The art is by Lauren Dombrowski
Yes. From the article:
Ethiopia: [...] It is one of the few African countries that enacted its own anti-gay laws – most others inherited those laws from Britain.
Oh, I have... I have...
I am shocked to hear that the company which needlessly and cruelly killed animals with their experiments, did not bother to keep records of the cruelties they committed. SHOCKED!
Note: This is from last year. The numbers are much higher now. Ukraine puts the number of dead Russian soldiers at 376,030. The US says it's 315,000 personnel.
Either way, if those numbers are anywhere close to the trugh, then Russia has already lost ~50% of the personnel that the entire Soviet Union lost in its 9 year-long invasion of Afghanistan. And the fallout of the war in Afghanistan contributed a lot to the fall of the Soviet Union.
To add to what krellor already mentioned: It's hard to find one definitive image of a specific Greek deities, because they were worshipped over hundreds of years and not only in Greece, but also in Greek colonies (for example Sicily) and places that were heavily influenced by Greek culture (for example around the Black Sea). Most of these places had their own particular interpretation of what a Greek deity was or wasn't.
So it was no contradiction that Artemis could be a "man hating, out lesbian" in one place and an "aro-ace ascetic" in another. Unlike in modern monotheism, there was no overarching dogma people could refer to and places often had their very own myths and stories about the deities. Only some of those have survived until today.
So our modern interpretation of Greek deities is something of a puzzle with many pieces missing and no way to confirm if the pieces that we have ever were part of the same picture in the first place.
Maryland authorities are looking for a man, aged 53, goes by the name of "Todd" who went missing this afternoon.
They are banking on nostalgia, because nostalgia is all they have left. After so many people have left I don't even know what to expect from a new ME or DA game.
Thank you. I try to make an effort, but it is really hard to type. Humans should make smaller keyboards.
Nippon TV has been funding studio Ghibli films since the 90s and also owns (for example) Madhouse. While I am also sceptical of where this leads, I think it's one of the better options for Ghibli overall. At least Nippon TV has shown in the past that they understand what Ghibli is doing and isn't just picking them up because they have the money to do so.
Tolkienesque fantasy has become the carbon copy of a carbon copy of a carbon copy ages ago...
And it becomes even more apparent when people consider that Tolkienesque fantasy tropes aren't even about "medieval Europe", they are about a particular English pseudo-medieval world. Fantasy doesn't do much exploring even beyond the English-speaking world.
Southern Europe (Italy, France, Spain,...) aren't even featured much. The landscape may allude to it, but then the same Northern European castles sit on the top of hills, occupied by the same kind of lords that you'd find in other parts of the game map.
And other parts of the medieval world do not fare much better: Everything around the Mediterranean is reduced to stereotypes or entirely replaced by some fantasy race. Every place outside of Europe/the Mediterranean fares even worse.
It has no depth, no knowledge of particular local traditions, it is not rooted in any stories, only recalls the same tired tropes that Tolkien established.
Even inside Europe and around the Mediterranean, the medieval world was very diverse. Every region had its own traditions, stories, clothing, customs and its own mythologies with their own particular kinds of monsters and creatures.
But you'd not know through most fantasy stories which - no matter the landscape they take place in - it always boils down to a band of adventurers walking into an inn, drinking a beer and paying it with gold coins, before they go off to kill some orcs in the name of some duke. Very little thought is spend on considering if it even makes sense that a place that is akin to - let's say - Southern France had any of these things.
When Tolkien wrote LOTR, he based most of it on ancient Germanic stories like "Beowulf", that there are uncountable other folktales and stories from all over the ancient world which could be chosen as the basis of a fantasy setting instead.
One more reason: The dish tastes exactly the same every time. No variation at all.
But when you cook real food, there is always a little variation because the ingredients are usually always slightly different (vegetables more or less watery, meat more or less lean, a little bit more or a little bit less salt or flavouring). It's one of the main skills of a really good cook: To perceive the subtle differences during the preparation and to bring out the best possible taste incorporating the differences.