Mirodir

It's two jokes. Firstly, "Barbarian" was a ancient Greek-"invented" term for people who don't speak Greek (or heavy dialects of Greek). The generally accepted theory is that "Barbar" is them imitating sounds they don't understand, similar to a modern "blabla". Secondly, Hercules is the Roman name for the Greek Heracles.

My uni had one. Sadly I couldn't fit it into my schedule because of overlaps and other requirements.

In the OOP's example, that is solved by magecraft (which is distinct from "true" magic btw) losing potency by becoming general knowledge, thus forcing mages into working their magecraft in secrecy.

Both the mages and the Church work hard at keeping it a secret, albeit with different motives and methods.

If they really did reach that concept independently, then they weren't the first. The Shirime is a Japanese youkai with exactly this concept.

*With AI review :)

Y'shtola triggers.

Y'shtola's effect resolves.

As part of the resolution, Watcher leaves, then enters again.

Both Watcher abilities go on the stack, you decide the order.

a) The "leaves ability" returns the card that was previously exiled to your hand.

b) The Hideaway ability exiles a new card.

No matter the order of the abilities, the newly exiled card does not return to your hand and if nothing else happens, the end result is the same.

While it doesn't say anything about IIV specifically, they sure got creative enough to sometimes subtract more than one of the smaller units from a larger one.

His beliefs are beauty, a desire to play with dolls, two kinds of shyness, servitude, rationality (that one, maybe), something (don't know her) and being a tsundere?

I'm not trying to be obtuse, but I really don't see it.

I kept up with the drama until about a week ago so what I'm saying here is the status from back then. Someone please add any new context if I'm missing any new developments:

From what it appeared, view counts dropped but ad revenue stayed the same. Even before this whole thing, YouTube pays out for ads watched (and clicked). Pay out was not dependent on raw view count for a long time, if ever.

This suspicious behavior of view count dropping but ad revenue staying the same is actually what tipped people off that the issue was adblock related. The fact that channels with a larger focus on a younger audience seeing less of a drop also helped.

Now those view counts dropping could still have an indirect, negative effect on ad revenue, if it, e.g. automatically leads to YouTube recommending their videos less prominently.

vegetarianism

Wait until they complain about finding a single seed in something advertised as seedless...

This is also sorta how RAW works (in DnD 5e), to quote the PHB:

Group Checks
When a number of individuals are trying to accomplish something as a group, the DM might ask for a group ability check. In such a situation, the characters who are skilled at a particular task help cover those who aren't.
To make a group ability check, everyone in the group makes the ability check. If at least half the group succeeds, the whole group succeeds. Otherwise, the group fails.

Taking the median roughly has the same effect, it only has a chance to differ if the number of successes and the number of failures are tied.

I usually just go with 1.5 because adding half/subtracting a third is way easier to do in my head, and I'm not worried about a ~10% error in casual conversation.