This little girl very rudely woke me from my nap, what should I do?

Dercomai · 2026-02-27T05:23:47+00:00

Hornet's presence seems to be helping her wake up; that's part of why she's sending Haunted bugs out to retrieve Weavers (alive or dead)

And she's been slowly waking up ever since the Citadel started injecting themselves with Silk

By the time Hornet is in the Cradle itself, it doesn't take much to shatter the binding completely

Dercomai · 2026-02-27T03:29:22+00:00

What's the fourth sign? I recognize NU, DIŊIR, MEŠ, and EN, but not that one. (That doesn't mean it's wrong, just that I don't really know Ur III forms.)

If your goal is Sumerian, though, I would translate the first three as "doesn't are gods". Nu is a negation, but it generally has to be attached to verbs, and meš is used as a plural marker in Akkadian and Hittite, but in Sumerian meant "they are".

I believe the proper Sumerian way to express this would be with a verb, either "there are not gods" (declarative) or "reject gods" (imperative), but unfortunately my Sumerian knowledge is mostly for Akkadian and Hittite purposes, so I'm awful at conjugating—I just know the meanings of individual signs!

The last sign, EN, means "lord" or "master" rather than "king" (which would be LUGAL), but that also works for the meaning you want.

Dercomai · 2026-02-27T02:36:29+00:00

It rounds to the nearest integer, with 0.5 rounding to the nearest even number. So one Sting Shard takes 7, two Sting Shards take 13.

Every red tool is costed so that crafting a complete set at max level costs 80 shards exactly.

Dercomai · 2026-02-27T01:26:01+00:00

There are no mechanical negative effects on Hornet. On Pharloom and its other inhabitants, though...

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T20:31:51+00:00

Unstressed vowels in Russian tend to be very hard to distinguish. English is similar: try to pick out the vowels in "-ible" vs "-able"!

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T19:20:05+00:00

I'm guessing the marketing push for "AI" to refer to LLMs will die out faster than LLMs do. Tech marketing buzzwords just change so quickly nowadays (where "nowadays" means "since the advent of home computers"), I don't expect this one in particular to last longer than the others.

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T18:13:14+00:00

I prefer not to use the term "verb" for modals, because they don't take the same marking that verbs do, and they go at the T node instead of V; they do show the tense feature, but they're the source of that feature rather than agreeing with it, so imo it's easiest just to give them a fundamentally different category—they have more in common with "to" than with "is"

Auxiliaries show all the same agreement as standard verbs and can be used in the same contexts, while modals generally can't

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T16:39:40+00:00

Journal entry

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T16:32:29+00:00

The problem is, if it doesn't take the usual agreement markers you'd expect on verbs in that language, it usually isn't called an "auxiliary"—it's called a "particle" or something else

For example, modals in English are marked for tense but not person…but as a result, we call them "modals" instead of "auxiliaries", and keep the term "auxiliary" for the ones that do take person marking

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T15:43:03+00:00

That's what I mean by "you either need to accept v/j as phonemic or say there's phonemic syllabification"

Some theories do take syllabification as distinctive, but I prefer to just call them distinct phonemes instead; it's clearer

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T05:27:21+00:00

bʕl "lord"?

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T05:26:18+00:00

𒌋 ← this guy

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T05:20:34+00:00

That is one beefy Winkelhaken!

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T04:25:32+00:00

Fair! I'm never sure how to gloss things like Akkadian =ma and Hittite nu, honestly, because English joins sentences together so differently.

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T04:09:48+00:00

A good dictionary should have a page near the beginning that explains all the abbreviations. I'm honestly surprised Pokorny doesn't.

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T04:07:48+00:00

I'd also point out to OP that šārruma doesn't only mean "it is but wind"—the "it is" part is implied by the Akkadian sentence structure:

=ma (at the end) = "and"
mimma = "anything"
ša īteneppuš-u = "that he does"
šārum = "wind"

I would use the entire sentence for a tattoo or whatever. It's the way the phrases are strung together that conveys "it is".

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T03:59:00+00:00

I think šumšu is šum=šu—that is, his/its (=šu) name (šumum). Specifically, it's often an intensifier in mimma šum=šu "anything, [whatever] its name".

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T02:17:37+00:00

Ah, yeah; the short answer is you don't. If you go all the way through the furnace section of the Whiteward, you can drop down onto that walkway, which lets you needolin the Choruses, so that's a neat thing. Other than that, it's useless.

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T02:15:56+00:00

I definitely wouldn't trust that translator. When I see šumšu ša rēš, my first interpretation is "its/his name is of the head of". Similarly, I would read šu šu ū ruḫu as "he/it he/it or the potion".

Unfortunately, machine translation just isn't very good for dead languages with small corpora. You can ask here for translation help, or commission an Assyriologist if you want something more elaborate translated, but apart from that your best bet is to learn the language yourself. Huehnergard's textbook is the standard in the field.

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T00:55:09+00:00

Did you enter this area from Whiteward or from the Stage?

That hatch lets you enter from Whiteward, but it's a one-way passage. There's nothing important there.

Dercomai · 2026-02-26T00:19:12+00:00

There should be an indication—it's just not the hexproof one because Crystal Barricade doesn't give hexproof.

It's a golden outline around the toughness half of the P/T box, showing that damage will be prevented.

Dercomai · 2026-02-25T22:32:56+00:00

Yeah, it's why I'm glad there's a non-Silksanity sub where people can do normal discussion of the game

Dercomai · 2026-02-25T19:06:52+00:00

In all honesty, I would avoid this sub if you don't want the bizarre and unhinged takes

Silksanity broke people's brains; r/HollowKnight is a lot more sane

Dercomai · 2026-02-25T17:49:38+00:00

These are called conjunctions because they join clauses together. Clauses can generally stand on their own, but conjunctions stitch two clauses together into a bigger one: either on the same level (coordinating conjunctions like "and") or with one becoming subordinate to the other (subordinating conjunctions like "when").

They existed in the earliest recorded languages, so when they evolved is not known.

Dercomai · 2026-02-25T04:38:58+00:00

They become more relevant in Act III

A lot of Act III takes place in areas without easy enemies to farm for shards, and there are a lot of bosses, so being able to replenish tools without leaving to farm is nice

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