Bienvenue et bonjour !

To be honest I don’t know. The only non-RTS strategy game I’ve put any serious time into is Civ, so I don’t want to speak for what would serve them well.

Kwinny!

Oh I should probably also add: I haven’t finished the series myself. I’m on the penultimate book at the moment, just getting back into it after a fairly long break.

It’s definitely straightforwardly good vs evil in the worldbuilding, but there’s a lot more nuance in terms of actual characters.

One of the biggest themes throughout the series is (I don’t consider this a spoiler, but I’ll put it behind spoiler tags to allow you to make your own mind up):

Mattock: a large pick for loosening soil and cutting roots

Embrasure: Wedge-shaped opening in the wall that widens from window to interior of room

Oh, I’m sorry. I thought we were having a serious interesting conversation here.

Oh shit that definitely made me laugh.

The sport would absolutely have to change in some significant ways to adapt to that rule, but it could be done. Learn a more rugby-like style of tackling. Push from the line of scrimmage more like sumo wrestlers (a comparison I think I saw someone else in this thread bring up).

I am not what you’d call a fan of gridiron. I’m not American, and have only really been exposed to it in more than a very light “cultural osmosis” way over the last two or three years since I now know an American who refs local games here in Aus. But to be honest, I like the game. If I were American, I could easily see myself getting right into it. And I want the sport to keep the core elements that make it interesting and to be viable at a high level indefinitely. I just don’t see a future for the sport in the long run with CTE rates as high as they are and research continuing to show how bad the long-term effects even of repeated sub-concussive impacts can be. (Though on that topic, I have no idea how boxing plans to exist into the future. I can’t imagine it’ll still be a thing in 60 years unless it undergoes some pretty extreme changes.)

Vouchers for school kids is nice, but how about funding our actual overcrowded schools? Indooroopilly and Toowong are both overcrowded already (and in rapidly densifying areas!), and there’s a strong need for a new school. But after the last state government scrapped plans to build a new school on the site of the former Toowong Bowls Club (for well-justified environmental reasons), they didn’t bother planning for a new school, and it looks like the new state government isn’t either. Heck, this government can’t even be bothered funding the much-needed new buildings for Indro High or Toowong State School.

I’m not familiar. Where are those from?

I suppose the argument would be that you explicitly agree to that, and your employer doesn’t have any possible response if you choose to if kre it other than to sever your relationship.

That, of course, is assuming they’ve even thought about it that much, which is probably giving sovcits too much credit.

lol

Dunno who “you guys” is, considering the original Yowies sold in Australia are far more of a potential choking hazard than Kinder Surprise’s lame lumps of plastic. The fact that it’s smaller pieces you assemble yourself is a big part of the reason they’re so much better!

Anyway, someone clearly needs to verify this, because the two articles are stating contradictory things. Obviously, one of them is wrong.

Happy cake day, banana!

all major global powers except for the United States were at war

Yes, but they were effectively separate wars. The UK and France were not concerned with what Japan was doing (yet…that would come later, and admittedly for separate reasons than America’s even later involvement), and Japan was not concerned about Poland or France.

Kinder Surprises are inferior to Yowies and you can fight me over this.

Or at least, they were. Prior to 2005. Then they got discontinued and brought back over a decade later with inferior Kinder-style simple solid plastic toys.

Apparently though, both the new Yowies and Kinder Surprises are available in America these days.

Is it possible to have such an action as a fast bowler? I associate the wider action with spin, which, as previously mentioned, tends not to be associated with injuries.

the official app tries to not be killed by Android woth the usual tricks (permanent notification, disabling battery optimisation)

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You can (theoretically) control how often locations are tracked and sent but for me was using the location service constantly and draining battery quite a bit.

Ah. Those are exactly what I was worried about. It’s not able to just happen entirely in the background the same way Google’s feature does, then? Kind of automagically?

But not exactly how the app works. If it’s a Strava-like app you have to remember to run in the foreground, the value is a lot lower to me than something that either uses or replicates GPS’ automatic background behaviour.