the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

Here's an interesting question for the fediverse: Tell me your favorite utterly unimportant, irrelevant-to-the-plot character from any book, movie, video game, or other media

*flops* ugh

just, extremely stressed from Having To Deal With Things right now

aaaaaaagh tech support is frustrating and apparently MSI is a bad brand for laptops, we got an MSI one because we knew MSI was really good at desktop stuff

anyway we got that laptop that broke a month after we got it back from the RMA and it still doesn't work, it turns on but it runs extremely hot

(correct me if I am wrong, I'm reasonably certain [d] doesn't exist in mandarin except maybe as an allophone of [t] but we do not speak mandarin)

(the English distinction is between [tʰ] and [d] where the Mandarin one is between [tʰ] and [t], which is why the word Tao is sometimes (and probably more accurately, in terms of how English-speakers read it being understood by Mandarin-speakers) spelled Dao, among other differences)

(this holds for the other plosives too)

Hmm. we listened to some examples of Japanese pitch accent and... it sounds identical to the English accent? Is there something we're missing? Or is this a case of two features that go together, except one of them is contrastive in language A and the *other* one is in language B (like voicing vs aspiration with English and Mandarin)

What do deku nuts taste like, I wonder?

swirly As

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(we were just spectators for this whole thing, incidentally, though we did try to defend/comfort the person on the receiving end of these non-apologies)

The fact that something happened by accident does not erase the harm it caused, and "I didn't mean it like that" does not mean it didn't come across like that

we're going to take it into best buy to get them to fix it because it probably just needs the thermal goop replaced or the heatsink reseated or something

Okay uh.
We got our broken laptop back and it works now!
But the fan is constantly very loud and the CPU idles at 80-90°
I have a feeling this is a Problem

there are a lot of circles in the universe

occasionally we remember that the Ys II translators mistranslated "palace of solomon" as "palace of salmon" and are briefly amused

if becoming healthier is called healing, is becoming wealthier called wealing?

by don't check their mastodon account i mean they are primarily active on twitter, a site where we do not have nor want an account, meaning we have no real way to contact them.

don't know what to do about this

not really sure what to do. i mean we're only out like $15 if it never gets done but still. was looking forward to that