That’s pretty much how it is. In ancient times, planets would have been objects that were distinguishable from stars in ways they had the ability to differentiate from. For example, with a telescope, any object that doesn’t shine like a star, that moves across the sky at a different rate than the stars, or maybe has visible rings.

Then once science found things that past science couldn’t account for, they redefined what a planet was, according to its size/gravitational pull or other factors, and which Pluto didn’t fit. Apparently due to Pluto’s small size, it’s not even a dwarf-planet, and by that measure is basically just a really big asteroid (we even know of asteroids that are bigger than Pluto).

Yeah this is the correct take. Either Pluto (and by extension, any object of similar size) is a planet, which would mean there’s thousands of Pluto-sized planets in the solar system; or pluto is ‘too small’ to be a planet. Which is the answer they (Sci community) settled on, because if every comet/asteroid is within the threshold definition of ‘planet’ then there would be no point in distinguishing planets at all.

Kinda like how we have dwarf-stars and supermassive stars 1000x bigger than our sun. If they were all the same size there would be no point defining them beyond ‘star’.

I must not be on the more scientific news places then, I didn’t start hearing about it until around last year–maybe the year before–, well after pluto got thrown out like last night’s trash.

I’m torn on this one, cause recently they’ve been finding evidence of a ‘new’ 9th planet, way beyond Pluto’s orbit. So I’m on the fence of “there are 8 planets” and “there are 9 planets.” 🤔

I play Satisfactory instead, but I felt that in my soul.

“I will savor your every delectable scent until our next night together.” --horny lizard gf

You’d probably like Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance games. They’re dated (PS2 era) but really fun, and it’s literally just Baldur’s Gate, but more like Gauntlet-style rogue-like games. Real-time, not turn-based, and they’re just side stories to the Baldur’s Gate canon.

Even the non political .ml communities are full of power-tripping, ban-happy, thread-nuking tyrants in my experience.

I’ve been censored/shadowbanned in a couple .ml instances for calling out their overzealous comment-nuking mods. Not even political in nature, just seeing threads where 80-90% of the comments are ‘removed by moderator’ and commenting how suspicious it was.

Then they removed that comment, and after taking a screenshot of the new comment calling out that, I got shadowbanned and can’t even vote there anymore.

Say something pseudo philosophical and passive aggressive to get you to return the cart.

Or charge you for having him do it

Eggman is his actual name though. When it was brought to America it was localized as ‘Robotnik’ without the creators consent.

As far as the creator/developers are concerned, Robotnik is the ‘stupid moniker,’ as you put it.

To give two sides of answers to your question: I played the early MK games on the Sega Genesis, and I would say start where you want.

As others have said, the new canon for the series starts with the 2011 game. But honestly, the 2011 game is very similar to the OG games. If you only played the OG, then the new games will only be a better version of what you played up until that point.

If you only played the new ones, it gives prominent backstory to various characters, and the gameplay is almost identical. It’s a great starting point for newcomers.

Biggest difference is that the new games try to make everything one seamless story, the idea being comic book multiverse things, where in one universe, Ryu isn’t the God of Lightning, but a simple student at the temple. Stuff like that.

TL;DR: There’s no bad place to start in the Mortal Kombat games.

Perspective in CGI must be a bitch-and-a-half.

https://youtu.be/dBap_Lp-0oc?si=7HLTUZ6SkDTzy2xm

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I need a 60 second audio of the conversation being had. I imagine she’s talking to either Lae’zel, Shadowheart, Gale, or Halsin.

I feel like the rest would just sigh and shake their head in agreement instead of asking for details.

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I can’t express the embarrassment I feel from how long it took me to understand this.

Somehow, some way, RDR2 was a finalist for Steam’s ‘Labor of Love’ award. I was shocked.

For anyone unaware, the Labor of Love award is for games that “came out a while back, but keep getting better through updates.” (ie No Man’s Sky, Cyberpunk, etc)

It stands for “Original Poster,” and from my understanding it’s situational. Like during a comment chain it would be the original comment. I could be wrong, but that’s how I’ve always interpreted it. /shrug

So what you’re saying is that, if given a choice between being barred/denied entry over pot use, people will instead just go to places that allow it?

Not sure I’m seeing the difference between your point and OPs comment.