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“tears of the kingdom” doesn’t convey anything like “sequel to breath of the wild” does; i understand that the naming convention lines up, but “sequel to breath of the wild” was a striking title that i will dearly miss

(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

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

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

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

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

people really buying into the schoolhouse fib that there is some fundamental difference between the phrases “her eyes were two oceans” and “her eyes were like two oceans”

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a metaphor is…

• when something in a story is made to stand in for something in real life?

• a figure of speech which equates a thing with something else which has similar qualities?

how is the whole “replace GNU components of Linux with something else” project going

my toxic trait is i refuse to use extended regular expressions in grep and sed

how long before kitty is hosting technical infrastructure for the local furries

“doll dressup games aren’t real games” claims guy who has completed 5000 picrews

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