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[–] Skua@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The area shaded for English is the area where most people already speak Dutch as their first language anyway, so maybe that's why it's not counted as a "foreign" language there. Although I'd think that Åland wouldn't be coloured for Swedish if that was being applied consistently

[–] Skua@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I'm curious to know a bit about Swiss German now. Would the average German speaker from Germany understand it? Is there any desire to just call it "Swiss"?

[–] Skua@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That makes sense. Glad you got something out of it in the end. I've long been a fan of the Elder Scrolls games and was cautiously optimistic about Starfield, liked the gritty but optimistic aesthetic and the idea of going out to find the little side stories that made me love the Elder Scrolls games. Looks like I might need to keep waiting a bit though

[–] Skua@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

How'd you end up putting 18 hours in in the first place without being interested?

[–] Skua@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

Sometimes the ladies are just cooler, you know? I tend to just go with whatever I'm feeling on the day, and if the woman has a good voice lines or an interesting mechanic or whatever else then I guess I'm being a woman today

[–] Skua@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

It's an issue that has cropped up several times when the game's method of uninstallation is to just delete the entire folder it is on and the user installs it somewhere unexpected. Deltarune did it only five years ago. I would usually be surprised that this caused any major damage, but I was recently helping someone bug fix a mod for a game they were making and only after about twenty minutes did they tell me that their game was a pirated version installed directly in their downloads folder

[–] Skua@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

There's also the Isle of Man, but it's an unusual case in its own right

[–] Skua@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

His enthusiasm for the danger made it pretty clear to me. But even then, what you're describing is just a lack of evidence for recklessness, not evidence against him being reckless. Nothing he did in TFA suggests to me that he wouldn't have done what he did in TLJ, it's just that in TLJ the situation didn't work out so well for him

[–] Skua@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What he did doesn't show that he wasn't reckless just because it was necessary though. I'm saying he clearly wanted to do those things whether they were the right move or not, it's just fortunate for him that they were generally good moves most of the time

[–] Skua@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Poe was portrayed as being really reckless in TFA as well, though. Like his second ever appearance is stealing a star fighter in a prison break, fighting an entire star destroyer with some guy he literally just met, and then crash landing all while acting like he's on a theme park rollercoaster. His first was him intentionally getting captured in order to pull a fast one on a Sith and his entire army. He's usually doing what needs to be done in TFA, but that's because those situations actually required someone to do exactly what he always wants to do: fly straight at it in the fastest thing he can get his hands on and blow a bunch of stuff up. His arc in TLJ was totally in keeping with what we had already seen of him

[–] Skua@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Maximus" and "Decimus" were both real Roman names, but they wouldn't have been used in that order. It would have been Decimus Meridius Maximus. Or something else in the middle, since I can't find at instances of Romans called Meridius

[–] Skua@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Reporting on Spotify's payments to artists typically puts payments at 0.003 - 0.005 USD per stream. 80,000,000 streams at 0.003 is just shy of a quarter of a million dollars. And it's totally fair to still argue about whether that's enough or whether it's fair to the many small artists than Weird Al, but his video is definitely a joke and not reflective of the actual income unless he's getting unbelievably shafted by his label

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