alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

toki pona speakers were very wise when they came up with what head noun prefixes your name when referring to you as a means of identity-expression

t-pain's war pigs cover is p good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4nMjyT4epA

possibly at some point i should figure out a way to make it actually apparent to the players that ~⅓ of all NPCs in the games i run are trans

it is both inconvenient and convenient as a person learning another language.

inconvenient in that it makes it sometimes more difficult to make some distinctions between spanish sounds not in english (or to not distinguish sounds distinguished in english but not in spanish)

but also convenient that probably nobody's even gonna notice how I pronounce b/v or s/z (even Sofi with zir native-level English fluency has difficulty distinguishing them when specifically listening for it)

the impact of people's (many people's, anyway) native languages on their perception of speech sounds is Neat

@aescling fair enough hehe

@aescling "if you like thrillers" lol

we felt it was interesting but only like okay. i think my big issue is that it... was too understated to bring me to care. like it follows Josh's actions, but his emotional arc is basically not communicated at all, despite being the driving force of the events of the second half (or however much) of the film, so it feels like things are kind of just happening (which can be fine, except for most of the film the things that are just happening are that nothing much is happening)

@aescling @wallhackio i voted but honestly it's a lie. the best cat is obviously my wife (no offense)

currently researching english country house for the secret lair of an evil undead aristocrat

@aescling moo

@aescling sofi and i will probs watch it this weekend :)

@aescling thrillers are fun. adding it to my list :)

@aescling nodnod. i've never seen any. would you recommend them and which would you first recommend?

@pan (this whole thread has been interesting to read but also) i am very intrigued by this on account of it possibly addressing the weak points of my usual "yeah i mean yr character can have whatever like bodyplan and stuff you want but it doesn't necessarily need to be reflected mechanically" approach. (not in D&D specifically)