itsnicodegallo

@itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems legit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Let’s play Smash Bros. For science.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 41 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Sea of Thieves)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did you have to give away a dog? What made you able to get given a new one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Just a complete mess’: Initial impressions of the Borderlands movie are mostly negative [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to Rotten Tomatoes to read the reviews. Had me cracking up with how negative they were. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disneyland workers say they live in cars, motels due to low pay⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This turned out very wholesomely. I hope y’all are both doing alright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Growing Old⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This meme is so old that I was 27 when I first read it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's like a more challenging version of the trolley problem⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll never understand why low res images like this always have half the text cropped off. I get why it’s done when they’re conveniently censoring something, but…ugh. :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like too much effort just to go from sitting around looking at garbage online to simply watching a film or playing a video game?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ADHD. A lot of people might say depression, and ADHD gets misdiagnosed this way too, especially because people are much more familiar with the way depression manifests rather than how ADHD actually manifests beyond stereotypical hyperactivity and difficulty focusing.

  What you’re describing is executive dysfunction and energy regulation problems. The reason you can’t stop scrolling is because your brain doesn’t produce dopamine enough, and it’s only used to the short bursts it can produce. This creates a feedback loop where you’re stuck stimulating yourself with quick, easy dopamine hits, and that’s why anything that seems like a prolonged task feels like an impossible endeavor. It’s also why you’ll get tunnel vision if you ever do start playing that game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pack⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actuallyyy…

  Goose comes from Old English, where they pluralized [go:s] (think “goes” with a soft S) by adding [iz] (like “ease”).

  When saying [go:siz], it was kinda hard for the mouth to switch the vowels from the [o] to the [i] quickly, so to save themselves the trouble, they’d change the first vowel to make it a little more similar to the second, so [go:siz] became [ge:siz].

  Then, that was too long, so they dropped the [z]. [ge:si] (think “guessy” but the “e” lasts a bit longer than usual).

  Then, that was too long, so they dropped the [i]. [ge:s] (“guess” with that same drawn out “e”).

  📯It’s the Great Vowel Shift!📯 Now, [go:s] and [ge:s] become [gu:s] and [gi:s]. Almost there!

  The vowels become a tad short over time, and now, you have [gus] and [gis] which are written “goose” and “geese”.

  But “MOOSE”? That’s Algonquin. It has nothing to do with all that noise. “But they sound the same and are written the same?!” So? Haven’t you heard? English orthography is a dumpster fire. Nobody knows what they’re doing. Not even the words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push (Official Video) [4:45 | Jazz Rap]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally get why he didn’t want this to become his identity. Especially when he was so new to the mainstream. Dope song though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is there a legal way to consume alcohol bought at a store, outside of a home, hotel room, etc.?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of Austin, Texas too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English, old⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Recently⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it’s because a lot of kids started wearing their dads’ classic rock and grunge metal band shirts, so much so that it became fashionable, and stores like Target and Walmart sell these shirts again.

  Then you have the kids who actually listen to those bands and think very highly of their learned musical opinions (reminiscent of “le wrong generation” kids).

  There’s now both a stereotype for the type of trendy person who wears a shirt for a band they’ve never even heard of and the type of person who judges them as posers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨23-year-old Nintendo interview shows how little things have changed in gaming⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is “like” used that way? I didn’t know that. If so, what area are you from? I’m into linguistics and am genuinely curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When your crush walks into class but you're homeschooled...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Read any of the States’ Declarations of Secession, and you’ll see how the Confederacy betrayed humanity with that racist garbage. I would literally get banned if I copied and pasted what they say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tyler⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Omg I already believed you, but it still surprised me when I looked it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman named Barbie Oppenheimer encounters difficulties amid Barbenheimer craze⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The comment above is a commonly used joke phrase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do names of countries get translated? What is the reason why Nippon/Nihon is called Japan or Ellada is called Greece in English?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it literally means “lowlands”, but that’s it’s actual name used by the people from that country in the primary language of the people from that country.

  Holland is just a city in the Netherlands, but people refer to the entire country as “Holland” sometimes.