Lvxferre [he/him] @ lvxferre @mander.xyz

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Fenrir: "Dungeon nao?" MC: "Nope!"
\ Dora-chan: "Dungeon nao?" MC: "Nope!"
\ Sui: "Dungeon nao?" MC: "Yes, yes. Dungeon now."

That's blatantly preferential treatment!

Those are just my personal takes, but:

• cheeses - Emmenthal, gorgonzola, brie, provolone. The idea here is that they're all extremely different from each other, so it's fun to eat them in sequence.
• meats - smoked ham, coppa, and/or a traditional salami; sliced as thinly as possible. Some cubes of head cheese are also nice.
• spreads - chicken liver pate, caponata or babaganoush, hummus.
• others - slice apples and bananas, olives, pickles, toasts. Fruits combo well with the cheeses, toasts for the spreads, and the other two are nice. (Note you'll need a bit of lime juice on the apple slices to avoid browning.)

It's possibly sarcasm, but I wouldn't count on that given it's HN.

Arch and OpenSUSE be like:

This reminds me a bunch of dumb jokes in Portuguese between "RAM" and "rã" toad. Including questions about "memória sapo" (toad memory).

They're behaving like a great example of your third paragraph (about making shit up).

Thrak's friend, I'm going to borrow your club for a wee bit.

And as any prescriptivist, the fucker doesn't get he didn't invent "grammar"; grammar was made by the speakers, collectively. All he invented was to "boss people around against grammatical features you don't like".

Being pedantic, a sycophant, 2deep4u and bird-brained annoy me. But the one that hits me the hardest is that it makes shit up. I call people like this "assumers", and I genuinely think they're worse than malicious but smart people; I actively try to remove them from my life.

ChatGPT's output is the same - you can't simply trust it for anything you won't either review manually, or where mistakes wouldn't matter that much.

Apparently I'm a human raised among the smurfs, but still unable to use their language.

It gets worse. They often start saying something, drop it before the critical part, then talk about something else. "I need you to buy something for me, can you... ah, I need to clean the cat's litterbox." style. To the point I'm often saying "finish the sentence".

But wait, there's more! One of them is most likely autistic. And she still does those family things all the time, but now with messier and over-detailed explanations. Full of "things thinging things".

Side thought/my own ramblings here: Has there ever been hosting where the information is scattered across the world rather than one localized spot? That seems like it might be helpful, but I honestly don’t know enough about site hosting

In a certain sense we are using a system like this, due to federation. I don't think the exact same model would work well for Wikipedia, but it could try something similar.

Oh, family meeting English version.

...seriously, I got a bunch of relatives who speak like this, except in Portuguese, and replacing a few nouns with "coisa" (thing) and verbs with "coisar" (to thing). It drives me crazy.

Like others, I don't know about a comm but I'll rec a few series. Biased towards isekai because it's what I often watch.

You're likely to enjoy:

• Sousou no Frieren (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End)
• Mairimashita! Iruma-kun (Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun!)
• Saihate no Paladin (The Paladin of the End)

If bored, check those:

• Rozen Maiden
• Spy x Family note there is some fanservice for the assassin, but she's adult, adult-looking, and it's mostly legs
• Log Horizon
• Akuyaku Reijou Tensei Oji-san (From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated!)
• Youjo Senki (The Saga of Tanya the Evil)
• Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta... (IDR the English name, people call it "Bakarina" or "Hamefura" anyway)
• Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra (note: Atou dresses in a rather showy way, but that's it.)

Quando eu ainda tinha Windows em arranque duplo (com alguma distro .deb), percebi que o desempenho do Linux já era melhor para o Factorio e o Europa Universalis IV. Isto confirma o que falou, de quase qualquer distro ser mais suave para jogar.

E meu palpite é que a diferença aumente com o tempo - a Microsoft adora forçar na goela dos usuários ferramentas de uso questionável, que carregam automaticamente e não há como desativar. E entrou na onda da IA, então já sabe, né?

não lembro se com Mint, Debian, ou Ubuntu. Digamos que trocava de distro como quem troca de roupa :-P

Pretty much, but what is being selected for is also interesting. Perhaps it isn't the chin itself, but the resonance and its effect on our voices.

It's just my guess, mind you.

One of my favourite instances of adaptation got to be Ted Woolsey's "son of a submariner! They’ll pay for this...", for the English localisation of Final Fantasy III / VI.

In the game, Kefka (the villain) is saying this as the heroes escape him, but the original only says "ヒーーー　くっそー！このかりは必ず返しますよ!"; literally "heeee shit! I will definitively return this debt" or similar. However:

• That "ヒーーー" interjection has no meaning on its own. It's only there to highlight the character's emotional state. It could be safely removed, without loss of meaning.
• くそ / 糞 kuso "crap! shit!" is vulgar, but by no means as vulgar as English "shit". Specially given the 90s, and this game being marketed to kids. But it means the villain is being rude towards the heroes (makes sense, right).

So, translating it as simply "hey you!" or similar would mutilate the original, by removing the rudeness. But at the same time, Woolsey couldn't use "shit" or "crap" or similar. So he looked at the context:

• Kefka is crazy, and the way he uses Japanese in the original is odd. For example, he uses the pronoun "ぼくちん" bokuchin to refer to himself, as if he was a kid - and yet he's a court mage of an empire dammit. (It's a bit deeper than that, but let's focus.)
• a bit before Kefka says this, there's a city in the desert also fleeing Kefka - by going underground instead, as if it was some sort of "sand submarine".

So Woolsey went with "son of a submariner!", something he likely made up on the spot. And you know what? It's perfect - it's completely on-character for Kefka to insult people in such a weird way.

It's a bit more complicated: if you're dealing with the sounds it's transcription, if you're converting from writing system into another it's transliteration.

So for example, what you did is transliteration. But if you were to record some Japanese guy speaking and wrote it down (in kanji+kana, Latin, or even IPA), or if you handled how it's actually spoken, it would be transcription.

My guess is that it has to do with language. More specifically, it helps higher pitched sounds to resonate louder and more distinctively from other sounds. Plus some sexual selection.

“What I can tell you is that over the years, conservatives, libertarians, were just pushed out,” Sanger said. “There is a whole…army of administrators, hundreds of them, who are constantly blocking people…that they have ideological disagreements with.”

"Oh noes, people in Wokepedia aren't willing to accept my opinion that gravity doesn't work on Fridays!"

“Wikipedia is losing its objectivity @jimmy_wales,” Musk posted in 2022.

If you're really, really invested on 2+2 being five, then 2+2=4 becomes "subjective".

In my opinion Wikipedia being hosted in USA is a liability. Or even being hosted in a single place, whichever it is.

You know, as far as Tintin goes in the States [...]

Yup, pretty much the same here. The main difference is that Euro comics there compete with local ones; here, with equally foreign comics.

may I ask how your English came to become seemingly so very strong, coming from a culture which mainly sticks to just Portu’? (no offense intended, mate)

Given my trade (I'm a translator), I take this as a compliment!

Long story short most of my English was from games and music; and later on my job and the internet forced me to keep it in shape. Plus I got lucky some relatives taught me Italian as a kid - not only it helped me to learn English and others later on (as I already had the basic "drilling" for language learning), but I feel like it prevented me from bubbling myself too much into a single linguistic community.