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  • There's police photos of the scene that were released that you can search online. Some include partial shots of his body.

    Shotgun, linoleum floor, greenhouse over the garage. Converse shoes.

  • Appearance, story, setting, and style are all mostly secondary to the mechanics and design of the game.

    Strip away the appearance of metroidvanias and you have a platforming maze with gated areas unlocked through progression.

    The overall maze of the game should ideally be enough to get lost in. Whether the world is going to be procedurally generated or predesigned, or some combination should be figured out early on. Even if progression is linear the access to and pathway through the maze should likely not be a straight line. It is very common to see or view inaccessible late game areas in the early game, for example.

    The gates of the game traditionally come in the form of new movement options. The reliables are usually: (double) jumping, running, slide/rolling, climbing, swimming/sinking, flying/gliding and so on. Choosing how and where the player may access these is important. This is to say: player movement is the game.

    Another common 'key' to gates is something that allows the player to defeat an enemy or boss they could not previously defeat, or otherwise access a new area. A notable example being metroid's ice beam. Freezing enemies gives the player new platforming options: and new movement in the game.

    Good new metroidvanias are aware of what has been done before and try to innovate on those tropes.

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  • People focus their energies on getting through the day for the most part of their lives. It is very hard for people to muster the time and energy to paying attention to politics, let alone ideologically political propaganda.

    The vast majority flat ignore it entirely and remain in an apolitical state. This is a primary function of propaganda: insulating people from political action or thought that might alter the status quo.

  • Just 10 years ago the US was still seen as being progressive and racism was slowly becoming a thing of the past...

    I cannot in good faith accept this sentiment as anything close to accurate. The terms of Obama were filled with so much overt and abject racism that anyone who believed America was 'getting over it' should have noticed.

    The current inferno is a spectacle but the buildup laying kindling and gasoline wasn't subtle.

  • Kibble bags tend to be the best storage space but they need to seal closed. A bag in a sealed container is your best bet for maintaining fresh.

    The fats and essential vitamins and nutrients are sprayed onto kibble and that's the first thing exposed to go bad. A little subtle rancidity is detectable to cats.

    If you dump kibble into a plastic pin: thosr rancid fats can leach into the plastic and remain there tainting all subsequent kibble with at least the odor of rancidity.

    If a bag sits open unsealed for a week it'll be stale as all hell and much less healthy.

  • The house bill was sponsored by a Pennsylvania Democrat and a Florida Republican.

    Amy Klobuchar and Ted Cruz introduced the Senate version.

    It's bipartisan and criticism is levelled at the opposition for doing bipartisanship: the chronic problematic condition the Democrats put themselves into while in the minority.

  • It isn't about remembering names, it's about being willing to use the correct one when informed. Exchange pronouns for proper names to test the concept.

    If you forget someone's name and you think it is 'Pat' but it is actually 'Kelly' would you continue to call them 'KellyPat'after remembering that it is 'PatKelly'?

    *Edit: I love that I mixed myself up even in my example. But to prove my point I'll call the correction out and be fine with that.

  • C'mon let this establish precedent so I can get 'deported' to the home country after 150 years.

    Also, why did she get sent across the country from San Fran to the SeaTac area? Is Washington acting like the Louisiana of the West Coast, what the fuck?