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- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 2 days ago:
The th pronunciation is Spanish.
In Catalan c before e or i is pronounced like a hard s.
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 3 days ago:
Hm… Ro as in Ross…? The rest is the correct pronunciation, yes.
And I don’t know… an as in anvil and te as in tenant…? English, being several unrelated languages in a trenchcoat, can be a bit weird, and pronunciation varies excessively with dialects…
The vowels in Castilian (aka Spanish outside of Spain and other Castilian speaking countries) are very simple, five vowels, five sounds, pronounced more or less as they would have been in Latin.
C is pronounced like a k or a hard z, never as an s (except in some dialects).
Rocinante. From rocín and antes, for he was a rocín (old horse) before being Quijote’s steed (also during, but the old man wasn’t all there).
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 3 days ago:
Thin, not sin.
Ro as in rod. Thin as in, well, thin. An as in ant. Te as in tent.
- Comment on People are sitting on the bike lane or parking on it. Saint Denis, France 4 days ago:
French ain’t a race, it’s a personality disorder.
- Comment on People are sitting on the bike lane or parking on it. Saint Denis, France 4 days ago:
French people seem to be extremely hostile to anything and anyone remotely not French.
In their defence, though, they also seem to be extremely hostile to anything and anyone remotely French.
Maybe it’s not much of a defence, now that I think about it.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 2 months ago:
Saburo Arasaka was born in 1919 in Japan… wait, sorry, wrong biography. This corporate villain was born in Taiwan in 1963.
- Comment on Dammit 2 months ago:
It’s important, it puts the first part in context.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
We don’t. We just exist. And then we die. It’s monstrous.
- Comment on Aerosol 2 months ago:
It’s what governments are supposed to be for.
- Comment on Flipper!! 3 months ago:
- Comment on Find Cow 3 months ago:
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could
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- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 months ago:
no new characters for like a thousand years now. One map.
I’m sorry, what…!?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 months ago:
Fantastic setting (I could spend days just playing tourist around Night City), great story and characters (and the characters don’t just stand there talking to you like in Bethesda’s games, there’s actual acting in there), enjoyable gameplay, beautiful graphics…
Sure, it got a bit of flak when it released due to the console cartels forcing it to run on highly inadequate ancient hardware, but I’ve been playing it from day one on an even older but properly specced PC and I could count the bugs I’ve experienced on the fingers of one hand, with fingers to spare.
And CD Projekt kept improving and expanding it for years after release, so it’s even better now.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 months ago:
It doesn’t have the same feeling as GTA V
How is that supposed to be a bad thing?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 months ago:
Can’t speak for the older ones because… well, they’re not before my time, I was an avid PC gamer back then, but I somehow missed them (no Internet yet, and maybe they weren’t sold where I live?)… but Morrowind was great. Janky and broken as all fuck, but great. Fantastic setting, great magic system where you could make your own spells, terrible but useable skill system, no handholding whatsoever (the game doesn’t give a flying fuck if you don’t know what a “foyada” is even if such knowledge is essential to find your way around, and that’s great, modern games almost play themselves, so what even is the point of playing, then?), and you could wear mismatched pauldrons. Haven’t found a game that topped that yet. Way too many cliff racers, sure, but still, it was a fantastic game.
Then Bethesda got downhill from there. Modders saved TES IV and V and Bethesda’s Fallouts, but not even them could do anything for Starfield.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 months ago:
What positive attributes does Monopoly have?
Well, it’s supposed to teach the players that for most participants capitalism’s a mug’s game. 🤷
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 3 months ago:
Portal 2 has a whole coop campaign.
- Comment on Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI 3 months ago:
When you owe hundreds of dollars you have a problem.
When you owe millions of dollars your creditors have a problem.
When you owe billions of dollars, society has a problem.
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 3 months ago:
Those are media formats (the first ones having different purposes anyway).
None of them had any significant exclusive content, because it’d have been an extremely dumb decision and no one would have bought it.
You’re comparing apples to oranges.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
Almost (but not quite) Unluckies.
- Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment? 3 months ago:
Ira Remsen¹’s Investigation of Nitric Acid, which can easily be found in several educational websites by looking up, for instance, “nitric acid acts upon trousers”.
- Ira Remsen (1846-1927) founded the chemistry department at Johns Hopkins and initiated the first center for chemical research in the USA.
- Comment on Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games 3 months ago:
You can have both. V in Cyberpunk 2077, for instance.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 3 months ago:
There’s Disco Elysium, where the developers themselves tell you to pirate it because some parasitic corporate asshole stole it, and then there’s this, where the poor sods who got shafted by their parasite have their brains so rotten and Stockholm syndromed by its abuse that they get offended when you don’t give it money they won’t be seeing a cent of.
This game is evidently not worth even pirating. Don’t pirate it, don’t buy it, don’t play it, don’t even mention it except as an example of the evils of corporatism and runaway capitalism.
If you’re a developer (or anyone else whose work can be stolen by greedy parasites) take it as a cautionary tale and don’t let parasites steal your work. Unionize. Form a cooperative. Starve the parasites instead of feeding them.
- Comment on Yup 3 months ago:
Truly the word of the century.
I needed a term for the urge I feel every time I read the news, and now I have it.
- Comment on Astronauts are funny 4 months ago:
Turns out Mark Watney jokingly calling himself a space pirate was one of the most realistic things in The Martian¹.
- In the book. In the film he never lost communication with Earth, so he had permission to commandeer the Aeris IV MAV, and it wasn’t an act of piracy.
- Comment on ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere 4 months ago:
It’s not AI, it’s LLMs.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 5 months ago:
Not exactly written the same, but in Catalan a cold with nose congestion is called a constipat or costipat (similarly constipado in Spanish).
Of course this can mean a very bad day¹ for you if you’re in an English speaking country and know some but not enough English, and ask the nearest pharmacist for some over the counter medicine for your “constipation”.
More of an outright enemy than a false friend, really.
- Blowing off both ends with every sneeze kind of bad, probably.
- Comment on Fake News 5 months ago:
It broke feudalism, too, and kickstarted the renaissance.
- Comment on Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders. 5 months ago:
I’m responsible for the actions of the governments I vote for, and those of the governments I don’t rebel against. As are American citizens.
Many of the victims of racial oppression in the USA had no problem voting for Trump, or previous criminals who held offices in their government. I’m sure most of them happily voted for Obama, another mass murderer like the majority of US presidents in history.
Because as all Americans they share those rotten core values, and will happily vote for anyone who’ll act like a bully and harm the weak, ignoring that he’ll also hurt them.
