vithigar

Well, yes, very clearly it's a "man on screen said it" situation, but it's not like that's new.

People who repeated "ground control to {insert name}" to get the attention of someone whose mind was elsewhere didn't believe they were actually addressing an astronaut. It's an idiom born of the current cultural zeitgeist.

It's also possible that audio recording being a thing that exists will slow changes in language as well.

Yes, my mistake

Hard disagree.

Bradmanthan Rutherward.

Same. Didn't even realise they were different images until after I read the text.

Reboot did similar things in the 90s with direct mentions of "BS&P" (broadcast standards and practices) in multiple episodes.

The Sun still only illuminates part of the disk at a time. It doesn't go below the disk at night, it's still above the disk just too far away to see, so you get different times of day in different parts of the world.

Yes, this just raises more questions. Yes they have answers for them. None of them are good and very few of them are even internally consistent, let alone hold up to any scrutiny.

C# also has verbatim strings, in which you can just put a literal newline.

string foo = @"This string 
has a line break!";

Generally speaking it's considered bad practice for a GM to call for rolls that literally no one in the party can succeed at, but as with anything in tabletop roleplaying there is nuance.

There could be a narrative reason for the player to not know just how difficult something is and you don't want to give it away by just telling the players they can't succeed. If the most capable member of the party rolls a 20 and fails then the "reward" is the narrative of the attempt and learning what you're up against.

Or maybe someone in the party could succeed but for whatever reason the child-prodigy wizard with a strength of 8 wants to try lifting the portcullis. It wouldn't make any sense for them to actually do it.

It's the same as any other non-liquid asset. Sure, you could argue that the value dropping is only a loss if you sell during the dip, but you're still better off if you can sell before it happens.

By odd coincidence you just named the most recent two games that I purchased.

I'll come up the apples and have a butchers, but if you're telling porkies then there's gonna be some argy bargy.