AEsheron

The last thing the US wants is a civil war and mass instability in a nuclear nation. That has the capability to shatter MAD. At best, the US wants a regime change.

I suspect you're right. But there really is never a good way to tell with these kinds of experimental techs. It could be a runaway chain of improvement. Or it is probably even odds that there is a visible and clear decline before it peters out, or just suddenly slams into a beick wall with no warning.

Ergodox makes keyboards like this. Don't know if they sell them in Colemak key position like this one, I know they do QWERTY. I've been meaning to get one myself for aaages, but I have too many other stupid things I spend my money on instead.

Makes sense, it's basically just a Bing wrapper.

I don't pronounce those A sounds any differently, I didn't realize that was your point. Maybe there's a bit of a glide in pan, but both have æ sounds.

Laser needs the vowels to change, but there's no reason to change the S.

The S in laser is changed from Lassy to Lazy.

Gift is by far the most commonly used word that is comparable, and it is a very close comparison, it makes sense people would base it off that. I'm a soft g person myself, but the one letter change doesn't hold up very well here. All your examples have an additional letter specifically to change how another letter is pronounced using well established rules. That is not the case here at all.

Ah, I prefer folded like you do, but if I'm in a rush I'll fold like she does. It is definitely easier and faster, doesn't look as nice though.

We should all just go skuh-bah diving with the sharks with lass-ear beams on their heads. Acronyms don't always inherent their original letters' pronunciation, as seen in skoo-buh and lay-zer.

IMHO, there has to be more incentive for the player. That's a thing you can do, in Arkham, but it's a thing you're supposed to do in DMC. There's the combo tracker pushing you, lot's of flashy moves designed to help push the combo, and some moves that aren't as good but exist to look cool while rotating through moves. It's a matter of intent, not just if it is possible.