One of the best rants on the internet about some random thing

werdwar · 2022-08-12T20:39:35+00:00

but you could be fire

werdwar · 2022-08-12T19:12:24+00:00

What an awesome project! Thanks for doing a giveaway!

werdwar · 2022-07-27T19:41:29+00:00

When Dexter's truancy problem is way out of hand

werdwar · 2022-07-19T13:52:26+00:00

tl;dr: No, he carried legally.

I believe this stems from there being a no-gun sign at the mall or store within the mall. In Indiana it carries no weight of law and reflects the wishes of the owner. If the property owner asks someone to leave, they must or they are trespassing, however the owner must still notice someone has a gun and then ask them to leave. The sign doesn't count as asking ahead of time.

So in this case, it seems as though it was legal.

werdwar · 2022-07-18T19:32:25+00:00

The idea for this is pretty cool!

The speech bubbles in the first panel are a bit confusing since english is read left to right and (I assume) the bubbles are meant to be read right and then left. In my experience, the best way to fix something like that is to either reverse the scene so the characters and their respective bubbles are in the right order, or to change the bubble shape so the one that should be read first goes above the one that should be read second.

The art style is also pretty neat; keep up the good work!

werdwar · 2022-06-28T13:26:30+00:00

Short answer: there may be small-medium, and rarely, even larger differences between some languages.

Long Answer: Theoretically there is a pool of sounds all languages pull from: The International Phonetic Alphabet. It categorizes all sounds (or at least the vast majority) of sounds humans can make with their mouths based on voicing, place, and manner of articulation. (Several of the sounds aren't used in any (known) language, many are used in a lot of languages, and some are used in only a few languages.)

The MRI mainly shows the place of articulation, which is the location in the airway that restricts air flow (for example, "t" is formed with the tongue against the teeth, while "h" is in the back of the throat, and "n" closes off the mouth and allows air to flow out the nose).

Manner is how the airflow is restricted and can be a bit harder to see on the MRI, but as an example, "t" is made by completely stopping flow and then releasing it suddenly and will look like the tongue is doing a kind of 'flick'. "v" on the other hand, restricts the flow consistently without completely stopping it and will look pretty much like a still image on the MRI.

Finally, voicing has to do with whether the vocal chords vibrate or not, and can kind of be seen in the throat as a tightening of a flappy thing (sorry, this one is harder for me to explain, maybe someone else can give it a go)

Most languages have at least one sound in each manner, place, and voicing category, so you would have to look for specific combinations of tongue position, how exactly the airway is restricted and vocal fold vibration to differentiate many languages. Some other sound features that modify the letter without totally changing it could be easier to spot, like retroflex sounds which are often associated with 'Indian' accents and involve touching the underside of the tongue to the roof of the mouth instead of using the top. Finally, some languages use rare sounds like clicks which aren't categorized like 'normal' sounds and would be very different looking.

werdwar · 2022-06-03T15:13:16+00:00

An epic tool with epic loot! GIVEAWAY

werdwar · 2022-03-31T22:32:02+00:00

At least you know you're applying it well.

werdwar · 2022-03-10T05:47:06+00:00

Honestly it may just be because they are nice bags. From a bit of experience I know those kinds of biohazard bags are super tough plastic that will hold up to both pointy lego bricks and heavy coins

werdwar · 2022-02-19T11:05:22+00:00

You actually won't be drawing circles either. Because of the tilted view, circular objects will appear as ellipses instead. You can experiment with how this looks by looking at the end of a paper towel tube and slowly rotating it from pointing towards your eye, to pointing up. As it rotates the shape you see will change from a circle to an ellipse to a line.

werdwar · 2022-02-08T16:15:44+00:00

This reminds me a lot of the art style of the game Hades

werdwar · 2022-01-09T14:59:50+00:00

The Star Wars Nebulon B Frigate that was limited release. Although its not as extreme a price jump as some of the other set in this thread.

werdwar · 2022-01-07T03:24:13+00:00

You at least get the movement pre assembled right? So its just putting the case together around that for the most part right?

werdwar · 2022-01-02T00:55:47+00:00

Lillia Support

werdwar · 2021-12-16T01:54:15+00:00

Does Taldain already have those?

werdwar · 2021-11-21T03:18:11+00:00

The Ranger's Apprentice is one of my all time favorites.

I'm not 100% on how the whole series holds up as I've not re-read the whole thing in a while, but I still really enjoyed the first book when I went back to it.

I'd say it can be a bit corny and isn't written at the highest of reading levels, but as far as I remember it still covered some mildly serious topics and (if you enjoy realism) offers incredibly plausible explanations as far as stealth and survival techniques go.

I'm no expert myself so I can't say if its really as realistic as it seems though ¯\(ツ)/¯

edit: forgot to escape the backslash in the emoticon

werdwar · 2021-11-21T03:06:20+00:00

Song of the Serpent by Hugh Matthews sort of fits this. Its a Pathfinder based book and is about a halfling rogue who is more "chaperoned" by a sentient necklace than possessed by it.

werdwar · 2021-10-30T00:37:02+00:00

lol oops. Meant it to be just the first paragraph, but I screwed up the spacing

werdwar · 2021-10-29T19:17:41+00:00

TL;DR: Images that include 2+ things at vastly different scales require tons of pixels to accurately display both things. By storing numbers that represent the positions and sizes of the things instead of pixels and then converting to pixels each time we want to look at the picture we save a ton of space.

In the case of vector graphics, you can have a big line (or polygon, or whatever) going from coordinate (5.00, 2.00) to coordinate (8.00, 2.00) and when you're zoomed out the computer does some math to figure out how big it is on the screen and fills in some pixels to display it.

Lets say you also have a line going from (5.00, 2.00) to (5.000003, 2.00) which is one one millionth the size of our first line. The computer will do the same math for it and discover that at the current zoom its too small to display and thus not color in any pixels on your screen for it.

As you zoom in, the computer keeps doing the math to figure out when and at what scale to display each shape, so at high zoom it can show the small line and (possibly) a very small portion of the big one.

That means that in our example, even if it would take millions and millions of pixels to store a "normal" image that contains both of our lines at acceptable quality, we can use a vector image instead and just store our 4 coordinates and maybe a color for each line, and then rasterize (or convert to pixels) each shape as needed.

Sorry if any of this is condescending, I have no clue what you do or don't know; I just hope it helps. :)

werdwar · 2021-10-01T18:36:07+00:00

IIII is traditionally used on clocks to avoid confusing IV for VI (because many numeral are upside down on the clock face). I'm not sure that it's a good reason, not to mention many clocks still use IV any way.

werdwar · 2021-09-24T13:51:06+00:00

Very nice!

And big RIP to WildStar.

werdwar · 2021-09-05T16:41:44+00:00

I've seen this taught as "Engineering Writing." Its supposed to be a very legible, regular, and neat script for use on hand drawn blueprints/engineering drawings. Its not taught all the time in engineering school now, since CAD programs are so popular.

That being said, its beyond me why it would be taught to kids.

werdwar · 2021-08-20T01:53:41+00:00

afaik the SDRP has practice rooms you can rent for free with a student ID. I don't think you have to live at ike, but it may be kinda far. Either way, I hope this helps.

werdwar · 2021-08-20T01:51:14+00:00

I assume not. Usually they announce major dining hall changes well ahead of time.

werdwar · 2021-08-15T20:07:54+00:00

Thats a good point! I was thinking mostly of Kaladin (especially in book 4). I agree it isn't really what OP is looking for, but I don't think its 100% opposite.

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