a multiple or factor of 100 or 1000 of whatever you're measuring. 100cm = 1m, and 1000m = 1km.
And don't even get me started on Ferenheit vs Celsius, nevermind the fact that Kelvin is better than both.
I say all this as an American who grew up struggling with our dumb ways of doing things.
No, it's the guy from Doctor Who!