They changed the setting to Mexico (kept most of the set design choices) changed the names, and added guns.
I like Yojimbo and cowboys enough that I'll watch both
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Oh fantastic, no one else posted this concept yet
So, I think there's an important connection there you're touching on. Samurai and cowboys occupy the same space in media, and I'll give you some examples.
Someone else mentioned the movie, but Seven Samurai, a HIGHLY influential and well received film from japan in the 50s, helped inspire The Magnificent Seven, a key cowboy film from the early 60s.
The film Yojimbo (please watch it if you haven't, it's just very well done, really funny, have to get over the 'movies had NO real soundtrack back then' problem if you're not used to old films) is like watching The Matrix AFTER you've already seen the slow-mo and 'i know Kung fu' tropes in movies. The man rolls up into town, two sides opposed and neither really 'good' but innocents in the middle.
What were called 'spaghetti westerns' in the past due to the Italian directors at the time, a majority chunk of those movies utilized similar filmography techniques and plots. The kids who watched those westerns also watched samurai films (cheap movie is a cheap movie on a weekend night) and the concept sort of melded over time to where the Ronin of Japan and the Lone Ranger of America are two flavors of the same steel-wielding hero.
The way samurai in movies revere their swords, talking about the efficiency of a weapon, the artfulness or it, all VERY similar to how revolvers took/take a center stage for western fantasies. Add to that the individualism of the west, the rugged nature of a traveler with a weapon, the tie-in of 'honor' in both cultures, the 'only lawmen can have a weapon in city limits' laws that were featured in the America AND Japan at that time.
Super neat
I think therea a lot of little racism along the way that inadvertently affected whites as the middle class dwindled and the number of poor whites increased.
So, all rooted in racism, maintained by classism, I'd say.
Looks sick! But .. why are the z and the y switched?
Not silly, that's a common cleaning technique from janitor/cleaning staff i was told a while back. Use a little bit of what causes the stain/gunk and it helps break down the bonds by binding with the already-solidified object and trying to mix with it, weakening/changing the concentration of the 'stuck' substance
Can anyone familiar with veganism answer me a curiosity?
Would someone who's vegan be fine with owning their own chickens and using them for eggs? If you're not engaging in the marketplace for them, you can absolve yourself of the suffering egg laying hens in factory farms could be experiencing, but I'm not sure how the 'suffer free because I raised them' plays into the belief/practice.
Then I got a job with some snooty highborn, had to hunt rabbits with the fuck, ran into a group of 3 soldiers and then got my ass handed to me so bad I restarted from a previous save to re-learn the combat.... i love this game lol
This guy skips nose day
Silence after a source is my favorite thing about discussions
I'm with you on intent. He had no place being there, and it surely wasn't to protect anyone.
But the guy above is correct in regards to the event's timeline/order of action. Rittenhouse sucks, he was a child who was radicalised to hate and to fear others, and then he cried (like the child he was, at 17) in front of a panel and got brought into the conservative media fold where he now, as an adult, is an absolute shit stain for not recognizing his actions or the vitriol of the people around him. I pity 17 year old Rittenhouse, no one is adult enough at that age to be carrying a gun in that kind of a situation with that kind of mindset. The 22 year old he is now doesn't get that pity.
Sees the article, sees the claim, sees the rebuttal, sides with brain worm man?
I gotta get off this rock.
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They were saying that, if you at least voted, you've lifted a finger.
I feel you though. Being a lone voice in a county that went like 93% Trump, it definitely feels like my vote doesn't matter. Hell, our mayor at the time was caught drunk driving with his niece in the car after a fundraiser, told the cop 'do you know who i am' and threatened his job, and he STILL won by a lot.