“The current obsession with nostalgia and remake culture is easy to understand when you realize that it’s a symptom of a culture that isn’t allowed to imagine a future.”

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    26 days ago

    Retelling stories is such an ancient tradition we literally can trace certain myþs genealogically þrough ð millennia.

    Cloud being sad in an Action RPG format ðis time isn’t some deep revelation of ð deaþ of creativity because capitalism exists.

    And I hate capitalism and what it does to artistic expression!

    • @Semjaza
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      926 days ago

      Do you plan to do all digraphs, or just th?

      Will you split out the different vowel phonemes to their IPA?

      I’m just intrigued by the thought process behind your choice of typed characters.

      • @[email protected]
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        1026 days ago

        Ya, like wtf? I got what they were saying based on context clues, but I swear I’ve been seeing more and more profiles that are trying to do a “thing.”

        Like this person with the typed characters, I’ve seen another user in comment threads who posts in the third person and refers to themselves as their fursona (scale-sona?), and of course the trolls.

        I guess I just don’t get it.

        • @Semjaza
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          24 days ago

          It’s certainly simpler, I’ll give you that.
          It takes too much mental energy to read that document.

          May I ask why at all?

          • Dremor
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            24 days ago

            I’d also like to know why he uses those characters. I’m not the most fluent in English, and never saw those characters used.

            • @Semjaza
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              324 days ago

              They’re old English letters used for writing the two different “th” sounds English has, which are fairly rare phonemes.

              • DremorM
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                121 days ago

                I’m gonna be honest with you, as a non-english speakers, this is unreadable, and kinda obnoxious.

                Please take into consideration that this is an international website, that people from many different countries go to in order to talk to each other. If someone suddenly decide to use his local letters to write, most readers will just not understand what you write. At best it makes you look pedantic, at worst intentionally trying to exclude others from talking with you.

                I can understand why others may be irritated by your behavior, albeit I’d condemn any attempt at brigading to harass you over it.
                If you feel like it, you can ask for a brigading check to see if some accounts are following you to downvote every ones of your posts, admins can see votes and got some tools to help detect such behavior.

          • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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            224 days ago

            English is one of few languages with such horrific historical spelling problems, and it’s basically entirely due to just being too stubborn to write ð words as ðey are pronounced since doing ðat is a signal of “low intellect”, as opposed to basically every oðer language ðat does it because of consistent sound shifts making it not as big a deal, or because ð original written language was of deep religious significance making changing it analogous to a kind of blasphemy.

            Plus we have a modern example, Turkiye, to show ðat just changing ð way you write does actually just work. Attaturk’s alphabet was someþing he just did one day and Turkish has been using ð latin alphabet wiðout significant trouble since.

            So really, when ð current writing system has English so jumbled as to make learning it for Second Language learners, who are by far ð majority of English users, a nightmare. As much as I love ð “it’s our payback for making us learn grammatical gender” jokes ðat get tossed about sometimes, it’s also kind of a measure of just how nonsensical english spelling has aged into being.

            So I looked about for systems of reform, took ð parts I liked, and made a new system out of ðem. Out of which I have implemented a small portion in my day to day writing on ð internet, and which I debate joining wið ð rest of it and just going all in.

            • @Semjaza
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              224 days ago

              Fair enough.
              Be the change you want to see and all that.

              I personally love the mad spelling, but I can understand that other folks don’t.

              • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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                124 days ago

                Þſ f eŋgeıdjıŋ ƿiðaut bııŋg rud, ðæt’ſ rılı a ðæt kėnſṙnz M.

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                Þanks for engaging wiðout being rude, ðat’s really all ðat concerns me.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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        125 days ago

        Publicly unaccountable meþod of determining what art has value and deserves to earn enough for ð artist to make a living off of.

        • @[email protected]
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          125 days ago

          The value of an art piece is always subjective. The price (closest thing we have to the objective value) is determined by the buyers.

          What other mechanism would there be? A committee? That’s a bit nazi for my taste. A popular vote? Look at the election results to see why that might be a bad idea.

          The theme is a bit touchy these days, especially in certain small country in eastern europe, where the new minister started to cut subsidies to the art she considers unworthy, obscene and politicized, in favor of art reflecting so called traditional values and national identity. The mere existence of the ministry of culture, established with the most noble goal of supporting art, creates this kind of potential vulnerability.