They’re not grouped like that. Sorry if I explained poorly. The game has categories of languages and then sub-categories within those. Germanic is a top-level category. It includes the sub-categories German, Frisian, English, and Scandinavian. Dutch, Low German, and the others in that first list go in the German sub-category. Frisian is in the Frisian sub-category, English is in English, and Swedish is in Scandinavian

Dutch is in a category called “German” that also includes Low German, Middle German, High German, Alemannic, and Yiddish. The next level up includes stuff like English, Frisian, Swedish, and the other Germanic languages. For comparison, the “Spanish” category that’s on the same level as “German” includes Aragonese, Castilian, Ladino, and Leonese (but not Catalan, that’s in a separate category)

I don’t doubt for a second that he would, but would he even get anything significant for this one? It’s a 20+ year old ship and it was empty when they grabbed it

Edinburgh going pretty well so far

Moments before disaster. I hope the game was at least still enjoyable to watch

My brain has been awfully unkind to me this week, so I’m taking steps to pick myself up. Opened a fresh bag of coffee from my favourite roastery and got a cafetiere brewing away just now. I was going to try out a barley bannock recipe, but I forgot to buy the actual barley, so I’ve got some regular bread proofing away so that I can have a nice lunch. Aiming to cook some Danish asparagus tartlets later on, which I’m quite looking forward to.

Cinemas are running the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings films this weekend for their 25th anniversary (Fellowship released Decemeber 2001 so I’m not sure why they’re doing it now instead of the end of the year). I don’t think I have the stamina to do the full marathon, but I might go catch the Two Towers tomorrow evening

Thanks! I’m not especially good at it - my coding skills are basically that I am decent at bodging, rearranging, and tweaking stuff rather than actually knowing any programming languages - but I enjoy the craft of it. I have been trying to learn Blender enough to be able to make racing sim tracks, but that’s on hold while I update stuff for a long-running strategy game campaign with some friends

What would you make for Elden Ring, assuming time and knowledge were no issue? Re-implementing the cut Kalé quest would probably be what I’d go for if I were to do it

Not my soulsbornes (outside of fucking about with Cheat Engine to take fun screenshots), which is… perhaps odd, as I really enjoy modding games in general. My Assetto Corsa install is more mods than not mods. I make my own mods for Paradox games

Wales implemented a pretty widespread version of this, changing roughly a third of all of their roads from 30 mph to 20 mph (pretty close to 50 and 30 kph respectively). Test areas before the full implementation seemed to go well, and the first year of the reduced limit saw casualties on affected roads drop by a quarter compared to the prior year. That’s only one year of data, and casualties were already trending down anyway, but it does seem promising

It has been very controversial, though. A lot of people do not like it and are fighting to repeal it

Thirteen is just the German contingent, but the other countries are sending similarly small numbers for now. However, this small group is a recon mission, not intended as a fighting force. They’re going there to make a plan for their armies, not to be the army

It’s simple. Bones are optional for cats

Exactly one and a half beers

If they somehow got a cargo ship worth of stuff all the way from the Caspian to Ukraine unnoticed I’d have to assume that Ukraine had invented the portal gun

Additionally, this small deployment is a recon group, not a fighting force. It’s there to plan a stronger defence, not to be the stronger defence. Other European countries are doing the same (Britain, Sweden, Norway, and France I am fairly sure, possibly more). OP’s article even describes it as such

I was extremely confused to be getting a reply to a comment this old, but it’s an interesting reply so no complaints from me!

I do quite like that theory. It’d be interesting to compare the circumstances to other places that had revolutions at about the same time. The New World countries maybe aren’t great comparisons since they didn’t have the same centuries-old entrenched aristocracies, but there were a number of other revolutions in the same time period

This one is so old that it’s actually just from Strike. It was the first one, so there was nothing to counter yet

Made up? Sure. Made up on the fly? Absolutely not, learn some basic goddamn planning skills and actually figure your game out properly. People just going with the first idea that slobbers out of their malfunctioning brains and giving it no further thought is how we end up with money for landing on Free Parking in Monopoly and the very same people complaining that Monopoly takes too long. You put in a house rule that makes the game take longer. “Oh this food is too spicy for me. I don’t like it. Can you pass me the hot sauce so I can add some more please?”

It’s not, the AI has drawn it like it stays flat against his shirt. We should be seeing the underside of the tip of the tie (that’s how actual Dilbert was consistently drawn), but the AI just has it curving rightward

While that is a solid theory, I think it might be the tie? That’s the thing I immediately think of, anyway, and the AI has drawn it curving towards his right shoulder instead of curling forward

The lightning bolt got grabbed by an American bus company of all things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoltBus

The original version was rejected, but they’ve submitted a new and nearly identical application that hasn’t gotten a decision yet. The first one had a sword crossed with the spear