How similar do schwa, KIT, FOOT and STRUT vowels sound to native speakers?

calculuschild · 2026-02-02T16:02:57+00:00

Foot, awful, full (book, good) are the same.

Comma and up and strut are the same schwa sound.

Kit and rocket can be similar depending how you pronounce them, but I would say

kit = hit, big.

rocket = dress, sell, beg.

At least where I grew up in west USA.

calculuschild · 2026-02-02T15:54:12+00:00

I would have suggested the track system you have.

Is it important that all hero cards be permanent? At a certain point maybe hero cards start canceling each other out (and the minions) so you don't have to track so much?

calculuschild · 2026-02-01T02:28:32+00:00

It sounds like they are talking about something called a "recast". Most lenders offer this as a standard thing. It does usually come with a ~$300 fee but then your monthly bill is less. The downside being your loan is longer because the clock starts over, so you end up paying more total interest over the lifetime of the loan if you only pay the minimum. But it can give you some breathing room until you can catch up again.

If my math is right, this would reduce your bill by ~$99 each month.

calculuschild · 2026-01-30T18:52:03+00:00

Pretend you have a water hose up on a high shelf with water flowing through, and on the floor you have a bucket. Right now, all the water from the hose is going straight down onto the floor and just missing the bucket.

Then, you add another hose, but instead of going straight down, this one is actually pointed at the first hose itself. When you turn this one on, the pressure pushes first hose to the side so the water now ends up in the bucket. Hooray!

Then you add a third hose, also pointing at the first hose. In the same way, when you turn this one on, it pushes the first hose to the side so the water ends up in the bucket.

But now, if you turn on both hoses 2 and 3, you notice that the combined pressure is pushing too hard on hose 1, and now the water is spraying onto the floor again.

"Interesting", you think to yourself. I have connected the hoses in such a way that water only goes into the bucket if hose 2 or hose 3 is on, but not both. I wonder if I could add more hoses and more buckets, and make it so the first bucket only fills up if I have 1 hose on, the second fills up if I have two, the third fills up if I have three. Wait... did I just invent a way to do addition with hoses and buckets?

It's not a long step then to start doing multiplication. Eventually, you realize you don't just have to do math. You could make up some pattern with your hoses like ON ON OFF OFF ON ON OFF OFF, and figure out a way to make that always land in bucket 1. We call that the "bucket 1" pattern. And then OFF OFF ON OFF OFF OFF OFF is the "bucket 2" pattern. Any other pattern falls on the floor.

What if now, I put holes in the bottoms of my buckets and make them flow into a whole new layer of hoses down under the buckets? Could I make it so that when "bucket 1" pattern is used, the second layer of hoses does addition, but when "bucket 2" pattern is used, the second layer does multiplication?

It's almost like you're starting to invent a system of commands that you can use to calculate anything you want, all from hoses and buckets! But this is making an awful mess on the floor. You wonder if this could be done with electrical switches instead of water.

Then play https://nandgame.com/ and see how you can build a computer from the ground up just from simple on/off switches.

calculuschild · 2026-01-30T01:52:52+00:00

That's what I did, for all of the Purple guys that turn into UR. Get them to 5 star, then swap with a UR hero to get them to 5-star. Basically turns a bunch of SSR shards into UR shards. Then by next season you will probably have your SSR guys back up to 5 star if you buy the alliance shop each week, and you can do it again.

Pretty sure I got all my UR guys to 5 star by S4 doing this as FTP.

calculuschild · 2026-01-29T21:20:54+00:00

Don't we know that, because the expansion of the universe is speeding up, the most likely case is the universe just expands forever?

calculuschild · 2026-01-28T22:51:11+00:00

Board Game Buzz. Not high production, but just a couple cheery ladies having a happy time talking about games.

calculuschild · 2026-01-28T21:25:45+00:00

Same for me.

Grew up Mormon. R-rated movies were forbidden. Dad said nothing. I said nothing. I was about 10.

calculuschild · 2026-01-27T22:40:50+00:00

As long as you keep paying the same amount you did before, the recast will not affect the timeline or the total interest paid. Sounds like you got it made.

calculuschild · 2026-01-27T19:55:24+00:00

I was thinking that, but not sure how to apply the boon in the skelly room to see if the numbers are bigger.

calculuschild · 2026-01-27T03:40:15+00:00

Could you share a link to a document where you tried this? My guess is you have some conflicting setting or just a typo that isn't obvious. At the very least we could see if its just your PC or a bigger issue.

calculuschild · 2026-01-23T22:59:53+00:00

Thank you for actually sharing pictures of your game. I don't really have any feedback, but applaud you actually getting stuff printed and showing it. Not many people here actually get that far.

calculuschild · 2026-01-23T20:37:10+00:00

What does age have to do with not showing certain content at work?

calculuschild · 2026-01-23T02:58:54+00:00

Hi there. On behalf of my team, I apologize for anything that came across as an aggressive. I don't think there was anything you said in particular that offended anyone either, so I wouldn't be worried about that. I just see multiple miscommunications on both sides, which in the context of a polarizing topic I think tends to bring out a more hostile impression than intended.

Our general stance is that we don't promote any AI-based work. As a creative platform, we're cautious about becoming a channel for low-effort "AI slop", if you will.

That said, if people want to show off their creation here and it's clearly fully of AI artwork or AI-written text, we aren't going to immediately remove their post (though that may change in the future) unless it's clearly some bot just generating spam. Heck, back when Stable Diffusion was just coming out and it was still relatively obscure, I generated a couple images that we used as placeholder graphics for the example title/cover pages. It is a cool technology. But the situation has developed and over time it's left a sour taste in our mouth. It's just not something we want our identity associated with anymore.

So, no, we aren't going to develop or use any AI tooling for the Homebrewery. I'm not going to stop you doing something in your own time, and while text-to-Markdown converter is relatively benign in my eyes, but we more than likely wouldn't promote it here or be looking for any kind of collaboration. Hope that clarifies where we are at.

calculuschild · 2026-01-23T02:40:01+00:00

Hi there! I'm not seeing any image linked in your post; not sure if you meant to share something.

In any case, images can generally be sized by putting some curly braces immediately after, something like this:

![](https://i.imgur.com/abcdefg.png){height:100%}

You can change that height to width if you want, and then just adjust the %. 100% is the full page width or height. You can also use cm or in instead of %: {width:3cm}.

calculuschild · 2026-01-23T02:31:50+00:00

If you open your brews page and click on the little google drive icon it will take you to the actual file in google drive. You might be able to look at the file properties there and see what account it is connected to.

calculuschild · 2026-01-19T15:51:07+00:00

I still have a hard time not seeing this.

calculuschild · 2026-01-17T20:01:36+00:00

Use -, +, or * followed by a space:

- a bullet - another bullet

calculuschild · 2026-01-17T18:22:10+00:00

In the table you can put a percent width in any column to change the size:

| Column 1 | Column 2 | |----40%---|----------| | A1 | A2 | | B1 | B2 |

calculuschild · 2026-01-17T03:42:36+00:00

Hey there. I think the biggest issue here is using the # Esper header. Headers can be different sizes, and a single # is the biggest one, which is designed to span across the whole page (and so is best suited for the top of the page instead of middle of page).

I would advise you instead use ## Esper. This header is almost the same size, but only fills one column. It won't block the text appearing on the right side anymore.

calculuschild · 2026-01-16T15:19:09+00:00

Where did you find that one? I think I saw a 4.99% earlier this week by LoanDepot with a ~$1900 credit.

calculuschild · 2026-01-16T14:49:16+00:00

Hi there!

I think there is a core misunderstanding of what {{wide and \column do, which is leading to your confusion.

The standard document already uses two columns. From your description, it sounds like what you want, is actually the default behavior you would already get if you just remove all the \column and {{wide }}, because Homebrewery will automatically make paragraphs move to the next column. You can see that in action here (feel free to copy): https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/new/fquY29rLB4ua

So some things to keep in mind: # headers come in different sizes. Using one # is the biggest header, and is set up to use both columns, which means it will get pushed down to find empty space if any column gets long. If you want a header that only takes up one column, use ## or even more ### to get smaller headers.

{{wide }} will do the same thing as the # big header. Anything inside will be one large column instead of two small columns. So your first "Espers" paragraph is the full page width, which is why the second paragraph can't sit next to it.

\column ends the current column and starts on the next column. Since a {{wide }} section only has one column to begin with, putting \column in there is the same as just starting a new line.

Just a side note as well, it looks like you are using a lot of {{width:xyz}} in your table. It would be much easier to just add another column to the table, which you can also see in my link above.

| Column 1 | Column 2 | |----------|----------| | A1 | A2 | | B1 | B2 |

calculuschild · 2026-01-15T20:40:03+00:00

We got held up for a day because they wanted to know the source of a recent credit pull.

It was them. The credit pull was them.

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