tigeruppercut
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- Comment on DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM 1 hour ago:
This one?
- Comment on YSK that one New York best museum desperately needs help 2 days ago:
What are the accounts for? Do they try to sell something just before deleting?
- Comment on Cloudflare Reports Surge in Streaming Piracy Takedowns, Removes 20k+ Storage Accounts 3 days ago:
And he probably got 13 viruses in the process
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 3 days ago:
These days even the white folk are stuck in shit jobs because everyone and their mom wants to live in Japan. You need more than just a bachelor’s in whatever to make it long term.
Granted it’s probably still more difficult for non white or Asian people, but I wasn’t really taliking about long term prospects. Even still, it’s way easier to immigrate if you get married than somewhere like the US.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 4 days ago:
Japan’s easier than most people think. As long as you have a college degree you can get a shit job pretty easily.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 4 days ago:
Italy’s not doing great either but it never comes up in the “look at japan” discussions
- Comment on Japan’s Cabinet approves record $1 trillion budget, vows to keep debt in check 6 days ago:
The yen has been tanking for a few years now, and I’m not exactly confident that the latest neocon plan is gonna fix anything
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 6 days ago:
Just update it to a genre subset: steamcraft punk (or functionpunk or some such)
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 6 days ago:
Picard = best
- Comment on Are we truely prisoners of our upbringing? 6 days ago:
later in life will only be able to produce the ones it learned in early life
Early years for speech (and a ton of other things) are extremely important, but humans can definitely learn new sounds. People study new languages and learn to correct speech impediments all the time.
- Comment on have you heard about ball? 1 week ago:
Come for me G’mork!
- Comment on Delicious rocks 1 week ago:
Just drink lava
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Is your proposal that you wanna clink 2 coffee cups with steam coming off the top together?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
At least they usually use 脚 for leg and 足 for foot, even if they’re homophones.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Any languages have both? Like Japanese has ashi(no)yubi [foot('s)finger], and although yubi is technically digit it’s much more common to use it for finger. Then there’s also tsumasaki, literally meaning nailtip (or point, end, head, etc).
- Comment on 1 week ago:
to me what is really surprising is that some languages found it necessary to use two words to describe what is essentially the same fucking shit.
I mean, you can start calling all sorts of body parts the same shit, and some of them even have words already. Like we say arms and legs, but we could also say upper and lower limbs. We’ve got knees and elbows and shoulders, but they’re all just joints.
Now I’m wondering what languages have the fewest words that could describe the entire body, as in once you break down the word “body” into any number of parts (without using the word “body”, like upper and lower body), how many other words are needed? I think in English you couldn’t get away with anything less than head, neck, torso, and extremities (although one might argue that the latter refers only to hands and feet so you’d have to put limbs back in as well).
- Comment on My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun. 1 week ago:
Every collection needs the hidden gem Blast Corps
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash 1 week ago:
wrecklessly
It was actually the exact opposite. Could even call it wreckfully
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 week ago:
And the people constantly complaining that schools don’t teach critical thinking are the same ones who think English class is worthless. Textual evidence, do you speak it?!
- Comment on I'm definitely giggling 1 week ago:
This probably came from a country with transliterations that don’t line up very well in English. Like Japanese doesn’t have an English r, so one of the ways they do it is to elongate a vowel and alarm would become alaamu. But sometimes they have a long vowel with no r, like smoke is sumo-oku.
When they go to write in English it’s not clear whether that long vowel represents an r or not, and they chose to add it in smoke and drop it in alarm. I still run across a smorking room from time to time.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
The Second Wind folks put out a video yesterday about what defines an indie game. Short answer: these days pretty much it’s just vibes
- Comment on I love Dune! 1 week ago:
On a very special episode of Star Trek…
- Comment on I love Dune! 1 week ago:
The
cokeheadsleeper must awaken! - Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
One of the yt gamers I watch made a comment about how by the end of Doom the final boss isn’t the mastermind, it’s you. The demons are trying to survive the doomslayer as you rip and tear
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 2 weeks ago:
I was today old when I found out a yew is an evergreen and that I grew up around them (because I remember squishing those berries as a kid). Because they have needles I thought they were some kind of hemlock, and I had it in my head that yew leaves looked something like a willow’s.
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 2 weeks ago:
It’s the same idiots who said being gay is unnatural, completely ignoring the multitude of gay animals.
- Comment on it is legal to keep a kangaroo as a pet in oklahoma 2 weeks ago:
so we can bag dinner!
Careful, you guys don’t wanna lose in a gun fight with roos like you did with emus… twice
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 2 weeks ago:
There’s no “UK accent” (nor “us accent”)
There is an accent called General American (GenAm), however.
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 2 weeks ago:
WUH
Is that a German or English w?
- Comment on Bell peppers are the same colours as traffic lights 2 weeks ago:
They say blue for the green traffic light but they call a lot of things blue that are more green (like plant shoots are called blue)
