I like the suggestion that the witch hadn’t cast a spell before this point because they thought it was a social faux-pas. Confrontation anxiety strikes again.

It’s bringing love, don’t let it get away!

FYI, Brother seem to be acting a little shady in the last couple of years.

O true ammunition manufacturer,
Thy rounds are quick. Thus with a splat I die.

Wikipedia has a succinct but thorough write-up.

If I’ve understood correctly, wind gets directed inward towards the back, not outwards, which makes it more maneuverable and less likely to stall (you’ll have to read the article for the reasons), but also more twitchy and less predictable.

A loincloth does typically go between the legs, kind of like a traditional diaper. It’s not just two flaps.

Inspect for yourself.

This is a portrait of her friend, Lizzy Ansingh

And niece – her sister, Clara Ansingh, was Lizzy’s mother. The other daughter of Clara, Sorella, was also a painter.

Likewise, I avoid Reddit as much as I can; I found the AMA with a web search.

Sad for sure, but the person running the AMA is comically tone-deaf and unprepared.

Great post.

Here’s the Dreadmoor AMA on r/pcgaming on Reddit. It’s a disaster.

Exactly this - here’s Bill Hader telling the story in 2014.

The sort of end user that gets common sense stuff wrong is not the sort of end user that would ever have read the documentation anyway 🤷

Non-web ref: !cooking_with_fire@feddit.uk

I agree it looks a little weird; I suspect it’s been manually airbrushed. Here’s a 1924 prospectus with the same image (source) and many of the things that jumped out at me - especially the faces of the dogs - are the same.

not stonks

great(adj.)

Old English great “big, thick, stout, coarse” from West Germanic *grauta- “coarse, thick” (source also of Old Saxon grot)

(Trimmed for humor, but not otherwise changed).

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A monk well ahead of his time
Planned a clock that could measure the sky
But Cromwell, the shit,
Tore the whole thing to bits
I can’t think of a finishing rhyme

In the skies above the mountain, darkness overcame pale
Then Mannimarco, Big Worm, felt his dismal powers fail

These are people under an autocracy, living in a literal war zone.

Ignoring the fact that you’ve moved the goalposts:

• A local PhD petroleum engineering lecturer who was involved with the issue directly has a working theory.
• A Texas PhD chemical and petroleum engineering professor agrees it’s likely.
• It’s further supported by the fact that resurfacing work removed the issue.

Cherry-picking the words “I speculate” out of the entire article to suggest they’re unfamiliar with the phenomenon and just pontificating conjecturing is deliberately misleading and I suggest you take your own advice.