The cigarette is not part of the paleocyberpunk style though, it’s normal Flintstones-core.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/59/FlintWinston.jpg/1280px-FlintWinston.jpg

It’s a bit hard for me to evaluate how it would be to read that one as an entry point into Discworld, because, yeah, I pretty much read them all… All books have a theme and tell a whole story (except the very first two that are really one storyline), and they tend to quickly reintroduce everyone when needed. It might be okay to dive in at that point and beside a little weirdness, it shouldn’t be too confusing… Maybe.

But I don’t think you would need to read them all sequentially, in any case. Discworld stories typically follow different groups of characters. Just reading a few of the related stories might help familiarizing with the recurring characters in this one. In this specific case, this is pretty much a Witches story with no connection to anyone else. If you wanted an introduction to both these characters and the world, Wyrd Sisters is a good one.

That site sums it up rather well, you can see the Witches sub-series is 6 books (and Equal Rites doesn’t matter much IMO) :

https://www.discworldemporium.com/reading-order/

Fire Emblem 7 was just called “Fire Emblem” internationally (first one to be released out of Japan). Even the actual first Fire Emblem had a subtitle in Japan, like all of them, but no, this one will just be “Fire Emblem” for you, that’s not confusing at all.

And then there’s that terrible trend…

Castlevania (N64) is just called Castlevania… for reasons. And so is Circle of The Moon in Europe. None are remakes or retelling of the first Castlevania. Also, consider Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), and Prince of Persia (2008).

Kirby’s Return to Dreamland is titled “Kirby’s Adventure Wii” in Europe, despite not being a Kirby’s Adventure remake. I’m including this one even though it technically has the “Wii” to distinguish it because there was an actual Adventure remake that, of course, did not have Kirby’s Adventure at all in its name (Nightmare in Dreamland).

There’s a very good Pratchett book (Carpe Jugulum) built on the premise that old-school vampires do indeed always leave convenient stuff a vampire killer would need. Like easily torn curtains, furniture that can be arranged in a cross shape, etc.

With, on the contrary, a “modern” vampire dad rejecting all of it and trying to make his family adventurer-proof.

Probably just that the Addams make anything they do weird and at least a bit creepy, even when it’s a little girl doing innocent little girl things.

Normies there meeting her for the first time are like “What’s wrong with that girl ?”

Make that a chameleon specifically. Can see you with one eye and watch in a completely different direction with the other.

No depth perception though.

Just checked on wikipedia… Origin of the solanaceae family is thought to be around 80 million years ago.

Stegosaurus went extinct around 145 million years ago.

They’ll be waiting for their potatoes a long time .

I definitely saw a comic strip about this exact thing being the right way to cut a pizza for one.

Followed by a demonstration of someone eating the whole thing in one long continuous grind without their hands.

That snek is a bit confused about chronology if it thinks it might have encountered a Neanderthal or a Homo habilis.

Decades of JRPG have taught me those seals on ancient evils are almost always made breakable by a dumb kid that has no idea what he’s doing.

I vaguely thought it might be about guns too, and I couldn’t tell if it was made by someone who was pro or against guns. Now people are like, it’s obviously about AI, and the analogy makes even less sense to me.

I’ve been using that site for a while, for whenever some well-meaning but misguided person posted information I need on reddit :

https://rdx.overdevs.com/

With a redirection browser extension to automatically redirect reddit links to rdx.overdevs.com. No registration, clean UI, no unwanted automatic translation.

No idea how long it’ll last, already there are some links that don’t get through it, and I noticed it doesn’t seem to work on desktop anymore (still going strong on mobile browser though). Didn’t look too much into it, maybe there’s something to fix in the redirection. It’s made for mobile, so even when it works on desktop there’s a fixed max length giving it a sort of newspaper column look but it was not a bad thing IMO.

Because ACME products lack that renowned 60s Soviet quality, obviously.

Bee hotels are for solitary bees/wasps/… though.

As far as I know all ant species are social, and they have no problem digging out huge nests just about anywhere. Not sure what kind of dedicated facility you could make that would make it easier for them, or if it would be useful.

In France, when you check your income tax if you have nothing to correct you don’t even need to sign it.

Wii sports was a hit in many retirement homes.

I mean, I know personally I’d always be willing for something like that. Especially if the alternative is freaking bingo.

“An advanced civilization”?

Sure, try typing “Sol-3” and “Sol-3a” into wikipedia.

Even when an actual Japanese restaurant franchise opens a place here, they are usually run by local people. I don’t think that has much to do with how authentic the food is.

Like I don’t care if my baguette was technically made by a guy born in Clermont-Ferrand. Flour, salt, water, baker’s yeast. Nothing else. Do it right, and congratulations, that’s a baguette.

Well the title itself is already that joke, I guess it’s their way to hammer it in for everyone.

The way I’ve been introduced to it (informally, and with the cardboard variant), during sprint planning everyone gives an estimate of how hard a particular issue/task will be.

Note that it was not said how long. These are specifically not supposed to be units of time because “someone with experience might do a 13 in 10 hours, while a beginner may need 20”.

And it’s Fibonacci because… I don’t know, I’m sure there’s an official explanation about that choice of distribution but it’s basically an attempt at witchcraft to me.

You know that thing about the Spinal Tap amp going up to 11 so it can be “one” louder? That’s how I feel about those cards. In practice I had a much more sane version of this in another team, and that was just “this will be very easy to do”, “this will take time” and “this might be too complex for the benefits”.