I enjoy collecting achievements, but I almost never get 100% of them - a lot of the games I play have achievements for finishing the game on several difficulty levels, and I’m definitely not ‘autistic enough’ for that. TBH I’m usually content with 50% achievements.

I can see the appeal for games where collecting achievements isn’t extremely time-intensive, though.

With the low level of detail that’s used for most anime faces and the wild (by Japanese standards, anyway) hair colors, it’s usually pretty much impossible to tell without context whether a character is meant to be asian or european.

On a more ideological level, Japan was allied with Nazi Germany and committed a lot of atrocities back then, and they always had strong anti-immigration policies and an advantageous position to enforce them (island nation, difficult writing system etc.).

I guess apathy is slightly better than hate, but it’s kind of hard to be proud that so many people see all this hate and chose to not vote.

There’s a German word for that, Machtergreifung.

Being moderately well-off doesn’t mean anything when the government decides to deport you or otherwise deny you rights (abortions, anyone?). USA is also the country with (one of?) the worlds highest prison populations per capita, which is seriously fucked up. They even made inmates do firefighting in the LA fires, without proper safety equipment.

I go back and forth between lamenting that corporate propaganda created this state of things, and lamenting that so many people are dumb enough to fall for it. Calling voters dumbasses doesn’t solve anything, but I’m definitely thinking it a lot lately.

No, it’s pronounced fow-veh!

For roughly Jetta-sized cars by Volkswagen, it’s usually Passat or Golf (including the ‘Golf variant’ station wagon). VW Passat is fairly common as a police car, too.

Indeed. Though interestingly, the Jetta seems to be much more common abroad, t’s a pretty rare car in Germany.

The global population doesn’t really matter for this, homicidal fanatical christians or jews aren’t known to travel halfway across the globe to murder people who insult their religion. They’re quite rare in Sweden, and with the Swedes’ penchant for extreme metal and general lack of religiousness, there are a lot of potential targets in that country - shouldn’t be that hard to find someone who burned a bible on stage in Sweden in the last 10 years.

Islam fanatics’ violent response is probably part of their point, it’s going to be a bit hard to prove that point by burning a bible or torah in Sweden. I agree that they were counterproductive, though.

At least some of them probably genuinely believe that, and AFAIK it is more or less true for filterless butts. Maybe we should replace some of the gore pics we have on cigarette packets with information about environmental effects …

Maybe it’s because smokers already have to make the decision to blow toxic smoke around where other people (most of them non-smokers nowadays) are likely to breathe it in - it’s pretty much an inherently anti-social activity nowadays, so the step to littering your smoking trash isn’t that big. Maybe related to broken window theory?

Roommates pay rent and buy their own food.

AFAIK complete amnesia is rarely permanent, so it would probably fix itself most of the time if there’s no serious compounding issues.

Either way, the likelyhood of two missing people in the same general area looking so similar that their family can’t tell them apart visually seems extremely low.