The awards are an effect of a perverse funding system that funds schools based on attendance. The schools are forced to choose between classes full of sick kids or not having the funds to teach the healthy ones.

You are just as willing to kill to maintain liberal democracy as we are to instate communism.

THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

It spread to the rest of Lemmy after Hexbear federated a few years ago. Hexbear’s been beanposting since the pandemic:
https://hexbear.net/post/39003
https://hexbear.net/post/42969
https://hexbear.net/post/52408

Every UK newspaper has run a story on it and the government have launched an online campaign. There’s no conspiracy, you’re just oblivious.

Paper Mario has those mechanics too. Status and buff applications and the interactions between character abilities put E33’s combat above PM’s, but the attack and dodge/parry system comes directly from the Mario games.

Kedgeree already has a Wikipedia page.

Chip shop vinegar is usually a vinegar-like non-brewed condiment. I keep a bottle of proper malt vinegar at home just for fish and chips.

It’s fish and chips, of course the chips are essential, without them it’s just fish.

Thats not quite right - PF as much originated in 4e existing at all, as 3.x was promised to be the definitive system you could use forever (admittedly this was never going to be true) and 4e dropped the OGL, so Paizo, which includes some of the original OGL writers and 3.x designers, could no longer produce materials for it.
It was only when they were designing 2e that they looked at 4e and decided they could do better, taking many of the underlying mechanics and combining them with 3.x’s range of choice.