cerebralhawks

"Too expensive" means "beyond what the market will bear. Objectively, the Switch 2 didn't cost enough — there was some other higher price that would have given Nintendo numbers such that while it might not have sold quite as well, what it would have sold would have made up for it. Would the market bear a $500 Switch 2? Maybe. $600? That, I doubt. $450 was a bit high for my liking, but the market bore it just fine and now it's thriving.

In a vacuum, that is a fact; however, for most of the things people get warrants out on them for, they know what they did. If they don't know it was wrong/a crime, I would say that's more on them than on the system.

You can get warrants for unpaid moving violations. For stuff like that, I think notification by mail would be more efficient. Like "you haven't paid this so now there is a warrant out for your arrest," just to inform the person. Yes, going against the reason for not notifying, they may still commit several more moving violations (like speeding) before being caught, but tons of people do this, sometimes right in front of cops, and a lot of cops look the other way. Now if someone has done something violent, left a victim, no, you wouldn't want to notify them because of the chance that they'd either go do more harm to the victim (and now the police/the system is liable) or they will do more crime that will result in more victims, and again, liability.

Yes, all of that. I forgot about Xposed, the name and what it was. It's been years since I was involved with any of that (strictly as a user).

I'm nowhere near educated or even smart enough to have one. So I'll go with Tom Clancy's. This was in... shit. One of the later Jack Ryan books. Long story short, Jack Ryan is a history teacher who gets recruited by the CIA to do something. Terrorists (the Irish, then) attack his family, he gets in deeper with the CIA. He climbs the ranks (mostly without meaning to) and somehow winds up president (of the US). He retires and his son ends up a soldier in foreign wars. This is over the course of like 20 books Clancy wrote.

In one of those books, they pretty much solved the Middle East situation. The UN came in and basically cleared out Jerusalem, which they decided was the crux of the issues in the area. The Christians, the Jews, and the Muslims all claimed it as their holy city. So the UN kicked all of them to the curb. It then redistricted the city into a Christian district, a Muslim district, and a Jewish district, with that holy temple Christ used as a fourth, neutral district policed by Swiss (or Swedish, I forget — the "neutral" one) that any of them could enter but none could claim. It was like international waters in a sense.

I'm sure there was more to it and I'm sure Clancy had ideas that didn't go into the book.

Smiley Face was made by Greg Araki, who has made some really dark, depressing, and generally fucked-up shit. I mean, he has a movie called "Totally Fucked Up." If not Smiley Face, he may be best known for The Doom Generation. He also made a few movies with James Duval, who was the crop duster's son in Independence Day (his first big film IIRC) and Frank the Bunny in Donnie Darko.

Araki made Smiley Face because his last few movies were so depressing, so he wanted to do something a little brighter. That's why it has "basically no plot," it's a feel-good (ish?) movie.

FWIW, the honmoon isn't powered by music. It's powered by the consciousness/mood of the populace, which is influenced with music. The demons are trying to steal souls so they can attack it directly. Ostensibly, what they've been trying before — such as terrorist attacks on planes as shown in the beginning — hasn't been as effective. So they're trying something else.

It's supposed to be about how music brings people together.

Now, how the demons take souls by getting people to listen to this other band... that's not as clear. I'd think Soda Pop bringing people together would have the exact same effect on the honmoon as Golden bringing people together, but what do I know?

I think whether KPDH has a stupid/ridiculous premise depends on how well it fits with the Korean stuff it's based on. I'm not Korean, I don't know anything about that stuff, so I just accept it at face value and it's fine.

I lost what little faith I had in the Nobel Peace Prize when Obama won it — and I liked Barack Obama, I voted for him both times, but I didn't think "up and coming politician"/"first Black president" really qualified him, and the general feeling around the time was "well we hope he does good for peace in the world." So... you give him a prize that is probably better suited to someone else, hoping he does what you want in the future?

Regarding Trump being a felon, I'm more concerned that we don't let felons vote, but we'll let a felon be president. Make that make sense.

I’m still laughing at those who said the Switch 2 was too expensive (on Reddit). The numbers prove otherwise.

None of them were ever good.

1. Because if there's a warrant out for your arrest, you've deliberately done something, so you know you're being looked into. It's not a lottery. They don't just issue warrants to random people who have no idea whatsoever that a warrant could be issued for their arrest. A warrant is just a court order to bring you in to face charges. Those charges are based on criminal law. You don't get warrants for speeding or blowing a red light or a stop sign or, since we're on the computer, downloading music or movies. You do get notified via the mail (or email) for those kinds of things.

Anyway, a warrant has to be served, and you can't be charged for evading arrest if they can't find you. It's once the warrant has been served — which legally has to be done in person — that if you flee, you are guilty of another crime. Once you are notified, you would typically be arrested right then and there. Depending on the nature of the crime, they may not even restrain you, if you're willing to get in the back of the car and come quietly. The violent arrests you see are either because of the violent nature of the crime or the criminal (yes, or the cop). But they aren't the norm.

I've noticed when a couple things happen, you get consistency. One, one of the Japanese dub voice actors is in the band (or is the singer). Two, when an anime reuses artists/bands who work well with their brand and the message they're trying to convey.

Two that do both of these things are Sword Art Online, and Bungo Stray Dogs. I'm less sure who from the Japanese cast is in which bands, but it's mostly Granrodeo, Screen Mode, and Luck Life doing the openings and endings. And they're all bangers, though the first ending is a bit weak, comparatively. In a vacuum it's good. In most series it would stand out, but in Bungo, it feels less special, just because the others are so great. Bungo has ran for five seasons, so you have ten songs, plus the theme sfrom the movie Dead Apple as well (which also wasn't quite as good — the themes, I mean, not the movie — all of Bungo is excellent).

I can speak more authoritatively about SAO — the Japanese actor for Asuna (the main girl/love interest) is Haruka Tomatsu, and she does a few of the themes. She does the first ending (Yume Sekai, lit. "dream world"), she does the fourth season first opener (Resolution), and she does the second season's second opening (Courage, the Japanese word being yuuki, which is also the name of the main character in that arc). LiSA did the first opening, and she also opened the third season, and a few others. Eir Aoi and Luna Haruna did the openings/endings in the second half of the first season, and the first half of the second season. The third season brought ASCA and ReoNa into the mix, and the quality has always been top-notch.

As far as quality of the anime, Bungo is like My Hero Academia for (and with) adults. I don't mean it's pornographic; it's not. I mean the characters are mostly adults, and they aren't high school students (well, aside from a couple of them). SAO is popular with gamers, but women/feminists don't like its portrayal of women and their use as leverage against the main guy. Others criticise the harem element while not realising the main guy only has eyes for the main girl. Another girl is his sister. Another girl is his girlfriend's/fiance's best friend. Another one is his best friend, a woman he considers his equal in combat. Then, invariably, there's the loli — a middle school girl he used as bait one time and tags along, she's kind of the group's little sister. So it's not a harem, it's just a friend group that leans heavily toward female.

For something that is more universally loved and has outstanding themes, you want Your Lie in April. And it's going to do exactly what you think it's going to do, but you're going to enjoy the ride, and it's still gonna break you when it's over. When we talk about TV shows and "the best ending" comes up, it almost always comes up Six Feet Under. Live-action show that aired on HBO 25 years ago with a rather unique ending that still has people talking. But when anime enters the chat, a lot of people point to Your Lie in April. Because what you know is gonna happen, definitely does happen, but that's not what breaks you. It's when the meaning behind the title is explained. And it's worth it to get to that point.