DakRalter

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Landlord%27s_Game

The irony, right?

I bought Anti-Monopoly for my nephew, which is actually lot of fun. My nephew plays as the monopolist because of the higher rents you get, yet I always beat him as a Competitor (he wipes the floor with me in normal Monopoly though).

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

Joke's on you, I still use Paint Shop Pro 7.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The one and only time I tried to use kdenlive, it blackscreened my PC and when I booted back up, my Linux Mint showed in the boot menu as just Ubuntu. I went right back to Openshot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

See my post to the reply above yours :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sorry, I forgot to put the last paragraph as a quote.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth#Old_English

~~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwvbNppHZkg~~

Dang, the creator put a paywall on it.

It's the same with the letter f, from what I remember it was pronounced as an f or a v, depending on what letters are before and after it, similar to lenition in Irish, or s being pronounced as both s and z in Romance languages depending on what's around it.

Here we go

https://oldenglish.info/advpronunciationguide.html

Specifically þ and ð:

þ and ð are digraphs. This means they represent the same sound, much like the modern 'th' can be voiced (in words like 'this' and 'that') or unvoiced (in words like 'thick' or 'through'). The general rule of thumb is that þ comes at the start of a word and ð comes in the middle or at the end. However, you will often see them used interchangeably, with the same word appearing on the same page spelled with both ð forms and þ forms. You can even see words like 'oþþe' spelled 'oþðe' or 'oððe' so don't overthink it.

https://oldenglish.info/oestart.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Wasn't that a misconception and they both make either of those sounds?

In Old English, ⟨ð⟩ (called ðæt) was used interchangeably with ⟨þ⟩ to represent the Old English dental fricative phoneme /θ/ or its allophone /ð/, which exist in modern English phonology as the voiceless and voiced dental fricatives both now spelled ⟨th⟩.

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

That reminds me of the Action Lab video on a 4D ball.

https://youtu.be/_4ruHJFsb4g

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm sorry to say I tried this and it worked.

I also got a person to leave by writing VY Canis Majoris. I'm not sure how they interpreted that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Strangely, I got my letter saying my "postal vote forms will arrive soon" two days after I received the postal vote forms. I got confused for a moment there!

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

Props to Ranty, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most of the big names in the flerf community are grifters, for sure. But many of the people who follow them are genuine believers. I have a relative who's a die-hard flerfer.

Sheeps and Neeps was a small time flerfer who literally died because his conspiracy theory beliefs about cancer treatment, and there was that guy who went up in a rocket and came down in pieces. So some of them really do believe it. In my relative's case, he went through a lot of trauma, flerfers give him a sense of belonging and something to hold onto.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks. It was actually F12, I managed to catch it for the split second it showed; for some reason it doesn't always show the commands when I switch it on.

This is what I got.

I selected Ubuntu and I got my choice back again. I hope i don't have to do this every time I boot though.

Thank you for being so patient with me.

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