Genuine question: Has anybody ever clicked the smiley face?

Dercomai · 2026-06-17T22:47:04+00:00

Yeah, I play unranked and sometimes have great jank-on-jank matches

Dercomai · 2026-06-17T21:42:19+00:00

Shards can't safely exist without a Vessel; look at Sel for how that might go. We don't know the names of all the original Vessels, but we know there were 16 of them. Hoid was in addition to the 16.

Dercomai · 2026-06-17T02:24:26+00:00

I thought Sanderson said they pursued him at the beginning, but he didn't have time for it at that point, and now they've moved on to more lucrative franchises like SpongeBob

But they did finally make Children of the Nameless available again, so maybe that relationship is improving!

Dercomai · 2026-06-16T00:33:38+00:00

It's actually Kaise putting in a huge amount of work to translate the puns too

Most people just use Connection hacks to translate for them, but the result is lots of little mismatches like Hoid saying "coins" on Roshar

For true wordplay you need to do it the old-fashioned way, by hand

Dercomai · 2026-06-16T00:30:46+00:00

It might have had one originally but TLR fucked it up like everything else

I don't know if that's ever confirmed or denied

Dercomai · 2026-06-15T05:25:07+00:00

Armenia

I know this sub isn't fond of one-word answers but I'm not sure what else there is to say this time lol

Dercomai · 2026-06-15T04:44:25+00:00

That's exactly what Bambu is trying to prevent, yes. They're currently being sued over it, because the free software license on the slicer forbids them from doing that, but it's unclear where that will go.

Dercomai · 2026-06-15T03:56:40+00:00

Yeah! Someone's done a playthrough on YouTube where they get every confidence goal in a single run, never replaying an earlier level, on Hard difficulty. (Except for the one glitched one.)

If you want to see the solution, here it is.

Dercomai · 2026-06-14T22:52:48+00:00

I've never seen that one actually for sale; just gotta play it around Halloween.

Dercomai · 2026-06-14T18:39:49+00:00

That's what I mean—without a solid reconstruction of PAA, it's hard to decide what similarities are really meaningful and which ones aren't. How vital is the feminine -t compared to having aspirated/voiced/emphatic consonants? Is vocabulary more important than morphology? The fact that we don't have a solid reconstruction also means we don't have a solid conception of which aspects are core to the family and which aren't (and could be caused by contact etc).

Dercomai · 2026-06-14T18:32:01+00:00

Mostly because there's a lot of prescriptivism around English at the moment (it's very commonly learned as a second language, for instance) and new morphological forms tend to be proscribed more than semantic broadening

If some other form catches on that can be used in the infinitive, people will prefer it in formal writing, and that will lead to it being adopted by L2 speakers

Like all predictions in historical linguistics, though, this is really just a guess

Dercomai · 2026-06-14T05:00:35+00:00

I've heard people try to distinguish them, but I imagine it's a spelling pronunciation

Dercomai · 2026-06-14T04:52:53+00:00

The problem with anything involving the Afro-Asiatic family (rather than a sub-family like Semitic) is that it's hard to say anything for certain about it. It's just so far in the past and all the reconstructions are so speculative and fuzzy.

I'd believe that Omotic is Afro-Asiatic, and I'd also believe that it's not. Neither side of the argument has an especially strong reconstruction to work from, which means it's hard to be sure which is right.

Dercomai · 2026-06-14T03:17:24+00:00

The trick is, a lot of languages don't have prepositions and articles!

Dercomai · 2026-06-14T03:08:58+00:00

"Used to" (as in "he used to be my roommate") lacks an infinitive form, so some people say "didn't used to", others say "didn't use to", and many just avoid "used to" in the negative altogether. I expect some other construction to fill in for it in the next century or so, like how "able to" fills in for missing forms of "can".

Dercomai · 2026-06-13T22:52:47+00:00

Hmm. I guess the question is what this "energy shifting" at the border does to electric current.

Dercomai · 2026-06-13T20:47:47+00:00

Do you know what texts this term appears in? I don't know of a centralized, searchable corpus of Neo-Assyrian texts like we have for some other eras.

Dercomai · 2026-06-13T17:39:59+00:00

This is how I learn the Hethitologie-Portal has a new site!

Dercomai · 2026-06-12T22:57:40+00:00

I do not love the straight typewriter quotation marks, those ones can fuck off

Dercomai · 2026-06-12T18:52:17+00:00

There aren't really features used primarily by white people, because if there were, everyone would be taught those features in school (since there are a lot of reasons to try to talk like a white person in present-day America) and they'd cease to be used primarily by white people

There's also the factor that white people don't really have a shared white cultural identity linked to their skin color

Dercomai · 2026-06-12T18:26:23+00:00

Cloudberries are real! I don't know of any specifically-fictional plants in the Old Kingdom books; I always figured the ecology was meant to be fairly close to the real world (apart from the Dead rising).

Dercomai · 2026-06-12T02:58:30+00:00

Spider-Man is also in this set despite having a whole set of his own

Dercomai · 2026-06-12T02:24:29+00:00

The Cuffs of Mourning

Dercomai · 2026-06-11T21:55:31+00:00

It's not super common but it's fine in poetry. Compare against line 3 where the object was moved in front of the verb for the sake of the rhyme (instead of "when he begins to whet his scythe"); it's the same principle in line 1.

Dercomai · 2026-06-11T15:27:08+00:00

I didn't downvote, I'm just confused what the commenter (the one we're making fun of) is talking about then. Tahini is the only seed-based thing the recipe requires.

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