Okami

IT WAS ALWAYS BURNING AS THE DICE KEEP TURNING

Yes.

Ah, yes. Wagering hugs, kisses, and compliments are a fine way to spice up your poker game.

It’s an initialism. Aitch-Eff-Why. I’ve never heard it pronounced before.

Humanity: Fuck Yeah!

Subgenre of science fiction subverting the “humans are average” trope by celebrating the things that make humanity unique among hypothetical alien civilizations. Lots of emphasis on our durability, endurance, creativity, and potential for overwhelming violence.

That is a load-bearing “(no explanation necessary)”.

I’d love to see an explanation. How did we get from ‘clowder’ to ‘destruction’? Gaining a syllable and losing alliteration is not a typical linguistic evolution. Who’s actually using this term?

The closest I’ve seen actual examples of is a tongue-in-cheek ‘catastrophe of cats’, and that never went mainstream as far as I’m aware.

Ditto. Clowder of cats is the term I’m familiar with.

“Destruction” of cats is new to me. I don’t think I like it. Doesn’t roll off the tongue well.