Aside from the obvious “the audience we’re targeting will attach more to a 15 year old detective or 13 year old world saving hero”

Things like school settings mean an easy way to introduce as many characters you want to come up with, and at the same time, force them to socialize, so that’s an infinite pool of plotlines to throw in, for starters. For another, this age range also means you’re dealing with a population that is likely to stir up drama because they don’t have the tools to handle various issues, they’re more vulnerable to new emotions - this one is still valid outside of the school setting for fantasy or mystery settings. In your late 20s and your 30s, you’re expected to be more set in your ways, not learn new things, be less of a social disaster, and also not have any way to meet new people outside of the company you work at (which is why that’s the other popular slice of life setting). Don’t worry about how adults can still be plenty of a mess either way, but the target audience doesn’t care about that either.

Check out the OG Star Fox boxart on SNES, it’ll look familiar. Both US and Japanese versions.

Ministers and senators yeah, presidents no.

That’s the point, they have no incentive to abuse it - also it’s mostly an advisory position, saying “nope, this law you’re trying to pass is unconstitutional, this line can’t stay”. They don’t actually do anything themselves, and I’ve never heard of a case of someone trying to bribe them to reject something.

This has been the proper phrasing since the beginning of police and newspapers.

That’s the oldest story of a human hero, there’s more in myths and cult practices that’s just straight up all of that. The cult of Inanna / Ishtar had non binary people, men taking the role of female mourners and singers (gala / kalu), passive males “whose maleness Ishtar turned female” and “effeminate” cultic personel, women taking male military roles, women given a “spear” by Ishtar (kurgaru or ursal, literally man-woman), male palace attendants for the female quarters (presumed to be castrated but not necessarily), “childless men” / childless castrates working in administration, actual statuettes clearly depicting a woman’s body but marked with a male name in a female role… And then there’s the myth of Ishtar getting stuck in the underworld in which the only being that is able to go free her from Ereshkigal is Asu-shu-namir, neither male nor female. While they escape, Ereshkigal curses the non-binary to always be in the shadow, an outcast, subject of suspicions, but Ishtar counters the curse with a blessing that they’ll be a wise healing prophet (pointing to the people in her cult). We’re talking from the Sumerian period, to Old Babylonian period, all the way to Neo Babylonian period, from before 2200 BCE to after 800 BCE.

By the way, the Inanna / Ishtar cult, goddess of love and war, was the most popular, universal (present in basically all cities), long-lasting cult of the Mesopotamian civilization.

No no, close enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rT19i3jvOQ

Language doesn’t come up from planned academic consensus, it comes from common use. If there were more people using the Spanish then French word negro because that’s the cultural environment these people came from and where they used it, and the accent gradually changed the word to something more unique, then that’s what the new word is. Wikipedia says that process took 200 years. They ended with that word and not another word because they were not using that other word before, simple as.

It’s getting ditched from being subject to a vote. It’s looking like they’re trying to use “this one weird trick that the constitution allows as a tool of democracy” to move this to a closed, limited vote, that is expected to pass in complete silence without parliament being allowed to discuss it.

Or anyway that’s the alarmist short of it and it might fall off after all, but we really shouldn’t just presume that it’s done and resolved just because we won’t hear about it again.

Which, coincidentally, is perfectly fitting to describe (make up) a god!

Save ink by removing spaces! Brilliant.

an irrational fear of spaces between words or an allergy to proper kerning

Yeah uh, medieval language was not nearly as entrenched in rules and grammar, and absolutely not set in stone. Things changed from one text to another - even within the same text. The same Song of Roland writes that same name in a few different ways, some with spaces, some without, with different letters.

From the French Wikipedia, count’em :

Carles (vers 1) ou Charles (28, vers 370), Carles li magnes (68, vers 841) ou Charles li magnes (93, vers 1195), traductions de Carolus magnus, mais aussi Carlemagnes (33, vers 430) ou Charlemaignes (138, vers 1842)

I don’t know when that happened for the English language, but Charlemagne (as a single word) is also what the French language calls him, the earliest variations of it appearing in the Song of Roland (11th c.)

Don’t even think of starting FF16 without going through the first 15 20 games in the series (I’m counting 7CC but not 7DC or 7BC) (yes also 4AY)

Yeah, but it’s a cultural niche that’s not known at all over on this side, and it became a meme, while being wrong.

Svp is far too long to say, siouplé is more likely.

Yeah that’s just gonna piss off any French person because we have no idea how that became so popular.

There isn’t a single country on the planet that would lift a toe to force a one state government to give equal rights to Palestinians. No one even does that today for places where there’s already a demand. Mostly because they all know they have their own local movement demanding equal rights and they don’t want other countries to weigh in on that. Everyone’s already stopped caring about UN human rights reports and the likes.

RPCS3 is the name of the emulator. It’s an acronym but I don’t suppose anyone knows or uses it off the top of their head. Like MAME, also an acronym AFAIK (as far as I know), no idea what It means, the acronym is the name of the emulator. So not really initialism.