He’s gonna turn into Giuliani in like 15 years

The Second Wind folks put out a video yesterday about what defines an indie game. Short answer: these days pretty much it’s just vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ4NPjw71ss

Hiding info about what? This is a meaningless stat bc people who answered in the affirmative could think they’re hiding stuff about whoever. A more meaningful question would be if they believe there’s a cover up about the melted orange one

I never hated having a middle name until japan. The number of places that desperately need all of your entire name as written on your passport is ridiculous. It’s like “ok you got me, I was absolutely attempting to commit bank fraud because it’s highly likely that the one person named Cornelius Tiberius Wallace trying to get a new bank book for the account I’ve had for 30 years could potentially have a doppelganger named simply Cornelius Wallace living in the same town of 10,000 people. If only there were some other way to identify someone besides their middle name. What’s that? You’ve never had a problem differentiating between the endless parade of Taro Satos that walk through your door? I’m shocked I tell you.”

I’m just surprised they let you leave anything off your name, but I guess in your case they see Japanese name plus a bunch of other fake garbage you use to fool people when existing in gaikokuland, so of course you only need to put your true name on forms.

Japan sucks for this. With a western name it gets transliterated into syllables, and so (esp w a middle name) you’re writing anywhere from 5 to 15+ characters on forms designed for 5 max.

They’re better about it in recent years but it still kinda blows

Did you play BS F-Zero? It was only available as a streaming service in Japan in the 90s, but someone managed to put a rom together a couple years ago. It mostly just feels like a remix of the first game, but it’s still some new content

https://www.consolegame.org/games-v2/snes/snes-bs-f-zero-japan-4091

I still play doom, although I try a lot of newer wads. It’s crazy that there’s basically 30 years of free content people have been creating since it came out (even if most stuff much past 10 or 15 years old can feel kinda dated and not so interesting to play).

There’s another decent podcast about this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWX7v1I9020

I mean, the main point is that language doesn’t have to make “logical” sense. It’s not a math problem. Just look at all the inconsistencies in pretty much every aspect of a language. It’s all there simply because of history and people agreeing on meanings for words and phrases. For example, you’ve got something like prepositions. There’s literally zero logical reason why we talk or speak to someone, but we don’t tell or converse to someone.

And people who are more rigid in thinking about language always seem to think the language they learned growing up is the most “correct” version, whether that has a basis in history or not. Like even though literally has been used as an intensifier for (literally) hundreds of years, that seems to be a sticking point, whereas something like very, which has a similar root (veracis meaning truth), any sentence using very doesn’t have to have an exact truthful meaning.

Hell, once we go back to “original” meanings of words, where do we stop? The singular use of “they” is older than that of singular “you”, but I somehow never see the “singular they is confusing” crowd advocating for a return to thee/thou.

Idioms don’t have to (and often don’t) make sense. How do you feel about “head over heels”?

Civilians can’t just come in and start stealing jargon words and apply their own non-jargon meanings.

This is (literally) one of the more insane takes I’ve ever seen about language. You want jargon to apply only as jargon meaning in all contexts? Lay usage aside, what about when two fields of study use the same word? Battle royale to see who gets to keep it?

There’s that old line that if my aunt had wheels she’d be a bicycle. Maybe the command form is muddling the topic here, but using the be-verb with an adjective like that attaches a subject complement, essentially describing the subject. But “I am fast” describing a person doesn’t mean that saying “I drive fast” is describing a drive as a noun.

Tabernac!

I have a theory

Some flat adverbs sound perfectly natural to most speakers, like “play nice” or “drive safe”. Others have less acceptability among people in general, like “That tastes real good.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_adverb

How do you feel about other words with their own opposite meanings, like dust or sanction? If the meaning isn’t clear it’s almost always because the speaker constructed a sentence poorly, which of course can lead to misunderstandings even when not using contronyms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym

Looks like aks was the original pronunciation

https://youtu.be/dzmmx_v_4fM?t=429

Lots of places have subnational entities which they may or may not call something that translates to “country”.

Not saying you’re wrong, but I’m curious as to some examples of this. I’ve heard various languages translating words for a country’s subdivisions as things like state, province, prefecture, etc, but I haven’t run across a country within a country before (unless you’re talking about enclaves like the Vatican).

Fuckin Logan Airport won’t sell you a beer before noon. Goddamn bullshit puritan laws

Is there a way to get the piefed feed to not be giant expanded card view and instead more like a list view? It was bad enough for me when the functionality of old lemmy stopped working on my instance (I guess I could make a .world account as it still seems to mostly work over there), but the 1 post per screen style of piefed drives me crazy.