The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread 36

[Gori the Grey]

The magic of Christmas, silly!

 

[shadowplay]

How does Santa manage to not completely tear up the runners on his sleigh when landing on roofs in places that have no snow?

I was told he takes a plane and comes in through the front door instead.

 

[Farm Boy]

The US is offering $30-35k a year for foreign teachers to come to the US (I myself cannot qualify due to experience requirements, but other people can).
Is that anywhere near acceptable a salary?

If you are without debt and don't travel frequently, no kids, that will buy you an older home in a small town in the Midwest. After you pay off the initial crunch from the new used car.

You won't be driving new or fancy cars.

 

[Cutlass]

How does Santa manage to not completely tear up the runners on his sleigh when landing on roofs in places that have no snow?

Same way he visits near a billion homes in a single night: You just make up whatever story works for you.

 

[Arakhor]

Given the near-relativistic speeds his sleigh would need to employ to visit so many houses in the space of a single night, one imagines that what ultratech enables him to do this within the Earth's gravity well also allows him to make safe and silent landings each time.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I'll just go with there being retractable wheels on the runners.

 

[Arakhor]

Or just copious amounts of reindeer fat greasing the runners.

 

[Mouthwash]

Anyone know the particular cover of the Dragonborn song at 47:51 in the video? I know lots of them, but apparently not this one.

 

[Takhisis]

Check the comments section, there's usually a lot of good info hidden amid the random likes, ‘who listens in <year>’ and ‘x number of people r h8ers’.

If you are without debt and don't travel frequently, no kids, that will buy you an older home in a small town in the Midwest. After you pay off the initial crunch from the new used car.

You won't be driving new or fancy cars.

Is the US actually built in such a way that people cannot function without cars? It's the only place where people take into account having/running/repairing a car as part of basic expenses whenever I ask about the cost of living.

Same way he visits near a billion homes in a single night: You just make up whatever story works for you.

Sorry, man, but POTUS says Santa does not exist.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Is the US actually built in such a way that people cannot function without cars?

Only if you live in a large city can you function without a car.

 

[Cutlass]

Is the US actually built in such a way that people cannot function without cars? It's the only place where people take into account having/running/repairing a car as part of basic expenses whenever I ask about the cost of living.

To a pretty large extent, yes. I'm not sure what percentage of the country goes without a car. But it's probably under 20% of adults of working age. And that's concentrated on or near the larger to largest cities. For the rest, walking distance or transit just aren't adequate. I knew this one woman who couldn't get a better job at a store in the mall because the last bus ran before the work shift ended. So she couldn't take a manager's job. Many people will spend an hour or more getting someplace by bus that could be reached by car in under 10 minutes. This is because the bus service has minimal route options, and you often have to go well out of your way, and then wait on a transfer to a different bus. Housing is very spread out, and even many people who use transit, use their cars to get to the transit stop. It's called park and ride.

 

[Samez]

On the other hand million of citizens in LA prefer getting stuck in the famous traffic jams every day to riding bike or going with public transport.

 

[dusters]

Anyone can help me out with a list of their favourite PC (computer) games based on Greek and Roman Mythology?

Also - which PC games based on Greek and Roman mythology from the past 10 years do you consider the most popular?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Anyone can help me out with a list of their favourite PC (computer) games based on Greek and Roman Mythology?

Also - which PC games based on Greek and Roman mythology from the past 10 years do you consider the most popular?

I can't think of any Groman mythology based games except Age of Mythology and Titan Quest. They're both pretty good, but I don't know which one is more popular.
There's also Zeus: Master of Olympus, but that one is really old.

I haven't played Assassins Creed Odyssey and don't know if it's historical or mythological.

 

[Arakhor]

It's Assassin's Creed, so the only mythology is that provided by the franchise's overarching "hidden knowledge" conspiracy.

 

[The_J]

After having quickly checked wiki... God of War must be the most popular one, if it qualifies.

I've played Zeus, and the even oldet Caesar, but yes, really old. Also not mythology heavy, but in Zeus you had the occassional monsters IIRC.
Or populus, but that is from the stone age, a.k.a. last millenium.

 

[dusters]

Thanks for replies.

God of war is the most popular from what I have found, but it is on Playstation only.

I'm writing a paper about Roman and Greek mythology in PC games - what types of games are the most popular in past 10 years, how can they help in education, which are the most realistic.

 

[Farm Boy]

Is the US actually built in such a way that people cannot function without cars? It's the only place where people take into account having/running/repairing a car as part of basic expenses whenever I ask about the cost of living.

Most of it. Depends where. It's a big place. I mean, a family I know has 8 kids, one spouse works for about that range, the mom keeps house, and they own their own home and a car because they're willing to do fixup/renovation work themselves. It's a happy sort of chaos, but they have to be tight by my math.

You can live places that have residential/housing/and transit, but then you're pretty much in one of the major cities or in an unusual regional one(Champaign-Urbana might work, for example, it's a college town so better than usual transit for its size). And there is where live all the people that will tell you 35,000 is inadequate(they may be right, they know more than I do there), and ~80,000 median isn't fair/enough for a teacher. Pick your poison, pick your neighbors, I suppose.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I'm writing a paper about Roman and Greek mythology in PC games - what types of games are the most popular in past 10 years, how can they help in education, which are the most realistic.

Big Fish Games has a lot of Roman and Greek-themed games, but those are the sort that are some mix of Match-3, Time Management, and Hidden Object. I've tried quite a few and they're fun when you just want to relax. There's also one called Romopolis where you have to build Roman neighborhoods according to a list of requirements (very challenging for me; I can't seem to keep people happy).

 

[The_J]

Thanks for replies.

God of war is the most popular from what I have found, but it is on Playstation only.

I'm writing a paper about Roman and Greek mythology in PC games - what types of games are the most popular in past 10 years, how can they help in education, which are the most realistic.

Why not extend it to general greek and roman history? More to choose from, and the rest of the objective and background can stay the same.