If we weren’t capable of higher reasoning to ask this kind of question, it wouldn’t be a very good simulation, would it?

Kid Icarus Uprising. You play as a goddess’s right hand man, and end up fighting several other gods.

It really depends on what games you play. Some of my favorite games are so niche that ‘matchmaking’ simply consists of Discord pings. The upside of that is that you will get a very close-knit community out of it.

Well if nothing is permanent, then I guess the word ban doesn’t have to be either.

Your question is built on a faulty assumption, so I simply answered with another question that would more accurately reflect what we’re discussing.

You gave me a word which only means temporary, which is very much not what I am looking for. Do you understand what the difference is?

You’re hung up on the assumption you’ve made that anything that isn’t explicitly defined as temporary must be permanent, failing to consider that a word could simply mean neither. This assumption is on you, no one else has made this assumption and a dozen people have all explained to you why that’s not so. No one else is having trouble with the word but you!

You made this thread to ask a question, got answered, and proceeded to reject every single answer given to you. Why make the thread at all if you’ve already made up your mind that the rest of the world is wrong?

‘Ban’ isn’t just a word for a temporary condition. Just as it isn’t just a word for a permanent condition.

Can you give an example of a word that could be temporary or could be permanent, and the definition explicitly points both out?

Neither is implied unless otherwise defined. I’m saying that it isn’t necessarily temporary either. It’s not explicitly defined as temporary because it doesn’t have to be temporary.

Back in my day we had both tempbans and permabans as two types of ban. If you wanted to explicitly specify, you’d use one of those terms.

It’s not redundant to have more specific terms. Assumptions like yours are exactly why disambiguation is useful.

Why would you assume anything at all? It also isn’t explicitly defined as permanent either.

It isn’t explicitly defined as temporary because it doesn’t have to be temporary. It isn’t explicitly defined as permanent because it doesn’t have to be permanent. The word could be used in either situation.

To my mind, Ban has always meant permanent.

I’m not sure where you got that association from. Even the dictionary definition you gave says nothing about permanence.

Puyo Puyo Champions - help me I’m relapsing

Riichi Mahjong - mahjong causes great damage to the human spirit without a single benefit

Blue Revolver: Double Action - This has been sitting in my Steam library and I saw it got a big update. Learning how to play a shmup is on my bucket list, but so far I cannot get any further than stage 4 on the lowest difficulty. Very fun though, and banger OST.

Also went down to Round 1 earlier this week, haven’t been in years. Played a few rounds of Wacca, Chunithm, Arcana Heart, and Chaos Code.

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Puyo Puyo Champions - help me I’m relapsing

Riichi Mahjong - Been doing way too well in my IRL games all season. I think that means I’m due to lose this week. That’s called like Gambler’s Theorem or something, right?\

Blue Revolver: Double Action - This has been sitting in my Steam library and I saw it got a big update. Learning how to play a shmup is on my bucket list, but so far I cannot get any further than stage 4 on the lowest difficulty. Very fun though, and banger OST.

Also went down to Round 1 today, haven’t been in years. Played a few rounds of Wacca, Chunithm, Arcana Heart, and Chaos Code.

Very curious what direction they’ll take this one. Loved Of Rice and Ruin, but it’s a novelty that couldn’t just be the same thing twice. And it sounds like they’re not trying to do the same thing twice, but I’m dying to know what else this will be.

I just want a new Punch-Out!! to happen.

If that’s what it takes to get a new Punch-Out!! game, you know what, fine. As long as I do get a new game.

Puyo Puyo Champions - After the video essay I posted two weeks ago ended up doing so much better than I expected, 11k+ views and 600+ likes, I decided to try streaming some ranked for the first time in 2.5 years. I’m still cracked.

Riichi Mahjong - This really ought to be worth a lot more for how rare it is.

Persona 4 Golden - Finally coming back to this, where’d I leave off again?

Puyo Puyo Champions - After the video essay I posted two weeks ago ended up doing so much better than I expected, 11k+ views and 600+ likes, I decided to try streaming some ranked for the first time in 2.5 years. I’m still cracked.

Riichi Mahjong - This really ought to be worth a lot more for how rare it is.

Persona 4 Golden - Finally coming back to this, where’d I leave off again?

Bring back versus puzzle games. Puyo Puyo is more or less the only surviving IP today, and even that is only barely on life support now that Sega has banished it to Apple Arcade exclusivity.

The whole damn genre lies in ruins now and I miss it so much. Someone, anyone, make a new game please.

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