the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

people think that stuff like wrought iron or cast iron are like, relatively pure iron, and steel is made by carefully adding in stuff

but both of those actually have way more carbon content than even carbon steel

getting pure iron is actually really hard, almost all iron stuff has a significant and uncontrolled amount of carbon in it

carbon steel has a very low and controlled carbon content
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it just occurred to me that could also describe the wild arms series, which we also love

although the post-apocalypticness of wild arms is debatable and variable. WA3 is definitely post-apocalyptic, WA1 is definitely not, 2 you could argue either way

also the vampires play a very minor role in most games, at least compared to boktai
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metal gear never interested us at all, we don't want military sci-fi stuff

give us post-apocalyptic sci-fantasy spaghetti western with vampires
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you know, we probably have the exact opposite experience with kojima games that most people do

we played boktai as a kid and when we saw gameplay footage of metal gear for the first time (which was like, a year ago?) we couldn't stop talking about how much it was like boktai

no one else in the stream chat had ever heard of boktai
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"there's a ton of people in the stadium!"
"Oh so it's really empty?"
"no that is literally the opposite of what i said stop being overly literal"
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you ever think about how a ton of people is like, a dozen people
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@artemis@vulpine.club @packbat @chr Yeah that's what I find a bit of a leap--I suspect some single academic paper is being used as a source for all of those sources, and that paper is either being misquoted or wrong (or *maybe* right but that feels like a real leap of logic)

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@packbat @chr i'm having a hard time believing that the "testicle" sense comes from "witness"; that feels like a really tenuous link

it could be a case of unrelated morphemes converging into homographs though
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is it just something our brain made up or is it actually true that the word "testify" shares an etymology with "testicle" and originated from a custom of swearing on one's genitals
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i like it when a video game's canon gay relationship between characters that's never explicitly stated but *come on* is more obvious than the actual story that's being explained in text

yes i'm thinking of tales of vesperia

rita and estelle are absolutely in lesbians with each other
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if you answer more, please elaborate

that's a lot of spaces for a tab, what kind of language do you use?
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tab width (in a monospaced editor)

i want to just have a friend laying across my lap for me to idly pet

or snuggling with me that's also good
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you ever just find yourself randomly incessantly thinking about fluffy friends' fur and how soft they are
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you might be able to achieve really high blocking voltages in pretty small packages using such technology, for instance

i don't know that it would be better than SiC though
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The existence of microbolometer arrays implies that we probably have the technology to make micro-scale vacuum tubes

i wonder if anyone will ever find a use for that
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today, i have learned that there is a line of undergarments (lingerie?) that goes by the brand L-space

discworld fans can probably find some kind of reference here
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