the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@Oneironott Yeah! there's a lot to be said for Making Things as a way of relaxing

for us, soldering together a circuit board fills that niche--designing pcbs too, to a slightly lesser extent
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@Oneironott it's always great to learn stuff you wouldn't otherwise learn! so much interesting stuff out there that you just would never think to look up
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@owashii@plush.city it's like the streisand effect, only more
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@Oneironott Fortunately it's designed to be easy to learn! the only hard part is developing an intuition for how big things are, all the relative sizes work out real easily
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@owashii@plush.city is that like a blowjob?
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@0xAFAEBABE this is something i would be interested in learning more about? I'm not sure we can understand what that means, how that's a demonstration of power.
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@Caudle It is, there's been a lot of talk about it over here the last day or two.
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@Kyresti @mawr deliberately? What's the logic behind that?
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@niss @Lotherme i appreciate multiple lizards
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@owashii@plush.city invalid question, raccoons *are* god
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@codl plustard, like mustard but More™
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@trysdyn I know that 1 at least, and i think 2 as well, were made by people formerly of Wolf Team (makers of the first couple Tales games).
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I imagine the quality going downhill later is related to changing the makeup of the dev team, either adding new people who weren't as good at things or removing old people who were good at things, or most likely both.
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@trysdyn Everything we've heard about the star ocean series points to it having exactly one stand-out great entry, and all the rest clustered around the bad side of mediocre.
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@tabitha@chitter.xyz there have been a bunch of final fantasy 7 things but none are remakes

there was
- advent children, a movie that's a sequel to 7
- before crisis, a prequel to 7 that was only ever released for one specific brand of japan-only pre-smartphone cell phone
- crisis core, another prequel, on psp
- dirge of cerberus, a sequel on ps2
- final fantasy 7 remake, which as previously noted is weird
- and crisis core remake, which just came out, and is a remake of the prequel

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@tabitha@chitter.xyz i'm not sure "keep re-releasing" is really the right word; they've only done one straight remake, and that's of crisis core, not final fantasy 7 itself

final fantasy 7 remake is not a remake of final fantasy 7. it's weird
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@Cabtcougalope there's nothing stopping you yeah. instance X has no idea whether an email address is already in use on instance Y, and no reason to care
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@owashii@plush.city actually, legitimately, the answer is e

the letter g was a late addition to the roman alphabet. for a very long time the letter C was used for both /k/ and /g/, and then later this one emperor just said "no you're going to use this modified C now when it means /g/" which is why you get ancient Roman names in pairs like Caius/Gaius and Cnaeus/Gnaeus

that same guy also invented like two or three other new letters but they didn't stick around
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@Popehat which app? the official app is very broken intentionally because what gargron (the maintainer of the official repository) wants and what literally everyone else wants are two very different things. do not use the official mastodon app
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@Austin_Dern astrology stuff in newspapers is always so vague as to be applicable to just about anyone
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