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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Mwahahahahaha! Bring it on!

(It wasn't just the green wiggle - I actually managed to shave two lines off the flag, top and bottom. Plus some pixels from the sides, but those got undone really fast by Hörnchen and Comput3. My goal was to leave only the text with some border.)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

You should've seen the chat. Hestia was almost writing a lemon fanfic about other two users, it was hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Ategon showed interest in the chat on making the notification chime configurable. So you could for example have it chiming when it's full, or for any number of pixels.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

Brace yourself: it is about to get worse. r/RedditAlternatives has some interesting posts saying how Reddit is about to ditch their modmail in exchange for their “chat” function (that has never worked correctly… ever).

*rolls eyes* "Great".

I might be wrong, but I think this whole issue boils down to four vices brought from Reddit: assumptions, decontextualisation, genetic fallacy, oversimplification. Those four on their own already make social media hostile, but if you couple them with political engagement (otherwise a great thing), you'll get people who genuinely see no difference between "they euthanised a 11yo dog with cancer" and "they kill puppies".

Or between "free Luigi" and "$CEO_name needs a Luigi in their life". Both show support to the same cause, but only the later can be reasonably understood as a call to violence (to the point it'd bring the admin troubles.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It sounds like a good idea, if you have the time+skill+money to do it.

Odds are that your instance won't be big. But at the same time, you'd have an easier time moderating it, specially if you only federate it with "cleaner" instances. (With "cleaner" meaning "that don't post content you'd remove").

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

We're in the same fart!!.

I'm still laughing at that. Sneaky!~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Good-looking dark elves >> homunculi 100% of the time. Plus Takuto got some great early game bonus, research tends to be a big deal in this sort of game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I use DuckDuckGo for that. Seriously. It's good enough for my purposes, and I don't need to create account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Those flatearth weirdos would rather admit that the Earth is hollow than that it's a normal (albeit flawed) full sphere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

"What's your favourite magical girl?" "Frieren, of course."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Cute chicken! Great idea to put it on the tree. Also, thanks for the help with the tree!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The link doesn't load for me, it shows an error page. Thankfully the archive has the text in question.

Interesting run-down of the history of the expansion of the language. I must admit that I know practically nothing about Africa's linguistic landscape (specially not for modern languages!), so for me it was highly informative.

But in the mid-19th century, as demand for ivory and enslaved people expanded, local trade routes in central Africa became incorporated into a global network centred around the Indian Ocean.

This reminds me Nahuatl and Tupi in the Americas - due to colonisation they also expanded a bit, over other local languages. But unlike Swahili their expansion was short-lived (eventually the Iberian crowns enforced Spanish and Portuguese).


I also recommend people who are interested in the language to give the Swahili grammar Wikipedia page a check, IMO it's fascinating.

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