More like Pollock.

Hell, the US military has a detailed strategic plan for responding to zombies.

Not that that sort of thing is unique to the US. cf. Crisis in Zefira, a sci-fi training scenario commissioned by National Defense Canada.

I’ve only ever heard that term used in Cajun cooking, where it refers to onion, celery, and bell pepper.

The version with carrot is mirepoix.

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.

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

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

being unable to move the titlebar further up

I know KDE has an option to disable this behavior, though I forget what it’s called off the top of my head. Then it’s just a matter of grabbing the window with super+drag to put it wherever you want.

but it seems too good quality to be custom work and is definitely an official controller.

Custom official controllers are a thing.

Don’t dumb down the gameplay systems

Bethesda design challenge: impossible.

Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?

It’s guns all the way down.

Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.

I’d just like to point out, for the record, that that isn’t the original trilogy. Sands of Time is the fifth Prince of Persia game.

Satan Sauron is a baby that lives in the sun.

There’s a board game called History of the World that does something like this, where score is tracked per player, but you play as a new civilization every turn. (And, depending on the draw, may wind up fighting against your previous civ.)

It’s a good game, but, yeah, it’s hard to imagine that working in something like Civilization.

One thing I always liked about slashdot is the ability to tag votes with things like “funny” or “informative”.

The proof that it is probably not possible ever is that metric time was already adopted during the French Revolution, during the period when they were metricising everything else, and even they decided that it wasn’t worthwhile.

The Watch […] pretty grounded in Pratchett-ness

You’re literally the only person I’ve heard say anything like that. Sir Terry’s own daughter has disavowed it, saying that it “shares no DNA with my father’s Watch.”