Hmm. Suppose you were building a nuclear locomotive. (Setting aside, for the moment, whether this is a good idea.) Would nuke→turbine→electricity→motor be more efficient than just using the rotation of the turbine to move the train?

It can’t be, right?

I haven’t.

The Matchless Kungfu certainly looks like Wuxia Kenshi, but I haven’t actually gotten around to trying it.

I had fun with it. Can be a bit slow and grindy, as forming a build involves finding the right (randomly generated, periodically refreshed) techniques and studying them. And there’s a big power jump in each area so this process has to be repeated regularly.

I initially got into it when looking for something like Wandering Sword, but as a M&B- or Kenshi-style open world, which it’s not exactly that.

Tale of Immortal […] doesn’t even work if you don’t have your system set to Chinese

I’ve played it (in English, on a US-English Windows install) and I don’t remember having to do anything like that.

given that several Gaiman projects (like Amazon’s Good Omens) have been cut short

What a weird example, given that Good Omens ran out of source material in season 1.

Well shit, I’ve been launching Epic through Lutris. Guess it’s time for me to check out Heroic.

It’s funny, I frequently find myself configuring native Linux games I legitimately own to instead run the windows version through Proton.

…I’m sorry that that’s pretty much the exact opposite of an answer to your question.

The pints thing actually has the same cause as I was talking about above: The British standardized around the Elizabethan ale gallon, while America used the Queen Anne wine gallon.

The long (British) and short (American) ton are both 20 hundredweights. The American hundredweight is exactly 100 pounds, while the British hundredweight is 112. You tell me which of those is more reasonable.

That said, both units did, in fact, come from Britain. The old Imperial system often used the same name for different units depending on what was being measured and for what purpose. Both countries passed laws to simplify and consolidate these measurements in the early 19th century, but in many cases chose different versions to standardize on.

Most literal use of ‘ad hominem’.

I felt similarly after Fallout 3. I think that universe just isn’t for me

Out of curiosity, have you played any of the non-Bethesda Fallout games? Because the Fallout-nees of FO3 (haven’t played 76 or 4) is a paper-thin veneer composed of random elements from previous games jumbled together in ways that make no sense.

https://youtu.be/iXuc7SAyk2s

Secretary of State is #4, and that didn’t stop Madeline Albright from holding that position during the Clinton years. I believe the accepted solution is that the succession just skips over anyone who is ineligible.

AFAIK it only ever does that if grub is installed on the same physical drive as Windows.

I want to know just how many magical reindeer have been examined by scientists :P

I’d argue that Kentucky should be green. Sure the ‘y’ becomes an ‘i’, but it’s still pronounced like Kentucky±an so the difference is purely orthographic.

And changing a final ‘y’ to ‘i’ is extremely common when adding a suffix. (cf. happiness, beautiful, angrier)

I’ve been running games from an NTFS drive through Lutris with no issues.

Relevant xkcd.

But only some children get jam actually pumped into their homes.

The war on Christmas must not end until Christmas ends its illegal occupation of November.