the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@spottyfox except when we use the Spanish word for something, mostly stuff originating in the Americas
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@solarmerps also maybe Quartus II but i hate it
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@spottyfox really, this is just an "are you american or british" question, i'm pretty sure
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@zetasyanthis i expect they do. cats seem to be really good at emotions and empathy
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so has anyone done a "twitter is crumbling" edit of that "mastodon is crumbling" post yet
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@hi_cial oh no there are horrors

there's a lot of finger imagery though.
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@hi_cial (if you haven't played it, elden ring is *huge* on finger imagery. the high priest/god of the setting being called "the two fingers" is not metaphorical)
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@solarmerps LTspice and KiCad
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@hi_cial this looks like something out of elden ring
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@relee okay here's a couple of them, just put really briefly

- Wild Arms 3: Well-written, engaging story. Female protagonist. No awkward romance subplot. Music is excellent.
- Tales of Vesperia: Characters are great, and character development is excellently done. Two party members are all but canon in lesbians with each other.
- Tales of Berseria: A "light is not good" kind of story. Believable characters, very enjoyable battle system.
- Radiant Historia: Really cool concept, does what Chrono Trigger couldn't with time travel. Emotional story, though ends with a sequel hook for a sequel we'll probably never get. Yoko Shimomura music.
- Baten Kaitos: Excellent unique battle system. Fascinating worldbuilding and story. Soundtrack is quite possibly Sakuraba's magnum opus. Strong character designs and art direction.
- Xenoblade Chronicles: Great worldbuilding and story, actually good voice acting too (a rarity in video games). Characters are well-written.
- Final Fantasy XIII: Antifascist as fuck. Combat system is surprisingly deep and difficult for a game where your main action is "auto-battle". Really neat music for a Final Fantasy game--this is the first FF that Uematsu didn't do any work on, so the music is very different. Characters are amazingly believable and feel like they could be real people.
- Trails from Zero/Trails to Azure: Falcom loves two-part stories. Second arc of the Trails series. Worldbuilding, story, and characters are excellent, plot twists are done *amazingly* (as is the norm for the series). Music is excellent. Most of the comments for Trails in the Sky/Sky SC below apply here as well.
- Trails in the Sky/Trails in the Sky SC: First arc of the Trails series. Required reading for playing Zero/Azure above (do NOT skip games in this series, including Trails in the Sky The 3rd, which barely didn't make this list). Combat system is great, but the story, characters, and worldbuilding are where this series truly shines. Honestly one of the best video games we've ever played in all those categories. Plot twists are amazing, and recontextualize pretty much *everything* you've done up to where the plot twist happens. Again, music is fantastic. Falcom's music team knows what they're doing.
- Suikoden 2: Sprite art is *beautiful* and ridiculously detailed, at least in the first half of the game before they unfortunately ran out of budget. Story is great, and it's neat how it interacts with the previous game if you have a save file from it! Been a while since we've played it, so not a lot of details i'm afraid. I remember we could really tell why people say it's the best game ever made, though.

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@sharkNserg oh, yes please
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@relee final fantasy xiii is super extremely anti-fascist and all the hatred of it seems to originate from one particularly influential youtuber who later went full mask-off fascist so, quite possible it isn't entirely in good faith there

there are also some valid problems with the game, too, of course
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@DarkOverord like this one here
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/cymbet-corporation/CBC92132C-Q3-TR3/10264892?s=N4IgjCBcpg7ArAFiqAxlAZgQwDYGcBTAGhAHsoBtEeANgGZFY6QBdEgBwBcoQBlTgE4BLAHYBzEAF9pQA

requires 50 nA of current to keep time, using a common 32.768 kHz crystal, and costs less than $2
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@DarkOverord real-time clocks have been made that use *impressively* low amounts of power
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@monstercollie i also feel the need to point out that the sharp sign is technically a different symbol, ♯ instead of # (note how the orientation of the lines is different)
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@monstercollie we call it number sign, mostly
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@pup_hime oh one of the games (i forget which) also had a character named Paul Atician ("politician")
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@pup_hime we played this after having played spirit of justice (where the name puns get *really* ridiculous, like a tour guide named Ahlbi Ur'gaid ("I'll be your guide")) and it was really weird to us that everyone in GAA immediately can tell that eggert benedict is a fake name
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@Nerts @pup_hime well in modern times a newly discovered thing can be found to be toxic by identifying known toxins in it, but in ancient times yeah it was "oh Fred got violently ill/died after eating one of those, probably don't eat it"

or "fred saw the gods after eating one of those, it's a sacred mushroom that should only be eaten under supervision of the shaman", in some cases
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