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Woops, Mutahar accidentally indirectly killed it by giving it coverage.

He covered it about two weeks ago trepedatiously, thinking the project was awesome, but stating that Rockstar could kill the whole thing if they became aware of it…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jTrY6P1H53E

And now its dead.

“Due to the unexpected attention that our project received and after speaking with Rockstar Games, we have decided to take down the Liberty City Preservation Project.”

The above linked almost half million view video is almost certainly the ‘unexpected attention our project recieved’, not the inline linked tweet IGN provided with less than 300 retweets.

Absolutely, putting a book down open face will fuck up the spine, and if done for a long time or repeatedly, the whole book will be deformed and maybe even fall apart.

That seems much more chaotic to me than dog earing a few pages.

NP! =D

Yeah, 'number’fold words in modern English are actually linguistic hold overs from before ‘fold’ was a verb that meant to bend something along a crease.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/twofold

In a whole bunch of proto-English languages, fold or feald or fald or falt were all multiplicative suffixes (basically) attached to a number, which made a new word meaning to multiply by the number.

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I’d be willing to bet this is also why the phrase ‘doubled over’ literally means that a person is bent, or folded at their abdomen.

You take the new meaning of fold (to bend along a crease) but replace it with the word that twofold literally means (doubled).

If you interpreted ‘doubled over’ as literally as OP is taking twofold, then the phrase should mean that a person was above something and then spontaneously grew a clone of themselves, or became twice as heavy or tall or something.

They marketed the headset as being able to replace the functions of basically everything an average person uses a laptop/pc, cellphone, and tv for.

People routinely use computers and tvs for many hours at a time.

People routinely spend hours on their phone and basically always have them in their pocket or nearby.

They showed people wearing the things in planes, to watch 2-3 hour movies.

Sitting down in their (strangely TV-less) living rooms to watch 2-3 hour movies.

Doing … some kind of work you’d do on a laptop, but easily being able to keep the things on, kick a ball around with your kid, and then seamlessly go back to working.

Wearing the headset as you are unpacking at a hotel, and then taking a video phone call with them.

Not the thing ringing, you putting the headset on, and then taking a call.

No, you’re just already wearing the headset, having just arrived in a hotel, implying you just had them on as you took your luggage up to your motel, like a hat.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IY4x85zqoJM

Taken as a montage, you certainly get the impression that you’re encouraged to just wear the thing all the time, anywhere, that its an ‘all-device’ that replaces a whole bunch of other devices, and is easily used/worn in many settings for long periods of time.