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slight venty 

there's a person in a discord group that I really like being in, and they're a nice person too, but they continually manage to choose icons that are just really off-putting and feel _wrong_, a new one every two weeks or so, and I don't know how to bring it up to them that it's a problem

Out of curiosity: how did you pronounce Iifa when playing Final Fantasy IX?

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RT @Blanket_Fluff@twitter.com

Dragons are liquid~ Art of my Blanket done by @taudrak@twitter.com

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Blanket_Fluff/stat

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PSA from a non-english language first person on changing or replacing language for political reasons 

Please do not only warn me of what language not to use, please give me suggestions on what to use instead. If I use an ableist term for example like stupid I do so because the meaning of the word translates most closely to something I want to express in my own language. It's hard enough learning new english words and acronyms and how to use them, to replace ones that are staples in translation is even harder. So please tell me what to say, preferably with example sentences. That would really help. And use your own words wisely, cause when I'm around I pick up on your language and how you use it to help me translate better.

*hands you a stack of like six dozen floppy disks and walks off*

another good word: facetious, because it contains all five "main" vowel letters of the english language, in order, exactly once each

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other words that start with nonmono- work too. nonmonogamous, nonmonotheistic, etc

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another good word: nonmonotonic

it is officially The Worst Word to type on a flip phone, since it has seven contiguous letters on the same key (and then another set of two contiguous letters on that same key again, but with a t in between)

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I don't know why I just like the word electrophoresis a lot

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Bauxite!
Electrophoresis!
Zenzizenzic!

They're good words.

it occurs to me that wear levelling would be Weird on f-ram based drives

because unlike flash, where reading the memory is basically free, f-ram has destructive reads, meaning after every read the data has to be written back

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Villager 1: "Wait, yesterday Johnny was tripping over his own feet and today he's fighting off bandits like he's been doing it his whole life. Must have been holding out on us."

Villager 2: "Yeah, and I guess he just inherited a bunch of armor and weapons? Just showed up at his house today. Some kids have all the luck."

Villager 3: "Nah, I've seen this before. It's not luck. It's a new game plus."

(h/t @KelethDragon for setting me on this train of thought)

i wonder if it would be possible to hack the appropriate connectors onto an rtx 2080 to actually use it in CGA graphics mode

because afawk CGA emulation is still required by the relevant standards, by a technicality of requiring a VGA mode and VGA's requirement of compatibility with EGA and EGA's requirement of compatibility with CGA

explaining the joke 

red book CDs are audio CDs, named after the color of the book that defined the standard

green book CDs are CDis, such as those used in the infamous Philips CDi game console with its meme-generating bad animation and voice acting

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red book CDs? no, we've got _green_ book CDs. they have 90% more abysmal voice acting and 140% more amateurish animation!

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This is your occasional reminder that until 1993 the existence of Post Office Tower in London was an official state secret

Despite it being 177 metres tall, in central London, and having both a revolving restaurant and a gift shop

I will never get over how a laserdisc drive spinning up sounds like a jet engine

we get paid tomorrow. this is good. we have nothing but water to drink in the apartment right now and not enough money on hand to make it worth going to the grocery store yet.

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