Ahh, good points all round

A small clarification: pre-Columbian Mesoamerica did have copper and bronze metalworking, after picking it up from contact with South American societies some time between 600 and 800 CE. The Nahuas (Aztecs) had bronze axes called tlaximaltepoztli, for example. Macuahuitls might have just been better at cutting than bronze blades, though. Societies that learned about ironworking mostly replaced their bronze weapons with it, after all

To be fair I would be very intimidated by someone swinging a weapon that can kill a horse with one blow

Monaco has had an open border with France since 1865, so I don’t think that specific thing is a concern

Mod support is a surefire path to silliness if you have a playerbase that cares. Assetto Corsa is an extremely straight-faced game, but people still modded in things like “your car is a big stompy t-rex” and “everyone races on office chairs”

We’ll have lots of English speakers here given the language the question was asked in, so I’ll do Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) instead: dìochuimhneachadh, at 17 letters. It means “forgetting”, and it is pronounced /ˈd̥ʲĩə̃xənəxəɣ/. No, I can’t say it smoothly.

Gàidhlig isn’t one of those languages that can compound words like Finnish or German, this one is just a consequence of a few different things. Firstly, the language’s spelling rules result in a lot of letters that do impart information but aren’t directly pronounced. Consonants have two forms depending on which of two sets of vowels they are next to, so any consonant or consonant cluster must always have vowels from the same set on either side. For example, the “i” in the “imhne” bit in the middle is basically only there to match the “e” at the end, since u and e aren’t in the same set of vowels and we need to know which version of the consonants between them to use. Every h is a modifier on the consonant preceding it as well. Second, the root of it is “un-remember”, so it’s already a shorter word with a prefix. Third, we’re using the verbal noun version, so it’s “the act of forgetting” rather than present-tense as in “currently forgetting something”

There are probably longer words in the language, but I don’t know it very well yet and this was the longest one I could find on a word list. I think there’s actually a version of dìochuimhnich that includes a suffix marking it as being a conditional first person plural doing the forgetting, so “we would forget”, but I don’t understand how that part of the language works. If I was to say that at the moment, I would use two words to do it, so I don’t feel like I can give it as an answer here

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It is, but I have no idea what to look for or when. OP should know if they know why it was removed

How do you know the reason for the removal? Is there a modlog entry we can look at?

To be honest I think we could just ditch the apostrophe in contractions altogether. I cant think of a situation in which itd make anything less clear. At worst there are perhaps uses of the fairly rare non-contraction verb “cant” that wouldn’t be immediately clear

I’m pretty certain the Bretonnians are actually the horses, the humans riding on top are just elaborate puppets that the horses use to swing swords

Good luck on settling into the new place and schedule!

My sister is a keen baker as well, but it works out quite nicely for us — she’s excellent at doing sweet things, and I like to do bread, so we’ve got a good exchange situation going on. But yeah, absolutely nothing wrong with buying it when the time and/or effort is needed elsewhere first

You could get into baking bread! It doesn’t require much effort or money, it’s interesting (to me, at least, your mileage may vary on this point), fresh bread is absolutely delicious, and bread also happens to have a heap of calories in it. Wheat didn’t get to be one of humanity’s two all time top sources of calories by being weightwatchers-approved

“Each state is lined with an impenetrable wall of swine. We are trapped.”

look mate some of us just like fonts. don’t kinkshame

The first two principles for virtual currencies that they have listed are “Price indication should be clear and transparent” and “Practices obscuring the cost of in-game digital content and services should be avoided”, so if EVE is honest and up front about it then it should be fine

It is circa, but I like to think it’s “chemist’s approximately”

Trick question, Sonic is Barry Allen’s fursona. They run at the same speed because they’re the same person

Interesting! I wonder if it’s a side effect of the most common breads in each country? Like rye bread is quite popular in Finland (as I understand it, I’m not Finnish), but it’s a pretty rare specialty product here in the UK, so maybe yeasts that work well with rye just so happen to be good with alcohol too or something like that

one can always get the other option from the shop

Not where I am, sadly! Which is exactly why I started making it myself

To be fair, it was only me that drank mine… but that was always the plan