vateso5074
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- Comment on What 6 hours ago:
Couple minor nitpicks, just for the sake of knowledge sharing:
ち is usually pronounced “chi” instead of like “tee,” though is often written as “ti” in Kunrei romanization to be consistent with the other characters in its set. Hepburn romanization usually writes it as “chi” however, and is the more widespread (e.g. Sapporo Ichiban beer instead of “Itiban”; the protagonist of Spirited Away is named Chihiro instead of Tihiro, etc.)
It’s also called “katakana,” not “katanaga”. “Kana” is the term for syllabary (the consonant-vowel pair we see) and K is often voiced to G for compound terms. Hiragana means “even syllabary” because it could be written smoothly in a cursive-like format. Katakana is “fragmented syllabary” because its shapes derive more directly from pieces broken off from Chinese characters.
Katakana actually developed before hiragana, with hiragana being considered less refined (it was a “woman’s” script). But hiragana’s ease of writing helped it catch on as the default script over time, with katakana being reserved for words with emphasis. It’s commonly used for loanwords (but not universally so) because it’s similar to how “proper” English italicizes foreign terms that have not been totally subsumed into the vocabulary.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 1 day ago:
Monument Valley 1, 2, and 3 (mobile games). An interesting set of puzzle games with good visuals. They only require single taps to work.
Also can get a mouse for the Steam Deck (or a PC if you have one). There are a lot of good games that you can likely use with a mouse if the hand/wrist motion doesn’t cause pain or discomfort for your thumb.
- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 4 days ago:
Not a lit major, just someone who spends too long going through Wikipedia and TV Tropes and was looking for any way to pass the time at work, haha.
- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 4 days ago:
It also occurred to me that folks from the younger generation may not have played OoT, so here is the same reapplied to Breath of the Wild:
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Ordinary World: The Great Plateau
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Call to Adventure: The message left by Zelda after waking up.
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Refusal of the Call: The temptation not to climb that damn frozen mountain because you haven’t figured out how to keep warm yet. Alternatively, the temptation to spend hours just chopping trees and killing Bokoblins instead of moving on.
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Meeting the Mentor: The old man (King Rhoam) who teaches you how to do things like staying warm to be able to climb the mountain.
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Crossing the Threshold: Climbing the tower and gliding down to Hyrule Field.
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Tests, Allies, Enemies: The majority of the game, including all shrines and the four divine beasts.
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Approach: Pushing through Hyrule Castle.
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Ordeal, Death & Rebirth: Fighting Calamity Ganon (and the 4 Blights if skipped).
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Reward, Seizing the Sword: Rescuing Zelda, obtaining the Bow of Light.
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The Road Back: Returning back out to Hyrule Field.
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Resurrection: Calamity Ganon returns as Dark Beast Ganon
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Return with Elixir: The calamity is over, the guardians are deactivated, and Hyrule Castle is no longer corrupted. People can move back and rebuild.
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- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 4 days ago:
Yeah, it’s definitely not a one-size-fits-all approach, but more like “If this story has these aspects, this is generally the order in which they occur.” Some of the terminology developed from the original concept is also flexible or substitutible.
- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 4 days ago:
Insomuch as most heroic narratives follow a similar template, absolutely.
More context about the Hero’s Journey narrative:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Fire that burns down the whole town
U and me
No survivors
Hell, I’m in.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 week ago:
And ramen is Japanese.
All commonly eaten in America, granted, but it’s weird to call it “American” food.
- Comment on modern meal 1 week ago:
PFAS air
- Comment on You're so predictable 1 week ago:
Commas would have helped a bit, that way you could at least just count the commas or the more visible locks they space out, instead of counting each set of 3 digits one digit at a time.
There are more pragmatic ways to write numbers, though, depending on the need for specificity. If the lower digits are insignificant, simply writing 4.81 billion is easy, or 4.81e9.
- Comment on If you want to be classy and impress people 1 week ago:
Hwæt?
- Comment on I am always prepared to move into this version of life 1 week ago:
I would never stop as low as that.
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PS4 and Xbox One are weak, last-gen consoles. I’d use the same PC that I have all the porn tabs open on.
- Comment on bonding 2 weeks ago:
Videogames, eh?
- Comment on Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition - Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Those that use the script extended are at greater risk of breaking, but most mods made only with the creation kit should work without issue.
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on These are your only alternatives. 2 weeks ago:
And I feel like those pointy edges are just going to cut your mouth eventually.
- Comment on English moment 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it was a typo and they meant to write ‘wound’?
- Comment on English moment 2 weeks ago:
Wait how else would you pronounce ‘bound’?
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 3 weeks ago:
And theaters are still closing left and right because there is no price point that can draw the crowds they once had. Tickets are too expensive, and concessions are too expensive on top of that. The business is just not sustainable any longer.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
This was my experience as well.
Fresh out of high school, I started working at a store that was union, but everyone in my generation was on a different contract from the people who had been there for 20+ years. A lot of the benefits paperwork that went out to everyone had to clarify different terms depending on whether you were hired before or after a certain date, with the terms for the “after” group usually being worse.
Unions in general are great and necessary, but bad unions are still out there.
- Comment on Beware!!! 3 weeks ago:
I assume it’s referencing the controversy of Colin Kaepernick kneeling instead of standing for the US national anthem.
- Comment on Punch Time 4 weeks ago:
O.G. San is such a good name.
- Comment on OLAY! 4 weeks ago:
Ah so he’s just s dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
- Comment on OLAY! 4 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the movie where they cast a French person as Scottish, a Scottish person as Spanish, and an American as a Russian.
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
Hey, some of us are 35-year-old edgelords
- Comment on And I won't delete them either for nostalgia reasons 4 weeks ago:
Shit. I was about to quip “Your intern is only 8?” before I remembered what year it was.
- Comment on They have a right to feel smug 4 weeks ago:
Shutters are less commonly used here, usually found more on older homes. Their intended purpose is protection during storms, but sometimes people install “fake” ones just as decoration.
For light management/privacy, most houses I’ve seen have adjustable blinds inside that you raise or lower to let more or less light in.
A steel “grating” (not sure how it’s called in English) for safety and a twin casement window.
Grating or grates is right, and sometimes people just call them window bars. Usually I see them on the outside, though, but I suppose that can be a look people want to avoid (some people associate them with high crime risk) and maybe I just don’t notice buildings that put them on the inside.
- Comment on They have a right to feel smug 4 weeks ago:
Yeah if you have those crank style ones it’s possible at least.
Honestly having the screen on the inside is probably more convenient too. If you’re cleaning both sides of a window where you’d have to remove the screen either way, I imagine it’s easier to remove the screen from inside than outside just given the elevation differences.
- Comment on They have a right to feel smug 4 weeks ago:
Sash windows are the common type used for American homes, though you’ll find a good mix of casements (typically the ones you have to crank to open/close.
The only deal breaker for me would be casement windows that open outwards. The area I live gets a lot of bugs in the summer, and so our windows have screens to help keep pests out while windows are open. Sash windows and casements that open inwards work fine with screens, but casements that open outwards typically don’t.
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 4 weeks ago:
I will say I don’t like the direction imgur went, but to play devil’s advocate, I don’t think there was any way around it.
The problem is that being an image host used by millions of users is incredibly expensive, and between needing to pay for the infrastructure, content moderators, and (in this case) regulatory compliance, it all adds up.
The only income model they have is ads, which is why they needed to re-tool the UI to hinder users’ ability to direct share images, and converting it to a more social media type of format keeps users on the site so they can cycle in more ads for more revenue.
An ideal internet would not need to rely on ad money to work, but I’m struggling to think of what else could be done at the scale imgur operates, as donation models can barely even keep Lemmy instances above water. If ad money wasn’t a thing, would sites like imgur be able to exist? Maybe they shouldn’t, I don’t know.
