darreninthenet

Ditto… just yesterday I went all in and wiped my drive to put Mint on, decided not to bother with a halfway house or dual booting.

Apart from some minor hardware driver issues, so far so good!

It’s probably due to the word batard in French meaning something of a dual nature or dubious origin (and can therefore also be used for our more usual use of the word bastard).

As the bastard, or hand a half, sword is halfway in length between the single handed long sword and the two handed great sword and could be used either way. The French specifically call it an epee batard and IIRC correctly there’s a type of French bread called a batard which is like a hybrid of a loaf and a baguette.

I used to take an antihistamine called loratadine before bed and it started giving me horrendous nightmares, so yes meds can definitely affect dreams. Doc moved me onto a nose spray called Avamys and they went away (and the spray was more affective anyway)

It’s an interesting question… until not many years ago, you couldn’t even be a police officer in the UK if you had visible tattoos.

I believe the rule now is they can’t be “inappropriate” if visible.

Cranking…

Probably a Hardy Boys book, I used to devour those as a pre-teen.

Great game with very emotional storytelling.

For those that remember the late TotalBiscuit, it was his favourite game.

It did for me 🤷🏻‍♂️

FWIW, ChatGPT 5 gets this correct