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What's a game mechanic you thought would have taken off, but didn't?
  • I have yet to find a game that expresses power fantasy through movement like Warframe.

    Warframe movement is super smooth, very fast-paced, and yet extremely controllable and complementary of game mechanics.

    Bullter jumping across levels, bouncing on walls to turn around and unleash a burst of fire, super-jumping 30 feet high to get perfect view of enemies, it does everything perfectly. You absolutely feel like you're a specter of death reaving though the battlefield.

    And every time I play a gamme, I feel glued to the ground and wished it has Warframe's movement.

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  • Conventions too.

    I had hundreds of hits from a single day at an anime con, and managed to fill half the globe with a handful of conventions.

    Nothing like coming home and spending the entire night getting those puzzle pieces and beating that Dark Lord.

  • After approving blessings for same-sex couples, Pope asks Vatican staff to avoid 'rigid ideologies'
  • For the Pope to turn into an antipope, you'd either need to have a massive schism in the Church that leaves the current pope completely stranded politically and causes the Church to ignore him, or you'd somehow need a higher authority than the Church to show up and name a different pope, and assume the current one wouldn't yield.

    So basically, short of Jesus showing up and naming a new pope that the current one doesn't agree with, the current pope won't become an antipope.

  • Christmas Cards
  • Depenfs of the countries, but in France, sending cash through the mail is actually illegal, and although the Post won't seize it, they also won't care if its stolen.

    Cheques are the safest option, and gift cards are covered by postal insurance if stolen, but consider mailed cash as gone before it hits the mailbox.

  • After approving blessings for same-sex couples, Pope asks Vatican staff to avoid 'rigid ideologies'
  • Some did (the Spanish church from the example I gave named their first pope after the death of Paul VI in 1976), but nothing stops you from having your own conclave of bishops, and have them say that the current Pope has been judged inept to rule (although that has never happened before in the Holy See).

    Which would make the line unbroken, the same way that the line was still unbroken when Benedict XVI resigned and Francis was elected pope.

  • You're just wrong. Don't @ me
  • Because what we call "lemonade" in Europe is not the same drink as what is called "lemonade" in the US, although we usually have our own variation (citronnade in France) that corresponds to the American one.

  • After approving blessings for same-sex couples, Pope asks Vatican staff to avoid 'rigid ideologies'
  • I mean, there are already plenty, for example, Peter III, who leads a Spanish church that believes they are the rightful Church. (Also, antipope is a subjective word, like heretic. From the perspective of various sects, the Pope Francis is the antipope.)

    Nothing stops you from calling yourself Pope and claiming you're the rightful leader of the Church, hereby making you an antipope to the eyes of the Church.

    Now is there going to be a relevant antipope, that's a lot less likely.

    The relevancy of antipopes hinged on the political power of the pope. Having the pope at your beck and call was an extremely powerful tool in the Middle Ages. But nowadays, between the secularization of most Catholic countries, and the massive loss of influence of the Catholic Church, an antipope would only have as much influence as his followers would give him, especially since they wouldn't have the support of the Holy See or the Church.

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  • The English translation is wrong, Gero, 17 and 18 are cyborgs, not androids.

    They're originally humans, who were turned into robots, while 16 and 19 were fully robotic androids (and use a different word in Japanese, I believe?)

    So 18 must've had her babymaker intact, maybe that's where Gero put the bomb that Krillin wished away.

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