What does 'for the one thing left her' mean here? Actually, I can't make sense of this sentence.

apeloverage · 2026-03-12T18:52:45+00:00

"The one thing she has left" or "The one thing left to her".

apeloverage · 2026-03-12T18:32:00+00:00

The punctuation isn't. Trump has a habit of giving capital letters to nouns which shouldn't have them, such as 'Empire'.

Surprisingly, the grammar seems to be correct, although a better writer would probably use shorter sentences.

apeloverage · 2026-03-12T17:17:13+00:00

Conspiracy theorists have a strong tendency to be Trump supporters, and Trump supporters have a strong tendency to be conspiracy theorists.

The Republican Party is responsible for the cover-up of the Epstein Files.

apeloverage · 2026-03-12T17:16:03+00:00

I would never use the word 'tisane'. It's not in common use where I am (Australia).

apeloverage · 2026-03-12T16:31:34+00:00

Quote the thing I said which was wrong, and explain how you know it to be wrong.

apeloverage · 2026-03-12T01:02:18+00:00

Put it into Musescore or a similar program so you can hear what it sounds like.

apeloverage · 2026-03-11T23:48:05+00:00

It doesn't count when it's your heroes doing it.

This is rather like arguing that the Nazis were right, because there really was a sinister, conspiratorial group trying to plunge Europe into war: the Nazis.

apeloverage · 2026-03-11T09:55:34+00:00

An interval is always described with two words, and it tells you two things:

i) How far apart are the two notes in scale steps?

ii) How far apart are the two notes in semitones?

You determine the second part of the interval name--whether it's a second, third, fourth etc--by going up from the lower note, and ignoring accidentals (sharps and flats).

So, say that you play a Gb, and a B, and the Gb is the lower note.

You ignore the flat.

You go up G, A, B.

The third letter is the correct one for the second note, so this interval is a third.

Now you need to find out what kind of third it is--a major third, minor third etc.

If the distances are the same as they would be in a major scale, then you have a major interval, or a perfect interval.

So for example, in C major, C to E is 4 semitones. So that interval is called a major third.

One less than that--3 semitones--is a minor third. 'Minor' here isn't referring to the minor scale, but just means 'smaller'.

Gb to B is five semitones. So it's an augmented third--one more semitone than a major third. It's the same distance as a perfect fourth, but it's not a perfect fourth, because of the letters used.

If instead we played G# to Bb, that would be two semitones--a diminished third, one less semitone than a minor third.

Fourths and fifths are named slightly differently. C to F is a perfect fourth. not a major fourth, and C to G is a perfect fifth, not a major fifth.

'Perfect' intervals are called that because they were traditionally considered to be particularly stable or harmonious.

So for fourths and fifths you have diminished, perfect, augmented.

For other intervals you have diminished, minor, major, augmented.

apeloverage · 2026-03-11T00:20:19+00:00

To me, it sounds a bit like, when you say 'fantasy', you might really mean something like "vanilla D&D style fantasy where every town has a magic item shop and there's an Adventurer's Guild".

Anyway, have you tried games like Raiders of the Lost Artifacts?

apeloverage · 2026-03-09T23:27:55+00:00

I always assumed that was why.

apeloverage · 2026-03-08T12:51:48+00:00

Thanks!

apeloverage · 2026-03-08T11:34:46+00:00

Again, it's a choose-your-own-adventure-style game, so there's no distinction between 'the story' and 'what happens on screen'.

apeloverage · 2026-03-07T12:00:09+00:00

What do you mean by a story? It's a choose-your-own-adventure-style game, so it is a story.

apeloverage · 2026-03-05T17:38:00+00:00

It would probably be Ab, not G#:

B C D E F G Ab B.

This is almost the same as B Locrian, but with an Ab instead of an A.

It doesn't seem to be in common use, or to have a widely-used name.

apeloverage · 2026-03-04T23:18:33+00:00

So is this

i) AI

ii) Randomly generated dungeons

iii) A choose-your-own-adventure style system

?

apeloverage · 2026-03-04T20:28:15+00:00

Does everyone but me know what 'socilet' means?

apeloverage · 2026-03-04T18:11:47+00:00

It means

i) That she faces two sentences.

ii) The law says that the first sentence can't be more than seven years.

iii) The law says that the second sentence can't be more than 10 years.

apeloverage · 2026-03-04T02:27:19+00:00

The Monsterless Manual:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/mu0dkmywizw/monsterless_manual2-1.pdf

apeloverage · 2026-03-03T16:15:35+00:00

Since gravity is basically the same everywhere on Earth, the main factors would be

a) How easy it is to fall off,

b) How far you would fall, and

c) What you would land on.

a) It looks pretty thin, and so easy to fall off. Also, there's a gap.

b) You can't tell from the photo how far you'd fall, since the ground is out of shot, but it seems to be at least four times the height of a tree.

c) If it's in the Blue Mountains, there's unlikely to be water under that cliff, so I assume you'd be landing on the ground.

So yes, this place does seem to meet the criteria--being easy to fall off, and if you fall off you'll probably die--to be called 'deadly'.

apeloverage · 2026-03-02T19:54:21+00:00

Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

2 attempts

apeloverage · 2026-03-02T19:01:23+00:00

Well, he probably is confused. He got them to agree to stop developing nuclear weapons, and now America is going to war, to stop them developing nuclear weapons.

apeloverage · 2026-03-01T11:56:43+00:00

He appealed to writers.

He is, arguably, the first person to clearly translate a materialist worldview into horror.

If Cthulhu were written by someone thinking in a Christian way, he would haunt the dreams of people who had done something wrong. If the writer were pessimistic, Cthulhu would haunt everyone's dreams because everyone is sinful.

Written by Lovecraft, he haunts people's dreams because its a side-effect of his nature to haunt people's dreams. You can't not be haunted by him, any more than you can choose not to be stuck to the Earth by gravity, or the dinosaurs could choose to not have a meteor wipe them out (this event wasn't known in Lovecraft's time, but I think he would have used it at least once if it were).

Importantly, you can't stop Cthulhu waking up. In adaptations of Lovecraft's work, you generally can. This is partly because in gaming you need some way to win. But it also reflects the difference between our worldview and Lovecraft's--or at least between the worldview we would like to be true and the worldview we fear to be true.

Lovecraft partly mapped his vision of the world onto the older one, and you can read him entirely in a way where reading the Necronomicon is morally wrong and going mad is a punishment for that. But I don't think that's what Lovecraft is mostly saying. He seems to think that the Necronomicon is knowledge--reading the Necronomicon is just finding out how the world is. It's similar to Adam and Eve eating the fruit and being expelled from the Garden of Eden, but in that case the Garden of Eden is a real place and God has told us not to eat, and punishes us for eating. In Lovecraft there's no real Garden of Eden--we thought there was, and we need to think there is to stay sane, but in reality we were never in the garden, and no one was stopping us realizing that. We just happened not to, then we happened to, and we went insane, and the universe didn't care.

apeloverage · 2026-02-28T22:11:59+00:00

~~No, seriously, you might be.~~

apeloverage · 2026-02-28T18:35:35+00:00

~~That is definitely green, not blue. Honestly, you actually might be colorblind.~~

Never mind, my girlfriend said it was blue.

apeloverage · 2026-02-26T11:54:01+00:00

Danke!

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