The one that really impressed me was the capital on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. At one point I was walking on top of the walls surrounding it and looking around for a nice screenshot and I was just in awe of how great that city was.

There’s room for a joke here about solar panels and sunflowers.

Even beyond just emotions, in Portuguese the “be” verb can be translated into two different verbs: “ser” and “estar”. They are two complete separate things - so separate that English classes kinda turned the “to be” verb into a meme due to how long it takes to teach Portuguese speakers to use it and understand what it means in each sentence.

“Ser”: to be someone who is something. Usually more permanent, but not necessarily.

“Estar”: to be in the state of something. Usually more temporary, but also applies to permanent states.

Some examples showing how the meaning of some expressions change depending on which verb you use:

You are sick “Ser”: you are a sick (twisted/evil) person. “Estar”: you have caught some sickness.

You are sad “Ser”: life has made you sad in general. “Estar”: you’re feeling sad right now.

You are beautiful: “Ser”: you are a beautiful person. “Estar”: you are looking great today.

You’re good at this: “Ser”: literal, you’re good at this. “Estar”: implies being good is not the default but you have reached the point of being good at this.

**you’re funny drunk": “Ser”: when you’re drunk you are funny. “Estar”: you are drunk now and this time you turned out to be funny while drunk. Or, in this point of your life you’re funny when you’re drunk.

it’s cold there: “Ser”: that is a cold place. “Estar”: that place is cold right now.

it’s cold there now “Ser”: it’s like saying that winters in that place used to be mild but nowadays winter there can get pretty cold “Estar”: that place is cold right now.

I skipped it for the same reason at launch. Eventually I dropped windows completely and that was no longer an issue, but I had already moved on.

Recently I had an opportunity to play it for a while and I was quite surprised that despite having many flaws, the game also has a ton of good things. Mostly quality of life changes but they improved so many things in relation to civ 6 that it’s an absolute shame they butchered the game itself with its main “selling point”. If they made a game with all of those changes but without the Eras system it would probably be criticised for not innovating much, but people would be playing it.

Personally I’m not necessarily against the Eras system, but the way they implemented it is just the worst. I’m fine with the idea of changing civs every era, but the eras themselves now feel like different matches of a game. Once an era ends, you have to drop anything you didn’t finish and start new goals, but everything you did finish will give you powerful buffs in the next era - so you basically need to work into achieving everything every time. There’s no room for playing the long game, or doing your own thing. If you set up the game to be so long that each era lasts for 400 turns, then you can achieve every goal and kinda get back that freedom to do whatever you want (to some extent) - but then by the time you reach the modern era you’ll have so many buffs that you win the game before you do anything modern.

Bolsonaro did absolutely nothing to fight corruption of any kind. All of his feuds with the Supreme Court had nothing to do with the other being corrupt. Much to the contrary, Bolsonaro actively worked to prevent corrupt government officials from being ousted.

Is tourist in this case a term for casual fan? If so I hadn’t seen that term before.

That phrase is simply comparing the requirements for the two sides:

The girl:

• must be skinny
• must have an hourglass anime
• must like anime
• must know how to cook
• must take care of the home
• must want kids
• must be good in bed

The guy:

• must be a guy

What they are saying is that if you want a girl with that many requirements, you need to consider that you should also be able to match an extensive list of requirements similar to that (whichever they may be). It’s not any specific requirement, but by saying “just a guy” they probably mean the guy doesn’t pass any requirement they can think a girl may add to their own list.

There’s no specific thing you need to work on, but you should work on something. You may put work on your body to become attractive, you may be smart and funny, a very reliable or very charismatic person (not just for attraction but for dealing with people in general). You may be a good person to talk with by being genuinely interested in what others have to say. There’s a million possibilities.

As an exercise, imagine spending a day with someone. Try to think of everything you would do together. After thinking of the whole day, now imagine that same day all again, with everything happening exactly the same, but with you in the position of the other person. Would you have enjoyed being the other person in that imaginary day?

And if my grandma had wheels she would have been a bike. What difference does it make what they would do in a hypothetical scenario?

What’s missing from your analogy is that if you try to run away and fail, your mom will beat you even more - and both your parents spent their whole lives rigging the house so you wouldn’t get away. And if you manage to, any other person you talk to in the street will turn out to be an undercover security officer who will take you back to the house.

It is 100% a hostage situation - you either let them have their way and accept a miserable life, or they force their way and you live a miserable and painful life.

Of course the ideal solution is to get away. But how? Simply trying to walk out the front door every 4 years is not really working.

I’m not even close to understanding this one.

Nah I’m sure there’s tech now to make it air tight even while fully open, so it’ll prevent anything from passing through while allowing anything to pass through.

I’m actually faithful to the Church of Last Thursdayism, so I do not believe that.

It’s like when playing the lottery, if you say you’re picking all your numbers in a sequence, like 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. People will tell you’re crazy because sequences like that “never” happen. But the same is true for every other combination of numbers too. The sequence just makes it clearer how unlikely you are to ever pick the winning numbers.

To this day I still don’t know what Vegemite is. To me it’s the thing from the sandwich from down under. And that’s good enough.

Oh Honey, do you really think it matters if he “has the power” to do it or not?

Just some chocolate candy. It’s the base for a common dessert here in Brazil known as “Brigadeiro”.

Mix it with 5 spoons of chocolate powder and one spoon of butter (or margarine); stir it together, then put it on the microwave for 4 minutes on max temperature. take it out, stir it all again to let the hot air out and put it back on the microwave for another 2 or 3 minutes.

The numbers may need to be tweaked for specific brands of ingredients but that’s the general baseline and even if you get it all wrong it’ll still be generally good.

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Not really “paid his dues”, but got out because it was proven the judge in his case was colluding with the prosecution and he never had a fair trial.

Ah, so you admit schools are indoctrinating kids?