Animorphs transformations are described as about as gory as what happened to that guy in the trailer, though.

That said, I think this might be a function of growing up reading and graphically imagining the contents of Stephen King novels, and then getting into the World of Darkness and learning about the Tzimisce. I may be an outlier, is what I mean.

...in the cinematic presentation of a triple-A video game there is only the power of friendship.

Alternately halfway through the game you're on a mission doing something else and then get a distress call and it's Chairon and then Titus has to decide whether to go rescue him or not, which he does, because while in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war...

Acheran is absolutely really dead tho.

Named Character Dead, No Body Found. We know how this goes, guys.

A well-executed Osprey Publishing war history pastiche, I might add, with elaborate color plates detailing their uniforms, honors, and heraldry, because you need that if you’re going to paint an army.

…that spanned beyond the sea of stars. All of this is detailed in Horus Heresy Book 5: Tempest, one of the Black Books (game books, not to be confused with the novels), which details the history of the Ultramarines in the style of a po-faced Osprey Publishing war history pastiche.

It’s even more tortured than that. Ultramarine pigment is called ultramarine because it’s ultra marinus — from beyond the sea. Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, named his star empire Ultramar in the days before he was found by the Emperor because he read old accounts of an empire…

In my experience people like this just decide that you're arguing in bad faith and get mad at you as soon as you establish that you don't already see the point they're making, so I suspect she wouldn't offer any argument at all.

Fair.

It's simple. Childhood is for learning and adulthood is for doing, so anything that changes the world such that the learning she did as a child is no longer applicable to it is an attack tearing the foundations out from under her.

Guy #2 in that article is of a type I now see everywhere.

That one, Only Nation Where This Happens, and Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity are all in a three-way tie for first.

Corruption can't abide integrity, yeah.