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Can't remember if it forked from zangband specifically, but the original incarnation was Pernangband, which switched over to Tolkien theming after mccaffrey started being a jerk about fanworks.

Quick check though, yeah, it was a pern themed zangband fork originally. Played it a ton back in the day, but never did win a run of it. Literally the only angband variant I've scored a victory in, despite probably several hundred hours playing them, was Furyband, which was a ToME2 fork, heh.

Ok, just from googling it there seems to be nothing wrong with the term unbirthday. I've never even heard of it before. What's the deal?

Unbirth is a specific term of art, for... well, the turn of phrase is better or worse, but it's more like worse or worser :V

... I'd probably recommend just not looking it up, though. The term's descriptive enough to get the idea without having to see examples.

Processed a kid's book today that had characters talking about unbirthdays as a plot point, and just.

That word has meanings beyond what was intended, ha ha holy shit book

Part of me regrets leaving the summary alone, on the off chance some kid sees it and then googles the term in question...

It's not an issue of politically correct, though. Any particular major religion is going to be heavily fractured, and they all have significant parts of their demographic that's not hateful shitgoblins, so when you paint them all with one brush you're just. Not right, y'know? It's not an issue of being PC, it's an issue of taking too broad a brush to too diverse a polity.

Everything I've seen in life indicates islam's no worse than any other religion in the conditions it's a majority presence in (which, to be clear, is less praise of islam than it is condemnation of the general behavior of religious organizations). Problem's less that islam's particularly troublesome and more than religion in general needs to be kept well the fuck away from governing or significant secular power, 'cause it bloody never goes well when it isn't. If the turkish powers that be were predominately christian, or hindu, or buddhist, or what the hell ever, you'd pretty certainly be seeing pretty much the exact same cursed behavior.

Add in a dash of not wanting someone going through a shit time to get in trouble with the forum rules on conduct and you get people commenting like that, for better or worse.

... any case, best of luck mag. It's a shit thing to be going through, hopefully something will keep it from going completely terrible, or at least you get the opportunity to escape before the worst comes about.

He can't run for governor next term (has hit the term limit), so it's a forgone conclusion on that front. Part of the reason he's fucking around as hard as he is, is because he's trying to lay some kind of screwed up foundation for whatever he does next. Why he thinks a failed presidential run will do much, I'unno, but deshitis has not exactly shown the greatest amount of foresight in the world so *shrugs*

... neck? It doesn't effect the neck any, 'cept maybe a little if I'm laying on my side and that can be mitigated by pillows and whatnot.

I'm going to call you out on being too hyperbolic saying these are "intentionally lethal" design choices. There are not secret meetings in the auto companies saying "hahah wouldn't it be cool if we make the most dangerous cars we can? That would surely make us more wealthy!"

I've seen the commentary about preferring vehicles more likely to squish anything in runs into often enough I'm well sick of it, and design that accommodates that preference is plainly evident. There's not meetings like that, but there are ones that see specific demand for features that make things more deadly for people and go, "Let's get some of that."