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Bad news: the answer might be Rocky Mountain spotted fever. 

*wonders why that sounds familiar* *wikis* "Tick-based... tick typhus... rate of... ah"

Uh. May you not be the 3-5%. Just... throwing that out there. Best of luck. The odds are with you!

... yeah, it's kinda' nice how a half century ago the most immediately noticeable problems were stuff like mere burning rivers, as opposed to record breaking arctic melt, plastic-inundated chunks of water the size of texas, and measurably increasing oceanic acidity that may very well kill much of the commercial fishing populations. Among all the other stuff (please methane outgassing, don't poison the atmosphere ;_;).

Would that we could set the clock back to only having the river on fire, and have another fifty years to stop the majority of the biosphere from imploding

E: And yeah, I'm well aware most of the problems we have now had their foundations laid back then, or even earlier, but a few decades less built up inertia is a few decades less built up inertia, y'know?

Adding things to a series automatically means there are some stories you can no longer tell. An addition is also a new constraint.

I can agree with that conceptually, but... practically, I've never actually seen it. Yeah, some excessively specific things like a story told in a particular city in a particular timeframe is impossible, but anything about the stories that can be told in that scenario except historical trivia can be told in a more interesting backdrop, too. Magic or robots or sci-fi shenanigans only add constraints compared to a more mundane setting if the writer wants them to. The stories about power and lives lived and loves lost and etc., etc., etc. are still entirely there, and with the possibility of new interactions added on. Giant robot's the exact same sort of constraint a tank is, or a knight, or a noble, or a police officer, or etc., etc., etc. Except more interesting because giant robot :V

E: I guess if I had to have a pithy quote for it, I'd say that Shakespeare is still Shakespeare regardless as to if Horatio is throwing around hadokens or not.

"robot everything" would be cool for a few minutes though until the novelty wore off.

This, however, is definitely a personal idiosyncrasy because that... basically never happens for me. The novelty stays. I've been reading fantasy for decades and the novelty's still there for me. Same for sci-fi, same for shonen, same for games of all sorts... I'm the sort of person that re-reads most their library over the course of a decade, and it's still as good the fifth time as it was the first. Admittedly part of that is because I do a fairly good job of rotating and spacing stuff out so I'm not actually embroiled in the exact same thing for months on end, but still. Everything giant robot is a proposition that has no down sides for me, heh. Won't until I can go outside and poke one with a stick, really.

E: And to your edit, honestly... yeah. Yeah, Beverly Hills Robot High would be an improvement over Beverly Hills, even if the quality was otherwise identical :V

Still would probably not watch either, but if I had to choose a poison it would be the one with boob missiles.

Which is good for them, and the last in particular explains a lot about the style. It's... still not good. Like something you'd see out of a starting garage band, vocals wise. Someone trying to be dragonforce or somethin' and not quite making it.

... I don't think anyone with the least lick of sense would actually consider continuing to discuss this subject in the middle of the wtf thread to be a good idea. Hint.

Let us get off the train akura's developing neurosis has started, or at least direct it to another track (i.e. someone that actually wants to get involved in this mess, please make another thread). Please.

... yes, I know who the major is.

he's not wearing a white dress

Also, every series is either sci-fi or fantasy and there are no real-world series.

At least they're doing something right >_>

Less snarky, can anyone identify where the zog the thing in the white dress in the short scene at 0:36-0:37 in this is from? It's been bothering me ever since I first saw the ruddy thing.