Shihali

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[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

On thinking it over, "proper" spelling of foreign words has done its own share of damage to English spelling. We don't just have to learn our own spelling conventions, we also have to learn foreign ones. Or not (sent to you from Cairo, Illinois, locally pronounced "care-oh")

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

It'll be part of the great English spelling reform. Until then, it's going to be spelled the way we Romanized Greek in the 16th century.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (4 children)

You're about twenty centuries too late on the χ thing. You're gonna need to go back and talk to the Romans.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It's because -us is the Latin second declension nominative singular, and its nominative plural is -i. People educated enough to know the -us/-i pattern (cactus/cacti, alumnus/alumni, stimulus/stimuli) but unaware that "octopus" is Greek and has an irregular stem are likely to misapply the Latin pattern.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

As a manga reader, I disliked the exam arc, but I've appreciated what has been built on it and you'll see that in season 2.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Funny, just a few weeks ago I read a comment elsewhere about how Frieren's worldbuilding is unrealistic. Like its JRPG ancestor Dragon Quest 3, there's no obvious source of food to support the walled cities of the Northern Countries. Feeding all the people in Äußerst or Eiseberg would need miles and miles of surrounding farms, not forests. I didn't mind that on an NES, because a world map at its scale wouldn't show farms anyway. It's more of an issue in a manga.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I…would probably play Pathfinder with a great roleplaying party.

Pathfinder 2e does have some more tools for roleplaying, but the game's real strength is tactical combat. Pathfinder 2e wants to be D&D 4e done right.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Zelda 1 randomizer is popular, and it's all about procedural generation of dungeons and procedural assignment of items to locations. It's not as well designed as the original Zelda 1, not by a long shot, but it combines the familiar gameplay of Zelda 1 with the novelty of procedural generation.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The previous season covered chapters 1-60, so I'm going to guess that this season will cover chapters 61-119.

Mild manga spoilersSeason 2 should be more like the 2nd cour of season 1 in pacing and length of arcs, but I liked the material more to a lot more than the first-class mage exam arc.

Ending at chapter 119 because that's the end of an arc.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

I've tried those.

Sea of Stars looks as pretty as Chrono Trigger, but its writing is noticeably worse and it completely fails at one of Chrono Trigger's great strengths, pacing. In Sea of Stars' defense, it is generally better than Chrono Trigger at interesting dungeon design and its battle system has more potential. But those don't compensate enough for poor writing and especially pacing.

Chained Echoes tries really hard to fit a 32-bit plot into a 16-bit running time, and it doesn't quite work. Still, it left me interested in more by the same dev team, especially if trends and tech change so that they can switch to doing a game explicitly inspired by Xenogears and its ilk.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What is the setting in about:config to opt out of this?

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Tab groups? (sh.itjust.works)
 

Did anyone else have tab groups become disabled by default in the last few days? I'm on the beta version, and existing tab groups remain but I can't make new ones in 138.0b8 and 138.0b9.

I wonder if there's a story behind this, like being disabled due to instability.

 

quakers.social shows up on our list of blocked instances, but looking at the most recent posts at https://quakers.social/public/local I can't see why. They seem like a harmless group with a lot of religious reposts. Does sh.itjust.works have a policy of reciprocal blocking or something like that?

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