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(grumbles in “i just want you to know, i never actually dot my I”)

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“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

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“is that a font choice or a semantic distinction?” ꝺɛ Unicode Consortium asks mɛ, warıly ɛyınȝ my sꞇranȝɛ lɛꞇꞇɛrforms and doꞇlɛs lɛꞇꞇɛrʒ. ꝺe foolʒ know noþıŋ. ı wıl nɛvɛr answɛr ꝺɛm

we don’t REALLY need the stroke, in 2024, do we

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causing internet drama by using Þ for /θ/ but writing /ð/ as Ꝺ

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

in fairness, two of the three specified “extended trilogy”

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tfw every member of your symphonic metal band lists “The Lord of the Rings trilogy” under “favorite movies” in their profile on your band webpage

cat fully in her “playing with dolls” era

@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

Their circle of friends
is likely to be small but
deep and long lasting

you can upload your consciousness but not your kinks. do you push the button

philosophy 

@akjcv have you read terrorist assemblages by jasbir puar

honestly the simplest explanation is just that the “Zonai” in Breath of the Wild and in Tears of the Kingdom refer to different tribes

@kit i think the most concise difference for me is allegory is intended to be pedagogical

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