Semjeza

Only parts of southern China, and parts of Korea eat dog. (Might be some other regions I’m unaware of. More freaky, and looked down on for it by the rest of China is Guangdong’s eating of monkey brains).

What’s confusing?

There’s a guy living in wage slavery making poor life choices that he justifies to himself as he finds no joy elsewhere in life.

We sympathise with and laugh at the fool.

Fun fact: rabbits eat their own poo.

Yes, but had had mental health issues from the start.

I mean, Pictures for Sad Children was the title, and wasn’t the ghost a suicide?

The PRC is helping kill Balochi and Burmese to keep it’s access to resources in those areas in the 21st century.
Which is far fewer than US imperialism across any comparible time scale.

Over the last 5,000 years: millions.

But why quibble over the murkier “did he exist” ground when you could engage on “was he a miracle working guy who came back from the dead” and make them find more evidence for that!

All fun and games until they realise that Wars of Armageddon has a 10 minute run time.

That said, no one has complained about PJ Harvey yet.

Until a bunch of unknowns and uncertainty are added because no-one knows the future.

And they almost always assume that their actions won’t lead to a decline in users, too.

I think you’ve focused on the extraordinary conditions of the protagonists, and ignored the features of the world for normal people.

Most people do not battle their pokémon regularly.

Pokémon are partners, not slaves - and the people who treat their pokémon as objects are consistently bad and harmful of society. And you’ll note that this is an area that villainous teams focus on.

There is a lack of poverty, healthcare is free, education is free, and there isn’t hunger or homelessness.

Society works to support each other without the profit motive. Except for those who push into competitive battling, and criminals.

The thousands of years old tradition from non-Abrahamic Persia, (in fact a proto-IE region with shared religious rites with Slavic, Celtic and Germanic Europe), predating not only the splits of Christianity into Eastern Orthodox and Other, but of Christianity actually existing, doesn’t show it was a Pagan tradition?

What else do you call non-Abrahamic religious rites?

(And apparently new evidence has since backed up Bede’s account of Pagan Oestra in the British Isles, too.)

There have been more discoveries since Grimm boys, and despite earlier scepticism scholars are now mostly accepting that there was an Eostre diety worshipped in Europe around the Spring Equinox.

New findings and archeo-lingustics have supported Grimms and Bede, so the existence (culturally) and worship of Oestra (or however your 1000BC Celto-Germanic language spelt it) is now generally accepted by scholars (and anyone who isn’t pushing an anti-intellectual, and often antisemitic, “war on Christianity” agenda).

Ah, to live in the non-capitalist, non-comoddified pokémon society where most things are done for social good rather than self gain.

A troubled teen runaway cosplaying as his dead teen crush cosplaying as himself cosplaying as a travelling actor cosplaying as a professional torturer?

The first comic with the word “vegan” I’ve seen maybe ever. Well done this cartoonist.