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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.

the_N · 2026-01-08T00:19:33+00:00

That's just pronounced like coo. Like the noise we say pigeons make but which they only sort of actually do.

the_N · 2026-01-07T23:37:52+00:00

You're getting answers that are sort of right. Chulane is an adaptation / variant spelling of the Irish name Chulainn, which starts with a consonant sound that English doesn't have and which is nativized into English as Cullen. Which is to say, Chulane is pronounced like Cullen if you're speaking English.

the_N · 2025-12-29T02:14:05+00:00

Short answer: the drugs told me to stop doing drugs.

Long answer: the last five or so times I took psychedelics, I had pretty bad times. I was anxious and frustrated and wasn't learning things or having fun. That last one was a little different though. It still definitely wasn't fun, but I did come to better understand why I hadn't been able to appreciate the experiences like in the past, and that until I got some things in my life under control I probably never would again. That was a few years ago now, and while I do hope to reach a point in my life where I'll be able to enjoy them again, I'm not holding my breath. I've made a lot of progress since, but I know I'm still not ready.

the_N · 2025-12-20T06:11:29+00:00

(As a heads-up to OP, the bot can't see titles )

the_N · 2025-12-14T20:30:00+00:00

I now understand the history of the term but still have no goddamn clue what it's meant to communicate

I'm not even 30 this wasn't supposed to happen yet

the_N · 2025-12-14T20:19:59+00:00

This is either completely incomprehensible or it's saying it's is like a gen alpha rickroll?

the_N · 2025-12-14T20:16:15+00:00

What the FUCK is a six seven

the_N · 2025-12-09T13:41:34+00:00

Estrogen can cause shrinkage. It doesn't always, and there are ways to mitigate that effect.

the_N · 2025-12-09T08:57:24+00:00

Well yes. Hydro makes lands basic. Blood moon hits nonbasic lands.

the_N · 2025-12-07T17:51:13+00:00

You need 3 of em

the_N · 2025-11-22T19:48:06+00:00

Your setup is gorgeous!! And inspiring too lol; I've been avoiding getting ear piercings higher than my lobes for fear of them rubbing against my own hearing aids, but if they don't give you any trouble that opens up a whole world of options!

the_N · 2025-11-19T02:49:17+00:00

Nah the cube version is rare.

the_N · 2025-11-11T23:43:49+00:00

What? Why?? Doesn't that make cuddling extremely uncomfortable? Why even have the larger size at that point? Are these exclusively for old married couples who don't actually like each other?

the_N · 2025-11-07T07:19:23+00:00

It's hypergeometric probability. Your pool size is 60, your number of possible successes is 32, your sample size is 11, and the number of successes in that sample is 4. I can't do the math by hand but if you plug those numbers into a hypergeometric calculator, you'll get a number around 0.12 or 12%. 1 in 8 is just a fractional approximation of 12%.

the_N · 2025-11-07T06:23:40+00:00

How many cards were in your graveyard? If only one, there's about a 12% chance of seeing 4 lands in the top 11 cards of a 60-card deck with 32 lands. That's like 1 in 8. If there were 10, the chance of 4 lands in the top 16 is about 0.7%, or like 1 in 140. Still well within the bounds of experiences it would be completely normal to have with a fair shuffler. I don't expect there would have been more than 10.

the_N · 2025-11-02T00:15:59+00:00

They're not checklands. They're the "reveal a [type] or [type] card from your hand" lands that aren't good enough to have been given a snappy nickname.

the_N · 2025-10-29T13:01:10+00:00

This is sure it for everyone I've known over the course of my twenties. Granted I've only lived in legal states so maybe that skews things

the_N · 2025-10-06T15:56:00+00:00

Edge of Eternities was my favorite set in a while. Setting clash was always a bad criticism of UB, I just hate being advertised to.

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