That first one made me think of combining Pokemon with Slay The Spire - each Pokemon has a deck (themed towards poison, electric, etc), and the Player has a deck (utility, healing, battlefield modification, combos)
In battle, you can choose your Pokemon based on the opponent and your hand is a mix of Player and Pokemon cards.
You gain more Pokemon, or cards for Pokemon, by exploring the wilds.
You gain Player cards and gold by battling other trainers.
I guess for a proper modern Rougelite you should have "relics", gained by battling Gym leaders, rare Pokemon, or completing quests by NPCs.
That's an interesting statement to apply to natural languages.
Consider this headline in English: "Man attacks boy with knife". This can be read two ways, either the man is using a knife to attack the boy, or the boy had the knife and thus was being attacked.
The same sentence in Polish would make use of either genitive or instrumental case to disambiguate (although barely). However, a naive translation would only differ in the placement of a `z` (with) and so errors could still slip through. At least in this case the error would not introduce ambiguity, simply incorrectness.
Similar to language design we can also consider: does the inclusion/requirement of parity features reduce the expressivity of the language?
Wow, I really am amazed how few consumer protections you seem to have!
In the UK we're protected on two levels: firstly the "Distance Selling Regulation" means we have the right to cancel many contracts/purchases made not-in-person within 14 days of delivery.
And secondly, if a good is faulty, not as described, or unfit for purpose then we have a right to a refund under those terms also.
Probably because of these already strong rights, Amazon UK (and most retailers) go beyond that and simply offer a 30 day "no questions asked" return policy in most cases.
I didn't realise until now how much I took it for granted!
Wordpress isn't bulky because it runs on a database, although you might say that running it with a database in the backend does allow it to be bulky...
The storage medium isn't really what you should be choosing your CMS on, I think. And depending on your required features and expected traffic volumes, I'm not sure there's much need to choose something else.
Sure, other CMS will serve pages faster and handle more visitors better natively... but WP can get you cheap devs fast, rather than casting around for niche workers.
You don't buy a Rolex to tell the time. You buy a Rolex to tell the world.
Mechanically, they're mostly pretty average. But they are a Veblen good for sure, and some people treat them as an investment.
Personally I hate divers/chronos and don't want to lost a significant sum of money when I break one or have one stolen, so I have a nice collection of <$200 quartz watches.
In battle, you can choose your Pokemon based on the opponent and your hand is a mix of Player and Pokemon cards.
You gain more Pokemon, or cards for Pokemon, by exploring the wilds.
You gain Player cards and gold by battling other trainers.
I guess for a proper modern Rougelite you should have "relics", gained by battling Gym leaders, rare Pokemon, or completing quests by NPCs.