Rosemary @Rosemary@awoo.space

It seems that my biggest priorities are internationalism and constructivism, which sounds right. I'm somewhat surprised communism is so low, comparatively.

http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?m0=71&b0=88&j1=5&j0=69&t0=14&t1=36&c0=86&femi=76&s1=10&s0=69&p0=69&e0=55&e1=21
Just saw someone else do this, and I found it interesting enough to do myself. A few of the questions were rather confusing, and there were some we didn't understand at all, but these results seem not too surprising. The progression/conservatism one confused me at first, but then I realized that's probably because I think it's worth preserving non-harmful traditions, to keep cultural diversity alive.

A few centuries probably isn't enough time for a language's grammar to change this drastically, so let's just pretend I said millennia instead of centuries there.

Over time, the grammatical structure of the languages may change. Consider the possibility that both populations' grammar diverges in very different directions. Now, you're left with two distinct languages, both with all the same words and the same (or mostly the same) meanings of those words, but the syntax, sentence structure, and grammatical rules are very different.

What would such a pair of languages be like? How intelligible would one be to a native speaker of the other?

Let's say that for one reason or another, the lexicon of this language is very fixed, but the grammatical structure is not. Perhaps they have a very well-standardized orthography but very few style guides and grammar books. The influence of the small-but-nonzero amount of contact with the other group would help to keep them similar as well.

Now let the two populations evolve their language over a long period of time, a few centuries or so. (continued)

A worldbuilding thought:

Consider a region where one particular language is the first language of a vast majority of the inhabitants. Now say something happens (anything from political events to social stratification to some cataclysmic geographical change) and two sets of speakers of this language are mostly, but not completely, isolated from one another. (continued)

An FPGA is what happens when you hack SRAM to do logic.

Good morning, fediverse! How are you all today?

By pressing the up button on an elevator, you assent to ascent.

What is this hairstyle, anyway?

I'm especially curious--I don't know how many such points there are in the game, but I'm especially curious as to whether it's possible to have less than one heart container, and what the game does in that situation.

We were just reminded that there are points in the original Legend of Zelda second quest where you can permanently lose a heart container. Is it possible to have less than three heart containers if you don't pick up any before reaching one of those? I'd like to find out, but it's hard enough to get to that point with ten or twelve heart containers; trying to get there with three would be a task for someone more skilled than we are.

While we understand the reasons for it, the fact that the SATA power connector has more pins than the data connector has always felt odd to us.

...why did we not realize until just now that ground-type pokemon aren't resistant to fire? I thought this rom hack had changed that for some reason, but no, they just aren't.

Why is it that Nintendo has their buttons as
X
Y A
B

but Microsoft uses
Y
X B
A
?

It seems like an inconvenient way of doing things that just results in muscle memory mixups. And Sony's no better just because they don't use letters; Playstation games aren't even consistent on which of O or X is accept or cancel!

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Having a vulpix and a growlithe was the closest I could get to having me. That said, it is giving me some multi-body feels...