Shit like this keeps happening and Iran just shows incredible amounts of restraint.

Meanwhile, the "only democracy in the Middle East" is allowed to act like a rabid dog.

I'll give you Venusaur but Charizard is a dyed in the wool fascist.

The liberal model not working for a developing country?

It's normal.

Especially if you're writing in a popular style, tons of musicians just use the same chord progressions over and over .

Once you start layering things on the melody, it's pretty unlikely that it will resemble anything too closely.

As long long as you're just using your own creativity, I think it's very unlikely you'll just clone a song.

If you're really worried about it, you can just change a few notes in the melody on the page in a way that you wouldn't think to sing "naturally"

Most of the lore is written about the Horus Heresy. From the point of view of humanity, it's the worse thing to happen to the imperium, as it has not and will never recover from it.

There's another human civilization called the interex that was basically the anti-imperium in that they were pluralist, secular, and sought peace within the galaxy. The imperium destroyed them, so it pretty much crushed any alternative system or hope in the universe, so that was pretty bad.

As far as actual body counts and gorey details? I don't know, the eldaar, dark eldaar, old ones, and necrons are all pretty fucked up.

No, political is things that make me personally uncomfortable

China: we're going to become a manufacturing machine for the world, but we're going to use your investment, technology, and infrastructure to build up our country and eventually overtake you.

US capitalists: hah, yeah, sure. Would you look at these profit margins!?

In a lot of religious areas, you're not allowed to buy religious iconography.

But if you make a set-price donation, they'll give you religious iconography as a completely unrelated gift to recognize your piety.

I've been passively boycotting AAA games for years now because they all suck* and I don't want to play them anyway

*Exceptions may apply

Final Fantasy Tactics posting, eh?

"Oh, you don't want us to collectivize your land? Sorry, you can blame yourself or blame God."

"So you've made your choice. Die in obscurity!"

When you understand Marxism and Stoicism

"because of the Suez situation, we have a lot extra shipping containers lying around. How can we sell them in a way that makes the world worse?"