the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

you know, we probably have the exact opposite experience with kojima games that most people do

we played boktai as a kid and when we saw gameplay footage of metal gear for the first time (which was like, a year ago?) we couldn't stop talking about how much it was like boktai

no one else in the stream chat had ever heard of boktai
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"there's a ton of people in the stadium!"
"Oh so it's really empty?"
"no that is literally the opposite of what i said stop being overly literal"
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you ever think about how a ton of people is like, a dozen people
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@artemis@vulpine.club @packbat @chr Yeah that's what I find a bit of a leap--I suspect some single academic paper is being used as a source for all of those sources, and that paper is either being misquoted or wrong (or *maybe* right but that feels like a real leap of logic)

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@packbat @chr i'm having a hard time believing that the "testicle" sense comes from "witness"; that feels like a really tenuous link

it could be a case of unrelated morphemes converging into homographs though
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is it just something our brain made up or is it actually true that the word "testify" shares an etymology with "testicle" and originated from a custom of swearing on one's genitals
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i like it when a video game's canon gay relationship between characters that's never explicitly stated but *come on* is more obvious than the actual story that's being explained in text

yes i'm thinking of tales of vesperia

rita and estelle are absolutely in lesbians with each other
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if you answer more, please elaborate

that's a lot of spaces for a tab, what kind of language do you use?
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tab width (in a monospaced editor)

i want to just have a friend laying across my lap for me to idly pet

or snuggling with me that's also good
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you ever just find yourself randomly incessantly thinking about fluffy friends' fur and how soft they are
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you might be able to achieve really high blocking voltages in pretty small packages using such technology, for instance

i don't know that it would be better than SiC though
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The existence of microbolometer arrays implies that we probably have the technology to make micro-scale vacuum tubes

i wonder if anyone will ever find a use for that
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today, i have learned that there is a line of undergarments (lingerie?) that goes by the brand L-space

discworld fans can probably find some kind of reference here
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big, thick tails that end in similarly big, thick equine dicks........

i'm talking *big* too like over half a meter diameter dicks
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also if i get to just decide things: null groin other than the balls to nuzzle and biiiig tailcock
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