It’s probably related to the term bangtail which I guess is a thing with horses and other livestock where they trim the tail hair straight across for reasons. Delving further into speculation it could have picked up the pluralization along a “those women with their bang cuts” > “their bangs” sort of route. I dunno man, language is weird.

Here’s another haircut example: the mohawk, also called a mohican in the UK and presumably other places, is a recognizable style independently named after two different indigenous American tribes that didn’t wear their hair like that. America picked it up from the film Drums Along the Mohawk and the UK got it from The Last of the Mohicans a few decades later.

They also tend to be at least 30% more expensive than a proper grocery store, so it’s really wasteful to not drive and get a week’s worth of food at a time.

It’s complicated and different districts do different things. Plenty of kids did take the city bus to my high school (there was a vastly reduced fee for minors and plenty of subsidized programs for free or cheap monthly passes).

Inventory management is a component of “playing the game” though, and many of us find that it adds to the experience.

Yep, only things my truck has been specifically good for have been dump runs to one particular facility (big pit with low wall) and hauling loads of gravel/soil. A van or a trailer could accomplish much the same, but the truck was cheap and I don’t have anywhere to keep a trailer so it’s a good second vehicle.

Most influential… it might be Castle Adventure on MSDOS or something like Alleyway on the Gameboy simply because they were the first games I remember playing. Or an old Mac program like Factory or Maelstrom or Power Pete with which I wiled away many hours. Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament was the first time I messed around with modding and that computer literacy and problem solving certainly had an impact.

I didn’t go into any computer-related fields, I just really like video games and they’ve been both a solo hobby and social catalyst for my entire conscious life. Maybe Super Smash Bros Melee or Star Wars Battlefront 2 or Halo because the early 2000s cemented some of my longest friendships and those were at the forefront.

The fan base is earned.

This is what I have a problem with. The fan base WAS earned but now is taken for granted.

You can’t just pretend that online play isn’t important for multiplayer games. It’s a huge knock against the titles you mentioned.

Kirby and the Forgotten Land tries so hard to keep gameplay smooth that any enemies more than like 15 feet away drop to 8fps and it still dips when there’s too many effects on screen. Breath of the Wild simply banishes mobs that get too far away (or just run for too long) to keep the memory functional (and many things don’t even render at the edge of bow range). Super Mario Odyssey also aggressively culls actors and gets a bit sad when you force too much on screen (high up in Metro Kingdom, for example) It might not matter to you but it impacts the game enough for me to notice it.

I simply don’t think that you can trust a Nintendo game to be worth the day 1 cost.

Nintendo makes pretty good games but nothing about their product is “top tier”. The online experience is terrible, their flagship games suffer from framerate dips, pop-in, and stuttering because they don’t invest in better hardware, and speaking of hardware they went with the same will-break-down-and-drift sticks because they’ve been coasting for ages. Meanwhile they’re suing fan projects into the dirt and growing increasingly out of touch. (Sony and Xbox are hot on their heels, the big three could really do with some outside competition)

Disagree, I think being in the pilot seat is important. The immersion of control amplifies the experience.

Only in a backwards etymological way. It comes from the Mohawk people of modern New York (even though they mostly didn’t sport that hairstyle, the association stuck anyway because of Hollywood)

It’d be a lot nicer if Alabama wasn’t dragging it down.

We’re a little past hoping judges do the right thing.

Neither, but I suspect you know your argument is in bad faith.

It’s better to protect some people than none, and if that means balkanizing the US then that sucks for the blue islands in the Bible Belt but we are in crisis and that means triage.

Guillotine is the check against this shit.

Eggs and omelettes.

“The people” aren’t going to engage in traditional warfare against the undivided might of the US military. If there is armed resistence it’s going to be attacks on individuals and sabotage/explosives, and it’s going to divide the armed forces.

Long-term damage is only really a danger after a couple hours in a proper tourniquet. Something makeshift in order to survive to a hospital is always fine. It’s like CPR: breaking ribs is a small cost to pay for survival.

I wish mutton and goat were more available near me. Lamb can be had but I want bigger cuts for stew or curry.

What comic and no it doesn’t. And reading through your exchange with the other guy it’s clear we have very different ideas about the nature of self-identity. I don’t think of my body as necessary for “me” to exist, I am my thoughts and memory rather than my neurons and chemistry. If that information can be copied and transmitted then there will be a “me” that continues from a new location.

You’re not a continuous consciousness anyway. Sleep is a thing.