“Ten million ryo.” A ryo is a gold coin from pre-Meiji Japan.

Yes.

That book drew on a different ephemeral island.

Oh man, the Atlanteans are gonna be pissed.

Wild horse populations on federal land are usually actively managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

I assume this is different and worse, both because the BLM was gutted and because with this administration things invariably are, but I don’t know enough of the details to say further.

The War on Christmas must not end until Christmas withdraws to the internationally recognized borders of December.

Subnautica 1 was self-published. Krafton didn’t enter the picture until after Below Zero

Even as drawn, pulling the lever might slow or even derail the trolley.

Hmmm… the original trolley problem but, contrary to your expectations, pulling the lever causes multi-track drifting that kills everyone. Are you responsible for all of the deaths, or only some?

And everyone will call you THIEF instead of whatever name you entered for the rest of the game.

The company was founded in 1844.

The entire press release seems weirdly jocular, to the point I wonder if the whole thing isn’t a publicity stunt.

With the power of installing adult mods on strategy games, you can do both at the same time.

Checkmate, ruletheists.

Data yearning to be more human, not because he’s an android, but because he figured out that he’s a character in a TV show.

Meanwhile, Lore tries to kill the writers.

I haven’t watched it recently, but I do remember that scene.

She features in the last season of Our Flag Means Death, despite the show being set nearly a century before and thousands of miles away from any part of her life.

“All animation is similar.”

This is my first encounter with the word 万引き, and the fact I never would have expected it to mean “shoplifting” despite knowing both those kanji individually sent me down a bit of an etymology rabbit hole:

Originally 間引き (まびき, “thinning out [seedlings]”), applied euphemistically to a store’s inventory. The pronunciation had shifted to まんびき by 1831, and 万 in the modern form is purely phonetic.

The technical term is “heat engine”, or sometimes “Carnot engine”. (Though the latter is more if you’re talking about the underlying theory than an actual device.)

This guy?

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Absolutely not. I’d rather get salmonella.

It’s not really a narrative, so doesn’t follow a narrative structure. At most you could consider it an anthology, but even then there’s stuff in there that doesn’t really fit the model. (Though The Iliad also has stuff like the catalogue of ships and an entire book that is just a description of Achilles’ shield, so maybe I’m picking nits by the standards of ancient literature…)

That said, death and resurrection is definitely the climax of several individual books of the new testament.