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- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 days ago:
How’s this for an “I’m getting old” moment: sonic 1 was released on the Genesis in 1991. Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was released on the GameCube in 2001. Sonic has been on Nintendo consoles for over twice the time he’s been a Sega exclusive.
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- Comment on What activity or pastime of yours is barrels of fun? 3 days ago:
If you haven’t already done so, check out !worldbuilding@lemmy.world. I enjoy conlanging and worldbuilding for similar reasons. One thing I miss from Reddit is the worldbuilding sub. It was orders of magnitude more active so there was always something to dig into.
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- Comment on If you were dropped into a pool of people's spit and prevented from getting out, would you melt to death? 3 days ago:
I don’t think you would melt, considering your own mouth is full of saliva and does fine. You would be at huge risk of infection though.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 4 days ago:
Shmups are fun and should be revived as a genre. I’ve been saying for years that Nintendo should make Star Fox into a 2D scrolling shooter.
Though playing Megabonk earlier today made me realize that it and other clones of Vampire Survivors are like shmups in many ways. You gain powerups that you lose when you die, you have little to do other than move, and maneuvering around the level is a big part of the gameplay.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 4 days ago:
Mega man is comfort food. I don’t expect it to do anything new. I just want it to be decent.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 4 days ago:
I blame Minecraft for the lack of tutorials in survival games. Notch never added one before the game got popular enough to generate clones.
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- Comment on Can anyone recommend a logging blood pressure cuff that doesn't require an app or account? 1 week ago:
Because I’ll never keep it up to date. I’ll be in a hurry or something and just measure it without recording.
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- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
Conlanging is a very cheap hobby. Quoth Tolkien:
It is incidentally one of the attractions of this hobby that it needs so little apparatus!
- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 1 week ago:
Just guessing here, but Christmas has cemented itself in the wider cultural consciousness thanks in part to commercially exploitable traditions like gift-giving. It’s is often celebrated in some way by people who are not even Christian (Japan, for example). There are very specific themes, religious and secular, associated with Christmas that you can write songs about, The birth of Jesus, obviously, but also family gatherings, winter weather (Northern hemisphere bias), the whole Santa mythos and so on.
What Americans associate with Christmas is actually three separate feasts scrunched into one. Saint Nicholas day (December 6th) which is why Saint Nicholas is associated with Christmas, and Epiphany (January 6th) again for the magi, are the traditional gift-giving holidays, but got engulfed by the unstoppable Yule Tide. So you have these three different occasions with their own songs combined together.
New years doesn’t have the same cultural presence.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 1 week ago:
Forgive my unsolicited advice. Perhaps you know this already but if you want the blockquote to be unbroken you have to put a
>on the blank lines as well.> This is a paragraph. > > And this is another paragraph.
This is a paragraph.
And this is another paragraph.
The markdown parser also treats a hyphen plus space at the start of the line as a bullet. If you want an en dash you use two hyphens. Three gets you an em dash.
--Some famous quotable guy–Some famous quotable guy
I'm not a robot---I’m not a robot—
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 week ago:
A couple dozen people embedded SQL ‘drop table’ statements in the color names. Nice try, kids.
Made me laugh.
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 week ago:
I’d call it “olive”.
I you’ll permit me a tangent, the linguistics of the senses are something that fascinate me. Color names have been studied a fair bit, and an oft-repeated (not sure how accurate) theory states that languages acquire color names in a particular order, starting with words for dark and light, then red, then green and yellow, and so on. As a student of Latin and to a much lesser extent Greek I was interested to find out that there’s no exact word for “blue” in classical Latin or Greek, hence Homer’s famous “wine-dark sea”.
As a blind person I’m more interested in odor vocabulary. The dominant theory until recently is that language is incapable of describing odors as qualia distinct from the sources of those odors. That is, “green” describes a particular instance of subjective experience independent of grass or bile or any other green thing, but terms for odors all stem from analogies or just the words for their sources. Earth smells “earthy”, flowers smell “floral” and so on.
But some research on minority languages spoken by hunter-gatherers living in Thailand suggest that at least some languages do have “odor colors” as I call them. I desperately want a non-technical breakdown of these studies, or indeed access to the papers at all, but the details are behind pay walls.
Some of my conlangs are meant to have such odor colors based on the valence-arousal model of emotions since their speakers communicate mood through pheromones rather than body language. Their color words in contrast work like human odor words, only being able to describe color by analogy with something so colored.
- Comment on Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages? 1 week ago:
A good analogy goes a long long way.
- Comment on Is it really worth starting a lemmy community? 1 week ago:
I have often thought this myself. Not sure I’d enjoy being a mod, and that’s assuming anyone bothers to join.
- Comment on If Browser and Wario are Mario's mortal ennemies, why did he invited them for a kart race? 1 week ago:
IIRC per Miyamoto the characters are actors who are ‘on set’ during the mainline games and hang out after work. Or something like that.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 1 week ago:
I don’t wish anyone to die as a rule.
Now at any rate [Gollum] is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy. He deserves death.’ ‘Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
- Comment on This is why we can't have nice things 1 week ago:
BeanOS
- Comment on This is why we can't have nice things 1 week ago:
I’m not saying it’s not important, I’m saying could you please not post about it in a completely unrelated community. I swear Lenny’s motto should be “sir, this is a Wendy’s.”
- Comment on This is why we can't have nice things 1 week ago:
Oh that parachute!
I too miss being a kid. I miss when my biggest worry was whether I’d get to play Nintendo when I got home.
- Comment on This is why we can't have nice things 1 week ago:
When people say to stop being political on here, it’s not necessarily that they don’t think politics is important and should never be discussed, it’s that you should turn “off” once and a while and talk about literally anything else. Even Anne Frank wrote about other stuff in her diary sometimes, and her life was under threat by actual Nazis so I don’t buy the “Everything’s on fire so we should never shut up ever” argument. I’m not even asking you to change your mind, just to change the subject once in a while.
- Comment on Education is important. 2 weeks ago:
This is a common worldbuilding scenario I play with, a virgin continent appears suddenly, usually in the South Pacific.
- Comment on Education is important. 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, Don Bluth, the man that introduced 90s kids to the concept of mortality. Poor Littlefoot’s mom :(
- Comment on Education is important. 2 weeks ago:
Does that make the Americas Valinor?
- Comment on Education is important. 2 weeks ago:
You’ve seen Titan A.E. I gather.
- Comment on Education is important. 2 weeks ago:
No too far to the northwest. 0,0 is somewhere near the Gulf of Guinea.
- Comment on Education is important. 2 weeks ago:
Duh that’s Atlantis, obviously.
- Comment on What's the longest, hardest fantasy rpg out there? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not for lack of personal time. I just have way more things to fill that personal time. Playing with my radios or messing with my homelab or building out grammar and lexica for my conlangs and so on. I think I’ve also discovered my tastes have changed. I don’t want video games to frontload all the complexity anymore. How am I supposed to know what this or that class or race or stat does before even starting the game?
My vision being what it is a lot of games are unplayable now anyway.