the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

sometimes I wonder why a middle-aged italian-american plumber is the world's most loved video game character but then again, working-class representation is good

hebrew is such a neat language

it's the only language ever to be undead (i.e. it was a dead langauge for ages and now it's not and there are people who speak it natively again)

just saw someone say "never tried ribs" and my first thought was "you must have an interesting skeletal structure"

if you think about it the modern equivalent of a centaur is a motorcycle-taur, since the single-person ride-on transportation of today is now motorcycles (or other forms of bike), not horses

Sometimes when on stackexchange I wonder just where the break in understanding is. I just saw a question asking if it'll work if someone just plugs a 12V DC brushless fan into a controller designed for a 110V AC motor and I don't understand how anyone could _not_ see that as a terrible idea from the start.

#FelthrysVGMSelection

While I'm at it, have a link to a playlist of the complete soundtrack. It's worth a listen. Watch out for spoilers in the comments!

It's not that hard a game to get ahold of today, probably because no one seems to know it existed. There was a remake in 2015 for the PS4, xbox one, and PC, but it's by all accounts an awful port; go for the DS version.

https://youtu.be/ts99lySATWg?list=PLajKQSBOo4K0SxDXctys5BrMfcduO0iOu

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#FelthrysVGMSelection

This particular piece seems to take the form of a theme and variations on a motif that is common between all the build themes in some form or another. Having not played the game in years, I hesitate to call it a leitmotif, but I think it may be a leitmotif for either the idea of building, or for the Archineers who do that building.

This game has quite a few motifs in its music, and I feel like many of them are leitmotifs, even if I'm not sure for what.

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we absolutely cannot handle ginger beer, it's way too sharp a flavor for us, but this particularly strong ginger ale is good

we got a new brand of ginger ale that was on sale the other day. It has a very strong ginger flavor to it, stronger than any ginger ale we've had before (though weaker than ginger beer). it's pretty good!

this is the selection interface we have on web mastodon, and if I look at something that is followers only the only indicator of that is the greyed-out boost button as shown in the second image

ghhh I really hate when a misunderstanding leads to me making someone else really uncomfortable and >.<

It's entirely my fault too, I should have looked and seen that this person is on an instance we do federate with so it must have been a private post

why do private posts of people you follow that are replies to private posts of people you don't follow shown anyway, wouldn't you think they shouldn't be?

one of these days we ought to actually play grandia

random thought: those of you who speak Dutch, how intelligible is Afrikaans to you? I know they're really similar languages.

especially when someone decides they're going to gift subscriptions to like a hundred people and then it just plays literally a hundred times in a row

can I just say people who stream video games having audio/video that plays every time they get a new subscriber is _extremely annoying_