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I'm really interested in learning what thought processes lead to people making certain unconventional phrasing choices in english when they're not very familiar with the language but I don't know of any polite way to ask people about that, especially given that the people who make those kinds of phrasing/word choices are not usually the best at communicating in english

why do video games sometimes get north american releases but not european ones, or european releases and not NA ones

I get that a european release may mean more languages to translate it to, I guess, but an NA release only needs english (french and spanish are bonus points though) which an EU release also needs anyway

question: is there some page or document out there somewhere that has a list of all the items and pokemon in vietnamese crystal, with their official english translations?

and now people got me thinking about connector design and now I'm thinking it'd be nice to be able to lock together connectors of different sizes; you can put the powerpole connectors together into a block of connectors but they have to all be the same size connector, which you might not want

not sure how you'd engineer that though

the reason the nintendo switch doesn't have a d-pad is because vampires designed it and they can't use cross-shaped things

next to go will be the X button, to be relabelled Z

Anderson powerpole connectors are just so satisfying

also genderless, like me!

random thought: EA is famous for making overproduced games that are bland at best and awful at worst. were they ever good, or have they always been like that?

why are so many fantasy languages written with an alphabet? more fantasy languages should have abjads or abugidas or syllabaries or logographies or something completely different.

"Gluten? No, I make _my_ foods with glue _eleven_."

the japanese blue version was split into two games for the west, which were called red and blue. western red contains the updates from japanese blue, which was the generation's third version

you ever think about how japan got one more main-series pokemon game than the west ever will, because red and green were never released in the west?

We can't even seem to _pronounce_ /nk/ and /ng/ without it turning into /ŋk/ and /ŋg/.

I wonder, is there any language that has a minimal pair between /nk/ and /ŋk/, or between /ng/ and /ŋg/?

Those would be hard as hell to tell apart as an English speaker.

people like joltik a lot, but don't forget the original cute bug-type!

so we're avoiding news about the new pokemon games but: there is one thing I'd like to know. Have they announced a release date yet, and when is it if so?

*eats FR4 squares like crackers*

the grocery store had stroopwafels on clearance so now I have some of those and they are good