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Banned because the Emperor holds no power here!

"Immersion" is overrated and overused as a talking point about games.

I do hope I'm getting royalties for the idea. That's even my own most excellent colour scheme for Leaf! I'm German (and took French for 5 years at school, although I've forgotten most of that), so I'm not confused about the concept of a gendered language, and how it doesn't always 'make sense'. Did you know that the German word for girl, Mädchen, is neuter? Unfortunately, that one makes perfect grammatical sense because the -chen ending (which is a similar diminutiv as the Spanish -ito/a, I believe) always make a word grammatically neuter. That said, Weib - 'Woman', although it's really only used in a derogatory sense - is also neuter without having that excuse. Aaaanyway, what amused me is that Google offered two translations - one with lleno and one with llena, with the notice about 'gender specific translation', which doesn't make any sense given that it's referring to the aerodeslizador, which presumably has a fixed grammatic gender.

Banned because you probably can't even tell Steuerbord from Backbord!

Banned for using "matey" after less than one week on a boat. I shiver thinking what a whole month at sea might do to your language.

Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas.

I hate that I get that moist and delicious reference. Don't have much more to say, except that the first time I've booted up Faster Than Light, I died at the very first encounter. I think my ship was boarded...? It's been on my "OK, I do want to learn how to play this" list since.

Whaaaaaat 👀 (OK, this won't mean anything to anybody who isn't both German and Quite Old, but Peter Fox's Stadtaffe was a pretty big deal fourteen fucking years ago and the dude then didn't publish anything solo until yesterday)

I've actually had a bit of an conjunctivitis for the last three or four days, so, er, double ow.

Sure, keep threatening everybody with a good time

After returning to Europe, or more specifically London, Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish general in Venezuelan service during the wars for independence, made up an entire country named Poyais, including a coat of arms, a parliamentary system, a healthy and European-friendly climate (while located at the Miskito coast), incredibly fertile soil, and explicitly pro-British natives. He then sold land certificates and took a £200,000 "government" loan (secured on Poyaisian government revenues). The first two ships of eager settlers transported a total of around 270 people over to America... who then found malaria and yellow fever and (eventually) the Miskito king telling them that their land certificates are worthless and that they could either pledge allegiance to him of kindly fuck off. Most of the settlers did the latter (those that were still healthy enough to do so, basically) and were brought to Belize, but most of them eventually succumbed to the diseases. MacGregor, meanwhile, went on a holiday to Italy for, ah, the sake of his wife's health, but apparently made a wrong turn and ended up in Paris. He managed to just miss the first returning survivors from Poyais - who miraculously insisted that nothing of this was MacGregor's fault and that surely, he had been duped by his agents, a sentiment that MacGregor naturally shared. In France, he actually continued his fraud, explaining that all the vile slander from Britain originated from merchants trying to sabotage Poyais since it threatened their profits. He also tried to contact the Spanish king, offering to make Poyais into a Spanish protectorate, and potentially a launching pad for a Spanish reconquest of its former colonies, although he did not receive a response. He did, however find 30 willing settlers - but when these were asking for passports to travel to a completely unknown country, the French government became suspicious and prevented them from setting sail. MacGregor himself was eventually arrested (clearly a Spanish ploy to undermine Poyais independence!), but managed to weasel himself out of the charges. He still decided to return to Britain, since his victims were not happy, but he was then arrested in London again - but then released again, this time without charges even being brought up. Naturally, he then tried to revive his Poyais scheme, this time on a much smaller scale and with much less success, but also unmolested by the law enforcement. When his wife died ten years later, MacGregor returned to Venezuela, where he was reinstated as a general of the army and received a pension. It probably helped that both the Defence Minister and the President were fighting alongside him during the war for independence. MacGregor died another eight years later, in 1845, at the age of 58, and was buried with full military honours.

It really is. Alm might actually be the most perfectest flawlessest hero of the series, and I'm confident saying that with Roy as my profile pic to somebody with an improved Fates pfp.

"Which Prime Minister was in power when Queen Elizabeth II. died?" a) Boris Johnson b) Theresa May c) Liz Truss d) Rowan Atkinson

Shortest tenure of all time even when counting death: Personally, I suspect that the Tories are doing a challenge run: How many prime ministers can we go through without election?

Ruben: Ruben:

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! MILKH FOR THE KHORNFLAKES!

Hmmm... Mozart's Zauberflöte / Magic Flute has a set-up like that. The young hero Tamino (not evil, unfortunately) is saved from a snake by the Queen of the Night's three ladies, the queen then tasks him to rescue her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the evil priest Sarastro... who then turns out to be the good guy who only abducted Pamina to save her from her EVIL mother's clutches, and Tamino gets ordained as a priest in his cult of wisdom... It's all very allegorical 'n shit. You won't tell rocks not to fall down. You won't tell water not to flow downstream. You won't tell Kaga not to have his female characters mind-controlled.

There's a German comedy, an Edgar Wallace parody, which features Alfons Hatler, who is genuinely a pretty nice guy who just happens to be the butler of one of the villains. Oh, and he looks like Hitler. And constantly makes innuendos to that effect ("I could serve as your Führer", Führer meaning 'guide' in this context). Also, this: It's been a long while since I've seen the movie, but I don't think we got a dashing gentle psychopath, though. Hey, Luke is only one haircut away from being a true ladies' man.

Wasn't her gimmick that she's a terrible maid, but actually an incredibly talented combatant? Come to think of it, I'd say the better question is, "Why is Jakob the physically inclined retainer?". It would be much more fitting if Jakob was better at the support role, while Felicia was better at stabbing people.

To be honest, I just would've defaulted to Konstantiople. Not exactly obscure, but the Ottos basically had to usher in (or rather commission a Hungarian to do so) a new age of siege technology to finally get the walls down. It's really quite good. Supersonic and Sonic Boom reasonably early, Thunderwave for the postgame, can learn Thunderbolt and Shockwave if you find the TMs. And it has a weirdly high HP growth to boot (right now, it's sitting at 108 HP at Lv.21, compared to TROGDOR's 85 HP at Lv. 29, and Roshi's 88 HP at Lv. 28). The starter's other stats are a bit better at this point (not entirely sure how they would compare at equal level), but it's still a lot better than Absol, who's at the same level.

_ So yeah, 55 fixed damage is still reasonable at this point. It's worth noting that Roshi isn't wearing a Special Band, which would increase those numbers somewhat, but still. And against a boss, well... _ (this is Ember) Sonic Boom Good. The only problem was to make somewhat sure that Faraday was in position to attack, since the Go Afte Foes tactic seems to not work aganst bosses, for whatever reason, and it's kinda awkward to make the third Pokémon go where you want it to be. _ Gotten through it without any save states, which is nice, too - although I don't know if I can keep that up if I want to go through the postgame. Certainly not if I want to go through that Lv.1 dungeon with Celebi at the end.