the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

(okay that's an overstatement, the games are buggy and likely were rushed for the holiday season but they sound mostly solid, if in need of some performance patches)
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from what we hear, game freak has gone back to their roots with the new pokemon games and focused on what gen 1 is most famous for: being completely broken in every way imaginable
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i generally just wish we could help friends a lot more than we actually can

we're not good at emotional support and i wish we were better at it
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what's the etymology behind the final fantasy spell esuna anyway? why is it called that?
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final fantasy

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though when you don't have a good sense of what the other people in question are comfortable with it can be a little frustrating

i want to show affection but i don't know if it's appropriate or welcomed and i don't know how to ask so i'm just kinda complaining about it when i should be asking because Social Anxiety™
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sometimes we just randomly feel really affectionate, sometimes at just friends in general and sometimes at a specific person

i dunno why, but if we have to get into A Mood at random, better this one than something unpleasant
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this was interesting results! The majority of people have it right, and most of the rest weren't sure which name went to what, but it looks like a significant minority were confident that it was the other way around, and two or three people had never really separated the term "mortar and pestle" out to realize that it's literally a "mortar" and a "pestle" and not one thing called a "mortar and pestle"
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randomly, thinking about @niss::bip
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have you ever noticed that the three most common types of pasta sauce are referred to by the three colors of the italian flag?

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Green sauce (pesto), white sauce (dairy-based), and red sauce (tomato based)
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seriously if anyone knows how they got kangaroo from ragnarok please tell us, this has been bugging us for over a decade
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The three types of mistranslation:

- The "Actually that one's cooler", as in Homunculus -> Holmcross in Wild Arms (referring to a type of ancient humanoid robot)
- The "I see where you were going but that's kind of hilarious", as in Solomon -> Salmon in Ys II's Palace of Salmon
- The "How the fuck", as in Ragnarok -> Kangaroo in Tales of Phantasia

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@matoakit did you read our profile before sending that follow request?
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seeing people complain about "mastodon" (meaning fedi) due to a *complete* misunderstanding of anything to do with it just feels, i don't know

makes me sad people don't want to give this platform a chance. like we wouldn't be who we are today without this place and these people and it feels bad seeing people not even make the effort

but also maybe it should be easier? maybe there are problems in explaining what feels obvious to us since we've been here since what, 2017? and have seen all the stuff that resulted in things being how they are today
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