I think observing a crime like that but not reporting it (so more crimes can be amassed by that person) should be considered legal endorsement of the activity.
That’s how it works in civil law, showing that criminal law can be beyond fucked up. I can’t remember the name of the principle, but you can’t make or simply wait for the other party’s grievance to tally up so you can sue for more money.
The level of realism increased in some, such as DCS as warbond mentioned, decreased to super casual levels in others, like Ace Combat, and got weird in some, like War Thunder.
The 80s and (early) 90s were before people who enjoyed flight sims realized that dogfights were essentially over. I remember the manual for F-15 Strike Eagle II having instructions on yo-yo turns, scissor turns, the proper flight angles to dodge missiles fired at you, and almost every time in game you would get into a turning fight. I don’t think that gameplay would fly with today’s players. Most of the interested parties aren’t like your football fans, either. They won’t buy “Pacific theater 1945 (XII Edition!)” from the store when they already have 11 others…
Off the top of my head, Darker than Black. Same director, different take on bleakness: Wolf’s Rain. The main characters don’t really have ‘ages’ given, but they’re pretty clearly adults.
Record of the Lodoss War (a D&D campaign turned into anime, if I recall rightly)
That time I reincarnated as a slime (technically the main character is ~34, and very few children are shown, but the cast has a lot of ‘childishness’ in them… the style is the equivalent of a popcorn superhero movie I’d say)
Legend of the galactic heroes
Witch Hunter Robin
Van Helsing (if you just want to laugh at idiocy, simply watch the abridged series, but the actual show is good)
Dragon Ball Z, except for a few episodes every now and then. The show itself is obviously aimed at the younger shonen crowd though, if you haven’t seen it.
.hack//sign (dot hack sign) is a pretty interesting one. It has several other series in its ‘canon’ if you like it. I’d say it was the adult oriented, well-presented premise of sword art online before sword art online was wet-dreamed up. A friend described it as ‘waving its dick around because they had an actual orchestra for the soundtrack’ in several scenes.
Equations. When we model things with equations, sometimes they don’t have a ‘solution’ at a particular place, unless we use the formal math rules of ‘imaginary’ numbers like i. Someone else in the comments mentioned electric conductance/resistance in circuits as an example.