Nethack is a roguelike, the granddaddy of them. Pathos is a simplified modern conversion for tablets / phones. Sil is a Tolkienesque take I've been messing around with. (View Post)

Technically Gibraltar is not a country, but a British overseas territory (it's the only one in the EU), not to be confused with a crown dependency, the commonwealth realms, or the members of the comm… (View Post)

The British Government has promised that Brexit will not make the country into a Mad-Max style dystopia. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/19/david-davis-brexit-britain-mad-max I think mo… (View Post)

I originally posted on the topic of asylum seekers, which is somewhat different to applications for work visas, permanent residency, and citizenship (which in Japan's case requires the renunciation o… (View Post)

I'm not sure whether your professor was being serious, but about 99% of applications for Japanese citizenship are successful, though it takes about a year to go through the application process. To ap… (View Post)