I hadn't realized that you were already Masamune Shirow years old!

Other people have given the real answer (accessibility) so I will say that it's to hide extra jokes.

It's not quite as literal, but makes the analogy that human civilization builds upon itself in the same fashion, something I already wholeheartedly agree with.

Curious Archive has a video on this type of worldbuilding, and how it's more natural to have a setting which has grown out of the corpses of older civilizations.
youtu.be/iHSEFMYjbnE

"What changed such that xyz is now a viable and/or actionable as opposed to when I suggested it earlier?"

I like making enemies at work

I got the perfect pair of burgundy pants in Spain years ago, and they've damaged beyond repair. The company no longer makes those pants. I understand the pain.

Are people falling asleep because they've been listening to a metronome going TikTok for years now?

Thank you for sharing, I somehow missed this and am absolutely here for it. Beyond the topic and humour, I really enjoy the character design.

Western animation currently feels like it's struggling to find an identity in this, and so I love a unique take that matches the mood/theme of the show/movie

Oh, you mean by letting it sit for way too long because you forgot you were steeping tea?

Does this mean your full name is actually Kylie Skeleton?

You could have been describing the Greensboro game and changed nothing but the location and it all would have still been true. It might just be a consequence of the culture that VtM inspired.

I think this is the first time I've worked on something that's stirring in the gestalt and it's interesting to see examples play out before you and how people react.

4/4

But is withholding aid violence? Is disallowing a people food, water, and medicine not the same as bombing them, when you cause their deaths all the same? What difference does it make if you shoot someone or deny someone else's ability to have a lifesaving surgery or if both cause a death?

...3/4

The other is an exploration of violence. Our media has become increasingly saturated with a fetishization of violence as well, where we're made to enjoy it in a Tarantino film or Call of Duty game. We've wholly accepted that physically punching or shooting someone else is violence.

...2/4