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It really is a bizarre niche, some awkward middle ground between multiple classes. Not as fightery as a fighter, not as druidy as a druid, not as rogue-y as a rogue, but somehow trying to balance all three.

At least when Paladin tries to wiggle into a similar gap, it brings some unique and useful kit to the table, but ranger is really lacking in that regard.

They absolutely are! A convenient place to hold it while dipping into that sweet, sweet, sweet and sour, for maximum sauceage.

That picture gives me major Scarif vibes

Linguist here, if I may share my 2¢.

We do know that even over a thousand years ago, speakers of Old English were still calling these kinds of fruits berries, such as strawberries and blackberries (although pronunciation differed somewhat, of course). A word for strawberry as "earth berry" is even reconstructed for the proto Germanic language around 1500 to 2500 years ago. Beyond that, it becomes difficult to trace the word berry any further.

The Botanical sense of the word berry seems to come largely from at earliest the 1500s, from the writings of Caesalpinus, although the definitions were inconsistent and later writings on the matter constantly redefined things and added new terms. Although, largely, these writings all used Latinate terms for their botanical concepts, such as bacca (the closest to the modern botanical berry), and also words like pomum (pome/pomme), drupe, etc. for the other categories of fruit.

So, somewhere since all of that, some English-speaking botanist decided it would be a good idea to use the word berry to describe this concept of a bacca (even though berries had been used for distinctly different things from what that concept described), and now we end up in our current silly predicament where strawberries aren't berries but pumpkins are.

I'd propose we call botanical berries "bayes" or "bayfruit", the word bay/baye being an alternate word for berry that ultimately derived from the Latin word bacca, via Old French.

A Spinoff CRPG Final Fantasy game would actually be really interesting, and a funny way to go full circle with how much the original FF1 drew from the likes of DnD.

They have taken the series too far into MMO land, and need to go back to focusing on a good story

You say that as though FF14 doesn't have one of the best stories of modern Final Fantasy games.

And it's very cool for people who live nearby who can see these birds at their house!

That's one of the things I definitely miss most about living in Karori, so many cool birds just hanging out and perching around the house.

It's such a bizarre scenario, given Luxon isn't popular, what exactly are people choosing National for? Their... "Policies"? I could understand if people were just swayed by the identity politics of it all, even if I think that's a bit shallow, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I think it makes perfect sense for groups like these, that will potentially have a lot of official accounts under one umbrella. A bit like an unofficial official badge, knowing a profile comes from a certain instance gives it a sort of credibility.

Eyy it's the Wellington Zoo!

This implies the existence of a Kirb that is just a pink sphere.

Well, with how candidly we often throw it around, we certainly do treat it like garbage!