Malgas

There have been similar moral panics about whatever the kids were doing throughout history, including comic books, jazz, prose literature, the waltz, polyphonic music, and even writing stuff down instead of just remembering it.

Don’t staves of the magi explode spectacularly when destroyed?

That party might be done for either way.

I’m actually wondering how much of that figure is tied to the actual materials and workmanship, and how much is because they are The Crown Jewels.

I saw something recently that made the argument that English has structures that act like kanji as well. The same is true for Spanish.

Consider the glyph 1. By itself you’d read it ‘one’, but then what about 1st, where it is read ‘fir-’? And then 10 and 11 don’t match either of those, or each other.

Personal pronouns and verb conjugations based on formality

Hoo boy, if you want to talk about vocabulary and grammar changes based on formality, that’s like Japanese’s whole thing.

One thing nobody’s mentioned in this thread is counters, which are little helper words attached to numbers. Which one you should use depends on what is being counted, the categories are highly idiosyncratic and generally have nothing to do with their ordinary use (e.g. 本, which elsewhere means “book” is the counter for long thin objects like pens or bananas), and there are dozens of them.

Where I’m from, the term refers to spiders in the phlocidae family.

we’ve got plenty of users that have that hunter2 password

Speaking of things the website shouldn’t even know…

those that say “wrong username” means that the password is valid

How could it mean that? The only reason you’d ever say “wrong username” is if the account doesn’t exist (otherwise it’s indistinguishable from “wrong password”) and in that case there’s no reason to even look at the password.

Gotta use the --headshot flag then.

Usually, yes, but where coffee is concerned (labeling on coffee makers, for example) a “cup” is traditionally 3/4 of that.

So it’s ambiguous if they don’t specify further. (Do they? The link isn’t loading for me.)

This feels like an exercise in Goodhart’s Law: Any measure that becomes a target ceases to be a useful measure.

Given the other sorts of things that pass for 1/1 creatures, I’d assume each token either represents a giant squirrel or a swarm of regular-sized ones.

That said, 15/15 does seem a tad low for a world-destroying eldritch horror.

One example is Civilization VI, where the Linux build is several versions older than the Windows build, and one of the DLCs just silently doesn’t install unless you force Proton.

Sentient AIs seem to be a lot less common and less powerful computationally in Fed space

Are they really rare, or are we seeing a universe shaped by and through the eyes of a civilization predisposed to deny and destroy them? Apart from the Doctor and Moriarty, how many others were simply shut off? How many beings like the exocomps were wiped when they “malfunctioned”? How many sentient computers are locked away in the Daystrom Institute, never to see the light of day?

The Minds of the culture are people, with the same rights as any other inhabitant. Even the ones unwilling or unsuitable to coordinate the systems of a ship or orbital.

By contrast, both Data and the Doctor had to argue for their personhood, to convince the Federation that they should have rights, and their utility played a role in that decision.

The Federation talk a big game about fair treatment for all sentient beings, but they sure are willing to deny rights to those they don’t like, and they are meat supremacists.

I mean, The Culture is just The Federation if it actually followed through on post-scarcity utopianism.

Huh, it’s been a while since I played WotR, but I seem to recall using her as DPS. Maybe I respecced her or something.

Though my MC was a merged spellbook oracle/angel, so past a certain point the competency of the rest of my party didn’t really matter.

Congrats.

I gave it a go just now and noticed an issue in the unit one vocab. You can get the prompt “to open” with both 開く and 開ける as options. Only one of these will be considered correct, and it’s a coin toss which one.

Also I got achievements for mastering all (N5-N1) kanji with 80% accuracy when I ended the session.

Kenya believe it?