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Goodnight, y'all.

Embody resilience, light, and love.

"oh, you thought you got to pick what gender we'd be? lol."

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Every once in a while I stop and realize that my social circle is like >90% trans folks.

That's kind of wild. And awesome.

Listen okay I know I keep coming back to this in slightly different words, but

Pyre gives me a bigger sense of responsibility than any other videogame I've played.

And that's really cool.

Nazis, memes 

How to determine your Nazi-fighting name:

Your first name + your last name

Hmm. I hardly hear anything about dynamically scaling difficulty anymore. Is that still a thing? Seems like a potential solution.

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I have feelings that need more unpacking about difficulty in games. It's simultaneously an accessibility issue and a creative tool.

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Hmm. Pyre would be a very different game thematically -- possibly a better game -- if it were significantly harder. I don't want to adjust the difficulty slider though :0

Maybe next playthrough?

LB: the Icelandic word for "computer", "tölva", is a portmanteau from "tala" (meaning "number") and "völva" (meaning "prophetess").

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It will never fail to make me happy that the Icelandic word for 'computer' roughly transaltes as 'number-witch'.

Rogers's Law: Look for the helpers.

Corollary: If you look around and don't see any helpers, the helper is you.

Heh. Reflexively tried to page right on a manga on my phone, and the comic book app was like "wrong way, asshole". (but politely)

When I was a teenager I rolled my eyes hard at messages that love and friendship are crucial, irreplaceable things.

But y'know what, it's so fucking true. I don't know of anything more important.

Grrrrrrr, why does fiction so often present disregarding body autonomy and people's express wishes in medical contexts as a good thing :(

Today's term of the day: hapax legomenon!

A hapax legomenon is a term that appears exactly once in a given corpus.

Frex, in all the Latin text from classical Rome that's survived to the modern day, the verb "circummingere" appears once, in the form "circumminxit", in Petronius's "Satyricon". "circummingere" means "to urinate around", and is used in the description of a magic spell a werewolf uses to turn his clothes to stone (by pissing in a circle around them) before he goes off to maraud.

I love Cyrillic's multiocular O: ꙮ

Aside from its memetic mutation it's used in exactly one phrase and nothing else: "серафими многоꙮчитїи", "many-eyed seraphim".

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