Not just the non-Christians, the wrong Christians as well.

How about: invader, encroacher, intruder, illegal immigrant, trespasser, violator, infringer or conqueror?

Hmm. Fair enough, fair enough.

See but the question isn’t “originated”.

It’s “popularised”.

Which Mario clearly did, outpassing both “Galaxian” and Crash in terms of popularity.

I know that Crash is bigger for you, but in the big picture, comparing Mario to Crash is like comparing Pokemon to Digimon.

https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Mario

The main core series, Super Mario, began with the platformer game Super Mario Bros. (1985) on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The main games consist of Mario trying to rescue Princess Peach from the villain Bowser and saving the Mushroom Kingdom.

As of June 2024, the Mario video game franchise has sold more than 900 million units worldwide, making it the best-selling video game franchise of all time. The main Super Mario series alone has sold more than 495 million copies worldwide.

Super Mario Bros. 1985 NES, estimated revenue $1,652,300,000

Have to scroll quite far down this list https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises to find Crash.

Fair enough.

My point is that the reason you played this game so much is that it existed because of Super Mario.

Thus the answer to OP’s question in relation to this would be Super Mario Bro’s, from which Crash is derived.

So like the other person said, specific camera things in the genre, not the genre itself.

Which would be more accurate, since the genre existed for years pre-RE4

100 Apples > 1 Life, and you could grind more to make some levels more forgiving, like semi-adjustable difficulty level based on your previous approach… And later on — warp zones, you get to choose from a few options so the progression has variation.

100 coins = 1UP and warp zones? And… you think they’re from Crash Bandicoot?

What are you smoking? That’s like a 2005 game.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_shooter

Jonathan S. Harbour of the University of Advancing Technology argues that Tomb Raider (1996) by Eidos Interactive (now Square Enix Europe) is “largely responsible for the popularity of this genre”.

Hell, Max Payne was definitely more popular, and it came out in 2001.

Missile Command is a 1980 shoot 'em up arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. and later licensed to Sega for Japanese and European releases.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Command

On the actual arcade machine as well, with the huge ball “mouse”.

Felt challenging, but also how it would be kinda trivial with a mouse and keyboard.

He’s clearly farming downvotes by simplistic antagonism.

Idk what people get from farming votes, negative or positive, but it seems people do do it.

Monotheism is a cancer on humanity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism#Violence_in_monotheism

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan regarded monotheism as a cause of violence, saying:

The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine

Yes.

Which is why you visit an avanto, a hole in the ice. To take a dip. Or roll in the snow. Cold shower will do in a pinch.

Then rinse and repeat. Literally.

Good for the circulation, our built in cooling system.

Anything approaching equalizing of interior with exterior temperature results in heat-related illness.

Giggles in sauna

I comfort myself with the headcanon that in the modern world, Karlach too would be a (conditional) pacifist. In the Forgotten Realms though, it’d just be very impractical.

I mean I think she’d still be, like, an adrenaline junkie, but would chase that with extreme sports and partying more than violence.

It was somewhat weird waiting for the HP release on her TG channel.

Like I’ve seen my fair share of terf transphobes, but she’s honestly best described as a hater.

There were so many rants.

But like with Harry Potter, I like to separate the artist from the art.

Romeo and Juliet laws do exist for many states, but not for all states, and the adoption of these laws is relatively recent. For instance Connecticut and Indiana only passed them in 2007.

The rest of this seems nonsensical to me, even America’s laws around adulthood (16, 18, 21) are more clear-cut.

No, they’re not, ohmygod :D

You have an actual federal government, but yet most of the States have different and sometimes conflicting laws.

The EU doesn’t have a central government, as it’s composed of sovereign nations (US states are not sovereign), and we still try to standardise as much legislation and regulation as possible.

so I can’t really understand how or why you would have a law saying 14 years is old enough for sex, but 18 for porn, but 21 for prostitution, as a premise.

How is it legal for literal children to have firearms? How is a 16-year old old enough to drive a car, but not to have a beer or sex? How is an 18-year old old enough to determine whether they want to literally risk their lives in war, but aren’t old enough to have a single beer?

It’s like your dating system; it’s all over the place.

Don’t talk about nonsense, my American friend.

No-one has suggested Baldur’s Gate 3?

I’m 100% sure you’ll find that on pornhub right now

You know how there’s this thing which horoscopes relies on, that humans seem to identify with somewhat vague descriptors of themselves?

Well I’m not one for horoscopes, but I thought I was reading someone describing me (although in a rather flattering and fantastic light).

Never realised how much Bugs Bunny and and I have in common.