The bone claws were a retcon, so since the retcon he’s always had them.

Wolverine’s healing abilities have been all over the map, but I’d wager with modern writing he’d likely be able to regrow his bones just fine. There’s an article on some of his feats here. I’ll mention that his chopped off hand in Age Of Apocalypse has been justified as a special case in a few ways by comic nerds (he didn’t have time to wait for it to regrow, and the laser blast melted his metal skeleton to cap off the underlying bone are two common suggestions) along with the fact that Wolverine’s powers have been increased by writers over time and that means he’s gotten more over the top since the 90s.

It all depends on the writer whims really, but I doubt any writer would leave Logan clawless for too long. The bone claws themselves are a retcon after Magneto sucked all the metal out of Logan’s skeleton in the 90s anyway, which shows how important they are for the character.

“Best seller” depends on the metric being used, this article has some simple explanations, including how Amazon niche categories can be gamed to get a book to technically be a best seller.

Because Amazon refreshes ranks at least once a day (often hourly), a well-timed promotional spike can crown you a #1 “best seller” in dozens of micro-categories. Amazon itself acknowledges that ranks are relative and heavily weighted toward recent activity. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing One TikTok push or email blast can deliver the screenshot—hence the glut of “international best-selling authors” whose lifetime sales barely break four figures.

For a more prestigious listing, like being a New York Times Best-Seller, that’s just lies if the NY Times likes you.

The Times, which had always claimed that the list was compiled from computer sales, countered in court that its list “was not mathematically objective but was editorial content and thus protected under the Constitution as free speech.”

In something like “Rao’s Homemade” sauces, the word “Homemade” is part of the registered name of the sauce (if you look close you can see the little “R” symbol for a Registered Trademark on the label), not a defined descriptor that needs to meet some kind of legal standard. Yes, it is trying to trick you into thinking of it as being less industrially made than it really is. Marketing.

At least you didn’t ask about boneless chicken wings…

I think you’re ignoring the core point of the above comment, which is that the long pauses in the show for the laughs are a planned part of the show. If you’ve never been to a recording, the audience noises aren’t spontaneous. There are signs telling the audience when to make noise.

Live audiences sound better than canned laughs, but in terms of pacing for a sitcom, it’s the same thing.

The majority of sitcoms are terrible. When you think of good older ones and compare them to bad ones today you’re doing the thing.

Just send more weapons

All of your examples were of supporting existing local insurgencies in order to help them frustrate foreign conventional occupying forces. The occupiers did not have to choose between victory or death, but could at their leisure withdraw. Having that option creates increasing political pressure to withdraw over time. The is exacerbated by military conscription to an unpopular war and a lack of ideological unity in the occupying nation. This is not the circumstance with Hezbollah.

Watch a Tom Hanks movie

Read ‘Mao Zedong’s Principles of Peoples War’ to understand the dynamics of a mid-20th century insurgency, and have a foundation for how that has adapted with technology.

What?

Those conflicts were conventional forces being extended to achieve friendly political stability in nations with a large enough population that was hostile to be a problem to root out. Vietnam had a conventional force element with the NVA, though the issue for the U.S. was still one of creating political stability in the south for a regime that was locally unpopular.

In your suggestion the U.S. is supposed to play the role of the Viet Cong in Lebanon, and Hezbollah is supposed to play the role of a foreign occupying conventional military.

The U.S. (and the Soviets in Afghanistan) always had the option of withdrawing to their home countries. This was easily doable at any time they wished, so the calculation of these fights for the opposing side was running the occupying side out political patience. That’s not really the same situation with Hezbollah. Defeat was not about racking up a body count enough to collapse the occupying military’s ability to exist, but to frustrate their efforts until occupying nation politics became fed up with the war.

So, how exactly would this be done?

How would you propose that be done?

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I’m still fairly new to game development

You are considering making a multi-mode, live service game as what I presume is a solo developer.

Make a single player game centered around a single gameplay loop. Get it working well and make it fun. Keep the scope under control.

Once you can do this play around with more complex gameplay loops in single player games but always keep your scope manageable and planned out. Write yourself a game design document that outlines the scope and general objectives of the project and stick to it.

The fact that you’re getting so many replies about other characters should be a sign the premise of the question is faulty. You’re asking people to stop giving you examples that contradict your confirmation bias.

The intelligence to curate universes to ensure you’re the smartest person in them is like some sort of self sustaining Gary Stu feedback loop.

Yes, but my point is that his hyper-intelligence is to a point something we just have to believe in since he is being written by people who aren’t hyper-intelligent themselves.

Rick Sanchez.

He’s supposed to be the smartest person in the universe. The rub is that the writers aren’t as smart as they want him to be, so that leads to them writing his enemies to be dumber than how smart they can write him, to preserve his in-universe superior intelligence.

He can make anything out of anything. He has cybernetic implants that can do anything the plot needs.

I actually like the show (a social crime in 2026) but being an overpowered, plot armored, walking deus ex machina is his gimmick.

OP really emphasized the full auto aspect of M16s, so in this case I think differentiating them from semi-auto AR-15 models is relevant when giving an answer.

Yeah I’ve heard (no confirmation- so take this as pure gossip) that somebody was starting to kick the ATF in the butt a bit for intentionally slow walking reviews, which could have potentially led to litigation they didn’t want.

Uh huh. So he bought his M16 from the Army? May we see it?

An ar15 would be a bit too large and unwieldy for home protection so I’d have suggested something simple, low recoil, easy to wield

A pump action shotgun is often going to be longer and more unwieldy than an AR-15 with a collapsing stock and 16 inch barrel (the most common by far layout in U.S.). A Mossberg 500 is 3 inches longer than an AR-15 with a 16 inch barrel, as an example.

A shotgun has the opposite of low recoil. It is high recoil.

AR-15s are specifically designed to minimize recoil; they have very little. For follow-up shots with an AR-15 you simply need to pull the trigger again, for a pump action, you need to pump and if you’re stressed and not super familiar it might take a second or two to register that you need to do that.

AR-15s are also more “pointable” than shotguns, given that AR-15s have almost none of their weight up front whereas pump shotguns have a tube and all the ammo under the barrel.

In the US, you can go even shorter with an AR-15 pistol with no additional legal hurdles, which makes it even more compact and handy. You only lose out on velocity, which only matters at longer range.

While you can add optics and lights to shotguns, it is normally easier to do so with modern off-the-shelf ARs. A flashlight is (I suppose obviously) important to illuminate what’s in front of you to prevent shooting something or someone you don’t intend. Modern red dots commonly have shake awake functions, which means simply picking up the gun causes the red dot to turn on without you having to do anything.

Shotguns are not the cheat code to hitting targets as people think they are. I have seen people, under only the stress of a timer, miss steel plates with a shotgun.

A common, easy alternative to a 5.56mm is a 9mm carbine. This can be an AR rechambered for 9mm, or one of a variety of common 9mm carbines on the market. A lot of similar pros and cons to AR-15s.

In either 5.56mm or 9mm I’d recommend hollowpoints mainly to reduce over penetration of walls.

A silencer (and yes gun people- it is a silencer on your eform so I don’t want to hear whining about suppressors) only takes a little bit of paperwork in the U.S., and I’d recommend it. It protects hearing and reduces your own shock from muzzle blast, to help keep you from being distracted. It’s an extra but not a bad idea.

That sounds like a lot, but aside from the silencer it is all simple and cheap to put together in a single shopping trip.

A home defense gun that is short but can be steadied two-handed with a foregrip is better than a handgun mostly because of accuracy under stress, though handguns are common since those are actually able to be carried outside but that’s a whole other thing.

Glock 0.4

A what?

While many hunters own an M16

Really?

Yep I know about hogs (some other comment somewhere I mentioned them) and the biggest stopping of 5.56 for hunting is usually a legal ban on them rather than practical with the right ammo. Honestly might be for the best because otherwise some Bubba with non-hollowpoint ammo and a crooked scope would be out there maiming deer.