the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

(for those who don't know, it's common at least in the US for honey to be packaged in bear-shaped bottles, for some reason. so you'd turn the bear upside down to squeeze out some honey)
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watched a few videos from a food science youtube channel thing and every time this person adds honey to one of his recipes he calls it "summoning forth the upside-down bear" and i just love that
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wait sachet is pronounced frenchishly? we always thought it was pronounced like /sætʃεt/, not /sæʃeɪ/
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not only are they a really neat way of expressing your identity, they're also about the only case we know of where a closed class was opened
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neopronouns are a pretty damn cool linguistic phenomenon really
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seriously though we were not expecting it to be this *tiny*

it's a pretty capable console for its time which is all the more impressive considering its diminutive size, especially compared to how large its contemporaries were (it came out after the NES/Famicom but before the SNES/SFC and Genesis/Megadrive, i believe, all of which were at least like three times as big as this)
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it turns out the NEC pc-engine is tiny??? a copy of spyro the dragon was the closest thing to hand for a scale reference

this is a coregrafx, the second hardware revision of the console, but it's the same physical size as the original

we got an opportunity to get one for real cheap a few weeks ago and it finally arrived from japan (games are region locked but we plan to get a flashcart anyway)
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three-legged sergal
very fluffy
very big tail(s)
null
kind of showoffish

one head
four arms? or two?
gender?? none?

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just why does this feel so bad, it's not anything big but just

missing out on a thing
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feeling a bit bleh because i missed a chance to get a thing i really probably didn't need to get anyway but it was literally just a couple seconds of decision paralysis that meant someone else got it first

just ugh why do i feel so bad over this
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while looking things up for work yesterday, we saw an infographic in official TE documentation implying that arduinos are used in MRI machines
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it looks like today is intersex awareness day, and i'm not eloquent enough to give any sort of proper thing about it but let's try to stop excluding intersex people from things
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if you include diphthongs too, we can add
- eɪ in face
- oʊ in goat
- aɪ in price
- ɔɪ in choice
- aʊ in mouth

and that's just general american

other dialects can have additional vowels or different realizations of the same diphthongs (like ei instead of eɪ, for instance)

received pronunciation has interesting diphthongs like eə and ɪə as a result of being non-rhotic, and some triphthongs too
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the fact that people are taught in school that english has five vowels is kind of ridiculous

we have (in general american):
- æ in cat
- ɑ in palm
- ɔ in thought
- ɪ in kit
- ε in dress
- ʌ in strut
- ʊ in foot
- i in fleece
- u in goose
- ə in comma (second vowel)

and that's just the monophthongs
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aæɐɑɒeəεiɪoɔœʊuɯʌyʏ

vowels!
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or maybe seven-bodied, the seven-headed variant of hydra

they have a practical interest in knot theory
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concept: noodledragon hydra who's actually three-bodied, and just likes to keep their bodies braided together
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good morning friends

we're tired and don't want to go to work in two hours
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in Tales of Arise, the newest one, the spellcaster character doesn't even say the name of the spell like they usually do in this situation, just saying "blah blah blah, magic!" in this really... dismissive/bored/just-get-it-over-with tone

which is especially silly considering that at one point in the game they talk about how completely essential the incantation is for making the spell work right

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