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I have a migraine bad enough it's been waking me up all night, which is great because I still need to study for the chapter quiz due today

Fetian wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2024 12:22 pm

Here's how to count to 128 in Teket Lau (subject to change)

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#	#	#	#	#	#
0	lin	43	terim cen tes	86	chiten cen ma
1	ira	44	terim cen isa	87	chiten cen usa
2	su	45	terim cen irim	88	siten lin
3	tes	46	terim cen ma	89	siten cen ira
4	isa	47	terim cen usa	90	siten cen su
5	irim	48	tema lin	91	siten cen tes
6	ma	49	tema cen ira	92	siten cen isa
7	usa	50	tema cen su	93	siten cen irim
8	ten	51	tema cen tes	94	siten cen ma
9	nes	52	tema cen isa	95	siten cen usa
10	chin	53	tema cen irim	96	liren lin
11	sig	54	tema cen ma	97	liren cen ira
12	lir	55	tema cen usa	98	liren cen su
13	vhun	56	tusa lin	99	liren cen tes
14	han	57	tusa cen ira	100	liren cen isa
15	kin	58	tusa cen su	101	liren cen irim
16	svheiten	59	tusa cen tes	102	liren cen ma
17	irateten	60	tusa cen isa	103	liren cen usa
18	suteten	61	tusa cen irim	104	vhuten lin
19	testeten	62	tusa cen ma	105	vhuten cen ira
20	isteten	63	tusa cen usa	106	vhuten cen su
21	iriteten	64	tecen lin	107	vhuten cen tes
22	mateten	65	tecen cen ira	108	vhuten cen isa
23	usteten	66	tecen cen su	109	vhuten cen irim
24	teteten	67	tecen cen tes	110	vhuten cen ma
25	tetes cen ira	68	tecen cen isa	111	vhuten cen usa
26	tetes cen su	69	tecen cen irim	112	haten lin
27	tetes cen tes	70	tecen cen ma	113	haten cen ira
28	tetes cen isa	71	tecen cen usa	114	haten cen su
29	tetes cen irim	72	neten lin	115	haten cen tes
30	tetes cen ma	73	neten cen ira	116	haten cen isa
31	tetes cen usa	74	neten cen su	117	haten cen irim
32	tenisa lin	75	neten cen tes	118	haten cen ma
33	tenisa cen ira	76	neten cen isa	119	haten cen usa
34	tenisa cen su	77	neten cen irim	120	kinen lin
35	tenisa cen tes	78	neten cen ma	121	kinen cen ira
36	tenisa cen isa	79	neten cen usa	122	kinen cen su
37	tenisa cen irim	80	chiten lin	123	kinen cen tes
38	tenisa cen ma	81	chiten cen ira	124	kinen cen isa
39	tenisa cen usa	82	chiten cen su	125	kinen cen irim
40	terim lin	83	chiten cen tes	126	kinen cen ma
41	terim cen ira	84	chiten cen isa	127	kinen cen usa
42	terim cen su	85	chiten cen irim	128	cencen

I've spent a lot of time and effort on this tonight so, like, I'm not going to make you look at it, but I'm also not keeping it to myself

Here is roughly what's going on with the numbers, for anyone who is curious about it but doesn't want to puzzle the system out for themself

Some foundational info: when writing numerals in bases greater than decimal (the base-10 system we're used to), people will often use letters to supplement the digits. So counting to "10" in base-12 would look like this: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, 10

You've probably seen color codes that look like #75BD9A -- that's the amount of Red, Blue, and Green from 1-255 in hexadecimal (R:75₁₆ = R:117₁₀, B:BD₁₆ = B:189₁₀, G:9A₁₆ = G:154₁₀

SO. Counting in numerals, in Teket Lau.

 
0
("only", "alone")

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 10
(this should look familiar, now)

20
("big 8")

21 22 23 24 25 26 27
(1+8+8, 2+8+8, 3+8+8, etc)

30
(8+8+8)

31 32 33 34 35 36 37
(8+3 and 1, 8+3 and 2, 8+3 and 3, etc)

40
(8+4 alone)

41 42 43 44 45 46 47
(8+4 and 1, 8+4 and 2, 8+4 and 3, etc)

...

71 72 73 74 75 76 77
(8+7 and 1, etc)

80
(8 and only)

81 82 83 84 85 86 87
(8 and and 1, 8 and and 2, 8 and and 3, etc)

90

(9+8 alone)

91 92 93 94 95 96 97

(9+8 and 1, etc)

A0
(A+8 alone)

A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7
(A+8 and 1, etc)

...

F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7
(F+8 and 1, etc)

100
(andand)

101
(andand 1)

...

140
(andand 8+4 alone)

141
(andand 8+4 and 1)

...

200
(2 andand)

...

240
(2 andand 8+4 alone)

241
(2 andand 8+4 and 1)

 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 40
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 60
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 80
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 A0
A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 C0
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 E0
E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 100

 
All this to say: that's why it's "how to count to 128"

Is it base 8? Is it base 16? Yes.

I did probably should swap the 90 and up to be consistent with the ones before that ("8+9 and 1" instead of "9+8 and 1", so something like "tenes cen ira" instead of "neten cen ira")

Subject to change.

I cannot parse this but I am proud of you nonetheless

I am looking forward to reading this when I have less headache. I haven't poked at my Teket primer in too long.

Alright, chapter 10 quiz done. 24/34 right now but I'm pretty confident in my performance. We'll see what it gets changed to

So woke up with a migraine, obviously. Let ash know and he called off shoe shopping for the day, so I went back to sleep (or tried to). When I finally woke up again around, I think, four, the migraine was gone but my jaw was killing me. Pretty sure I dislocated it in my sleep!

I wrote out the above stuff about the Teket number system and then went through the Japanese textbook, taking notes on everything in every chapter up to and including chapter 10. It was easier than the last quiz, I thought! As said, I got 24/34, and I only took about twenty minutes to do it, whereas last time I took nearly 30 and nearly ran out of time on it (I even had to rush through the last section).

People in the group chat have reported scores of 14, 16, and 8, which. .

Unrelated, but I learned a while back that there is a key combo that will let me type in emojis, and while I don't use emojis very often it is extremely useful for the occasions that I do.

After I took the quiz I went out to hang out with ash, ate some dinner and took some advil to help with the jaw, and it did start feeling better but by the time we were heading to our rooms the pain was coming back. We spent the evening watching youtubes since we weren't neither of us particularly up for video games.

Though I did cult of the lamb by myself for a while after, and listened to some youtubes. At 1 I brought Cael back into my room and also shut games down for the night, so since then I've been browsing the internet. Sleep soon. Actually going to go to the shoe store tomorrow.

Did manage to go shoe shopping today! The place I sent us was in a shopping centre with three other places to buy shoes, which is good because we ended up going to Every Single One. The kind of shoes I'm after do not seem to be in fashion right now, or perhaps they are in fashion and so are selling out before I can get them and not showing up on clearance racks. We did end up finding something "good enough", finally, and then ash looked them up online and found them for $20 less than they were at the store, so we got those ordered and then went to get groceries. I will have new shoes soon, hopefully, and also hopefully the specific ones that arrive are also "good enough".

The last time I bought sneakers was like, 2010 or earlier. I got them at Payless. I miss Payless.

Hopefully these also last me a decent length of time, but I'm not optimistic.

Tonight we watched Tarot, which is a movie about a group of kids doing an evil tarot/astrology reading and then getting killed by the monsters in the tarot cards. It is exactly what it says it will be, and was a lot of fun to watch, though it did start dragging by the end and definitely could have stood to go more over-the-top with everything. I honestly wanted more of a 13 Ghosts vibe, which is a movie that also had a lot more potential than it ends up delivering. Still, a fun time. We actually rewound back to the horoscopes so we could take notes on what everyone got, because there were like seven people and we spent a good twenty minutes going "Which one was she? Was she the pisces? Was she 'pulled in two directions'? Did she get The Magician?"

The people who made it clearly had at least a basic knowledge of tarot and astrology, too, so the things said were all generally accurate. There was a 'The Death card means death' but they lampshaded it at the end, so it was fine. Everything they said was stuff that I could understand being the interpretation of what was getting pulled (and their various zodiac signs).

My test got re-graded, bumped to 30/34. And I can actually see the results, so I know what I got wrong:

B. Choose the best Japanese translation for the English sentence, and write the correct number into the blanks.

I have become sleep, because I did not sleep much last night.

1. きのうの夜、あまりねませんでした。ねむくなるから。

2．きのうの夜、あまりねなかった、ねむくなったから。

3．きのうの夜、あまりねないから、ねむくなりました。

4．きのうの夜、あまりねなかったから、ねむくなった。

Are you going anywhere next holiday?

1．次の休みの日にどこか行きますか。

2．次の休みの日にどこに行きますか。

3．次の休みの日にどこかに行きますか。

4．次の休みの日にどこへ行きますか。

On 1, I answered 3 and the correct answer was 4, and on 2, I answered 1 and the correct answer was 3. So on the first one I got tenses confused and on the second I missed a particle. These are less 'not understanding the subject matter' stuff and more having trouble reading/differentiating blocks of text made up of very similar sentences. Maybe I'll start translating those sorts of questions before I look at the available answers and then pick whichever is the closest match to that, then if I forget a particle it's because I actually forgot a particle

(Annoyingly I remember trying very hard to get the tense right on the first one, but I guess I only got the second half right. Or maybe not? I dunno, it's a hard one, there's a lot going on in it)

Speaking of being sleepy! Probably an early night because I am in fact a sleepy boy. Not that early though so I'm gonna watch youtube and play video games and maybe do some amateur linguistics if I feel up for it.

Spent last night playing through some short games I've been sitting on

Threshhold demo: You're a new employee being given a tour of a remote outpost where it is your job to keep the never-ending train running and where the air is so thin your coworker doesn't waste breath speaking to you, instead communicating through written notes. There'll definitely be some kind of breath-managing mechanic in the final game and I expect twists about what is actually happening at the outpost (there are three locations your coworker wouldn't let you go -- a room in which an "accident" had recently happened, injuring/killing another employee; a room you can't see because you haven't "signed an NDA yet"; and a stairway you're not allowed to go up until you've been working there for 1 year). Interesting, but short and teasery enough that I don't have any particular feelings about it.

Perfect Vermin: This is a complete game, seems to have been made in honour of someone the developer knew who passed away. It has an extremely interesting premise and does extremely well with drawing players slowly into what's going on, so I recommend giving it a blind playthrough (it is free!). It's also about 15 minutes long

Red Entropy demo: This starts off looking and feeling like the first game made by someone trying to learn how to make games and then drops you into something much more sophisticated. You are a human who had previously been working on terraforming planets (from what I could gather), and then you are awakened from stasis by an entity 14,000,000,000,000,000 years in the future to repair and manage a mining rig while the universe dies around you. It's a sci-fi horror, there'll be sanity mechanics in the game, you have to keep your flashlight battery charged, you spend most of the demo crawling through vents. It's very interesting and I'm curious how it'll turn out in the final game

Homicipher: This I've been keeping an eye on, but apparently not close enough because it turns out the full game has a different store page than the demo, and the full game actually came out earlier this month. So I also bought it and spent most of the night playing through that. You're a Cute Female Protagonist who has dropped into Creepypasta World where it turns out the spooky horror men are actually generally pretty nice and ......... kind of cute???? You meet like, Disembodied Head Man, and Man Who Lives In The Walls, and Ghost Bride.
The gimmick is that everyone speaks a Ghost Language that you have to try to decipher to learn what they're saying to you, very similar to Chants of Sennaar where you've got a notebook you write down what you think words mean and then revise your theories as phrases either do or do not make sense. You get the whole "[pointing at me] Me! [pointing at you] You! [pointing at chair] Chair!" thing, and then as you progress through the game you have whole conversations with people and they warn you about obstacles you're going to have to avoid. The plot is also pretty neat, and there is a lot of game.

 
Slept in today, and then played some more Homicipher until I got up to empty the dishwasher and give Oz her pill. New shoes arrived, so just a bit ago I tried those on and tested them out on a walk and a short run. They're comfortable enough -- need to be broken in and they need different laces, but they didn't hurt or trip me up or anything so they're fine. I did run for longer than I should have though and now I feel kind of miserable.