the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

aaagh headaches

is this something to do with the altitude change (went from ~200 to ~4000 feet) or are we just coming down with a cold or something
-F

huh. just realized, while watching a video about cuneiform, that the way the Japanese language uses kanji interspersed in it is actually very similar to how if you see $20 you parse it as "20 dollars". $ is the western equivalent of using kanji for a noun in japanese
-F

I think I'm... the name Taren comes to mind? Or maybe Laren, or something like that? Maybe just Ren?

I'm going to, for now, continue to present as the tauric form that I was drawn to before--this one here:
-?, who is currently somewhat blendy with F

Well, it's nice to see you anyway! We'll help you figure out who you are, if you like.
-F

Good morning.

I'm not sure who I am exactly. I seem to be the third member of our system that the others were talking about earlier--I don't have a name yet, though.

-?

go, which is still played today, is also over three thousand years old
-F

ancient board games are neat

mancala, hnefatafl, the royal game of ur, nine men's morris

it's kind of amazing we actually know something of the rules for some of them, too
-F

@IceWolf rivals was specifically designed to play like smash
-F

they want to lather you with affection (and possibly some spiderweb) and maybe name one of their hundreds of offspring after you, though they might also name them Spider because that's such a great name, don't you think? everyone they know is named Spider--except you, of course. There's Spider, and Spider, and oh yeah Spider over there is nice, and would you like to meet Spider? Oh, you should also go see Spider, they're the one in charge around here if you need anything. They'd also love to meet you, it's rare they see two-legs who don't try to kill them or just run away.

-F

the GIFTS are Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders

they are full of childlike wonder at the world and everything in it, and they think that you're adorable
-F

random reminder that the GIFTS from the Avernum series are adorable
-F

i just spent like ten minutes writing this description of how computers work in the style of "hard fantasy"
-F

microscopic sigils etched into ritually purified crystals to give them the ability to think, linked together with carefully designed patterns made of highly specific materials to other thinking crystals, with a panel of liquified crystal--or, in the case of the emerging μLED panels, millions of tiny crystal balls--used to present information to the mage operating it, and other crystals with different microscopic sigils that let them see instead, that the mage uses to tell the artifice what it should be doing, in conjunction with more of the carefully designed patterns that have deliberate gaps in them, gaps which the mage can close and open as another method of telling the construct what to do. These constructs can also link to ley lines that span the globe, allowing rapid communication with other like constructs--and large sigils made of miles of precisely positioned and sized copper wire can make additional, miniature ley lines through which the devices can both draw power and link to the main communication leylines. Sorcerers are currently experimenting with longer and longer range communication without the use of leylines, sending information through the aether using specialized arrangements of copper and purpose-made magic-infused stone that can transfer information, though not objects, between the physical world and the aetherous otherworld where information can move without leylines to be transferred back to the world of physicality using another identical magic-infused stone

oh also figure out how to set up this steam link thing, and maybe hook up the atari 2600 (also brought from our parents' house)
-F

well, we're mostly moved in now. just have to get a media cabinet to put all the video games in since they don't fit on the bookshelf anymore (we had our parents bring some books of ours that were at their house and now the shelves are full)
-F

the molduga battle music is really good
-F

doctaur
-F

we seem to be some combination of what McCulloch calls "Old Internet People" and "Full Internet People" which is kind of interesting as our existence online doesn't really line up with the time frames she gives for either of those
-F

frame dragging is *weird*
-F