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A disease often thought to only affect 18th century sailors is reemerging in Canada.

Earlier this week, doctors identified 27 cases of scurvy caused by prolonged and severe vitamin C deficiency in northern Saskatchewan. Experts say the confirmed diagnoses highlight a broader issue with poverty and food insecurity in rural and remote communities across the country.

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Quick Important PSA

Fandom has been taking down those extremely intricate and helpful GameFAQs text guides because they're a terrible company run by rat bastards, so if you care about archiving those old guides for a smoother experience on the earliest generation of games, i've linked prograc's archive of just about every single one you can think of. make sure to download the whole 7z file (its ~2GB), as this is undoubtedly the most accurate and useful tool for anybody wanting to experience video game history.

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📷:@xambler2

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RUNAWAY

BGM: Bastion - The Bottom Feeders

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sinclair creatures

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some sketchier rhythmwrecker galaxy stuff, since i’ve got a whooole lot of it

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why are terrible celebrity imagines so funny. how do i find more of these without suffering the indignity of searching “bts imagines”

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style test/concept art...

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here's an aesthetic i think a lot of you like but don't know the name of: frutiger aero! mainly popular from around 2005-2013. basically.... lots of shiny and glossy things! also sometimes nature themes! c:

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hi! i've never played an actual smt game (the closest i got was p1+both p2 on psx, though i do plan to eventually!), i saw someone talking about how there are themes of japanese nationalism, even fascism in the series, especially smt4 and raidou. how accurate is this interpretation? if those themes exist, are the writers expecting the player to agree, or are they shown neutrally (negatively?) as a potential aspect of the law-neutral-chaos alignment? if they exist, how is it represented? thanks!

Yes, the nationalism exists. I've covered most of the extreme examples in the past. Most of it is in SMT4 and Apocalypse.

In Identity Crisis Part 3, section four, "Themes of Nationalism and Xenophobia," covers the bizarre "foreign demon" label, the Sinophobia in Ikebukuro with Xi Wangmu that was so unbelievable to some that I created a map (below) to illustrate how they literally segregated Japanese and Chinese demons in this traditional "Chinatown," and the can of worms that is the National Defense Divinities, including Masakado's aggrandizement. Also check section seven and the implications of the Neutral path. All of this is critical to the game's plotting save Masakado and Neutral.

Japanese-Jewish Common Ancestry Theory. What else can I say that hasn't already been said? It forms the backbone of the 4 duology's worldview.

(Pssst, hey Maitreya, you are technically a foreign god to Tokyo.)

The Raidou series starts in 1931, on the cusp of when Imperial Japan invaded China. Though clearly alternate history, the first game contains a chapter that requires you save from a curse someone implied to be the Taisho emperor himself (and if not, it would then have to be Hirohito). And it's worded in beaten-around-the-bush ways like he's "someone important for the future of this country" but that your task is virtuous. So there's little wonder there were issues with Raidou's appearance Nocturne HD in China and Korea.

I should also mention Kazunari Suzuki, a writer for the early games in the series. On his Twitter (baelzebub), he regularly posts or retweets right-wing JP political views, including denying Japanese WWII war crimes like comfort women. It's unknown how long he's held these views or if they impacted his SMT writing, but I think it's safe to assume that maybe he's not a great person.

I don't know if I would call aspects of SMT's writing intentions fascist (treating this separately from potential intentional fascist themes seen in its fictional alignments and scenarios), but the nationalism is definitely there and a lot of it is due to sloppy writing without consideration for its implications. But no doubt there's some serious intent behind other parts, like the SMT4 Ikebukuro scenario.

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reposting this from twitter bc it's making me lose my mind

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Based on that pepsi post that haunts me at night.

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Undercover x Evangelion aw21-22 Tokyo Collection.