That's the plan
I don't even have a father to disappoint anymore.

>>2961
SURPRISE BOX!

>>2962
try biting it

>>2961
This is the third time the father of someone I knew has died. I'm a bit scared.

So were there any good sales?

>>2963
Etrian Odyssey collection was a pretty good deal imo. Would have bought it if I hadn't already played the original games on DS. I'll probably get them next time they go on sale.

>>2964
Aren't they pretty low quality ports? I don't see any reason not to play on DS.

>>2965
From what I've seen they're not low quality, just pretty barebones, or I suppose if you want to be more generous you could say they're faithful to the originals. What they have over DS is several bug fixes and subtle QoL changes, at the cost of worse mapping since these games were made for dual screens. For me personally, if I wanted to replay them I'd go with the HD remasters and turn on full automapping. The QoL features are a pretty big deal as far as I'm concerned, especially EO3 features backported to 1 and 2 like autopilot and separate inventory tab for key items.

>>2974
I thought they also used a really bad font in it, but I guess they could have fixed that by now. For 1 and 2 it's a weird area where they're not totally faithful to the originals, but also not as upgraded as the 3DS remakes from 10 years ago. I just can't see a situation where I'd want the middle ground here.

got a new blanket for christmas gonna keep so warm

Blanket got washed and dryered and now its super warm and comfy

It's been flipping dark out really early recently and that fucking sucks

I'd say it's close to maximum darkness at about 6:30PM here. I don't think it's any different from other years, but I could be wrong. The main thing that's different this year is that it wasn't until a couple weeks ago that we finally hit below freezing when it's normally mid to late October. Poor plants...

I think so. Purposeful interaction is required by the individual and it's possible to mess it up or to create a better version than someone else with identical implements.

I have a very bad taste. I prefer scrambled eggs because then I can't taste the yolk.

>>2750
was her show anygood?

>>2926
yeah desu

>>2926
it was okay

>>2752
sigh........................

>>2933
The big ass mafia loses yet again

>>2360
thanks

>>2360
Hi becky

/win/ is closing very soon to make way for /spg/!

It's time to be full of /win/ again!

I'm ready for winter to be over

hehe cat hoovering up kibble

i miss my dog

>>2915
aww.
yeah, I've lost a few pets over the years...

>>2916
sorry

Sounds pretty bad, but I don't really eat fast food so it doesn't concern me

>>2866
I think it basically means that they're gonna use AI to find out how much customers are willing to pay for burgers

>>2874
That doesn't really sound unique? How is that any different from breakfast menus -> daytime menus, or seasonal items? Or do you literally mean food that has been sitting around for days and is about to expire...

>>2876
Yes, and it is random in what you receive

Aren't electric utilities planning to make power prices dynamic on minute by minute calculations, too?
It would make sense to demand different prices for products if their fresh production costs vary across the day, too.

Actually, the entire article is almost bit scary in how vague it is. I mean, yeah, you can guess that "enabling the crew to focus on what matters" is a euphemism for firing half of them, but overall it says very little.

I just got an icee from mcD's and both the girls at the drive through had McDonald themed shirts with katakana on them. One was a sweater I couoldnt' make out that looked like some metal band logo and the other just said McDonald's in english and in japanese.

Before /win/ closes down again, I also want to share an even less intuitive feature of English: homographs that are pronounced differently based on word class.


For example, verbs in English regularly take the -ed ending for their past tense and participle conjugations, but there are also several words where an identical ending was historically used to create adjectives. For whatever reason the latter remain fully enunciated while the former has been simplified, and due to even more historical happenstance there now exist several words that are written the same but pronounced differently depending on what role it is fulfilling:
Cursed = cursid, or curs't
Blessed = blessid, or bless't
Other pairs are learned, crooked, but it seems winged, supposed, and peaked have been neutralized. Something weird's going on with alleged, it seems that one's actually a new development by analogy. Then there's the similar naked, ragged, rugged, wicked, jagged, legged which I'm not confident in grouping here, and the cases of beloved and sacred where the original verb is obsolete and only the adjective remains. This still overlaps with common participles being used as adjectives, like bored from bore, which has a regular pronunciation.

Then there's <-ate>, which can be either /eɪt/ or /ət/. The verbs it's present in always have a long vowel, while with adjectives and nouns it's a tossup, no way to tell as far as I know. Richard Eaton, some 80 years old historian I just learned of, says Persianate with a schwa, while Latinate I've seen listed mainly with FACE even though you'd expect them to sound the same given how similar they are. (A younger speaker does use FACE for both.) It's possible /eɪt/ is becoming more common over time and as the spelling that makes sense, and which regularly applies to all chemicals bearing it.
Here some pairs you can find are graduate, incarnate, duplicate, correlate, (in)discriminate, elaborate, laminate, deliberate, federate, initiate, intermediate, moderate, and syndicate. Apostate appears to be pronounced both ways, maybe, but I don't know if that's tied to word class. I'm sure there are more though.

The most interesting one are those that are actually derived from each other. English has a method to derive nounds and adjectives from verbs, which consist of moving stress towards the start of the word. Take this set of original verbs: disCOUNT, inSULT, and imPORT, whose stress-derived nouns aPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2871
>This may all stem from French bullshit
That's what I always thought at least.

>>2872
I mean, yeah, when in doubt blame the French. It's a pretty reliable strategy.

How do Koreans deal with all the homophones they inherited from China anyways?

>>2879
In regular spoken language, I don't think it's much of a problem. As far as I know, the reason why Chinese went from this mythical state where so many words were monosyllabic to the current situation of most being dysyllabic compounds is because simplification made so many morphemes sound like each other, and the Chinese have to put up with it same as those who imported their vocabulary. Take the jouyou kanji: it includes like fifty characters with the reading shô, and you regularly encounter words like 少女, 勝負, 将来, 賞金, 正直, 証明, 症状, 昭和, 紹介, 召喚, 省略, 障害, every one of them starts with exactly the same しょう sound, but every time is stands for a different morpheme, each one means something different. What makes them distinguishable is that people learn them as full words, spoken shôjo is as distinct from shônen as it is from shôji, and that's why people recommend that you learn words rather than memorizing individual characters. Although the vast majority of characters are homophonous with each other, the same is not true for full compounds in daily use.

What Koreans use when it comes to technical written vocabulary is hanja (same word as kanji and hanxi, 漢字), they revert to using runes. The relationship that Chinese characters have with spoken language is a particularly strange one, and simply continuing to employ them when truly needed is the method that stuck.

dark niggas

Patchy...

patchy surprise!

>>2848
the consequences of surprise boxing

>>2812
Yume Nikki isn't Japanese.

>>2824
it's not? how so?

>>2825
Oh, I just checked and actually it is. Hmm. I could swear that it wasn't... Just ignore what I said.

westerners don't use rpgmaker

>>2827
I browse F95 zone enough to know that's not true...

>>2794
The head. I've never experienced the threads being stripped. That sounds like something you could only do with a drill, or from having cross-threaded plastic or wood thread grooves.

>>2794
Head, yeah. My experience is mostly on the smaller ones used on consoles and other electronics. Maybe it's different on the bigger ones on furniture and stuff. I hate small screws so much. And then there's companies that Nintendo that make their own shapes to discourage repair or piracy so you have to buy a separate screw for those. I guess there's a difference between building for or against the customer's benefit.

>>2798
>that Nintendo
LIKE Nintendo

robertson screws are the best because they're canadain

>>2788
Power tools is why. You need to have it centered with a little bit of give to odd angles and philips lets you do that just fine. If you try screwing in a flat head with a power tool then you'll strip it if you're not perfectly dead on and center. Philips also just freely stick to the end of the drivers a lot better when you're lining it up. The reason philips gets stripped a lot is poor technique. If a screw is in tight and you aren't putting a lot of pressure on it then the driver will climb out, and as it's a harder steel than the screw head, it starts stripping it.

I like ducks

i like cute quackers

>>2725
I remember watching a racist version of the Duck Song back in the day before I comprehended what racism was, it might still be on newgrounds but I can't find it.

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/155000