Malgas @ Malgas @beehaw.org

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That rainbow is a promise from God that 10 will never be greater than 3 again.

"You got your Saturnalia on my Yule!"

"You got your Yule on my Saturnalia!"

My recollection is that porn companies initially backed HD-DVD. I distinctly remember thinking it would win for that reason.

Blu-ray won at least partially because the PS3 was the cheapest next-gen optical player, while Xbox360 didn't support HD-DVD without an expensive add-on. (And stand-alone players for either were very expensive.)

The presentation.

Nice dickerdoodle. And whatever the yonic equivalent of "dickerdoodle" is.

Vagingerbread? Pusscotti? Labiakuchen?

…but it did come out in—

Oh. I see what you did there.

You don't even need a special die for this. Just roll a d8 and subtract 4 if it's 5-8. Just like using a d6 as a d3.

I think it's a toy. There appears to be a zipper on the belly.

"Train pirate" has got to be one of the steampunkiest job titles I've ever heard.

Also taking legal action against people who helped your customers resolve the consequences of such an attack seems perfectly normal and not at all contrary to that narrative.

Excuse me, but the correct term is "sarsaparilly".

Could magic overcome, resolve or undo a disability?

Some, certainly. Assuming D&D, mid-level clerics can restore missing limbs (and, though the spell description doesn't mention them specifically, I would argue ocular, auditory, and spinal injuries as well). So disability due to injury should at least be less common than in the real world.

Congenital issues, on the other hand, are much more difficult. Wish would work, but that's not exactly accessible.

That said, there's considerable potential for the magical equivalent of prostheses and other accessibility devices to be more effective than their real-world counterparts.

Cause fantasy games with dragons are famously known to all contain interstellar travel.

Well, Ultima did, so it is technically an early feature of the genre.

As an aside, I would love to see the concept of "high fantasy space opera" get more love.

And, to the extent that it was occult, it was typically biblical occultism. There was a big emphasis on the wisdom of Solomon in particular.

Latin also used apple as a stand-in for generic fruit, cf. malum persicum ("Persian apple") meaning peach.

And, fun fact, the English word "pineapple" was originally synonymous with "pinecone" (i.e. the fruit of the pine tree).

No, multiplication and division are resolved from left to right in the same step. But implicit multiplication (xy, as opposed to x*y) happens first.

Implicit multiplication is xy or x(y), explicit multiplication is x*y.

Basically just whether or not there's an actual multiplication symbol.

Left is correct; implicit multiplication takes precedence over explicit multiplication or division.

Ted can be short for Edward.

"Tits out" is a state of mind.