the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

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vacuum tubes are pretty great
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occasionally we remember how ancient Romans mocked the idea of pants as a barbaric garment, far inferior to the elegance of a toga

and then once the roman empire expanded to more northern parts of europe, they couldn't understand how on earth the locals could stand working in the cold in winter

and then suddenly pants were all the rage among romans in the northern provinces
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there are lots of creatures that people seem to just hate that are actually really cute and lovable

like opossums, skunks, bats, raccoons, sharks,
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someone should make something that hooks onto a microwave turntable motor and uses the power to turn rollers to rotate hot dogs or something
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What's the best mistranslation you've seen?

For us, it might just be the latter half of Ys II taking place in a large complex called Palace of Salmon

Sounds more like a sushi restaurant than the "Palace of Solomon" that it was meant to be
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the term "equation of time" refers to something far less exciting than it sounds like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time

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why hasn't anyone invented goodminton yet
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verdict: 3/10 would not refuse if offered but would not make again
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we just accidentally grabbed the taco seasoning instead of stuff you would normally put on a frozen pizza, but then decided to just go with it and see how this turns out
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did i accidentally make this one-choice-only or are the two people who voted so far just really picky about their favorites?
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we're reading a book about how machine translation works using the example of when the author put the script of final fantasy IV through google translate, both before and after they switched to a neural network translation model in 2016

seeing all the absurdities that came of that makes me want to see someone who's never played final fantasy iv play the machine translated version and see if they can ever work out what the hell is going on
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in the majority of final fantasy games, blue mages just have to be hit by the attack to learn it (which leads to some interesting difficulty getting healing magic from enemies, as they don't use it on you normally)

but then you have final fantasy ix, where quina just learns enemy abilities by just straight-up eating them
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