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I mean... if you're not going to conquer the afterlife and rule it with a rowdy ancestral fist, why are you even playing barbarian? That urge and goal is realistically the entire reason that faction exists.

Eh, probably better than not having them, or whatever hell monstrosity a GOP lead proposal would entail, for what that's worth. "Good enough" isn't quite the right phrase for it, but the concept is somewhere in that general area.

Fucked up as our political system is, to a degree there's only so much point wondering about optimization or maximal efficiency if you can get something through. How well it pans out is kinda' an unhelpful question so long as it's at least some sort of improvement, given the difficulties involved in getting anything that tops that

French does, iirc, though I don't remember what any of them are right now.

... also, english being itself, it's not entirely true that only pronouns get gender. Bachelor, as a common example, is not a pronoun, and also not neutral, and there's a pile of things like it. Pretty sure that when we have suffixes or whatever that indicate it, we steal them from other languages but not always the same language, because of course we do.

can't remember if ever posted toxic love, search seems to think haven't

if not, now will

based censored fern gully version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVzYS3Ga_j8
even more based full version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhNlw88WQCQ

... snitched on... whoever that is... for doing what?

Yeah, when I encountered that while taking french language classes, myself and my classmates agreed the only reasonable explanation for the word gendering choices was that whoever made those decisions got astoundingly drunk and played a game of darts to decide what was what.

I can't recall ever hearing about a gendered language like that that actually had, like, a pattern to its assignments. Drunken pub games work better as a explanation that anything else I've seen.

I just don't think there's much point in worrying about what specifically is or isn't one. It's not like you couldn't do an RL without tiles, just by riffing on a tabletop movement schema, nevermind any other options (being a sidescroller ferex... iirc either Megaman or Metroid RL was one, if spelunky is a bridge too far for you). Can't recall any tabletop-y ones of the top of my head, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't one out there, somewhere.

Mostly if the devs say it is one, or a substantial amount of its playerbase, that's good enough for me. There's nothing necessary to being a roguelike, just a pile of various sufficients that may or may not be enough on its own. Berlin interpretation's fun, because even when it originally was posited, that's basically it's conclusion -- that nothing on its list is necessary, it's just the more points you have the more roguelike-y you are.

End of the day roguelike's a useful enough descriptor that it's led me to dozens upon dozens of things I really enjoy playing, even when whatever's been labeled with it is near entirely divorced from the originating core of the genre, and I don't need anything more than that from a video game genre :V