Good luck getting a trial infront a jury of peers eh pears

They used to be moderately common in the before times, like 2.5 inch IDE HDD times.

For added horror those often where Y cables, too.

Thanks to vtubers you can now also watch catgirls write Linux drivers for their audio interface, live!

Kobolds are originally just the “small folk” of German mythology with all of them being gnome-like but with varying degrees of hospitality. That’s why you get your mine Kobolds, your Heinzelmännchen and your Klabautermann.

Bonus fact: Dog like Kobolds in DnD derived media are not exclusive to Japan, in the Everquest lore they are also dog like (and a bit hyena like, whereas gnolls here are fully canine)

It also did happen in other fields in astronomy or genetics pretty early on.

Somebody once described her team as “Young, motivated, highly educated and otherwise basically unemployable”.

Guess it helps that sorting through myriads of stars or kernels of corn was often not seen as prestigious enough