Malgas

It’s basically a crude version of WWI dazzle camo.

Bringing lunch from home, traditionally in a brown paper bag.

51/4 cardboard floppy

Wait, I’m also old enough to remember 5.25" floppies, but I always thought the casings were some sort of flexible plastic. Were some of them just card stock, or were they all some sort of treated paper product?

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.

I gather it wasn’t in the original release, but by the time I played it there was a difficulty setting. The easier difficulty is compatible to classic Zelda.

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.

When I think about this comic, it’s always the alt-text that comes to mind:

By the third trimester, there will be hundreds of babies inside you.

a ton of dummy ships

We usually call those missiles. :P

You’ve reminded me of a bit of flavor text from Starsector that I particularly like, from the missile specialization skill:

My colleagues don’t appreciate their whimsy. You get all these little spaceships and you break all the rules 'cause they don’t need to survive landing.

In those days, it cost a nickel to download one picture. “Gimme five memes for a quarter,” we’d say.

And if we want to be really precise about where energy comes from, it’s worth noting that all elements heavier than hydrogen (i.e. all if them) are the result of stellar fusion. Up to iron in the main phase, and anything heavier in supernovae, neutron star mergers, and possibly other extremely violent events. So fission is extracting the stored energy of dead stars.

Ultimately, it’s probably all just residual energy from the Big Bang.

Technically so are fossil fuels.

…lots and lots of extra steps.

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

Note that 100 is not the total number of billionaires China has, just the number of billionaire MPs. According to the Hurun Global Rich List, there are 1021 billionaires in China.

The number of billionaire legislators in the US is zero.

Believe it or not, release more wolves.

Do you by any chance know how to configure Solaar so that the LEDs don’t change to the default pattern every time I plug or unplug my mouse? It’s the one annoyance I’ve run into.

Depends on where you look. The five strings at the nut somehow become 7 by the bridge. The sixth string appears to start under her left hand, and the seventh may actually be emerging from the sound hole.

Gotta use the --headshot flag then.