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Strong disagree. They affect at minimum 2 (potentially 3 depending how you define life/person) by default. Both the parents are impacted by the choice either physically, emotionally, financially, and responsibility.
Situations where the two parents conflict on this choice are common and the power is incredibly asymmetrical and can/does lead to abuse.
Pinchflat does all the renaming, metadata, and file structure as I configure.
There is not going to be a war between Canada and USA.
Long history of not being profitable - 2018 and 2019 feel like more of an anomaly than a trend.
How'd that work out in the past with the previous owners?
Ignoring any other reason or policy how did this interaction impact your thought process?
Proton $10 per month Purely $10 per year.
I think that encapsulates your comment pretty well... the article was an interesting read, you don't need to agree with everything the author writes to enjoy it. Go touch grass (or snow depending where you are) and relax a bit.
You don't "pick" a diverse audience; you respect the audience/fandom how it currently is. I refuse to believe that if you surveyed ANY fandom and asked them to do a character description of the main character, they wouldn't come to a fairly common consensus overall.
>which is, like, accidentally racism.
No it's not, it's people saying the character isn't as they expected them to be - and again that's on the person using the franchise to match what they are creating to that built-in audience FIRST and FOREMOST - if they don't want to respect that audience they shouldn't be touching the franchise they should be making something original.
I disagree - I think for the most part there is a wisdom of the masses where sure not EVERY SINGLE person will have the same image of a character but if you had a character artist draw out what 1000 people think of that character you'd find they converge pretty closely... the problem happens when the casting is not close to that convergence and is far out on the fringes.
As I said before I think if you are looking to make a product based on an existing IP you are doing so because you want that built-in audience that IP has - if you can't make the effort to ensure you are honoring how that audience expectations then your project deserves to fail.
The place to do experiments with gender-bending, race swapping, expectation subversion etc is in original IP's that hommage the older franchises.
It's not reasonable to expect characters to be cast the way they are described (or the way most people picture them), or it's not reasonable to expect people to accept a re-envisioning? Asking because I'm not sure which way you were leaning there.
In my opinion, If you are going to use an existing franchise with a built-in audience attached to it, you should feel obligated to honor the audience's vision for the franchise. If you have dramatically different visions then you should be creating original content.
The only thing I've found more annoying than companies burning well-loved franchises in movies / TV / video games by trying to "modernize" them with today's identity politics is those same companies blaming the audience and telling us it's OUR fault the project failed.
1. Why are short-term rental units so popular with the renters? Why has the traditional market in this space fallen off and what can they do to adjust to new expectations by consumers.
2. Why are short-term rental units so popular with the owners? In the Toronto area for example I've heard from several unit owners that they would rather lose money than rent in the trad manner due to how far the rental laws have swung that makes evictions nearly impossible.
3. Specifically here in Canada these sorts of conversations always feel like a smoke screen or a way to find a useful idiot to get the masses angry with rather than addressing the core problem. In Canada our core issue is immigration policies that over the last 2 decades haven't been linked in anyway with capacity of housing, schools, healthcare etc.
So just to be clear you are saying at best the time difference between flight and HSR would be minimal - so where is the payoff for the billions the infrastructure would take to build. If it's purely capacity couldn't you spend a fraction of the billions you'd spend on the new infrastructure to bolster the existing system?
The entire narrative of "oh well it's not the official one so we wash our hands of it" is incredibly weak to anyone who isn't trying to find excuses for the project considering it was the official one until recently and tons of people were shocked to find out it wasn't the official one anymore.
I went and looked on the way back machine—that only became true in July of this year; prior to that, the user support community's Discord was marked as the official one.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240629163842/https://godotengi...
Comments like this boggle me how someone can be offended about massive achievements simply because they think something else should come first... who are you to set others priorities?
We need this sort of excitement and progress to continue... all too soon the ISS will be gone.
You are correct that it's not compulsory to turn right on a red, however, if you are going to turn right you can't just stop in the middle of the intersection you either stay back or you go.