Probably the same reason people get upset every time F1 or MotoGP add a new race to the calendar in some authoritarian country in the Middle East, but intensified because this time it’s happening at home and they feel like they have some skin in the game. Yeah, the race itself could be cool as a spectacle, but I’d rather series I enjoy didn’t keep signing up to sportswash the reputation of yet more authoritarian scum.

I’m sure there’s a cli program to just do batch audio conversion, but in favor of simple and least amount of hassle, it wouldn’t be that much work with fre:ac. You should be able to just open up the game’s directory in your file browser by going to the game properties in Steam, clicking “Installed Files”, and then clicking the browse button in the top right. Drag the wma files into an open window of fre:ac, make sure mp3 is selected for the output in your preferences and click convert. Or if you installed it in Wine, just browse to where you installed it, then continue the same once you have the wma files. Then just replace the wma files with your new mp3s, and you’re done. Honestly, you’ll probably spend more time waiting for your package manager to install fre:ac than you’ll spend on everything else in this process. Not as easy as just running out of the box, but really not as bad as it might sound at first.

I draw the line at whether it’s something that can be done naturally, as a result of playing the game and enjoying it enough to put in that much time. I’ll entertain trying to 100% a game that has an achievement to farm 1000 of some herb, if it’s something that I’ll just come across in due time by making full use of all the game mechanics, and presumably see some form of in-game payoff for my efforts. I’ll instantly become content with just seeing the credits if an achievement to get a similar quantity of something is just an excuse to pad play time by making me grind some monster drops just for the sake of getting that last achievement.

I think this might be a puzzle game getting too niche for its own good with a wider audience, in your case. I only played through to the one ending, but it had enough trappings of a VN for me to guess that you get most of your character growth or punishment after redoing the common route (basically the prologue leading up to where you get locked into one ending or another), once you get set on course for a particular ending and play it out. It’s common enough in visual novels for me to expect it and not be bothered or caught off-guard by those faults, but that’s obviously not going to play out with a wider audience if they’re not made aware of those conventions.

Well, clearly, you grind up beef chuck to make burgers, Chuck is a diminutive form of Charlie, ergo the libs at McDonald’s have been supplementing their burgers with the cultivated remains of Charlie Kirk. The fake moo is all a plan to make everyone go woke by tricking them into cannibalism. Where’s my poster board and red string?

From all the Albanians that live in my neighborhood, I would sum them up saying if depressing brutalist buildings were to be personified, they’d probably be Albanian. Aside from the guys sitting outside the Albanian coffee shop that seem to be loving the life of drinking espresso and chain smoking, they seem kind of perpetually miserable. They do have some really good food, though, and the country itself looks like it has some pretty spots.

Honestly, the language itself seems pretty cool, too. Despite being a natural language, it manages to look like someone’s fantasy conlang when you see it written down.

Their beer has been terrible, from what I’ve tried of it. Tasted like musty bread and always seems to have free-floating goop in the bottle that should have been filtered out.

I came to the realization recently that most of my books I read are just as much disposable entertainment to me as watching sitcoms is for my parents. I’ll feel bad about forgetting the details of some light novel I read a month ago when they can provide a detailed summary of the rerun of Two and a Half Men or whatever it was they were watching a month ago.

I don’t know any context about the artist or anything that might change it, but my initial take was that it’s mocking the pearl clutching, not partaking in it.

For Spanish, at least, your ears deceive you. It’s /meɾˈsedes/ in the vast majority of the Spanish speaking world, and /meɾˈθedes/ for large parts of Spain. All 3 ‘e’ sounds are identical.

Spanish can be weird and nonsensical at times, but it’s mostly counterintuitive grammatical rules. Things like “antes de que” having to be followed by the subjunctive, even in the past tense when you’re speaking of an event you know for certain occurred as you’re saying. The relationship between phonology and orthography in English is just a mess that’s gone and contaminated this one.