The ultimate goal is for Amazon Retail to become infrastructure. Bezos and his minions don’t want people to think of Amazon Retail as a shop; they want people to think of Amazon Retail as The Thing You Use To Buy Physical Things On The Internet. As Steam is to PC games, so Amazon want to be to physical things.

Cannibal?

I used to work at a call center dealing with phone bill questions. Once you go past 20, people only see the first digit and the total number of digits, and perceive every digit after the first as 0.

If I had a nickel for every time I had this conversation, I’d have more than two nickels.

Customer: Why has my bill gone up by £10?!

Me: I see that on <date> you called a premium rate line which cost £2.

Customer: That’s only £2! I want to know why my bill is £10 higher!

Me: Your bill is normally £29.50. This month it’s £31.50. That’s a £2 difference.

Customer: Oh, so it is.

Steam is a DRM system.

I am not being flippant or facetious. Steam is literally a DRM system with a shop grafted on top. That is what it has always been. If a game is on Steam, it be definition has DRM.

No, that’s what the edit button is for.

So they should have been called terral panels.

There is no guarantee those sources say what the answer says, or indeed that they actually exist. Generators can and do assemble words into phrases that look like citations, but those sources don’t exist. It’s actually a problem for librarians, who keep getting accused of hiding nonexistent books “cited” by ChatGPT

Or in comic form:

Same as nunchakus.

[https://acoup.blog/2019/06/07/collections-the-siege-of-gondor-part-v-just-flailing-about-flails/](The optimum is no chain at all).

A flail is a really bad weapon. The chain makes it difficult to control, puts you at great risk of hitting yourself, while not giving you any reach advantage. Real flails were medieval agricultural tools that were sometimes used as improvised weapons, but if you had access to an axe or spear, you would use that. If you have a big spiky ball of iron, it’s much more effective to put it at the end of a rigid wooden staff and whack people with it that way; in other words, a mace is strictly better.

That said, real chain-based weapons do have their uses. The lkusarigama is made by attaching a sickle to a wooden handle with a long chain. It is used to entangle and disarm your opponent, at which point you can close in and slash them with the sickle end. Since it involves swinging a sickle on the end of a long chain, it would never be used in pitched battle lest you hit your comrades, and in any case spears are more useful when armies clash. However, kusarigamas were quite handy in one-on-one combat; since they were easy to conceal and could be disguised as agricultural tools, they were primarily used by ninjas and city guards

So to give an answer to your question, if you’re going to use a chain-based weapon, the optimum length is long enough to completely wrap around somebody. And in that situation, you want a fairly light, small business end, not a big metal ball.

GoNintendo got an official response from Nintendo

Nintendo requires all games on its platforms to receive ratings from independent organizations and to meet our established content and platform guidelines. While we inform partners when their titles don’t meet our guidelines, Nintendo does not make changes to partner content. We also do not discuss specific content or the criteria used in making these determinations.

Vague, but it definitely sounds like the issue is with a ratings agency, not Nintendo.

Sega own Bayonetta, Nintendo just license it and pay PlatinumGames to make it.

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Yeah, Sony was very laissez faire back then. It’s why the PS1 was so successful; Nintendo were notoriously strict, so Sony’s policy of “Do whatever as long as it’s legal” attracted both devs and players. It’s not the only reason the first two PlayStations were massive hits, but it’s a factor.

Nintendo initially stuck to their guns but, after seeing Sony eat their lunch, afternoon snack, supper, breakfast, second breakfast, and elevenses, decided to cool it with the censorship at the ends of the 32 and 64-bit era. Beginning with Conker’s Bad Fur Day they pretty much stopped enforcing rules on other devs and even published a few 18-rated games like Eternal Darkness.

Then for some reason Sony started censoring hentai games in the PS4 era while Nintendo let them go uncensored, and gamers everywhere were bemused at how edgy Sony and wholesome Nintendo had apparently swapped positions.

Perhaps the pendulum has swung back.

It looks like CERO might be responsible.

CERO is very strict about genitals and dismemberment. CD Projekt Red got around that by having two different versions of Cyberpunk 2077; the version sold on the Japanese eShop is censored so as to comply with CERO, while the European one isn’t.

AdHoc doesn’t have the same resources as CD Projekt Red, so they might have just made the one version which they sell everywhere.

It’s still surprising that Sony is apparently being more lenient than Nintendo for once.

You cannot kill what doesss not live

I am also in favour of hippie chicks using Linux.

And also hippie dudes, to be clear. And hippie whatever the non binary version of dudes is.

Boss:Ugh, fine, are we talking tropical, sidereal, or anomalistic years?

Irish is somewhat similar to how @jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de describes German.

-ín is a diminutive added to the end of a noun. So for example you can have:

• buachaill (boy) → buachaillín (little boy)
• bóthair (road) → bóithrín (small road; this one has undergone some mutation because it’s such a common word)
• smidir (fragment) → smidirín (small fragment, hence the English word smithereens)

Beag is the word that literally means small, and there are slightly different connotations. Buachaill beag is a boy who is small in size, while buachaillín is a term of either affection or derision depending on tone of voice. Bóithrín specifically means a winding country road with unkempt vegetation on the side, while a bóthair beag would be any small road.

Adjectives do not affect the words they are attached to. For example, the Irish word for red is dearg. Hence, a red rose is simply róise dearg, and a little red rose would be róisín dearg, though róisín is rarely used for flowers; it’s basically exclusively a name. If you’re talking about a flower, you’d be much more likely to say róise beag dearg, though róise dearg beag would also be correct.

Adjectives, however, can be altered by some adverbial prefixes, such as an- (very) and ró (too [much]). So, for example, very small is an-bheag, while too small is ró-bheag. (The BH there is pronounced like the English V. It can also be pronounced as W. I know the rule has to do with which vowels are adjacent, but I can’t articulate what the rule is).

The past tense of many verbs is formed by changing the initial letter. Cuir, (put), for example, becomes chuir (put [in the past]); CH here is pronounced the same as in German, which is like the sound J makes in Spanish. Negation also tends to change the first letter of a verb; for example, cuireann (puts) → ní chuireann (does not put).

Cheese isn’t a mould. It is a dairy product, whereas mould is a fungus. Some cheeses use fungi in production, such as Roquefort and Stilton, but the majority do not. Cheese is made by processing raw milk using various enzymes; if there is fungus in there, it is added towards the end of the process.

But for a real example: diamonds and graphite (pencil “lead”) are both pure carbon crystals, but one is hard and the other isn’t.

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