I much prefer the writing in Western RPGs, but I prefer the simplicity of JRPG interfaces, particularly those from the SNES and PSX eras. The art can go either way depending on setting.

Only certain judges get lifetime appointments, but yes, the practice needs to be ended regardless.

I mean, there’s no way to make that particularly correct, but Hebrew is a lot closer to the other languages of the era. What would take some more research would be checking whether Latin and/or Greek was widely spoken in Egypt at the time (and not just by the royalty).

It’s probably reliance on some obscure software library that was included in PS4 but won’t be on PS5. 

The Root is playing a bit of a joke on its readers. Have a look at the actual post; about halfway down the Schadenfreude begins.

Yeah, after the three House books, they should have stopped. Those were not as complex as Herbert’s own works, but they were entertaining and helped fill in some useful backstory.

It’s a particular brand of condescending / concern-trolling bigotry rather than garden variety hatred, and she hasn’t made the logical connection to see why that approach is *still* bigotry.

“Plus, practically every ‘scary’ thing about Venom is delivered like he’s a 13-year-old boy trying to sound tough and cool”

I had a recent rewatch and much the same reaction. For me, it was because I’d watched an expanded cut of the film; some of the bits left out of the US theatrical version fill in semi-important details, but some scenes were just rapey and gross in the new context.

I’ve found a lot of what’s communicated to the public about theoretical physics is phrased as certainty, when in reality they’re trying to build models that *could* work given what we do know and what we can observe (which, to be honest, seems exceedingly limited on a galactic scale).

We’re miscommunicating the timeline here. Part of that is my fault. The card was published in 1994, not the essay. The essay was published in 1995. That’s what I mean by it not being a thing.

Again, though, the numbering of the card didn’t occur in 2004. That’s when the online database became available, but the card-sorting methodology on which the numbering was based was already in place long before that. The sorting system was present in the Magic: The Gathering encyclopedias.

The “14 words” weren’t published until 1994. The numeric ID of the card comes from a sorting schema whereby cards are sorted by set, color, then English name. Both the card and the sorting schema predate 1994.

Worth noting that a dance isn’t copyrightable under current US law and precedent. A choreography is, but a short string of dance moves is not.

She’s a US citizen.

It is unfortunate that the actress apparently outed herself as a raging pro-party nationalist.

“Perhaps they’ll put all three up for sale individually?”

Trill are more analogous to religious concepts of reincarnation. The soul has no specific gender; that’s a totally physical thing.

It might be “seeking out” that type of plot, but *Insomnia* was a remake of an already-existing film.

White supremacy and related ideologies had hundreds of years to sink in. People are getting generally better at recognizing personal prejudice and racism, but we all have a long way to go to undo the racist assumptions that are embedded in many institutions.