If you want to gain independence, you have to fight the federal government's monopoly on violence. At its core, that's how all law is backed up. Two things you need to be a country. First, the ability to backup your independence with force. Second, the acknowledgement of the international community and their willingness to sign treaties with you. Sealand doesn't have any issues defending their "independence", but no one has signed a treaty with them for instance.
Is it because the Brits and Aussies are more willing to swear in person, so they don't keep it bottled up until they get online? America is really represented in many ways.
More that the hand was open and the figures being pressed directly into the skin, as if he was going to grab the heard directly without cutting it open first. It's not something you see often as there's the sternum in the way. I don't know if there's some Indian myth it's based off of or maybe some other piece of Indian cinema. It was a very specific scene, but it's 5 hours to go though, so I'm not going to be able it quickly.
As an American, we should be shipping our arts out of the country before the current regime decides it's subversive to the regime and burn it. Especially any art made by minorities, opposition or in places that might get bombed(any coastal city).
When I said "something real", I just meant a preexisting idea in India. The movie was Baahubali. There was a scene where the villain was trying to reach his hand into the hero's chest in exactly the same was as the cult leader in Temple of Doom.
That could work. They could also pull some Serious Sam updates. There's some subtly in SS4's writing that's quite nice.
Like having a completely normal conversation with a lesbian couple or prefering a power up item to a kiss, slightly taken the womaan aback.
Apparently the Duke Nukem Forever DLC that no one played had a femme fatale barking orders at him that kept Duke true, but shifted the power dynamic around.
Temple of Doom had way more questionable scenes in it with the banquet, the heroic British soldiers at the end and... Short Round. Did they really have to name him that?
Although the cultists were based on a real group and I actually saw something that looked like the heart thing in an Indian movie, so maybe that's based on something real as well.
Yeah, it's definitely a little questionable when the people currently inhabiting the land have no direct connection to the people who made the artifacts. And then you got shit like this. Or this.Or this.
A streamer I watch talked about joining a WWII RP server as a kid and quickly realizing there was a little too much emphasis on the Germans side and left.
For me, "Social Media(tm)" requires algorithm based media to be delivered to you without your input and heavy advertisement model attached that introduces corptate bias.
Lemmy is more like a fancy forum. Not quite the same as old bbs forums, but still better then twitter, facebook and whatever the hell reddit is becoming.
I was triple booting a Hackintosh for a while and kept them on their own drives. You have to because Windows updates like to screw with the UEFI of the drive it's install on at random time. Somehow, Window was less stable than OS X running on unapproved hardware.
A show of fealty. Anyone invited who doesn't show up will possibly lose out in the future. It's not something they have to do, but something they can force onto other people.
Wouldn't a nuke that big crack the crust?