There’s actually a neat reason for this! The way that simple keys work, like those in a calculator, is by connecting a circuit and letting a small amount of voltage through. This is usually fine because the keypad is broken up into different rollover zones, which is how multi-key input works. But if you find and press keys that are all in the same zone, their voltages add up and can actually overwhelm the little cpu in there. Really old calculators were really easy to break because designers never thought users would need to press keys like division, multiplication, subtract, add, square and square root all at once, which as you can imagine, caused a massive power spike.

Now, is any of this true? I have no idea dude, you’re calculator was probably fucking haunted or something. I’d have taken that thing to a seance with a ouija board immediately.

My favorite was MathAlly. I still have it through some built-in android backwards compatibility emulator, but once it goes, it goes. They haven’t been on the app store for years.

What, do you people own the word prompt now?

See, this piss-poor reading comprehension is why you shouldn’t let an LLM do your homework for you.

I took an entire week off for Rebirth, and the whole time was like “Whee! :D”

That’d be nice.

90 and 120 are rolling through the greens. Are posters mostly green? That seems odd to me.

Oh hell yeah. The perfect system for Yamaoka’s industrial scrape music.

Let me know how it goes. I’ve been real excited to see people experience this for the first time, haha.

Yeah, that’s a tough one.

I’d say “well, don’t,” but that’s pretty obviously useless. :p

I think I can say this much, though: Silent Hill, being so metaphorical, it’s kind of built like a big puzzle? It’s okay to “not get it” while you’re playing. Most of the stuff I know I’m pretty sure I picked up from fan wikis later on.

So, easier said than done, but: try not to think so much, haha.

The remake is also a little better about explaining its own plot, I think just by being a little more obvious. So, by the end, some things might click into place a little more.

And yeah, the sound design, (minor early game spoiler) have you noticed that >!the radio!< >!is a positional sound?!<

!Normally, you hear it kind of left and behind you. My instinct that the sound is supposed to be telling me where to look was so strong that I kept turning away from enemies I knew were right in front of me. That’s so genius I almost feel it must have been an accident.!<

SH2 remake is sooo good. I’m in disbelief, honestly—and I’m still not convinced Konami will take Silent Hill f seriously enough. God willing.

But yes, if you’re interested, play SH2 remake.

<3

That’s… what you said, though. You’re a man because you do things men do.

I don’t know what your point about the fruit is.

Okay. Do you know that oranges and bananas are both “fruit.”

They’re actually both berries, even.

I actually wear a kilt.

How does a “biological female” present?
Do they wear dresses?
Ah yes, biological dresses.

This is a large part of why the conservatives are so angry.

Conservatives are angry because M&Ms have different boots on than they used to, I really don’t care, man.

Oh, I was looking for something like this. The husband and wife example is really good.

I don’t agree with this.

Then you will forever misunderstand us.

You don’t identify as a man? So, if you did things that society expects of women, would you be… a woman… then? Look, the dispassion is admirable, I just wasn’t expecting you to be so loose about it.

So what is a child’s conception of a woman?

It’s gonna be faces of people they know along with liberal use of the word “woman” in their presence. I mean, do you understand an orange is like a banana the very first time you see one?

Yeah, it’s the anti-intellectualism that really gets me. Reeally bothers me when people refuse to concede even simple, obvious points.

It’s been funny reading your branches, too.

Ah, I see the definition. “A woman is someone who presents as a woman.” You’re right, that’s much better and much less recursive.

You are.

I wasn’t asking you to agree with the definition, I was asking you to follow it through. You know, like a descriptivist.

If a woman must identify as a woman, then a person who says “I am not a woman” should not be called one. You’re in the category if you want to be, you’re not if you don’t. Simple. Easy. Much utility. This is exactly what people in my camp use it for.

I’ll point out, by the way, dictionaries provide a lot of useful context, but you cannot expect them to teach you the world. Words there depend on words for meaning. If you don’t know any single word, you can’t parse any of the meaning. If you don’t believe me, read a French dictionary (no translations) and see if you can parse out from the words alone what anything is.

The only way to parse meaning is to match words you see to experiences you have in life. This is actually how children learn languages. No child knows “the definition,” but they do know how to use the words.

Assuming the word “good” actually means “bad”, then the statement is correct.

This is perfectly simple to follow. I have no idea what this is meant to prove.

You can prescribe words. You just make an argument. For instance, when you tell people the thing you made is called a “Tesla.” You can also tell people your website is called “X,” and if people disagree, well, they prescribe the opposite then, don’t they?

I don’t “naturally follow from sociological norms that the site is called Twitter” as much as I just refuse to call it the other one. I am prescribing something here.

In any case, can we say that your experiment wasn’t very good

No, because you refuse to engage. You know what the correct answer is, I gave you a child’s problem, you just won’t say it.

If it’s the former, then you should know I don’t use that definition.

“Remember, language is descriptive.” You only need to know how I’m using it.

So, using my “recursive” definition, is it correct or not correct to call me a woman. Is it possible to derive an answer from the information given to you.