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    • A Highland Song. I can confirm that this one is nice to take a walk through because it is a game about running through a fictionalised version of a place I frequently enjoy walking through in real life. Possibly stretching the definition of open world a little, but the gameplay is about navigation
    • Shadow of the Colossus. Which is good because you do spend a lot of time walking across it.

    Also, not an open world game at all, but the environments in Pacer are amazing. You barely get a chance to look at them because you’re zooming along a racetrack at 400 mph, but they’re still there. Sonashahar is a futuristic neoclassical Indian city, and I want to explore that









  • Oh shit I’ve done the same thing with the same modifier for the same reason! We used a “roll 3 6x3d6 arrays and pick one” method and the one with 5 Dex was the only interesting one of the three, so I made him a former shipwright whose leg got fucked up when a mast collapsed on it

    I think he passed one dex save in his entire career


    • 2: Conall. I played a loud and boisterous bard with bagpipes specifically because I intended on drinking a lot of whisky and not bothering putting on an accent other than my natural one during the one shot

    • 3: Kairi. Paladin who was built to make everyone around her as invincible as she was.

    • 5: Pech. I played a Pathfinder 2e one shot as a fairy barbarian that I specced into being able to carry a human-sized greatsword. He was more functional than I expected him to be

    • 6: I swear the amount of kenku I play is not a furry thing I swear

    • 8: Morgan. This one was Lancer rather than D&D, but look up the Death’s Head frame from Lancer and you will immediately understand why I picked it when I wanted to be able to simply point at a thing and decide that I did not want it to be there any more

    • 12: Absolutely the mischief-making rabbitfolk rogue who once opened a locked door by throwing a bag of spices over a rhino to annoy it and dodging aside when it charged him

    • 15: Whistle. Whistle is a monk who grew up under a villain and had his world view shattered when an adventuring party took said villain down. He now travels with his new friends earnestly attempting to un-learn his awful ways. He is visually an emaciated scruffy kenku wearing rags


    • Works just fine with anywhere from 1-4 players
    • You can have a mix of friends and random players if you want a full team but don’t have a group of four to play with
    • The game is strictly cooperative so there’s no incentive to screw each other over, fostering a generally good multiplayer culture
    • There’s lots of stuff to unlock but none of it is necessary for a fun and functional build
    • Teamwork is encouraged and effective
    • Missions are randomly generated but you’ve got years of additions to the random pools for lots of variety
    • Absolutely no pay to win stuff
    • There’s cosmetic DLC, but there are still absolutely loads of great cosmetic options in the base game

    Edit: also, rock and stone


  • You’ve got the details a little wrong. The original two were the Whigs and the Tories, as you say. The Whigs became the Liberals who became the modern day Liberal Democrats, who still exist but haven’t been in power outside of being a junior member of a coalition for a century. Tories became the Conservatives, who are still one of the major two and are regularly still called the Tories. There was a faction that broke away from the Whigs called the Liberal Unionists, who merged into the Conservatives, but they’re separate from the Liberals. Labour is not a successor to either of them, though they did make some strategic agreements with the Liberals early on. In the early 1900s, Labour replaced the Liberals as one of the two major parties.

    It is still consistently a two-party system. One of the historic parties got replaced and there is a stronger presence for minor parties than there is in the states (see especially the SNP in the past decade and the Tory-LibDem coalition in 2010), but still a two-party system








  • And to explain the connection a little further:

    • “Al” stayed the same, obviously
    • The “arismi” bit was influenced by Greek “arithmos”
    • The “Khw” bit went through several sound changes, going from Khwa > Kho > Go

    The name “Al-Khwarezmi” is also basically just “of Khwarezmia” in the first place, so the entire time we have been naming the way youtube decides what to show you after a place in Uzbekistan