the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

apparently in megaman 7 if you hold B while entering shademan's stage, the music is replaced with a remix of the ghouls 'n' ghosts music

i appreciate that

today's mood seems to be "okay, but it wouldn't take much to move to not okay"

to be fair we *did* use an action replay to get the area K sub tank, because fuck that tight timing stuff, that's all kinds of frustrating

Just managed to beat Megaman ZX on normal difficulty! It's not the hardest game ever but we normally have to go for easy mode in anything actiony so that's a Thing!

i like how megaman speedrunners refer to uncharged buster shots as "lemons"

what does "sour please" mean in the context of speedrunning?

ughhhh
the incompetent fool of a white-house resident is apparently visiting our college campus on saturday

that said, the scaling on the 3DS is really not that bad, I'm not sure how they made it look as good as it does

Just because a lot of people seem to not know: If you have a 3DS and are playing DS games on it, if you hold start or select while the DS game is booting after being selected from the main menu, you can play it in the original DS resolution, which means you get sharp, clean pixel art at the cost of smaller screens.

Language learning is hard but I kind of feel like we ought to try to learn the languages of our ancestors, to preserve languages that would otherwise die out

there are languages with less than ten fluent speakers out there and they have their own unique features, and probably their own oral tradition that ought to be preserved

...I wish we could say we were trying to do just that but. we only know english and our ancestors spoke languages like German and Dutch that are in no danger of extinction, and trying to learn a dying language from a culture you've never been anywhere close to being a part of would be... I don't know, it feels like it'd be wrong

still. i'd like to learn another language sometime. Not for its usefulness, but because some languages deserve more than they're getting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_cognate this has a bunch of them! several we didn't even know about

also it reminded me that Mbabaram, an (unfortunately recently extinct) aboriginal australian language, has the word "dog" for what we in english call a "dog", completely by coincidence

also between different languages, like english much and spanish mucho are completely unrelated etymologically speaking, but they mean the same (or at least very similar) and at a glance would appear to be closely related

words that look like they're related but are actually completely unrelated are interesting

like the words isle and island, which mean the same thing but have completely different roots (isle is from latin insula, island from germanic iland; the s was added to island by analogy)

or the word emoji and various english words like emoticon, emote, emotion (emoji is e-moji, with the e for electronic as in email, and moji is the japanese word for symbol)

so wait something happened with that nazi guy who got punched in the face? what did he do now

good morning!

(it's not morning here, but I thought Australians might appreciate it)

oh hey they brought back lime skittles

in the "darkside" flavor, the green ones are lime

I like when these things happen

( @starkatt @LexYeen@snouts.online )