General Chat Thread

[Sir Punicpunch 1,688]

You never saw Vindicators: Uprising of Artificial Intelligence?

Oh.

 

I mean, I tried it.

 

Once.

[Count Paradox 3,548]

Terminator: Rise of the Machines.

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,682]

Terminator: Rise of the Machines.

 

Ending: Upbringing of Things that do Work for You

[Count Paradox 3,548]

Ending: Upbringing of Things that do Work for You

lul

So wassup everwun

[Sir Punicpunch 1,688]

lul

So wassup everwun

Nothing.

 

Absolutely nothing.

[Count Paradox 3,548]

Nothing.

 

Absolutely nothing.

i can see...

[Sir Punicpunch 1,688]

i can see...

Nevermind, apparently the universe had to balance itself out and start a fucking fire.

 

Fucking Pop-Tarts.

[Count Paradox 3,548]

Nevermind, apparently the universe had to balance itself out and start a fucking fire.

 

Fucking Pop-Tarts.

JESUS WHAT HAPPENED!?

[Hidey 2,836]

money money money money 

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,682]

Nevermind, apparently the universe had to balance itself out and start a fucking fire.

 

Fucking Pop-Tarts.

 

Speaking of fire, I had to tell my folks that the outside heat is insufficient to make paper catch fire; it'd have to be 7.85-ish radians Fahrenheit in order to do that.

 

Also, my other home site's gotten a massive update and that involves circle avatars. Wanna see?

Edited June 17, 2015 by Ganaram Inukshuk

[Sir Punicpunch 1,688]

JESUS WHAT HAPPENED!?

Pop-Tarts happened.

[Delzepp 2,939]

みなさん、こんにちは

 

that means hello everyone

 

...or does it?

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,682]

みなさん、こんにちは

 

that means hello everyone

 

...or does it?

 

Can't read Katakana. Or is that Hiragana?

 

You've inspired me to think about making a custom alphabet again.

Edited June 17, 2015 by Ganaram Inukshuk

[Delzepp 2,939]

Can't read Katakana. Or is that Hiragana?

it's actually very much hiragana, like 100% of it

 

it says みmi なna さsa んn、こko んn にni ちchi はwa

 

minasan, kon'nichiwa

 

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,682]

it's actually very much hiragana, like 100% of it

Buuut.... It's not an alphabet.

 

Note to self: Hiragana and Katakana are similar syllabaries except Hiragana's a million times curlier than Katakana, and Kanji is Japaneseified Chinese glyphs.

Edited June 17, 2015 by Ganaram Inukshuk

[Delzepp 2,939]

Buuut.... It's not an alphabet.

hiragana symbols are mainly syllables, not letters, if that makes sense

 

and all of them contain vowels

that's why the Japanese have difficulties in pronouncing two consonants next to each other without adding in a vowel between them

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,682]

hiragana symbols are mainly syllables, not letters, if that makes sense

 

and all of them contain vowels

that's why the Japanese have difficulties in pronouncing two consonants next to each other without adding in a vowel between them

 

That's what makes it not an alphabet; discounting vowels altogether makes it an abjad, like Arabic and Hebrew, (vowels are weird filler noises that go between consonants and are typically written as diacritics and not assigned true glyphs) but if it has vowels that have to be attached to consonants, it's a syllabary.

 

Alphabets have separate symbols for consonants and vowels, like the Greek alphabet (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, and so on; hence alphabet and not begagam or gammadelt or whatever); syllabaries have consonant sonuds that are always attached to vowels (insanely hard to do with English), abjads don't vowel (LK SRSLY TR RDNG THS RGT NW), and abugidas do weird things to consonant symbols that get paired with vowel sounds. Can English abugida?

 

Edited June 17, 2015 by Ganaram Inukshuk

[Delzepp 2,939]

 

That's what makes it not an alphabet; discounting vowels altogether makes it an abjad, like Arabic and Hebrew, (vowels are weird filler noises that go between consonants and are typically written as diacritics and not assigned true glyphs) but if it has vowels that have to be attached to consonants, it's a syllabary.

 

Alphabets have separate symbols for consonants and vowels; syllabaries have consonant sonuds that are always attached to vowels, abjads don't vowel, and abugidas do weird things to consonant symbols that get paired with vowel sounds. Can English abugida?

mate, it's 1:07 AM here, unfortunately I cannot concentrate on so much information right now

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,682]

mate, it's 1:07 AM here, unfortunately I cannot concentrate on so much information right now

Are you on the other side of the world with respect to me?

[Delzepp 2,939]

Are you on the other side of the world with respect to me?

well, I dunno, I have no idea where you are right now

 

see the time difference between us and you can prolly pinpoint my timezone on the map

 

I'm in that general area, provided you found the right timezone

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,682]

well, I dunno, I have no idea where you are right now

 

see the time difference between us and you can prolly pinpoint my timezone on the map

 

I'm in that general area, provided you found the right timezone

 

United states wēst coast... Plus or minus 12 hours? You could be in tomorrow or yesterday right now...

Edited June 17, 2015 by Ganaram Inukshuk

[Delzepp 2,939]

United states wēst coast... Plus or minus 12 hours? You could be in tomorrow or yesterday right now...

if you're on the west coast, that's a 10 hour difference

 

under normal circumstances, there are 7 hours between here and the east coast and 10 between here and the west coast

 

I say under normal circumstances as the daylight savings rules are different here, so that time difference may change at times

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,682]

if you're on the west coast, that's a 10 hour difference

 

under normal circumstances, there are 7 hours between here and the east coast and 10 between here and the west coast

 

I say under normal circumstances as the daylight savings rules are different here, so that time difference may change at times

 

Western to Central Europe or Central Africa. Unless I went the wrong way...

[Delzepp 2,939]

Western to Central Europe or Central Africa. Unless I went the wrong way...

ok, let's make this easy: what's the time at your place right now?

[Ganaram Inukshuk 3,682]

ok, let's make this easy: what's the time at your place right now?

 

15:20.