the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

encumber, v.
to give a cucumber to

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the existence of this video that youtube keeps recommending to us makes me feel old
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what is it about dishwasher detergent that makes it not foam up?
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why do we not say that a capacitor capacits, anyway
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i do not think this is the right price for that, grubhub
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the word something is common in dictionaries because it's used as a placeholder when a phrase being defined needs an object in the middle of it, but that object can vary, such as "turn (something) on"; they use the abbreviation to save space in these
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we learned an interesting thing today: apparently the reason it's common for non-native english speakers to use "sth" to mean "something", and vanishingly rare for native english speakers to do so, is because the abbreviation is used by native speakers almost exclusively in *dictionaries*, which non-native speakers use very frequently and native speakers much less frequently

the reason it's used in dictionaries is purely space constraints. print dictionaries are Big.
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the Tamil-script symbol for the digit 5 is neat: ௫
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speedrun mistakes can result in rather humorous sentences. just heard "I lost 20 seconds by accidentally learning how to make ramen"
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it really sucks to have to deal with so much difficulty getting medicine two weekends in a row that you can't actually manage to take out the trash that needed to go out last week either last weekend or this weekend, and we can't during the week because taking out the trash and going to work are both Big Things and we can't do two big things in one day
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they call it a ladder, but i've never seen it lad
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqQiIlDcVTI&list=PL8PZB25uZuZ7IL_t_Al-7NWMdezrb7tR6&index=6 actually, do other people see this same thing?
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watching a speedrun and uh, youtube, that's not how time works
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consider: lizer, but with big ear
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big fluffy tails
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you have to admire the audacity of the morrowind writers to decide that *all* of the possible endings of daggerfall (which are mutually exclusive) were canon
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i am asking this because we have a character who uses xe pronouns and pronounces it /xi/, as a way of emphasizing that xe's masc-leaning enby
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people with xe pronouns: how do you pronounce it?
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it's a good thing it was a game as good as symphonia, otherwise we might have bounced off of the genre entirely
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as a kid, we played our first jrpg (tales of symphonia) shortly after playing ocarina of time, and were very, VERY disappointed in the dungeons

a jrpg with zelda style dungeon design would be neat
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