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Queue is just the name of the letter "Q".

But it "kyoo" might not be an easy sound depending on your mother tongue

It only has a single vowel, which is an r-coloured vowel...which most languages don't have. For that matter, many languages don't even have our "r" sound, so colouring a vowel with "r" is incredibly hard when you don't even have that consonant to colour with!

Not to mention that after using that r-coloured vowel, you have a semi-syllabic L immediately afterwards. (Is squirrel one syllable or two? Depends on who you ask I guess!). As you may know, L and R are the same in some languages. And even if a language has both AND pronounces them the same ways as English (not necessarily common), they might not allow an L to follow an R! (Just like how we don't allow R to follow an L)

Oh, and which vowel are we colouring? "i" or the "short I". This is a very rare vowel, following a third dimension (tenseness) that the majority of other vowels don't use. Not common in other languages, either!

So that's the last two sounds.

The first three is a consonant cluster containing another uncommon consonant (w). And even ignoring that, s and k can't always be combined together in other languages.

So literally every sound in the word "squirrel" has something foreign and rare about it to many languages immediately as you start to get past that "s" sound. Brutal.

Of course, we have two th sounds just to make things more fun

Oh, Galaga is another good one!

I play lots of games from my childhood. Even though it was before my time, Super Mario Bros on the NES is probably the oldest game I regularly go back to. But I love retro games, so I'll play even older games on occasion.

I think everybody misunderstood what you meant by "fake Video game" and I'm still a bit unsure myself, lol

(her boyfriend is no longer alive)

Because of anti-right wing rhetoric?

Are you aware that Lemmy was originally built by people who wanted a more open and free alternative to Reddit so they could discuss Marxist-Lennism and communism and stuff? Lol

That's my understanding, at least

Browsers don't know how to handle 80085

Ah, yeah, that makes sense. Especially when Nintendo seems to be creating scarcity by doing limited releases and such.

Thank you for explaining it! Even OP didn't want to type it out, lol

In addition to what others have said, I can read much faster than most people can speak. And I can't really skim a video that's a monologue the way I could skim a post.

Especially when it's a video that has a point advertised in the post title.

I unsubbed from the Videos community for a reason! Haha

My favourite is LaunchBox. It's a frontend that generally manages the emulators for you. Pulls metadata like boxart and release dates from a database. Free, but with a premium upgrade.

It handles everything for you, but you can also customize it to your liking!

It downloads emulators like RetroArch, Dolphin, PCSX2, etc. so you don't have to even worry about finding each one. But if you find a different emulator you'd rather use for something, you tell LaunchBox to use that. Super flexible!

The premium upgrade (which isn't necessary to make use of any of these features) goes on sale exactly once per year: Black Friday, which is coming soon. So if anyone else wants to support the project, now's the time. But even if you don't have money to spare, I highly recommend checking it out!

When did you see the most activity here?

Why is it? It's a video instead of text, and the video doesn't even have subtitles

They were angry before this and they'll have been angry if this was never mentioned.

For those willing to learn, there's an opportunity for a teachable moment

Lmao, I love this kind of stuff. It makes dumb people so angry

Disc Golf

Underground if you really need them. In a city, a lot of people won't need cars every day.

Yeah, eat them before you come in.

Or keep them in your car to consume during your lunch break.

EDIT: Do not eat edibles and then drive. Leave your car at work and Uber home in scenario B

Damn. One month, you find out you have cancer. Next month, you're dead.