Promiseland

[Fetian]

Here's a fun fact about Japanese, which is that a casual way of saying "yes" sounds like "ehh", and this hasn't thrown me (yet) but it is a thing I have to consciously think about because it sounds so inherently negative to my ear

Anyway, be very very skeptical any time someone tries to tell you something is inherent in how humans express themselves, because chances are very high that whatever studies there are proving that were done on speakers of an indo-european language

Case in point the bouba-kiki study was done on [drumroll] english and tamil speakers. It's been done on other cultures now and weirdly is way less universal than originally thought! I'm not saying there's nothing there but hey, maybe this stuff is more culturally ingrained than it is nature

[Fetian]

Been big 'crawl into a hole and disappear for a while' vibes lately, in part due to ash being off work. There's nothing really to do about it besides ride it out, so that's what I'm doing, and trying not to beat myself up for being mentally/emotionally off. It's not the worst timing for it, honestly, what with the cold and wet. It will stop being so dark soon, at least, and hopefully that helps

[knightofcups]

It really /is/ a good time for it : ). Im enjoying downtime, but also will be glad when the schedule is back to normal.

[Fetian]

Just got $5 for the equifax settlement from 2017

[Fetian]

Just had to take a linguistics exam in which I had to transcribe words/phrases into IPA and count the resulting phonemes/consonants/vowels, but if I transcribed the words/phrases in my accent and not whatever accent the person who wrote the exam expected me to have then I'd get them wrong

I managed to squeak by but what a weird thing for a linguistics course to do

[Fetian]

Screenshot_2023-03-03 Mastery Test - Phonology Attempt review.png

 
Like hi! I'm american and pronounce the 'r' at the end of 'computer'!

Some of the questions specified RP English and this one didn't so I assumed I was safe to include the 'r' but whoops guess not

[Fetian]

Ironically if I hadn't turned it into phonemes first and just literally counted the consonants in the words "computer" and "pool" I'd have gotten it right

[Fetian]

So obviously the habitomato system stopped working a while back. The task generator also wasn't really working, so I've set up a new schedule system to try for a while, until the ADHD decides it's illegal. Here's hoping!

[Fetian]

God,

Visual Studio Code is great, but sometimes it'll update something in the settings that will make it start doing something extremely stupid and annoying and you have to spend ages trying to figure out what fucking setting you need to toggle to make it stop

I tab in sections of code to visually differentiate them from the rest of the code, which has not been a problem until today when I discovered that every time I switch tabs, all of my indenting disappears. I went through every single setting that had anything at all to do with trimming whitespace or trimming or whitespace or tabs or, and finally discovered that despite having all of that disabled it was "formatting" my code on save and that meant deleting all of my tabs. I have disabled that but for fuck's sake, shouldn't the "formatting" take the rest of my settings into account???

Just super god damn annoying. Last time, the update toggled a setting back on when I'd already gone in and turned it off, so that was also annoying. Just, stop doing things. All things, any things, just stop.

[Fetian]

Spent some time today doing some experimentation/research into whether or not it's possible, and how easy it is if so, to call external javascript from inside a Twine passage, and it unfortunately turns out to be very complicated. I would really like to use twine to handle some foundational and styling stuff for the teaching-teket-game-page, but I'd also really like to be able to use multiple javascript files to be able to handle progression rather than having to put it all into the inbuilt javascript editor. So I'm probably going to just make that from scratch, but I am annoyed about it.

It is very strange the limitations Twine puts on you