I get watery eyes as well, so maybe some sort of out-gassing? IDK

It was about 75 USD for a queen. It only covers the top of the mattress without draping over

I balked at the price until I remembered German uses a comma as a decimal point.

I generally upgrade my PC every five years. This usually means new motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and this last time a case as well. The last time I did it was in 2019, not counting the brief window where I was able to purchase an RTX 3080 at or near MSRP in around 2022. Not only am I overdue for an upgrade, my needs have changed pretty drastically since 2019.

Back then I was all about RGB, and sought to create the quintessential unicorn vomit PC. While I still like the aesthetic, I now know that maintenance of all that RGB can be a hassle. You need to manage more cables, and components on LED strips can fail, ruining the look of the case. The case is made of mostly tempered glass, but It’s now on the floor, obviously not ideal. The PC isn’t the only rig on my desk now (ham radios are also called rigs), and the PC has to share space with three or four of them, all with power, coax, grounding wire, and control cables of their own.

I can’t give you any deep comparisons, but I’ll say that PieFed has more features but feels a bit less responsive. PieFed also has a user reputation system which many, including myself, see as problematic. There are claims, including in this thread, that the PieFed Devs have incorporated censorship of views that they don’t like on a software level, but I don’t see how they could manage that.

The Lemmy devs hold very controversial opinions in support of China and Russia, and the instance run by the devs, lemmy.ml, strongly reflects those views, but as far as I can tell they haven’t baked them into the code. Where it gets sticky is that donations to support Lemmy development also fund .ml.

You may not have anything to hide right now, but who knows what people will think in 10 years, or who will be in power, or what a hiring manager may think after looking at your socials. When you post something on the internet, it’s like you’re screaming it on your front porch through a megaphone while all your neighbors are recording.

I used to hold the same opinion, but that changed after hearing a report that Facebook knows more about its users than their own IRL loved ones. That was sad, creepy, and dystopian at the same time. While I still don’t think my online activity would ruin my life if it got out (I don’t even use profanity) I still silo my online activity from my meatspace self as much as possible.

Can’t think of one now but I almost bought an OUYA. You know you screwed up when Homestar Runner makes fun of you.

edit:

Not disappointing as in bad but disappointing I couldn’t make it work for me. I bought a 3DS XL on two separate occasions. I got horrible headaches after playing, even with the 3D completely off. I think it was the low DPI coupled with the fact I had to have my nose almsot touching the screen. I’m not sure what possessed me to try again. It wasn’t even a different model.

But I missed so many good games. I’m tempted to try emulating them, DS as well as I missed that too, but I’d hate to resort to piracy, even though there aren’t any other ways to play DS and 3DS games on a big screen.

It’s my longest played game on Steam. I got it in early 2012 just after Redigit said he was ceasing development.

Coach Z? Is that you?

I already have an account on lemmy.radio. In fact it was my first foray into the threadiverse in 2023 during the Redit APIpocalypse. I made an account here because I post a lot in !worldbuilding@lemmy.world, and after the UK lost access to imgur I didn’t feel it was polite to clog a tiny instance with my unrelated uploads.

But herein lies my gripe about the fediverse as a whole. Fediverse platforms are by and large clones of larger social media offerings, and thus inherit some of their problems. Lemmy prioritizes new content over old but still relevant content, so if you want to aggregate a discussion under a single topic, as you would on a forum, it inevitably gets pushed off the front page as new posts come in, and nobody will ever see it again, so you have to keep posting new topics, but those end up clogging the feed. If you look at my posts on the worldbuilding community here, I have a bunch of different topics, but on this phpBB forum All my stuff is tucked neatly into a single thread that doesn’t clog the feed because the thread will remain visible as long as I kee posting.

You CAN sort posts by newest comment, which replicates the default forum style of topic bumping, but nobody ever does that, so the culture grows around the default “hot” sorting algorithm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83m261lAlrs

Exterminatus!

🎶Come on yaah 我剛才放屁了!

I’d love to see something with feature parity with AirTags but less proprietary and (if possible) more private. Having ADHD means I forget where things are 2 seconds after I put them down, and being blind means I can’t see where I put them. AirTags have been a life saver for me.

Met a guy named Jim Jones once. Everyone’s first words after learning his name were “Don’t expect me to take any Kool-Aid from you.” or the like. We thought it was funny but he probably heard it a billion times and was sick to death of it.

Not really trying to become a writer, but I have lots of worldbuilding ideas that I wish I could make interesting to others. I wish I could draw, but there’s a hard limit to what I can do visually, so I’ve had to fall back to writing, sort of. I like writing short character interactions or even just descriptions of an environment, the sort of stuff people would draw.

Oh there are vowels, they’re just written differently. These are xenolangs, languages spoken by aliens, specifically These guys:

With a vocal tract like that they’re not going to be speaking the king’s English (or any other human language) any time soon. There are only eight qualitatively different noises they can make, and most languages only make use of six of them. Whines, growls, and grunts are “vowels”, and huffs (a quick exhalation through the nose), chuffs, and yips are “consonants”. They can also hiss, either plain or trilled, but only Hearthsider uses hisses in actual words.

They supplement this very meager set of sounds with contrasting vowel pitches (high, low, rising, and falling), but also volumes (weak, strong, weakening, and strengthening). Vowel length and “timing” are also important. There are long and short vowels, but also early (two-vowel sequences where the second vowel is held longer than the first, making the change “early” in the syllable) and late (holding the first vowel longer than the second, making the change “late” in the syllable)

Here’s a phoneme inventory for Hearthsider.

Vowels:

And here are the consonants (edit: fixed):

Some random fun facts: Commonthroat has no pronouns. You have to either drop the word completely (very common on Earth) or inflect a noun in first, second, or third person (vary rare but not unknown on Earth, see Elamite). Outlander has a politeness distinction, with transactional, amicable, familial, and reverential pronouns in second and third person. Using familial pronouns to refer to coworkers or employees is considered vulgar unless they’re literally family. Last, Hearthsider has (or will have) a bunch of swear words drawn from liturgical vocabulary (cf Canadian French).

All languages use “to smell” where we would say “to feel” as in “feel happy” etc, because emotions are communicated through their musk. There is a rich set of “odor colors” that describe subjective olfactory experiences, rather than the typical (Western) human way of resorting to comparisons with sources of odors. In contrast, their color vocabulary works like English’s odor vocabulary. Other than “light” and “dark” they can only relate color sensations to familiar objects that are so colored, mostly fruits.

My latest constructed language, Hearthsider (just started this week). None of this will make sense but here we go:

Verbs are a closed class. To form complete sentences you use an equivalent of “do”, plus a verbal noun phrase. This noun phrase can have determiners such as articles attached to them, which indicate things like whether the action was performed only once, repeatedly, etc. To say “X verbs Y”, it would translate literally to “X does Y a verb”. Plurality will likely not be indicated on nouns but will be in articles.

rMl   t  qb  b sBsb    zGK
Light do 2sg a  shine  friend

“Light shine upon you, friend!”

This is a fairly common greeting crosslinguically, so I have translations in my other two conlangs:

Outlander:

sg Bqqbsd rkr PLr
sg      Bqqb-sd        PLr
2sg.AMI illuminate-OBJ light

Commonthroat:

L   rLPq-p      BCq-b         sFsF-qn
OPT light-3D    illuminate-NA friend-2

Here are the gloss abbreviations:

2sg = 2nd person singular pronoun
OPT = optative modal
2sg.AMI = 2nd person singular amicable pronoun
-OBJ = Object focus/trigger suffix
-3D = 3rd person distal noun suffix
-NA = Nonauthoritative verbal mood
-2 = 2nd person noun suffix

Not sure. I’ll probably wait for a review. The character models are really off-putting. They remind me of the book The Island of Doctor Moreau. It may be one of the first works to feature physically anthropomorphic animals, as opposed to regular animals with human behavior, and they’re written to be somewhere between terrifying and uncanny.

It’s BS. The Simpsons already made that joke anyway.