“encode the text that people will want to search for” is in fact a pretty good rule of thumb tho; if a spelling should be findable by searching the equivalent with basic latin letters, it should be encoded using them
re: typography
@akjcv well, Icelandic has them different
Old Norse didn’t exactly have a standardized orthography and whether it distinguished Þ and Ð likely depends on both time period and scribe
and likewise, the fact that Old English equated the two doesn’t say anything about whether Modern English should or shouldn’t, or else we wouldn’t be using J or U either
@coriander i do think it's interesting because like Baldur’s Gate is clearly a roleplaying adventure and you can give the characters whatever sexuality you want because you’re roleplaying and that’s your prerogative, but Bioware games have always been much more about defined Characters and Plots and i don’t think it’s wrong for them to have specific sexual orientations be a part of that
but like, commit to it if you’re going to do it; they’re too chicken in 2024 to say “no, that’s not the story we’re telling here” to the person who bought the game
@coriander just hire some lesbians to tell you if the character is lesbian or not god it's not hard
@coriander the problem with bioware sexualities wasn't that not every character could be romanced by any gender of player but that bioware was frequently wrong about which ones were which
@kit i have an M1; it will probably be officially supported for another four years; if i replace the battery near the end of that it probably still has a decade of life
i’ll stick with macOS for as long as it seems tolerable and hopefully linux on M1 will be in a good place by the time that i bail
@kit i’m probably going to stick with macOS for work, because homebrewed OSes just magnify the “works/doesn’t work on my machine” factor, but i’m strongly considering making my current one the last laptop of theirs i buy
philosophy
@akjcv have you read terrorist assemblages by jasbir puar
@kit i think the most concise difference for me is allegory is intended to be pedagogical
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