Dalvoron

Yes I did mix up the order of the words cause of poor sleep. Thanks for correcting

My favourite language joke:

What's the difference between a cat and a comma?

One's got claws at the end of its paws, the other's a pause at the end of a clause

*fixed order

This particular flavour of survivorship bias is also called the anthropic principle

In Ireland it's Éire, while Iceland is An Íoslainn, so it doesn't really work 😕

Those quotes were far too coherent to have been real

Truly it's a hard game even if there were no cylons. Humans rarely win in my games. Alas, it's out of print 😭. Its spiritual successor Unfathomable seems good as well, though I've only played it once

Then you discover the board game and it's a whole new level of great

Tables if you want very specific layouts for lots of discrete items.

Linear housing, quadratic taxes

I have a colleague who is trying hard to do it, but it isn't good enough yet fortunately. I point out as many issues as I can to deter him but it ain't working.

No thank you, I don't want to imagine this please

Or the person telling the story lies some of the time in which case it's not a riddle and you're just talking to a normal person