alyssa @alyssa@cat.family
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Joined May 2022
poképosting
my wife and i just discovered that "Looker" is (code-)named Looker in the sense of someone who looks hot. not someone who does the action of looking
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i was trying to name my bulbasaur in let’s go eevee Flos extraneus. which was too long. so i changed to the feminine form of the adjective even tho flos is m in latin because extranea saves a letter. and then deleted the space to save another character.
This was not allowed for a reason that did not take long to figure out.
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i have now caught the second shiny mareep-line pokémon of this Soul Silver playthrough o.o
(flaaffy while grinding levels on route 42, plus a mareep much earlier before the first badge)
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the player then continued on to fail to get a hereditary knighthood, fail to enlist in the Navy, get drafted into “Other” and immediately lose 2 points of Social Status and get essentially nothing out of character creation hehe.
he is the disgraced aristocrat fuckup getting bailed out by more successful family friends or something.
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leaf stone!!
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gonna spin up a classic traveller side campaign tonight for when one of the players can’t make it for the usual monday game.
now taking predictions on how many characters will die during character generation (for 4 players).
colonization, christianity
there was a dude in 17th century spain that argued that the Garden of Eden was in America. and that the forbidden fruit was the banana.
reading about this briefly led me to wonder how i had never realized that the banana is of American origin. (the answer is that i never realized this because it isn't. turns out people have been anachronistically back-projecting plants on the wrong sides of the "Columbian exchange" for a long time)
eugenics, imperialism
this prompted by reading the introduction to *Las venas abiertas de América Latina", which talks a lot about eugenicist policies in "development"/"foreign aid" stuff and trying to look up more about it
unsurprisingly the wikipedia is not a very useful source for researching imperialism
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i suspect that despite the fact that during this phase of the game i need to evolve a dragonite for this challenge run. i'm still going to end up basically afking for days or weeks to get phone calls for evolutionary stones
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one of my fave things about johto is the bug catching contest
mostly in that it is a celebration of bug pokémon! and it lets you catch lots of different kinds :> especially post-National-Dex (not that i'm there yet in this playthru)
food
one of my favorite things about argentine spanish is that… you know how in US english you call the thin flaky fried potato-based snacks “chips” and in UK english you call the tube-ish-shaped fried potato-based side dish “chips”? (“crisps” and “fries” in the alternate dialects)
both of those are just “papas fritas” here (“fried potatoes”). there is not an established more specific term for either of them to disambiguate. i love it.
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very satisfying when i get suspicious about an npc and then the other npcs we brought to work for him and who were eating his food fall over unconscious and he looks at sofi’s character and mine like “didn’t y’all eat your food?” (we did but we can eat anything without harm) before tearing out of his false skin and attacking us.
it’s nice to notice things and develop suspicions and i’m right.
linguistics question
is "the two of us" a partitive construction or something else?
it seems to carry the implication that "the two" is equivalent to "us", which is not typical of partitives (some claim that a partitive must refer to a proper subset of a set of things)
it's nice when you learn about a person with a street named after them and it's like "yeah he was the first person to translate Capital to spanish and founded the socialist party here"
«derivational morphology (as in derive: derivation: derivational)»
what a nerd (affectionate)
it’s nice to see trans representation in british quiz shows.
i assume that more actually black hair exists and that it is sometimes possible to distinguish it from dark brown hair.
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Joined May 2022
