The dialogue system isn’t identical, but we’ll absolutely be including those features as dialogue options. We recently cast the last few open roles, including major characters, so although VA is a bigger job than in any published TES game, we’re well on our way.

So much dialogue and random NPC banter will have to be cut out if they want to voice act every single NPC like they to plan to do.

Egrets from Skywind here. We’re really not cutting anything in that regard (or really in any respect). For lines that are very repetitive, we might reduce the number of NPCs that deliver those lines to avoid auditory fatigue and immersion issues, and some lines are being tweaked to avoid feeling too encyclopedic in their delivery, but our ultimate solution is just a ton of voice actors (hundreds, literally) and a lot of work to implement them all.

This is not a good-faith response. I’m not engaging further.

I think this is fundamentally true (although it has issues when it scales down to insects and below that requires an arbitrary line to be drawn) but I’m not convinced that being absolute about it is useful in harm reduction.

It’s objectively better that someone looks to buy meat from a farm that cares about the welfare of its animals than one that maximizes profit at the cost of the wellbeing and happiness of the animal.

Naturally it’s better still if they reduce or stop their meat consumption, but making it black-and-white can potentially result in a worse outcome by setting the bar higher than the consumer is willing to jump.

Tenth, eleventh, twelveth. It’s not the normal spelling, but I like it.

Relevant bits, without corny jokes, from the original Ashcroft Fire Rescue post on Facebook:

A quick investigation revealed the cause of this fire. It was determined to be a fish. The fish had an incredible journey, considering the river is 3km east from the point of origin. The fish had been dropped by a local osprey onto the hydro line causing embers to drop, along with the fish, to the dry grasses below. We do suspect by the size of the fish and the heat of the day probably caused the rather tired bird to drop its catch. It has been verified that our prime suspect sustained no injuries in the incident.

If you’re gonna use a single line break with Markdown, you have to put two spaces on the end of each line:

Bacon
Turkey
Mushrooms
Green onion
Garlic clove
Sugar Peas
Kalamata Olives

or put an asterisk and space before each line for a bulleted list:

• Habanero
• Gruyere
• Bleu cheese
• Red grapes
• Blackberries
• Strawberries
• Honey

This is an IBX map, not a FODMAP.

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Frustrating! I never recommend Amazon - they dodge tax, underpay workers, throw away tons of goods, and their fulfillment centres mix up real and counterfeit goods. No one wins except their execs.

But since it’s already done, have you tried raising it to Amazon?

That will work for now - although in my experience the performance of newer OSs on older hardware is not great. Soon, however, new releases of macOS won’t support Intel processors. Tahoe, later this year, will supposedly be the last.

UGreen are usually fairly reliable. They’re not super high quality but they’re not just a no-name generic product with a fake name; they should be similar to Anker in general.

It would be worth checking if your hub is still under their warranty.

In terms of continental plates, as I understand it, Zealandia straddles the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates, so if this map were split by major continental plates, New Zealand’s north and south islands would be split.

But I’m not a geologist.

If it were divided by continental tectonic plates, it would be welcome news for Southern Asia and most of the Middle East, but terrible news for New Zealand, Iceland, and the Caribbean.

Doubtful, but it could perhaps be The Nightmare Stacks by Charlie Stross?

This is fanciful. Regardless of the capacity of a butt of wine or beer, the word “buttload” has only been used since the latter half of the last century.

The original book, Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams (of Hitchhiker’s Guide fame) is absolutely excellent. Mark Cawardine, the guy in your video, was a co-traveler for the book too. I can’t recommend it enough.

The kākāpō is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right.

It seems that not only has the kākāpō forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kākāpō will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground.

RIP Douglas Adams.

Hesiod was an Ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.

“πυγοστόλος” literally means “decorating the buttocks,” and it might be inferred that Hesiod’s temptress wears an alluringly tight chiton, or is in the habit of tying her girdle to accent her hips. A more likely reading of πυγοστόλος, however, is simply “seductive” in the general sense. Greek women of the Archaic period, to the best of our knowledge, were not in the habit of actually decorating their derrières.