Recent content by Ulorian - Agent of Chaos

It wasn't open and he took a shot in the dark that it was in fact a museum... I'll pass that nugget along. He's in Reykjavik because apparently Halloween is a major club scene nowadays ¯\(ツ)/¯ Here's another shot from six minutes ago.

A buddy of mine landed in Reykjavik yesterday. He sent this picture along... recognise it?

Yeah, I'm ready to enjoy it for what it is.

I'm part way through the first round of a combat. Going to pause there... real life calls. So far, I'm digging it. A bit more theatrical than I remember my D&D games being in the exposition phases, but I'm appreciating the differences! I also like how attacks, hits and misses are well-described...

5 hours!!!! I might have to break this up into smaller chunks. Too much of a good thing, etc.

Okay, I have never watched Critical Role or any livestreamed game before. Reading through the comments has whet my appetite. I'm going to give this episode a shot...

As a native French speaker, I can tell you that this isn't common usage in the French language at least.

Never got to that tier in Duolingo... 😬

Replied with this post before I saw yours. Small correction: it's 'milliard', not 'milliarde'. And 'billiarde' is not a word in French :)

Interesting thought. My maternal language is French (French Quebec also uses long scale), so I am pretty familiar with the difference between long and short scale :) But even in a country that uses long scale, you wouldn't say '1,200 million' when you mean 1.2 billion. In French, for example, a...

Although that cue is countered by the other cue which is the oddity of expressing $1.2 billion as $1,200 million. Just reread the original post though, and there are a pair of mentions of figures under a billion dollars ($410 million and $143 million). The outwardly strange expression of the...

You're absolutely right! My mistake... the numbers seemed so ridiculously high that I assumed the error was missing that a comma can be used to represent a decimal. Also, the odd use of '1200 million' instead of '1.2 billion'. Either way, should have looked it up first. Good catch.

I know this is a super old post, but the number was $2.1 million, not billion i.e. $2,100 million is not $2.1 billion. A pretty large chunk of the globe uses commas instead of periods as a decimal marker.