VindictiveJudge

American-made PlayStation games were using X for confirm and O for cancel long before the Xbox came out. It’s probably partially because X is blue and O is red; we don’t have cultural context for the symbols, but we do have cultural context for the colors.

Who is Angelica?

Gotham’s government is also roughly 97% organized crime families, so throwing money at the problem only goes so far.

In particular, it’s a very East Coast thing. While we have the mom-and-pop pizzerias on the West Coast, there aren’t styles of pizza named for West Coast cities and we just don’t have that pizza rivalry that the other coast has. There’s California-style pizza, but that’s named for a state rather than a city, and as soon as you leave California it’s easier to find almost any other kind of pizza.

It’s not the flames per se, it’s the red that does it.

Well, there’s not really any randomness, we just can’t ever have enough data to determine exactly what will happen. Which is why we have the Uncertainty Principle. If we both had a functioning Grand Unified Theory and total knowledge of all the particles in a system, we could simulate what would happen in the system with perfect accuracy.

So you’re saying that if I stop feeding my mogwai after midnight I should be able to plug in my USB devices on the first try?

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