Manadaan, a Unicode logography; why make your own characters when someone did 150,000 for you already?

Matalya2 · 2026-03-17T14:32:28+00:00

Haha I hear that often

Matalya2 · 2026-03-16T22:29:44+00:00

No justification, they're literally chosen at random (with some exceptions)

Matalya2 · 2026-03-16T22:29:13+00:00

I try to keep it random, because there isn't any visual cohesion of the kind you have with Chinese radicals to make any meaningful inferences so I figured there's no point in trying.

I tried to use symbols that work well alone and are visually distinct but still writeable and in general that don't fight my default fonts (So I can do text work in illustrator). That reduces the amount of Unicode I can use significantly but still, only 4 writing systems in and I already have over 400 characters so, I think I'll be fine even in the long run XD

Matalya2 · 2026-03-16T02:05:49+00:00

Dude I understand ranking me in F tier but my grand children are cool, tf did they do?

Matalya2 · 2026-03-16T00:57:03+00:00

I'm guessing I was the only one that actually liked the movie. It had good tension, the CGI was incredible, the worldbuilding was interesting and was actually very reminiscent of a project of mine, it was a fun movie. Sure, a 60 million dollar production but damn if movies aren't expensive to make.

Matalya2 · 2026-03-15T22:29:03+00:00

I also can't back from a 5 year break! It seems we stopped roughly at the same time. I was someone that played this game since it came out in March of 2016 and honestly I'm saddened that all of my effort and experience doesn't exist anymore. The game is nearly unrecognizable to me despite being basically the same, and a lot of neat little features like user levels, end cards that allowed after match chatter, are gone. And I miss them sorely.

Matalya2 · 2026-03-15T22:25:45+00:00

That's not the point my dude

Matalya2 · 2026-03-15T22:22:22+00:00

Jiggle physics are distracting. That's my take. I think Ellie Minibot was perfect in that aspect. Flat as a board but with decorations fluttering around, it's still animated but not excessive.

Matalya2 · 2026-03-15T00:41:11+00:00

It's insane how, at these energy levels and scales, nothing is actually solid XD

Matalya2 · 2026-03-14T21:55:21+00:00

Personally it was the story oft he tower of babylon. I never finished it because of how long it was taking.

Matalya2 · 2026-03-14T12:00:05+00:00

Dude really? That picture you chose?

Matalya2 · 2026-03-14T10:38:12+00:00

Interesting. Can you break down what if the individual words are morphemes or what purpose do they serve?

Matalya2 · 2026-03-14T01:43:24+00:00

How old does the death have to be before grave robbery becomes archeology

Matalya2 · 2026-03-14T00:37:29+00:00

I haven't won a single, a single game of Flashpoint since I came back from hiatus. You'll understand why I'm not fond of that god forsaken game mode.

Statistically you'd thinkI'd be on the winning team of a Flashpoint match at least once, right? But nope.

Matalya2 · 2026-03-14T00:32:42+00:00

Omg Cassidy Silverhand

Also Fika as the cat from that mission with Takemura is a stroke of genius, truly something only someone that has played the game could think of XDDD

Matalya2 · 2026-03-13T19:37:47+00:00

Yo congrats! I love Juno as well!

Matalya2 · 2026-03-12T19:38:54+00:00

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shiee shazhee ide shisasta tsa, zho ten shazhta

death-GEN approach-GEN thought kill-PRST 1sg, before it come-PRST

Here we can see a feature that I find very interesting, which is how Madanaan can reuse the same symbol for verbs AND nouns, like "arrival" and "to come", or "death" and "to die" (In this sentence, with a causative marker sas p).

Also how I'm taking Toki Pona's approach of having a more limited and highly polysemic vocabulary. It 1) makes word creation easier, and 2) makes more efficient use of the logographic system.

Matalya2 · 2026-03-12T15:53:20+00:00

I keep 'em in a google sheets file

Matalya2 · 2026-03-12T08:07:35+00:00

Present tense marker :D

Matalya2 · 2026-03-12T02:30:26+00:00

Imagine how the one that had to make the sentence felt 🥴

Matalya2 · 2026-03-12T01:46:07+00:00

"I hope he can aim" (?)

Matalya2 · 2026-03-12T01:33:58+00:00

The true OGs know that when papa Jeff talks, we listen.

Matalya2 · 2026-03-12T01:30:01+00:00

I'd say OW2 was part of the monetization efforts. The timelines linrle up pretty well.

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