Nobody where I live has any respect left for the USA, except for fascists. Peter Dutton tried following the American model and he lost his seat. We hate your country.
Yeah, the collaboration plane has four extremes:
Low D low E: I am the forever GM and my word is law. My players are here to experience my story, and that's all we ever do.
High D high E: My players? Oh, you mean my theatre troupe! Next week Sock is gonna teach us to play WTF!
High D low E: Yeah we've been playing in the same world for 20 years. I initially designed it when I was 12, but so much of the lore was added by my friends it's pretty much our world.
Low D high E: Last week John took us through the temple of doom, but this week I've prepared a political thriller set in Elizabethan times.
Those ones are really good!
There might be fun in there, I didn't look for that long.
I'm just giving it My final best shot before I definitively declare that I don't like Penny Arcade. I want to see what all the fuss is about, and then once I understand the fuss, I will see if I like it. And if I don't like it, then I can deride Penny Arcade and its fans secure in the knowledge I didn't judge a book by its cover /hj
Hm. I only registered those themes on a subconscious level, and all they got out of Me is a sensible chuckle. I think the joke went on for too long for how good it was.
Calvin's dad has a point. That kid needs to learn some organisational skills
Wait so their "signature pose" is just the peace sign?
Well I'm pretty sure most every expert agrees that communism is stateless, and the above definition is based on the Soviet Union, which never actually claimed to have achieved communism. The USSR claimed to be ideologically communist, not to have implemented communism.
We had 65,000 years of communism here in Australia. It was a gift economy. People lived with their families. They hunted food for their families, made tools for their families, constructed shelter for their families, made farms for their families. Reciprocity is one of the fundamental Indigenous values. You give what you can, you take what you need.
If you have a society where people's work is valued, then they take pride in giving. Look at Linux, look at Wikipedia. People do great things for each other because kindness is a fundamental human trait. Capitalism is the source of our modern greed and selfishness.
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I haven't seen this in any anime I actually watch, but I mostly watch shonen and other popular anime, not the romantic or sexual genres where this seems to come from. But on the internet, I see memes and art of anime girls with a triangular flap of skin hanging from the upper lip, usually on the left side (from her perspective). It's usually on characters who have more of the "manic pixie dream girl" personalities, which is I guess why I haven't seen it on the TV.
Here's an example I saw on MULTIVERSE today: 
It's not all men, but we need all men to fix it. Everyone is responsible for the state of their community, and the man community has been failing.