TabbsTheBat

@TabbsTheBat@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope so :D⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Overwatch copied citron for Reinhardt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Lithuanian :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A recent example I came across while doing Vietnamese vocab was several letters being used to make an “Z” or “L” sound in some cases.

  There’s actually a similar thing in my native language, where we have multiple letters for the same sound :3. (Ų and Ū make the same long “oo” sound) those letters were originally distinct with Ų being nasal and Ū being long, but the nasal letters have come to simply be longer variants of the base letter, however both letters are still useful as they serve a distinct grammatical role :3… the letter clusters ei and iai also tend to sound the same but be used for different purposes

  Sometimes the letters can also make the same sound in some words but not others due to palletization, I don’t know if vietnamese palletizes any letters, but it can make certain letters sound the same especially in some letter clusters, despite being otherwise distinct

  in English we have things like “th” or “ch” where the resulting sound doesn’t sound like it comes from either of the building blocks.

  Th is a fun one, because it did originally have distinct letters for both of the possible sounds it makes (þ and Ð) but with the rise of the printing press from germany which did not have those letters they were replaced with other letters like y (ye olde) and later th :3

  But yes, the twelve/two example is due to the sounds shifting I believe, as that’s where most of the silent letters in English come from excluding the french origin words (so it would’ve been twuh-o back in the day instead of too)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes it’s because of linguistic shifts (like in the case of english), the letters were pronounced the same, but the pronunciation shifted while the writing didn’t

  Sometimes it can also depend on things like stress, so for native speakers the sounds are the “same” just stressed/unstressed, so they have the same letter, but if you don’t know the rule it seems arbitrary

  And it can also come from the use of loan words. If a language has an established writing system, but users adopt a word that uses a sound not otherwise present in the language they’ll write is as close phonetically and simply know that loan words have an exception to the rule, while this again is not obivous to an outsider

  Probably some other cases too, and im not sure which one applies to the specific sound you’re struggling with but a couple of examples

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta get 1 of our 5 a day in :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What personal dramas have you witnessed with/among your fellow players while gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to play growtopia as a kid (don’t play it now, it went downhill lol), and I’ve seen a ton of scams/griefs among my friend circle, people would work for ages to gain someone’s trust and then either steal via picking up dropped items, not returning borrowed items, ooor… if you gave them access to your world they’d log in when you’re offline and literally tear the whole thing down to bedrock, even valueless blocks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just played through Doom: Eternal cause it was on sale for 4€ a bit back. The entire time I was wishing I was playing Doom 2016…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Download Chrome for Windows, complete with built-in malware...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… given the state of windows I don’t doubt chrome is as well lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are not the same⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You: using a public toilet

  Me: power shitting my pants

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  Finger boy obviously

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reddit chatroom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems about right to some of the conversations I had on reddit back in the day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember, remember, it's almost November ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “I haven’t done laundry in six months. One pair lasts me four days. I go front, I go back, I go inside-out. Then I go front and back.” - Fred, big hero 6

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sticker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Based :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Spicy" pepper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would not recommend sticking that in non-mouth places… unless you’re a masochist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Endless struggle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Diapers uwu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average plant behavior⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plants will either grow in some radioactive chernobyl concrete, or die if there’s 2mm more of rainfall than usual, no in between

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A good tool?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf the one time I had to launch edge on someone else’s pc it just prompted me to mane an account with no way to close out of the window, so not much better there x3

  Which is to say… the firefox usb stick is a real life saver either way when needing to touch windows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A good tool?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having troubleshooted windows PCs for family… that’s debatable lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A good tool?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He was a good tool to download other browsers /j

  I haven’t used windows in ages so no IE/edge, but honestly I’d take internet explorer I think x3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 25th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Set up a new minecraft server with my boyfriend a couple of weeks back, so been playing that :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This Social Media?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no. Depends on how you define it

  You interact with others digitally on here, which makes it social, but some would argue that it’s a forum aggregate which isn’t a true social media, since it’s moreso used for discussion or support, rather than posting about personal affairs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To the dismay of sweaty 'movement kids,' Battlefield 6 is nerfing Call of Duty sliding and jumping to maintain a 'traditional Battlefield experience'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mm movement :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Won't someone PLEASE think of the producers which easily make millions in profits each year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your piracy is why Reggie couldn’t have a nice chair until after he retired

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vade Retro Satana⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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  Reference?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love stealing from nintendo :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “There are no microtransactions in pvz replanted, at launch. Can’t say a week after that, when the execs decide we aren’t milking gamer enough” - full quote probably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies be like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Walking up to a tech company with my hat in hand like a victorian orphan “may I have more slop please, sir?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Going back to games on my totally_official_nintendo_hardware™ and not emulating cause that’s a suable offense for nintendo uwu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there many controllers with the ability to physically swap out the ABXY layout between Xbox/PC and Nintendo layout?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Less inputs than a ds4 x3… not having a right stick and a d-pad is pretty sucky

  I did look into them at one point tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there many controllers with the ability to physically swap out the ABXY layout between Xbox/PC and Nintendo layout?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the lack of gyro gets me way less than the lack of a touchpad

  Tbh I rarely use it myself but i only play pc games at my desk so I can always use my mouse.

  Tbh I don’t really use it for a mouse-like input, for me it’s mostly for rebinding a bunch of rarer used inputs via steam input (via radial menus and the like), which is useful for games with a lot of buttons like modded minecraft (I have things like opening additional magic menus, adjusting jetpack speed, etc.)