u/atgrey24

BORTLES!

Well Ex would sign the form, removing OP from the lease. They would not be on the hook for any future missed rent payments.

Size of the book might change the number of pages needed, but would not change the thickness for a given page count.

You've got a few different things conflated here.

The spectrum from liberal to conservative generally describes how actively you think the government should be intervening in most issues. But it's also used to describe how progressive/traditional your beliefs are. Change vs status quo.

The left / right wing descriptors come from the French Revolution, where in their National Assembly revolutionaries sat on the left and monarchists sat on the right. The labels have stuck around so that left = liberal and right = conservative.

Marxist follow the philosophies of Karl Marx. Maoists follow those of Mao Zedong.

Communism is an economic viewpoint where property is owned collectively by everyone. In practice, this often translates into a government that has central, authoritarian control.

But there is WAY more nuance to all of these things than can fit in an ELI5 response.

I thought that ambiguity was the whole point

When it came out, my dad was hesitant to see it because it's seemed like the story would be dumb.

"Dad. It's giant robots fighting giant monsters, what more story do you need?!! Just go see it on a big screen!"

To this day he reminds me that I was correct.

If someone killed the king, and then was caught by the law enforcement (or equivalent) of that country, they are going to be convicted of regicide and hanged. They have absolutely committed a crime, according to the local jurisdiction. Whether they acted alone, or took orders from someone else, doesn't change anything.

"But another king far away said I should do it" would not absolve them of the crime.

Especially since they were not yet at war, in this case.

The two in your first photo are the new ones.

I have the legal right to carry a handgun in the USA, but if I do so in Europe I'd be arrested.

"I was allowed to do this in my home country" does not give you free reign elsewhere in the world.

But it does apply to people. Sure, you may need war or diplomacy to get justice against the state, but the assassin is still a person who committed murder.

"It's legal in my home country" is definitely not a valid excuse for breaking the law. There's examples of Nale deferring to local law and jurisdiction.

Fantastic.

Weirdly, I could see Nale deciding that it is legal for one monarch to order the assassination of another (the king is the law in their own country), but that it's illegal for the assassin to actually carry it out.

1. Their jurisdiction does not extend to other sovereign nations. Same with Teravangian sending Szeth around later. It was absolutely against Alethi law to kill the king.

I was gonna say that it looks like a Muji, but don't see a needle point option on their site. 

If not them, then it's likely some generic needle tip gel pen. Here's a bunch of capped options, though the Pilot Hi-Tec-C in particular seems like a close match for the form factor.

Not in the way that the term is usually used. The AI may be putting the thumb on the scale of some odds so that those risky chances keep working, but it's not literally interrupting the action and coming in to save the day.

The exception is when it stopped any assassination attempts, but even that is a pre-established character trait. Nobody is allowed to interfere with the Crawl.

Personally, I have not felt this is a problem with DCC.

It popped up in the recent Sanderson/Patterson book, Blightfall.

I know that just using that phrase is not actually a DCC reference, but I like to pretend it is

Oh the System AI absolutely abides by the Rule of Cool. While there are rules cannot be broken, they will certainly be bent way out of shape to accommodate Carl's antics.

I'm only going to judge the finished product, not early drafts. That's what revision is for. Of course the author is allowed to go back and make changes to set up the action they want.

My thing is always "set up your rules, then play by them." I can suspend all disbelief when the story is establishing itself, but throwing in some unjustified curve ball at the end undermines the whole thing.

You're telling me Superman is bulletproof, can fly, and has heat vision? Sweet! But if in the middle of the final battle he can suddenly shrink down or grow like Ant-Man, then we have a problem.

I don't think there's really any instances of a deus ex machina. The tools/mechanisms involved are always presented ahead of time, they're just used in surprising ways that you may not have predicted.

A more fair argument is that they keep taking "one in a million" chances and always get away with it, which, okay. But there's not much story to be told if Carl just died on the first floor.

The book of voodoo does come the closest, as it does make it trivial for Matt to give Carl and Donut new tools perfect for a situation. But even those are presented before they get into the action. I just see it as a fun way to change things up instead of just relying on their usual toolset.

It deserves its spot alongside DBZ in the anime canon. Though it similarly suffers from filler/pacing issues at times. Luckily you can look up which episodes to skip.

Maybe, but it's still definitely an anime trope. All of the things you listed are also tropes that are not strictly limited to anime.

They don't always chant the name, to be fair.

Though I imagined the stance for Dragon's Breath to have the hands held in front, more like Tien's Tri-Beam/Kikōhō. At least when he was first learning it.

It's a technique where the user must concentrate energy in their hand, keeping it constantly spinning as they condense it into a sphere of power. Initially, Naruto has difficulty doing this one handed, so he modifies the technique to use two hands for better control.

Charging up Dragons Breath uses almost the exact same description, and Lindon even has similar difficulty keeping the swirling madra contained (though it's intended to be two handed from the start).

The difference is that Rasengan is a melee attack, instead of a Kamehameha wave. But the Kamehameha description doesn't usually focus on keeping the energy swirling around.

It feels like an intentional homage to both techniques.

Edit: also, yes the original Rasengan uses pure chakra, though later variations do add an elemental type

Eithan is 100% pure anime trope. Goofy, nonchalant sensei who can become suddenly serious and is stronger than he appears.

Also, Lindon literally uses the Rasengan technique in Blackflame.