A character sprite takes up valuable space on those old-school cartridges ( what with all the running and jumping and fifty other animated things it has to do ) so it's a dead easy way of creating additional people.
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They are not copulas but existential verbs . " Aru " is used for inanimate objects, including plants, whereas " iru " is used for animate things like people, animals, and robots, though there are exceptions to this generalization.
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She commands the power of lightning and controls strange metal animate Things, living, metallic, geometric forms; an entire city of sentient cubes, globes and tetrahedrons, capable of joining together and forming colossal shapes, and wielding death rays and other armaments of destruction.
