vateso5074
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- Comment on Why is the package that you want to check feel so warm? 1 day ago:
Is that Hector Salamanca?
- Comment on What 1 day ago:
Couple minor nitpicks, just for the sake of knowledge sharing:
ち is usually pronounced “chi” instead of like “tee,” though is often written as “ti” in Kunrei romanization to be consistent with the other characters in its set. Hepburn romanization usually writes it as “chi” however, and is the more widespread (e.g. Sapporo Ichiban beer instead of “Itiban”; the protagonist of Spirited Away is named Chihiro instead of Tihiro, etc.)
It’s also called “katakana,” not “katanaga”. “Kana” is the term for syllabary (the consonant-vowel pair we see) and K is often voiced to G for compound terms. Hiragana means “even syllabary” because it could be written smoothly in a cursive-like format. Katakana is “fragmented syllabary” because its shapes derive more directly from pieces broken off from Chinese characters.
Katakana actually developed before hiragana, with hiragana being considered less refined (it was a “woman’s” script). But hiragana’s ease of writing helped it catch on as the default script over time, with katakana being reserved for words with emphasis. It’s commonly used for loanwords (but not universally so) because it’s similar to how “proper” English italicizes foreign terms that have not been totally subsumed into the vocabulary.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 2 days ago:
Monument Valley 1, 2, and 3 (mobile games). An interesting set of puzzle games with good visuals. They only require single taps to work.
Also can get a mouse for the Steam Deck (or a PC if you have one). There are a lot of good games that you can likely use with a mouse if the hand/wrist motion doesn’t cause pain or discomfort for your thumb.
- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 5 days ago:
Not a lit major, just someone who spends too long going through Wikipedia and TV Tropes and was looking for any way to pass the time at work, haha.
- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 5 days ago:
It also occurred to me that folks from the younger generation may not have played OoT, so here is the same reapplied to Breath of the Wild:
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Ordinary World: The Great Plateau
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Call to Adventure: The message left by Zelda after waking up.
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Refusal of the Call: The temptation not to climb that damn frozen mountain because you haven’t figured out how to keep warm yet. Alternatively, the temptation to spend hours just chopping trees and killing Bokoblins instead of moving on.
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Meeting the Mentor: The old man (King Rhoam) who teaches you how to do things like staying warm to be able to climb the mountain.
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Crossing the Threshold: Climbing the tower and gliding down to Hyrule Field.
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Tests, Allies, Enemies: The majority of the game, including all shrines and the four divine beasts.
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Approach: Pushing through Hyrule Castle.
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Ordeal, Death & Rebirth: Fighting Calamity Ganon (and the 4 Blights if skipped).
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Reward, Seizing the Sword: Rescuing Zelda, obtaining the Bow of Light.
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The Road Back: Returning back out to Hyrule Field.
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Resurrection: Calamity Ganon returns as Dark Beast Ganon
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Return with Elixir: The calamity is over, the guardians are deactivated, and Hyrule Castle is no longer corrupted. People can move back and rebuild.
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- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 6 days ago:
Yeah, it’s definitely not a one-size-fits-all approach, but more like “If this story has these aspects, this is generally the order in which they occur.” Some of the terminology developed from the original concept is also flexible or substitutible.
- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 6 days ago:
Insomuch as most heroic narratives follow a similar template, absolutely.
More context about the Hero’s Journey narrative:
- Submitted 6 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Fire that burns down the whole town
U and me
No survivors
Hell, I’m in.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 week ago:
And ramen is Japanese.
All commonly eaten in America, granted, but it’s weird to call it “American” food.
- Comment on modern meal 1 week ago:
PFAS air
- Comment on You're so predictable 1 week ago:
Commas would have helped a bit, that way you could at least just count the commas or the more visible locks they space out, instead of counting each set of 3 digits one digit at a time.
There are more pragmatic ways to write numbers, though, depending on the need for specificity. If the lower digits are insignificant, simply writing 4.81 billion is easy, or 4.81e9.
- Comment on If you want to be classy and impress people 2 weeks ago:
Hwæt?
- Comment on I am always prepared to move into this version of life 2 weeks ago:
I would never stop as low as that.
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PS4 and Xbox One are weak, last-gen consoles. I’d use the same PC that I have all the porn tabs open on.
- Comment on bonding 2 weeks ago:
Videogames, eh?
- Comment on Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition - Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Those that use the script extended are at greater risk of breaking, but most mods made only with the creation kit should work without issue.
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 weeks ago:
Journey. What a magical game.
- Comment on These are your only alternatives. 3 weeks ago:
And I feel like those pointy edges are just going to cut your mouth eventually.
- Comment on English moment 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it was a typo and they meant to write ‘wound’?
- Comment on English moment 3 weeks ago:
Wait how else would you pronounce ‘bound’?
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 3 weeks ago:
And theaters are still closing left and right because there is no price point that can draw the crowds they once had. Tickets are too expensive, and concessions are too expensive on top of that. The business is just not sustainable any longer.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
This was my experience as well.
Fresh out of high school, I started working at a store that was union, but everyone in my generation was on a different contract from the people who had been there for 20+ years. A lot of the benefits paperwork that went out to everyone had to clarify different terms depending on whether you were hired before or after a certain date, with the terms for the “after” group usually being worse.
Unions in general are great and necessary, but bad unions are still out there.
- Comment on Beware!!! 3 weeks ago:
I assume it’s referencing the controversy of Colin Kaepernick kneeling instead of standing for the US national anthem.
- Comment on Punch Time 4 weeks ago:
O.G. San is such a good name.
- Comment on OLAY! 4 weeks ago:
Ah so he’s just s dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
- Comment on OLAY! 4 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the movie where they cast a French person as Scottish, a Scottish person as Spanish, and an American as a Russian.
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
Hey, some of us are 35-year-old edgelords
- Comment on VTuber Graduation 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know the full ins and outs myself, but most of these VTubers are managed by agencies who own the rights to the characters they portray. The people behind the character get paid for their work, and they can choose to take better jobs elsewhere, but they don’t get to bring the characters with them. Basically like how Tom Kenny (voice actor for SpongeBob) can’t just decide to be SpongeBob somewhere else, he doesn’t own the character.
When a VTuber decides to retire or if they take a better job with a different agency, the character “graduates,” which I think is just used because it’s a softer word than “retire.” The fans just get to imagine the character is off doing bigger and better things, not that they’re euthanized or locked in a storage unit somewhere gathering dust. In theory I guess the agency could continue using the character for merch and promo material, or even recast, though I have no idea how well that would go in an industry with fans as obsessive as theirs.
- Comment on And I won't delete them either for nostalgia reasons 4 weeks ago:
Shit. I was about to quip “Your intern is only 8?” before I remembered what year it was.
