Malgas

I gather it wasn't in the original release, but by the time I played it there was a difficulty setting. The easier difficulty is compatible to classic Zelda.

Don't staves of the magi explode spectacularly when destroyed?

That party might be done for either way.

I'm actually wondering how much of that figure is tied to the actual materials and workmanship, and how much is because they are The Crown Jewels.

Personal pronouns and verb conjugations based on formality

Hoo boy, if you want to talk about vocabulary and grammar changes based on formality, that's like Japanese's whole thing.

One thing nobody's mentioned in this thread is counters, which are little helper words attached to numbers. Which one you should use depends on what is being counted, the categories are highly idiosyncratic and generally have nothing to do with their ordinary use (e.g. 本, which elsewhere means "book" is the counter for long thin objects like pens or bananas), and there are dozens of them.

When I think about this comic, it's always the alt-text that comes to mind:

By the third trimester, there will be hundreds of babies inside you.

There's a historical reason for that. Women warriors (onna-mushi) in the feudal period tended to specialize in the naginata.

It's not a half day then.

Skill issue.

In Oregon, at least, everything below the high water mark is public land.

Maybe there's some dialect where it's used that way?

Like how "scheme" strongly connotes nefariousness in American English, but I've heard Brits use it non-pejoritively.

For anyone who hasn't seen it:

In my experience running the Windows version of the mod manager in the same prefix as the game also works.