Windex007

To me it sounds like you're advocating for "tipping" public servants.

The guy was obviously being a troll.

But, there certainly isn't a consensus on racism. Some vocal elements demand that for for something to be racist, there also has to be a racial power imbalance working in the favor of the person being racist... and they'll use that distinction to explain how actions that would be evaluated as racist by the definitions you provided actually aren't if the target is in a position of racial privilege.

And, personally, I think that definition was literally seeded as a wedge by state actors for the explicit purpose of sowing discord, but here we are.

I'm in such awe of artists. Like these are just lines on a page but they've so accurately captured the two poses of the cats. Fucking wizardry.

I actually did love at the beginning of season 1 where Picard is shitting on starfleet.

As meh as S1 ended up being, and as poorly as pretty much everything was done in S2... what I was most afraid of was that they'd somehow molest Picards character itself.

They didn't do that

Also loved S3.

It had roughly the same structure as any Muppet movie (we gotta get the whole gang together for one last show!) Say what you will about the Muppets (and by that I mean: choose your words carefully) but God damn it's a formula that works.

It's certainly the last time we'll see that crew together. Never in a million years could I comprehend they'd put them on the bridge of the Enterprise D.

Did it have the philosophical explorations that I loved from the series? No. Did I need it to be? No. Where my boys at, how they been? Did thier bonds stand the test of time?

Technically the post is reducing another culture to a form of therapy

My university residence floor graced me with the "Most likely to jump onto the tacks to save someone even if he knows he'll be killed in the process".

Yeah, every time this perennial question arises I just get them to start enumeration thier own activities that CERTAINLY aren't ritualistic, and then I argue that they're also ritualistic.

This very conversation? It is itself a ritual. I am summoned by the argument. I ask the ritualistic question. We engage in the ritual back-and-forth of "no it isnt" "actually yes it is". Everyone leaves frustrated and dumber for having participated. Like clockwork.

I'm rusty on this, but I think some weird shit happens if you run close to the speed of light that could affect this.

It's not just the writers job, it's the directors job.

How should the ghoul react to a cazador?

As a player of the games, I have a visceral reaction. Has the ghoul's backstreet included environments where he would have encountered them? Spoken to people who have?

These are the kinds of questions I expect he'd need to be answered by the director, because i don't think the writers would have that much detail in the scripts. "Scared because one fucked you up once" and "scared because someone you thought was tough told you they got fucked up by one" are two different scareds.

If you trust the director, it might be easier to let them tell you what your character knows when you the actor need to know.

If you don't trust the director, then it might make sense to peek at the source materials. You better understand the environment, but now suddenly you know things your character might not, which I imagine adds additional burden on an actor. A common burden, mind you, but additional.

If it were simply the young version of the characters, I'd say Picard. He was a scrappy fighting arrogant young man.

De-aged Picard, despite being young, would be out of practice and be too distracted by things like morality and proportionality.