I call my dog a good boy sure but I also call him stinky (sometimes) and stupid (often). He’s always good, sometimes stinky, and often stupid.

Uneven sidewalks and bad bikers still exist.

Cars or not everyone should still wear a helmet when biking.

I would doubt most bards could afford books until after the printing press (~1440). During the middle ages (500-1500) is after the fall of the western roman empire (470) where papyrus stopped coming in for about 600-700 years (1100s) before cheap paper from Spain. I think court musicians were a bit different in “class” someone traveling is unlikely to be bringing a lot of written stuff with them all the time unless they were a weirdo. Once cheap paper and moreso the printing press to allow cheap copying spread then so did literacy. So its hard to definitely say whether the average bard would be literate. I think at the start of the middle ages, no, but by the end of the middle ages, yes.

More likely would have been taught orally. A traveling minstrel type bard is unlikely to have written music. Learn the song from your master/other performers then adapt as you wish.

Depends on where you are. Countries more reliant on gulf oil/refinement are going to be impacted more. In the US while our gas prices have jumped it hasn’t yet shown up on transport/food prices (it will, just not yet).

There’s not really any way to suicide that won’t fuck up someone else. You never know what straw makes someone take that final step or influence their plan. Acting as if there are eggshells everywhere is also harmful as then nothing can be talked about. Are parents supposed to hide their kids from couples with a dead child or history of miscarriage? Should saving private Ryan have skipped the d-day scene?

The comic simply notes a common thought “the call of the void” and the unfun realization of hearing said call. What someone takes away from a piece of art is theirs not the artists.