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  • But it’s not cents on the dollar, that’s the problem, it’s just cents, and then more cents, and more cents again, regardless of if you’re selling more. The issue here is that every install costs the developer money. It’s not just a cut being taken from the sales, it’s money coming directly out from the developer’s pocket, in addition to the cut being taken from the sales. And there’s no limit on how many times people could reinstall games, meaning that these charges could just keep going well after a purchase has been made.




  • I live on a fault line along the pacific ring of fire, and so building with wood was an absolute necessity for us so long, as they were structurally more lenient to the constant earthquakes. Even now I believe our old government building is the largest wooden building in the Southern hemisphere (and it’s only 4 stories tall). These days as construction techniques have changed, we’ve obviously built things with concrete, steel, brick, etc., but the wooden tradition remains strong, with a huge majority of modern houses here still being built like this.

    That aside, wood was also just a much cheaper material to build with, so it was the most economical material to use for a long time for much of the “new world”.





  • Ophy@lemmy.nztoRisa@startrek.websiteTrek to Non-Trekkies
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    1 year ago

    Having never watched star trek:

    Jokey answer: recess but they have access to deadly weaponry and only the strongest will make it to maths class.

    Serious answer: I presume this is some kind of proof-by-combat scenario? A local culture demands the protagonists fight one of their own in some cactus-pugilism jungle-gym arena in order to prove their worth, and only then will they grant them whatever boon they asked of these people?








  • Ophy@lemmy.nztoMemes@lemmy.mlBerry Club
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    1 year ago

    Linguist here, if I may share my 2¢.

    We do know that even over a thousand years ago, speakers of Old English were still calling these kinds of fruits berries, such as strawberries and blackberries (although pronunciation differed somewhat, of course). A word for strawberry as “earth berry” is even reconstructed for the proto Germanic language around 1500 to 2500 years ago. Beyond that, it becomes difficult to trace the word berry any further.

    The Botanical sense of the word berry seems to come largely from at earliest the 1500s, from the writings of Caesalpinus, although the definitions were inconsistent and later writings on the matter constantly redefined things and added new terms. Although, largely, these writings all used Latinate terms for their botanical concepts, such as bacca (the closest to the modern botanical berry), and also words like pomum (pome/pomme), drupe, etc. for the other categories of fruit.

    So, somewhere since all of that, some English-speaking botanist decided it would be a good idea to use the word berry to describe this concept of a bacca (even though berries had been used for distinctly different things from what that concept described), and now we end up in our current silly predicament where strawberries aren’t berries but pumpkins are.

    I’d propose we call botanical berries “bayes” or “bayfruit”, the word bay/baye being an alternate word for berry that ultimately derived from the Latin word bacca, via Old French.