the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

Two-headed, four-armed latios guy with well-groomed facial hair and ridiculously large boobs (three of them)

Uses psychic power to hold his boobs up, because otherwise he'd have immense back pain

Two legs? Or perhaps a naga? Unsure. Not three legs or taur; he definitely has a slim waistline.

Works at a fancy restaurant (and is a respected decision maker; he'd probably be one of the owners if it weren't a worker-owned cooperative), usually as wait staff. He can cook too, but isn't as good as others who work there so he only does when filling in for people

Gender and presentation are very firmly male, but his clothing can be basically anything. He usually wears a formal suit top and matching floor-length skirt to work. He also looks good in a dress and knows it.

He might be part haunter. Sometimes his necks, thighs, and upper arms are just not there, heads and forearms and legs floating instead.

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@LexYeen we're going to both second *and* third this. it's a great look
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Never have we been so sure we speak a rhotic dialect than reading a Londoner's respelling to explain pronunciation. "hasten" gets "hay-sern", "gnaw" gets "same as 'nor'", "either" gets both "aye-the" and "ee-the"

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@rey you do appear to exist
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@maolfunction why on earth would having a prepaid phone even interact with playing video games at *all*
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@mossmeow if you get good bread, it's *good* bread

we should bake our own more often
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@VoxSomniator bonus you!
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@ziphi At least it has good mu--oh wait you want boss theme? constantly? no? well you get it anyway
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@Austin_Dern The 2600 really is a bizarre system

and atari kept that inane sprite system and "racing the beam" concept for *all* their 8-bit home computers too!! why!!
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Can slot-loading optical drives usually deal with 8 cm mini-CDs/mini-DVDs, or did the wii have a special one?
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@VoxSomniator Yeah, that's the point of the saying
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@terrana Ooh, we hadn't heard of that! It looks really good, will have to get it when we can afford to
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@terrana Excellent!
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fun fact: there's a species of bird called a ptarmigan

the name ptarmigan has no good reason for having a p in it at all, and it was spelled tarmigan for a long time before someone thought "well surely this comes from the greek ptero-, we should put a p there" and got it spelled ptarmigan in the dictionary

there is no relation between the words (p)tarmigan and ptero-. tarmigan comes from a Scottish Gaelic word, about as unrelated to Greek as you can get while still being Indo-European
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We happened across someone using the term "galgame" without any explanation. Does anyone know what that means? It seems to be a genre of video game?
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@Kyresti (note that my using a CW for a long post is not a request that you also do--this instance only allows posts longer than 500 characters if they're CW'd)
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@Kyresti Do we have reliable pre-writing records from Native American civilizations? (Other than the Maya, who had a writing system that is now well-understood) My understanding is that the records we do have start from the oral histories (which get less reliable as you go back further in time) that were written down by the invading europeans, but if we have good records before that I'd be interested to learn more!

And yeah, untangling truth from fiction is difficult a lot of the time. We've lost a lot of information about a lot of societies because the records they left were incomplete or destroyed, either intentionally or unintentionally

Untangling fact from opinion can be hard as well. It's usually easy enough to tell that "King Whoever ruled from Date to Whenever" is either true or false, but "King Whoever did Goodthing and/or Badthing" is harder. Did king whoever actually do it, or did someone else? Was the thing actually good or bad?

we're not a historian and don't know how to answer all these questions, just find ancient history to be an interesting topic. I wish we knew a lot more than we did about a lot of ancient peoples.
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The family trees of wish-granters, genieology
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@FreyaManibrandr Oh dear. I'm really glad you survived that. I hope you recover fully soon.
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@relee No oral history survives in forms that can be reliably called history, rather than legend or myth. Ancient fiction that looks like it might be history falls into the categories of legend or myth as well, based on whether there's corroborating evidence from other sources
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