I’m fairly sure that at this point pirating has been shown to lead to increased sales, even of small scale productions.

Also, no one said that people can’t keep the rights for a while, just that if you don’t let people access those things you don’t get to prosecute them for making the art available.

No, (though depends on your definition of art) but there’s a reason that public buildings (Churches, for instance) were often the best decorated with murals, frescoes, and statues.

Also within local communities there would be musicians and artisans who were known for their work.

That said, art did become more privatised once the 17th century rolled around. Obviously varied by geographic regions, etc. (e.g. Artist items (amongst other items of worth) were deliberately shared out by many American Indian groups in potlatches as acts of redistribution.)

… I don’t like gravy, or poorly readable charts.

I also thought that there were support sperm who basically just help other sperm reach the egg.

Isn’t this fairly disproven by science now and sperm fertilising an egg is now seen as more of a group effort?

The loss of roaming territory to the sedentary oppressors might also have something to do with the transition.

I get you’re being facietious, but it’s more like chimps are monkeys in about the same way a hammerhead shark and a lungfish are different.

At the beginning of each upkeep, lose two life and draw 2 sodas.

I’ll say it: milipedes are cute.

FFX-2 has a great battle system, and job based FFs were always the most rewarding to play.

XIII was the point I just decided I didn’t care any more. (Also, there’s no way that XIII gets to count as retro already, right?)

While centipedes are fine, I’ve always been much more of a milipede fan.

An actual rush is a very all in strategy, just don’t fall too far behind on making combat units and you’ll be fine.

Its as true in AoE2 as it is in Starcraft(pick one).

Great fun games, tickle me in a different way to slower, absolutely no rush, 4X games.

Still some of the best party shooters out there. A plethora of game modes, and a co-op story mode as well. The original and FP are great games. 2 took itself a little too seriously in my opinion (and didn’t have character select lines) for it to match up to quite the same level.

China Mieville and Ursula Le Guin are both up there are authors who have written things that have felt momentous to read.

But I’m not sure either of them could edge out Terry Pratchett as the author whose work I’ve enjoyed going back to time and time again, having read most of Discworld at a more formative age probably helps too.

My favourite is the one where they use bananas as proof of God. (Always boring monothiests, too…

And in my day we couldn’t just send boomers to bed with a hand wave, we had to sit through the Clintons’ saxophone show first and then we…

You’re wrong, but I’m glad you have had fun and I hope that TESVI isn’t a micro transaction fuelled pile of tripe.

Yup, that’s the one.

Has Bethesda actually released a decent game since Daggerfall?

Depends on where in the world, but most dating systems were reginal, that is what year of what monarch/pharaoh/emperor’s reign.