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I feel like there's probably about 50 different directions that one could take that idea, and the story very clearly paints that act as a Bad Thing™ to have done.

But to play devil's advocate (just because I have also been missing this type of discussion), one could argue that experiencing love would compromise Miquella's plans for his planned age of compassion. An age of compassion would be one which treats everyone equally, to try to universally end worldly suffering.

Love, on the other hand, is what allows one to play favorites, and is also something that cannot really be controlled. Having a stronger attachment towards some people over others because of love would result in discontent, and sabotage the type of egalitarian compassion Miquella wanted to create.

Marika's reign became rocky because there were conflicts between those she favored and those she shunned. She absolutely played favorites, and did not love everyone equally. Her solution to break the cycle of suffering was to simply remove death from the world entirely, but as we saw, that just ended up making its own whole host of problems.

So I think Miquella was trying to avoid making that same mistake of favoritism we saw under Marika, but ended up making another mistake which could have been just as potentially consequential as his mother's decision to shatter the rune of death. A dispassionate "compassion" wouldn't really be compassion at all.

Generally no, but it depends on how you handle the interaction.

This whole situation seems a bit odd and I can't help but feel like we're not really getting the full picture. But at a surface level, if someone takes what is really just a misunderstanding or miscommunication and turns that into a character assassination against you without giving you the chance to explain yourself, that is not something you should feel obligated to just accept.

But it depends a lot of how you handle it. If you just take the opportunity to fire back and make this a "them" problem, knowing they have some mental disability that could have caused them to misread the situation, that would be ableist.

What you could do is simply respond along the lines of "I can understand why you'd feel this way if what you believe is true, but I think I didn't explain myself clearly, and that's on me."

I would rather argue the motivations of a souls boss

Miquella did nothing wrong.

Boston City Hall is truly a legendarily gaudy building.

Part of it is also the constant push to try to weave the principles of confederacy into the fabric of American history via monuments and memorials, to build up this idea that the confederacy is part of the modern American identity rather than antithetical to it.

See for example the recent controversy surrounding the military installation called Fort Bragg. Braxton Bragg was a slave-owning confederate general who, by all accounts, was not even a good leader. But given the fort's location in North Carolina, one of the former confederate states, it got its name presumably due to local military officials sympathetic to the "Lost Cause" narrative, and stuck until just recently.

In 2023, the Biden administration pushed to change the name of the fort to "Fort Liberty" so as to continue removing these Lost Cause memorials and end this myth, but this year the Trump administration just recently renamed it back to Fort Bragg, ostensibly now named after a different Bragg who was just a paratrooper during World War II. But no one is fooled by what they're trying to do.

It's almost sad, really, just how badly they're clinging to this myth even today. But I guess more scary than sad, given that half of the government is essentially run by traitors. And it's really been that way for a long time now I suppose, but shocking how strongly they still choose to hold their ground on these ridiculous narratives when pushed.

Honestly that is much more likely how he'd say it.

"John Marshall Roberts has made his decision, now let him enforce it."

• Andrew Jackson Donald Trump

our system has yet to fail.

It's already failed.

Acht and neun.

Neun sounds like English nine, and acht is like October, which used to be the 8th month.

English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin, Classical Greek.

That makes 11, I guess.

can you summarise this lol

It has an abstract...

I'd more assume it's because it's approaching the end of the school year. If ever there was a time for a student to have a psychotic break, it would be right before finals.

Being gay or bi has nothing to do with this, so why bother mentioning the fact?

I wouldn't go that far, I think it's a very relevant detail for OP's situation.

Internalized homophobia is a real and unfortunate phenomenon for people who grew up in restrictive environments, and it can result in a lot of self-hatred and mental distress, including diagnosable disorders.

And the worst part about it is the shame some people feel about the whole thing might have them feeling that talking to a doctor or therapist is simply not an option, as they are not prepared to be "out" to others, even under the protection of medical confidentiality. The very idea of being out can be internalized as a failure, especially if it would burn bridges with bigoted family members (which is easy to say from the outside looking in that bigots aren't worth your time anyways, but not so easy when that is your entire support network and every happy memory you had since childhood).

It's definitely not simple, at any rate.

Luckily digital signboards will always be an option to replace TVs with if the situation becomes truly dire. The sorts of no-frills displays corporations buy to display whatever media they want in store.

Might not come with sound, but you can pick up a cheap sound bar and it will still be better than whatever cheap speakers commercial TVs try to cram in there.

Why is that? It's being done by a different studio entirely that specializes in ports and remasters.

This is definitely a ground-up remake, not a port with original code.

I mean sure, if what America wanted to hear was "day 1 dictator", "mass deportations", "tariffs", and "finish the job [in Gaza]".

He's doing exactly what he promised. This is exactly what America voted for.

And yet America wouldn't even elect that, given the choice.

It'll happen. I don't think it'll be good, but it'll happen.

This remaster was made by a different studio, not Bethesda, so I do believe them after they said that TES6 is now in full production following Starfield.

Microsoft likes doing shadowdrops, apparently. Hi-Fi Rush being the most prominent, but they also shadowdropped the Ninja Gaiden 2 remake a few months ago.