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Progressive metal is all about leitmotifs. Dream theater specially uses the technique to great effect. Like in Six degrees of inner turbulence or the meta album (each song in the album is in a different other album but construct a separate sequence) 12 step suite, about alcoholism.

Yeah, I think a lot of Frida's attractiveness was due to her strong character, personality and ideological thoughts. These have an influence on what and how we consider certain features attractive or not.

This is an incorrect way of looking at it. It's not an all or nothing circumstance. Nintendo is simply the flip side of the same coin of publishers abusing consumers. The PC gaming world is filled with good publishers selling high quality games at full price with no abusive practices (heavy litigation or mtx). As well as indie developers who do sales and dlc but are ethical in their design. You just have to look away from the marketing behemoths who want to syphon your wallet dry.

I have bad news for you. Spelling like it's pronounced is heavily subjective and opinion based. Virtually every single language in living use has deviating pronunciation to some degree.

I mean, yeah, why not? There are international whatevers for almost anything, specially professional practices. It's less cumbersome and cheaper than relying on regulatory bodies to organize and run conventions or seminars. Most of these chats are informal and born from that kind of events as well.

Something I also learned from working with the health sector is that there are really very few 100% dedicated to their niche specialists in every area. Sure, there are many heart surgeons, but very few experts on ventricular septal defect surgery on children. And some of that stuff can be so complex as to be a sole area of dedicated study. It allows these kind of informal forums and encourages a strong mentor-apprentice dynamics. So it is not rare they hit the group chat every once in a while. I also learned there are over a dozen different ways to make a vasectomy procedure and some doctors know how to do a few but not all of them and there are reasons to prefer some over the others depending on the patient.

What are some of your favorite channels? I'm also switching most of my content to French in order to immerse myself better in the language.

Rookie numbers, I was once a trillionaire, it was awful and probably the worst time in my life.

Anyone who cursorily looks at public transport logistics realizes that time deficiencies almost never lie on the actual motorization method. Electric, diesel, rail, rubber, car, bus, train, etc. All of those factor's influence pale in comparison to embarking and disembarking times.

It doesn't matter if you can make the trip in 15 minutes or an hour, if you always have to wait 40 minutes to disembark, then that trip is always capped at 40 at the least time it can take. The Vegas tube terminals are absurdly small. Thus people have to wait a long time to board a car, which isn't the most efficient thing to get on or off. And they have to wait a lot in line before getting to a park spot to disembark. Then it's the fact that each has to be driven by a person who need regular food and bathroom breaks and general rest. And there's a driver per every 3 or 4 passengers. Inefficiencies begin to build up.

So, under one metric, from departure to arrival, yes the tube itself could carry 4k people an hour. But as a transport system as a whole it is awful at capacity and collapses as soon as so many people actually try to use it. This is a system that experienced a traffic jam inside the tube in their inauguration day, because that's just what cars do when so many are at close proximity.

Well, you see, this is in the US. So women have rights and autonomy only on paper. In practice and according to a lot of people, women, specially when pregnant, are mere objects to be treated as cattle. The drug tests are part of the quality assurance. You wouldn't want damaged goods.

"We are proud that not a single person in the production team has ever seen anything from this beloved IP we are adapting."

Violence against a minority: lone wolf, obviously, let's pray he gets better.

Violence against a billionaire: it's time to discuss left-wing violence! (Shooter was obviously right wing).

The hypocrisy is palpable.

"We want to appeal to a wider audience that's not the typical X fan".

It's usually code for "stakeholders/execs want infinite growth, and we are too burnt out/creatively bankrupt to fight back. So, enjoy the change to another cookie cutter slop content".

Some shows even start out there already. Massive red flag.