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I’d also add the Portuguese word “saudade”, which is a sense of yearning or of missing someone/something - often hard to convey in English.
It’s an unfortunate sign that they may be moving away from paid, yet substantial expansions.
Spoilers below:
Down the line, Arrakis does get terraformed and a vast planetary desert preserved for the continued existence of the spice cycle.
Survivorship bias is problem with startup stories. You will hear the great success stories of the few standing on the carcasses of the vast majority that burned out and crashed.
Then the next revision was included with the Xbox One, increasing the overall price of the console while still lacking compelling software.
If Microsoft had positioned it as an entirely optional accessory with a great library of exclusive titles, maybe it would have found an audience.
And all true.
They won’t work for everybody, but there is a large cohort of Adobe users out there that could instantly substitute their software with minimal effort and get out this absurd predicament.
I wonder why some of the technological advancements were lost due to Roman invasion, since the Romans themselves were avid engineers and has great admiration for Greek arts. I know that Roman rulers in provincial Greece were exploiting it for maximum financial gain using awful methods (at least for some time), but still... if some of these technological advancements were well known you’d think the Romans would invariably adopt and expand on them as they’ve done with so much they encountered in other civilizations.