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Florn [they/them]

@ Florn @hexbear.net

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  • Calvinists think this unironically

  • Not exactly, what he's saying is that "a $5 DLC" is more of a vibe than a specific price point, and people mentally treat DLCs with both $4 and $8 price points as being "a $5 DLC". So there's no point in lowering the price to $4 because it won't increase sales and you may as well charge $8 because it's not until you get to $9 that people re-evaluate and decide it's a different vibe, "a $10 DLC", which feels like a bigger purchase.

  • I'm not talking about some kind of mass cultural erasure, just a situation where there's enough autonomy and economic benefit that the nations of Europe just kinda decide that fighting for independence isn't worth it until eventually they just feel like part of the new power, like how Athens ended up being a Roman city for almost 1300 years.

  • I think Europe's time is kinda done. They're gonna be like the Greek city-states after the rise of Macedonia, a league of nominally independent but wealthy states that gets passed around by Great Powers until eventually one decides to annex them outright.

  • Some of the side books have extra appendices. My favorite was the one about measurements. "Man-high" isn't an approximation, it's a Numenorean measurement equal to about 6'4" (Numenoreans were famously tall)

  • The Appendices should hold you over while you figure it out

  • It just means that $4 is the least optimal variant of $5, while $8 is the most optimal

  • They might need a bit of a reset. I say sleep. If they're young enough to have a bedtime, are they old enough to be watching this? Are you watching it with them?

  • In some circles this is called "wu wei"

  • Thinking back to my childhood music lessons, remembering that it was explained to me that a piano was both a percussion and a string instrument. This was only ever in the context of how a paino physically functions, and never in the sense that it can fill both roles musically.

  • Wait, then what did Eve do to the serpent?

  • Referring to Achilles disrespecting his corpse by dragging it behind his chariot

  • I've been wondering if I actually like how I look or if I'm just my type

  • Usually a "dry county" is one that's banned the sale of alcohol, left over from Prohibition

  • The logo of Paradox Interactive's Clausewitz Engine could have multiple use-cases

  • Thorin is older but he's not supposed to read as old the way Balin does. Tolkien's weird stuff with royalty, like Aragorn being older than Théoden.

  • I blame del Toro. He made Balin goofy-old instead of distinguished-old.

  • I've been feeling this as well. Being gendered at all just feels so dehumanizing.