Shihali

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[–] Shihali 2 points 1 year ago

Chrono Trigger is around 25 hours for a casual playthrough. Great game with a very fast pace for its genre but it seems way too long for OP.

[–] Shihali 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Shihali 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What sutra is this from? I don't recognize it on sight.

[–] Shihali 2 points 1 year ago

I'd also like a good answer. I feel like the author would say "you don't even roll to vault a railing, you just do it". But that still leaves a complicated but rehearsed high-wire routine versus "I run on water". I wonder if the author would simply say no?

[–] Shihali 2 points 1 year ago

The US has lots of land that doesn't require irrigation, but also lots of land that can grow crops if irrigated. Some of that land in California is some of the best farmland in the whole country, growing things that prefer California's Mediterranean climate (similar to parts of Australia's southwest coast).

We have the technology and have had it for a while. But we don't have the laws and habits of dry countries so US water laws are a wasteful mess.

[–] Shihali 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

An irrigation canal like this is a big ditch to move water from a river to near farm fields. Without the extra water taken from the river, there wouldn't be enough water in the soil for crops to grow in the area.

Being a big ditch open to the sky, the hot sun and dry air make a bunch of the irrigation water evaporate before it even gets to the field. So we went to all the effort of taking water out of the river just to waste it humidifying the nearby air.

Why did we do it in the first place? Because it's way easier and cheaper to dig a ditch than to lay a big pipe, and I don't know if the US had any other water-delivery tech at the right scale when these were built.

[–] Shihali 3 points 1 year ago

That is an extra large cat bed. I see no dog.

[–] Shihali 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even UTF-16 used by Windows isn't fair because it needs twice as much space for hieroglyphs. Won't someone think of the ancient Egyptians?

Seriously, now that most display systems can handle putting accents on letters instead of needing a code point just for á, a new universal encoding would be nice. Purge it of Unicode's precomposed letters, duplicated Chinese characters, and duplicated-in-retrospect letters and you could fit another few alphabets into Plane 0.

But convincing tech companies to make webpages bigger seems difficult.

[–] Shihali 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This title is a play on words, meaning "leave Mac owners short change". That is, not having as many coins as they assumed they had. Usually you are short change because you had a little less money with you than you thought, but with malware involved they mean theft.

It's difficult. I didn't understand the headline until reading the summary. "Short-changed" means not getting everything you purchased. It originally meant not getting all your change from paying with a larger bill. For example, if you used a $5 bill to buy $2.20 worth of snacks and got $2.75 back, you were short-changed.

[–] Shihali 1 points 1 year ago

I assume they're trying to model Islamic dynasties exploding out of the desert or steppe or mountains, conquering a big empire, and then fragmenting or falling to a similar explosion. In that light high house unity blocking instead of enabling strong CBs sounds backwards. Seems like you'd want high house unity to enable strong CBs, but house unity should be extremely difficult to sustain as the house grows and spreads out.

[–] Shihali 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars might work. It's going to be difficult (fear the spear) and you'll want to use those items, but it is overall easier than Chrono Trigger. And it has a remake coming out soon with some system changes.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was intended for your situation, but it's balanced in all the ways you dislike.

Otherwise, possibly the very easiest remakes of old games like the Final Fantasy 4 Pixel Remaster.

[–] Shihali 5 points 1 year ago

Dragon Quest is the OG for a reason. The remakes are a lot less grindy and don't use ye olde Englysshe so they would be easier to read but less educational.

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