Lvxferre [he/him]

Let me guess: you were trying to pirate Windows games and software. Right?

If yes, look at it this way. You’re pirating games for one system, and trying to run them in another system. Of course it’ll involve one or two additional loops to make it work. It’s like baking bread on your stove, you know? It can be done, but it isn’t as streamlined as using your oven.

That said it isn’t really difficult. I have a bunch of pirated Windows games installed in my Linux. Steam helps by a lot, because of Proton; add the game to Steam as a “non-Steam game”, then force it to use a specific Steam Play compatibility tool. You can do it without Steam but it streamlines everything.

You’re still better off looking for native software, though, made for Linux. A bunch of good games have Linux versions.

The name of his studio, “Kintsugiyama”, is too long. Can I clip the “sugiy”? It sounds better! :^) …okay, disregard the shitty joke.

Serious now: Kaplan and Ford’s takes are fairly reasonable. Forums online (including Reddit… and Lemmy/Piefed, by the way) seem to trigger on people a natural instinct to fit in, as part of a group. This leads to the adoption of similar values and judgements, and in turn to direct praise and criticism towards the same things — even when you’re in no position to do it, because you didn’t experience it nor plan to. In practice this means yes, it’s harder to speak “I like it” when everyone else dislikes it.

And people can get reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally loud with this shite.

Also, I like the way they voiced this. It’s really hard to misconstrue it as “don’t criticise things”. Criticism is often healthy, sometimes even really harsh criticism; it’s just that sometimes it needs some experience to be even constructive, and that’s the case here.

All symbols are wrong, but in ways that oddly make sense:

• Mint - it’s a leaf.
• Fedora - it’s a wearable.
• Debian - the logo coils itself, so does a snake.
• Arch - arcus~arco~arc is “bow” in Latin/Romance.

I don’t know if what I’m going to say is correct, but this smells like LLM shitting emojis.

Red has dohminatrix vibes.

It is soul-crushing tedious. That’s probably why Lucy is calling it min-maxxing, in any other game this stuff would be seen as a player ruining their own fun, but in Isaac it somehow gets a pass. And it gets worse depending on the speed stat that she mentioned, if it goes down the process becomes even slower.

That is not to say the game is bad, though. It’s surprisingly good for something initially made in Flash.

I don’t know what D6 is

A cubic/“normal” die with six sides. In Isaac it’s an item that, when activated, replaces the random items in a room with other random items. If the new items are good you pick them up, if they’re bad you reroll the D6, but to recharge it you need to complete other rooms. So you keep revisiting the same room, over and over.

One is a lighter, another is heavier.

Gold Ship. Of course. It had to be Gold Ship. Just wait until she turns back and starts chasing some butterfly.

Broken window fallacy + “fuck the others”.

I’m not sure but I think the suffix in this case would yield “fuckard”. With “fucktard” being interpreted as “fuck [re]tard”. And given “retard” is nowadays interpreted as a slur, I’d discourage it.

Cool! Does it have AI? Also I want it to connect to a phone app, do not bring me an actual program, or a website (I don’t understand what’s a “browser”, is it Google?), bring me an app! I’m fine with a subscription model, or if the cube starts leaking ooze onto the counter without it. It’s also fine if the cube is expected to leak ooze two years from now, because some server thingamajig is gone.

/s obviously.

The -ard is basically “fucking” + nominaliser (if necessary):

• wizard - fucking wise one
• drunkard - fucking drunk one
• coward - fucking tail (the initial part is from Old French “coue” tail, itself from Latin “cauda” tail. Who shows the back in a fight? Someone running away!)

The “nominaliser” part is an artefact of the borrowing, the suffix is from French. Romance languages often use adjectives as if they were nouns, but that doesn’t quite roll in English. In turn French borrowed it from Frankish, it’s apparently cognate of English “hard”.

The etymology of “mustard” is disputed. The first part is likely from Latin “mustum” must; it used to be prepared with young wine. The -ard is typically explained as ardens (fiery, hot). So basically “mustum ardens” hot must. …Capsicum peppers are from the Americas, black pepper and long pepper were expensive, European mediaevalards didn’t really have a lot of spicy flavours to work with, so… I guess mustard was spicy for them?

Temporal: that would explain it. But it still sounds funny.

Copromorphidae: I stand corrected. Shit-shaped moths!

I also found a frog called Allobates niputidea. That’s from Spanish though, not Latin. (ni puta idea = no fucking idea.)

I have no idea on why they decided to call the common European frog Rana temporaria, but “temporary frog” sounds really funny. “Eh this species name is just temporary, I swear”.

I’m also kind of surprised I couldn’t find a single species called merdicula (little shit). Seems like the sort of humour some would have.

Time to be[an] yourself!

Who knows? Definitively worth trying! (…I’m not trying it.)

indications.

Yes but the text omits what is being indicated: directions. In Spanish I bet this is clear by context, but since I was trying to parse it from other Romance languages, the result was weird:

• IT - so Seymour got some instructions? (“Indicazioni” sounds way more abstract, as “indicating what you need to do”)
• PT - so they were there despite the recommendations? Then why is bald guy looking at Seymour with a “you dun goofed” face? (“Indicações” would imply “indicating a place as worth visiting”)

Just small language differences, you know.

“it’s what he did”/“it was her heart what he stole” - works like this.

Is it common to say that “que” in Spanish without any verb, like they did there?

I’ve seen people preparing sweet cakes with Parmesan cheese. I’ve eaten it. It’s actually really tasty, so… I hope the person who took this pic tasted their tea/chocolate/whatever before throwing it away.

I can kind of parse Spanish from other Romance languages, but some stuff throws me off track. Like that indicationes for “directions” (I had to check it in a dictionary), or the verbless que’s in the third panel.

But yeah, the joke is really clear.

Relevant to note I don’t speak Nahuatl. I parsed this info from Wiktionary + Wikipedia, it’s surprisingly easy to follow.

(For the non-possessed form, as in “a penis is an organ”, use “tepolli” instead. Wiktionary also mentions “tototl” bird being used with that meaning, kind of like English “cock”.)