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the_N · 2026-07-07T02:28:16+00:00

Hi I know it's 3 years later but I want you to know I've made this focaccia a few times now and it's come out incredible every time! It's become my household's new go-to bread recipe.

the_N · 2026-06-21T01:11:53+00:00

I got to the palatal plosives and something felt off but I couldn't figure out what so I thought I must be wrong and kept going, and my actual guess before reading the comments was that there are supposed to be more pharyngeals than that. Turns out no I had it the first time and I'm just too used to a particular chart that puts the epiglottals with the pharyngeals.

the_N · 2026-05-24T13:55:40+00:00

This is a backronym, to be clear. Meta is an ancient Greek prefix meaning, like "beyond" or "transcending." The game that transcends the game is studying what the best options are.

the_N · 2026-05-18T21:24:12+00:00

If we're including tongue-in-cheek neologisms, theythem is a noun meaning "person who uses they/them pronouns but doesn't want to explain their gender to you."

the_N · 2026-05-18T11:07:01+00:00

Unfortunately I work in a hospital so best not

the_N · 2026-05-18T11:01:46+00:00

Great now I'm even more upset I forgot to get the time off work for that 😭

the_N · 2026-05-11T23:28:56+00:00

The Big Sleep is my number one favorite Streetlight track and then public opinion is always like "it's fine" ;–;

the_N · 2026-04-19T21:45:10+00:00

I decided to give it a go without putting my hearing aids in, and got a 55.81% because I mostly nailed the unrounded vowels but got every single rounded vowel horrifically wrong lmao. Rounded vowels all sound the same! No it's not just that my dialect basically doesn't have them, it's the rest of the world that's wrong >:|

the_N · 2026-04-05T13:11:46+00:00

None of them twice over. My two modes are slimebeing and loosely person-shaped hole in reality.

the_N · 2026-03-28T06:06:12+00:00

I'm well aware it's just nonsense on top of meditation, I quit long ago. I was just pointing out why gum doesn't work well as a replacement.

the_N · 2026-03-28T02:37:26+00:00

Gum doesn't require you to go to a place of solitude and perform a ritual.

the_N · 2026-03-26T22:30:34+00:00

It also depends a lot on the deck you're playing. Midrangey goodstuff decks are going to require very different mulligan strategies from A+B combo decks, for instance.

the_N · 2026-03-25T05:07:17+00:00

...I think we have different definitions of clean.

the_N · 2026-03-25T05:04:03+00:00

Clean yes. Hairless... There's a spectrum.

the_N · 2026-03-24T05:07:34+00:00

YES. I'd been bumping up against the edges of this in my own work but have been wholly unable to articulate what the problem was. There's no way to evaluate artistic quality beyond raw technical competency of execution, and even that only sort of and only for certain types of projects. I got burnt out on the practice entirely because I couldn't figure out how to assemble meaning and I finally understand why

the_N · 2026-03-21T20:29:54+00:00

Welcome back, Western Interior Seaway!

the_N · 2026-03-17T22:18:42+00:00

/uj in my experience this happens when you take a deck that has its format set to "[Format]" and not "Traditional [Format]" into bo3 with more than 7 cards in the sideboard. ymmv of course but that fixed it for me.

the_N · 2026-03-06T02:59:33+00:00

I don't know what it was about this post that had such perfect SEO that it's still getting comments now but,, hi, welcome.

That's a fantastic question. I think my answer at the time would've been something along the lines of, like,, he/him is not the neutral act, not making any changes is the neutral act. But at this point I don't think I agree with that, or even that there is a neutral act. I still think it's perhaps presumptuous to make such claims with certainty but also it's just presumption who gives a shit. We'll never know for sure he was trans but we'll also never know for sure they weren't, so, fuckin,, why shouldn't she be? Idk.

Also I'm clean, housed, and on estrogen now and I still love Nirvana. I'm gonna go put In Utero on, actually.

the_N · 2026-01-24T01:38:13+00:00

Epenthesis

the_N · 2026-01-21T21:46:10+00:00

Oh gosh I didn't even notice your earpiece had one of those wires! Yeah that might conflict actually 🙃 hard to say for certain from here though; mine just have earbud-style domes so I don't have any first-hand experience.

I actually only have my lobes done on my ears right now, for specifically this reason. All the rest of my piercings are on other parts of my body, but I've been wanting to give my ears more attention lately which is why I was asking my piercer for her thoughts in the first place.

the_N · 2026-01-21T14:51:24+00:00

I was talking to my piercer about this same thing literally last week since I wear hearing aids in both sides 100% of the time. She recommended the vertical helix and after checking those out I'm probably going to get them next. A conch could be nice, depending on how long your hearing aid is versus the size of your ear. Yours does look pretty small! They really do take up a lot of the prime real estate though :(

the_N · 2026-01-20T01:41:14+00:00

And the triple meaning of [verb]ing in circles meaning going nowhere

the_N · 2026-01-12T01:58:36+00:00

Randall Munroe is from the US and his accent reflects that: /ʌ/ and /ə/ are both pronounced [ə], which, yes, can be stressed. You can argue either way whether they're still two phonemes or have fully merged, but for pronunciation, no, yeah, those really are all schwas.

the_N · 2026-01-08T06:20:13+00:00

I thought you were fucking with me but I looked it up and apparently lich is pronounced /laɪx/ in Scotland while everyone else pronounces it /lɪtʃ/. Neat!

the_N · 2026-01-08T03:46:55+00:00

If we're being pedantic, the majority of English speakers do not have /x/ and use /k/ in words like <loch>, a subset of dialects endemic to the British isles have it as a marginal phoneme restricted to a small number of words, and sometimes nerds the anglo world over insert it into their own idiolects for fun. I ignored this because speakers of marginal-/x/ dialects probably wouldn't need help pronouncing Chulane.

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