If you add up all the samples of alleged blood of Christ and all the splinters of the Holy Cross in various reliquaries around the world, you’d come to the conclusion Jesus must have been at least the size of a small swimming pool

translating Latin is hard because as a dead language it isn’t adding new words, so you have to translate a bit more liberally when talking about articles of clothing, commerce or whatnot that just didn’t exist in Rome.

and yet the PM is still going to call him up for permission to issue laws, and we’ve seen recently that they’re not as afraid of putting their thumb on the scale as the monarchists always tout. the fact that they, among the richest people in the world, have a hand in influencing tax policy is a farce

I disagree, the commonwealth still pledges allegence to the English crown and comprises many influential nations— though that may be changing, there’s talk in several formal colonies that when Georgie makes his rounds that they will literally refuse to bend the knee. I believe Jamaica has said so publicly, and other…

That isn’t quite accurate. First, in most of those countries the “reigning” monarch has to support themselves with, maybe, the public kicking in for a per diem or honorarium they get paid when they show up and cut a ribbon on a new factory or something or a small yearly stipend. In none of them do they get to hold all…

As I’ve gotten older this is one thing I’ve learned, I have a limit to how many times I’ll reset a hopeless situation before I turn down the difficulty.  I play games to have fun, after all.  I’m also not afraid to cheat, especially around “good, you’ve got the mechanic down, now do that 500 more times” grind loops…

If you don’t have a need for a chat client with private rooms that combines voice chat and text communication, then you don’t really have any problem Discord solves.

Unfortunately everything that makes fora good also makes them bad. I don’t blame companies, because people suck. Committing to a forum means perpetually moderating it to make sure it doesn’t become taken over by spammers and bigoted crap. You can take some steps to reduce the workload (locking threads past a certain…

You hit it on the head.

Agreed! the PC version of Academy still holds up to this day, the SNES one is the same gameplay basically but the PC version has more missions and has FMV cutscenes.

I still remember pausing and staring at the screen for literally 15 minutes trying to decide what to do when I got an urgent distress call from a little…

That’s what I like about it, it’s easy to ignore, play when I want to.  I also like that they regularly give away tier-6 ships so it’s very viable to play without spending a dime by using either an event coupon to pick almost any pay-to-play ship you want, or by getting fleet modules from reputation rewards and…

I agree wholeheartedly. It’s a master class in how an MMO should be monetized— you get regular free top-tier ships and after some play and special events a coupon for any regular pay-to-play ship you want, making it very viable to play the entire game without spending a dime, even competing at the moderately high…

Experience Bi’j!

There was a Klingon-focused companion to Borg that was an FMV game exploring Klingon culture and life which was quite solid, if silly at times.

Am I one of the only people in the known universe that unironically enjoys the Star Wars Holiday Special?

It’s uneven, sure, and some segments fall flat, but I was more emotionally invested into Bea Arthur’s cantina on Tatooine than anything that happened in the prequels.

For a fan of star wars it shows some really…

That’s nothing new in games, Sierra’s SWAT series, and Police Quest before it, forced you to rigorously follow procedure or it was game over: whether that was approaching a pulled over car in an unsafe manner or drawing your weapon when it wasn’t warranted.

fun fact: Florida has state law precedent as to whether throwing a wild animal is considered assault with a deadly weapon or not (it is, at least in the case of a juvenile alligator)

In Tarkov the civilians have, indeed, fled, you can find them in the mission hub area outside of the battle maps, selling things and giving missions.  However it would have to be litigated what the “scavs” count as-- are the non-uniformed troops?  Criminal gangs taking advantage of the conflict? do they count as…

I mean in this case the answer is very well known.  In fact the list of ingredients is in the name itself: NaPalm-- Naptha and Palmic Acid.

The formula for napalm is literally in the freaking name: Naptha and palmic acid, though the military doesn’t use napalm they use something similar with extra ingredients to control viscosity, volatility and the temperature range it remains a gel over.