Lady @Lady@cat.family

on the other hand like half of the games have been retconned out of existence so there's that

there are a few fixed reference points and a lot of relative references which mostly link up with those fixed reference points and not much wiggle-room besides

i do not think the pokémon company has a timeline which is as good as my galaxy-brained pokémon timeline but the numbers do keep working out pretty nicely which is good

me: i wonder if the child game character which shares a name with this adult anime CotD could conceivably be the same person if you slot them into their respective locations in the timeline

me after doing some quick maths: oh my god (a) it works and (b) i am ancient

if i stretch it and say she was at the upper age limit for a Picnicker (Trainer Class) in January of 2011 then i can probably get away with having her birthday be in 1999

oh no the adult character i’m writing porn for was likely born after the turn of the millennium

@gaditb (that work is here: <https://github.com/marrus-sh/MarketCommons2-Ecmascript>)

@gaditb the goal for version 2 is to make it generic across XML and use it as a DSL for various XML-based formats

i have the "generic" part done but haven't finished the "rewrite the parser in javascript" part

» You know, the more you think "I can still keep going!", the more you need to rest. People say that to me a lot, too…

— Professor Burnet

@gaditb i do do that mostly haha but there's https://github.com/marrus-sh/MarketCommons-Racket

the repo is archived because i've been working on a much more powerful v2 but it's a bit stalled at the moment

ever consider learning from that

« David [Brooks]: Then the establishment got discredited (Iraq War, financial crisis, the ossifying of the meritocracy, the widening values gap between metro elites and everybody else) » damn yeah y’all sure did take some L’s there didn’t ya

@gaditb are you aware that i created a Not Markdown because, same

sorry, “long-s revivaliſt”

sure i make fun of the thorn revivalist crowd from time to time but the folks i really don’t get are the long-s revivalist crowd

sorry this was supposed to be a DM to professor burnet

hey babe, tea is steeping, mind if i poof some dream clouds and harvest some orbs?

@gaditb @jalefkowit@octodon.social @aparrish like descriptively, MDN is first and foremost an instructional resource. its job is to get people writing correct HTML quickly. it's not to explain why things are the way they are

is that the correct mission? should there be more room for the other stuff? 🤷🏻‍♀️

@gaditb @jalefkowit@octodon.social @aparrish i think there's a disconnect happening here regarding whether the purpose of documentation is to explain or instruct :P

@gaditb @aparrish @jalefkowit@octodon.social mm i think this is where the plurality of the HTML spec comes into play

for AUTHORS, the HTML spec is meant as a style guide for “good, proper HTML”. it's prescriptive, not descriptive. so they are saying “use A for X; use B for Y” not “A means X; B means Y”.

for IMPLEMENTERS, the HTML spec takes on a descriptive role. but there are no implementation requirements on these elements aside from the default stylesheet; from the perspective of an implementation, <b>/<i> aren’t required to mean anything.

anyway see https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/CO.html#COHQ if you want an example of an actually good, consistent, and semantic methodology for marking this stuff up; HTML is pretty far from being actually semantic markup in fact