It’s for emphasis, most likely. Italics would have been the more common option, but it still gets the point across this way.

Big Barotrauma vibes.

Before Oblivion Cyrodiil was described as a jungle in the lore. So, Oblivion takes place in Brazil?

Yeah, I consulted with a friend afterwards and he pointed out that what I said was above Farron swamp was Farron Keep Perimeter, where you find the Farron Coal and the twinblades. (Note: I did not tell him my answers, he got to ask but the last one on his own too.)

For the last one you are it right, tbh. I really have no idea on that one.

Can’t identify the last one, so I’m safe. (Also not sure about some previous ones.)

Sylvari spotted.

I doubt he planned to kill the player. He was planning to wait at the finish line to beat us to it. Then he realizes who the final boss is, becomes coinvinced he can’t beat it, and reasons that since it is impossible for him it must also be impossible for everyone else. Then he tries to kill us because he is afraid we will prove that it isn’t actually impossible. That’s my read on it, anyway.

Lefse is a larger category. Lompe (also called “potetlefse”) is a kind of lefse. Lefse can also be made from wheat, and there are different kinds. A lot of types of lefser are also eaten as a snack rather than as part of a meal, with either a sweet paste or butter, sugar, and cinnamon on top.

I object to some of the information about the Norwegian hot dog. Firstly, lompe is not a tortilla: it’s made from potatoes. (You also roll it all the way around the sausage.) The sausages are either shorter hot dogs or wieners. They are usually eaten with ketchup, mustard, onion (raw or roasted), and usually some sort of dressing. Simple and good.

Yeah, correct guess. In the game you kill the leader of the dominant religion (based on martyrdom and sacrifice) after they have refused to take action against the corruption in their own ranks, and allowed atrocities to be committed in the name of religion. Turns out (spoilers) that the head of the religion is also corrupt. Not really subtle, is it?

“Unbreakable”, the Warforged. A warforged made for manual labour, but who wants to be a hero that protects people. Not very good at it, but he’s trying, and thankfully he is hardy enough to fall down a few times and still keep going. Basically the robot from Real Steel.

“In the room ahead is a spider artifact. Take it! We will need it to reach the Santieri Crystal.” Also “There is but one gift I can offer that is equal in value to an Elder Scroll and my daughter: I offer you my blood. Take it and you will walk as a lion among sheep, men will tremble at your approach, and you will never fear death again.”

The short text at the back of the book/cover that is usually a summary of what the book is about, I believe. Also often had some short reviews, like the op title refers to. (The stuff you look at when you are deciding if you want to read the book or not, generally.)

Yes, but then we are talking about this kind of high heel:

There is a big gap between this and the kind of heels that the op is about.

It’s equally, or more, correct to say “female/male people”. It’s just like “poor people” is ok, but “the poors” makes you sound like an asshat. Including “people” makes the difference.

That would make sense, yeah. I suppose you can see that on the picture too, he’s standing on the shield boss of one shield and the edge of another. It still seems like it would be very heavy for the guy at the top, but I suppose they don’t spend that long standing there, maybe.

The way they are currently set up the bottom shield is in front of the shield above it, so that when it gets pushed on it is supported by the next shield (which is again supported by the next shield, and so on).

It feels more intuitive that the shield should overlap the other way (instead of the top of your shield being supported by the next shield, the bottom of your shield would be supported by the previous shield) because the final shield in the row has to be the heaviest to hold and the first one is supported by the ground.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to overlap the shields the other way, to transfer the weight of the guy down and into the ground? I’m assuming they tried both ways and the other way has problems that I’m not seeing, but I’m not seeing it.

Sure, but it seems odd to be picky on the use of the word “tree” to refer to the banana tree rather than a herb, but then make the general statement that cows are “colour blind” when they can actually see colour.

Except cows can see colour. They only have 2 types of colour receptors in their eyes, compared to humans 3, (missing the red one, from what I gather with 30 sec of googling?) so their colour vision is much more limited compared to ours, but they are not colour blind.