There is a trading card shop here - in a village of 2500.

How?

You probably can read middle English sooner than you can speak it. Like writing with a feather on parchment, I assume you don’t just die and have time to learn.

Should be noted though, even with the best plan, your frail body, weird language and no local knowledge will mean you probably still die in 2 - 72 hours.

This is something I often wonder about, what could one person even do with all of today’s common knowledge? You can’t very well just invent the printing press and have the same impact as Gutenberg - you need something what the few people who can read would, and most people can’t translate the bible from Latin into renaissance German and/or don’t know enough about the catholic church to write scathing remarks on it like Luther.

You can write and read - that’s something. Maybe more importantly, you can do math with arabic numerals - boom, easy accounting job. With a bit higher education, you may even just invent calculus once more. You know how long it took for people to figure out you can put pi on the number line? Proving all the formulas in your head is the hard stuff, but you have a head start just by knowing them. We all clown on the wormhole explanation with the paper, but it does prove Euclid wrong 400 years early.

Ah, and you can just become a medical genius by using soap and bandages - “do no harm” is better than most.

Wie hoch ist noch mal die Quote bei Bundestagsabgeordneten?

I’m never sure if I am a hair splitter or other people have an America-centric view, but the first manned flight was with hot air balloons in 1783 in Paris. Like, I know the invention of the aeroplane is the more relevant event, but a balloon is still flight.

The increased price is not the result of tariffs, neither for the games nor console. That’s pretty much confirmed by them costing the same amount (converted + sales tax) in Europe. The console is (was, before tariffs) fairly priced imo, it is comparable to the steam deck + dock.

Is 80$ Mario Kart price gouging? Eh. The edit maniac in the comments here is right that video games have become cheap, maybe even too cheap, and that a price increase at some point was inevitable. 60$ was set as the AAA price before the smartphone existed, and was not always profitable as we’ve seen with the recent lay-offs.

My own 2 cents: I’m glad some company broke that unspoken rule (we ignore skull and bones for obvious reasons), so big releases have more options in pricing, too long have we accepted 60$ games with 20$ DLC, I’m glad if this means devs can just charge 80$ for a full game. Oh, and it’s good for indie games too. People may actually buy the shorter games with worse graphics they wanted so badly a few months ago.

So…what’s up with the Japanese language & multi language systems they get over there?

Is putting in multiple languages really that much more expensive? Or put another way, why do they get a 330$ version for those who only speak Japanese? The language restriction must be just so people don’t export them… was there a scalping problem?

In here absolutely everyone knows this stuff and it’s all just common knowledge.

For the record, unlike the United states, Hungary is a state party to the ICC. They are legally required to cooperate with the ICC, but if Orban says nothing will be done… I don’t know the consequences. Probably nothing.

A quick glance at Wikipedia says the ICC can prosecute cases where individual states are unable or unwilling to prosecute. “Therefore, many states parties have implemented national legislation to provide for the investigation and prosecution of crimes that fall under the jurisdiction of the Court.” Hungary is not such a state, their laws are still in the drafting part. I assume Hungary can promise nothing will be done because while the ICC can prosecute, they still need an executive branch to do the arrest, which would be Hungarian?

Der einzige Typ, der das behauptet, ist nur leider derjenige, der das dort hochgeladen hat. Der muss es nicht erkennen, der kann es wissen.

Und hab ich noch nie gehört, dass im Mittelalter = als bindestrich verwended würde, aber “vnnd ihro” ist ja mal eindeutig Schwachsinn.

If we somehow do that I will be more upset, considering how long it takes to seize the property of Russian oligarchs here.

No, German way is to take this to court.

Saw a weird up-tick of these comment-box missionaries lately.

Select the 3 dots, click report, reason: misinformation.

But Doctor, I am Pagliacci!

I can barely imagine the shitty world that makes us need the French nukes in our country, what world would there even be that requires a German one instead? If things are that bad, what good would our own nuke do at that point?

Again and again I come here to realize: I’m too poor to learn from or contribute to your discussions.

Das ist das Beste, was wir anzubieten haben? Tja, wer Runde 1 verschlafen hat, darf sich wohl nicht beschweren.

Villeicht hass’ Ich auch einfach nur die deutsche Sprache in Songs, muss für’s nächstes Jahr was in Platt finden.

Mag ich auch nicht… aber der ESC ist’s ja ebenso.

Das ist in Ostend, Belgien, Fort Napoleon.

Während des ersten Weltkriegs war das ein Quartier deutscher Offiziere. Heinrich-Otto Pieper malte mehrere solcher Patriotischer Bilder and die Wände. Ich habe die Erklärung des Bildes, die ich auf dem Englischen Wikipedia fand, übersetzt und in den Alt-Text gepackt.

Can’t wait until the conservative politicians quote this statistic to raise the retirement age… again.