BOY HOWDY

Trigger warning/content warning: Pretty much every single thing you can think of, Including That One, and most of the other content warnings also involve children

Also a very sesquipedalian vocabulary—I had to keep a dictionary nearby, and I read that book when I was finishing up college

It’s a legitimate concern. Social media trends like this can distort your sense of reality, especially if you’re a teen.

If you’re primed to attribute other people’s behavior to narcissism, you might end up dismissing people who have good reasons for behaving the way they do. We’re already alienated enough without armchair-diagnosing our loved ones with mental disorders.

According to the Halo wiki, deuteragonist The Arbiter was originally going to be called “the Dervish,” but that was removed in order to avoid such a connection.

One aspect of Halo’s story I always did enjoy was that it showed how flimsy the Covenant hegemony really was – the species therein rarely got along with one another.

“With Ne Zha 2 turning a spiritual war between heaven and demons into a light, morally fluid romp, it just might cause some viewers to think about whether they should take their own religion seriously.”

Gods and demons don’t occupy the same moral space in many other religions that they do in Christianity. Gods aren’t necessarily good, and demons aren’t necessarily evil, nor do they always come from a hell or a devil (if a given religion even has either of those things, which isn’t guaranteed). The point isn’t that those other religions are “just as good” or just as valid as Christianity, or vice versa, but that it does us no benefit to assume that certain things occupy the same purpose in both sets of religions just because they happen to share a category or a title.

Yes, I did always connect The Covenant with radical Islam.