Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@pho4cexa it seems like the program will be released in august so you could wait until then to make your decision based on whether anything looks interesting?

@pho4cexa mostly people go there to go to panels, socialize with fellow nerds, or check out the dealers floor. There is some proximity to fame stuff (like signings) but i don’t think its the main point for like 90% of the people there

@Forestofglory ooh sounds delightful!

@Forestofglory happy birthday! i hope you are having some delicious treats to celebrate

did your crossdressing girl media include any good movies? otherwise i’d take a short story or fic with interesting worldbuilding

@hoja the fact that they have seteth specifically say that always cracks me up

@aschmitz hey!

@celli @pastelsinmysky yeah it sucks you have to deal with that :/

@gaditb @kepstin @u2764 yeah i mean, i think the whole CJK unification deal was a weird and highly context specific choice that very likely would not have been made in an AU where, say, japan was the premier voice in alt unicode but they still would have run into mojibake or similar rendering issues, along with the need for consistent encoding of a string of characters across document types to facilitate fulltext search

@gaditb some sort of character set unification / standardization was inevitable (or more accurately, was inevitable if computers and the internet working more or less as they do is taken as a given) but that its implementation would look even remotely like unicodes was very much not

@imp agreed that we need a way higher bar for shitting on than this but also like, being a historian who does translations and being a fiction author is completely different. i’m not saying that one of those groups has more authority to complain about bad adaptions than the other (personally i think its fine when authors decide adaptations of their works are kinda shit actually) but like, really weird to claim to be an authority on how a completely different field should handle this

@rowyn haha thats honestly what reminded me

@rowyn what about the dog?

@elena my concern was more that three hours of boba drinking is probably more boba than the average human stomach can handle

@pastelsinmysky i hope you enjoy NYC! i’ve been a few times and its always been fun

as for your mom, i think its normal for parents to worry about their kids a bit, but it seems v inappropriate for her to try to pressure you to cancel your trips. as your parent, her anxiety is *her* job to manage not yours (i mean also in general adults need to take responsibility for their own mental health rather than expecting someone else to manage their shit but especially when its your parents!)

also, and i hope this ones obvious if something did happen to you in nyc (which i really don’t think it will!) it wouldn’t be your fault—that’s a gross victim blamey mindset

re:lb, spent my entire walk attempting to explain to @wallhackio about how the narrative trope of lordlings work in fire emblem and how rheas backstory is exactly the same