a pet peeve that I have is when a video game asks me to choose from a list of incredibly marginal upgrades. like “would you like 5% higher health or 5% higher damage?” we both know that 5% doesn’t matter. stop giving me decision fatigue for no reason

the autistic urge to select all of these games on my desktop and then press enter

anyway this is why I prefer roguelites without any kind of progression system, or at least a progression system that locks off very little content at the start. like let me get the crazy “shoot 2000% faster but do 1% damage” upgrade right at the start! I might regret it but it will be interesting and exciting and it will capture my interest

I think that the reason magic in fantasy is so language-focused (spell scrolls, spellbooks, magical symbols, ofuda, etc.) is because a lot of our cultural concepts of magic come from a time when literacy rates were very low, and the concept of “someone can draw the state of their mind onto a piece of paper or a stone tablet, and others can interpret those magical symbols and gain that same state of mind” was incredibly foreign and possibly even frightening

and then of course those in power really liked that they were the only ones who could interpret the magic thought-symbols, and as the literacy rate went up they tried to maintain this type of control by learning dead languages like Latin and writing only in those. which is why, for example, the Catholic church relied/relies so heavily on Latin (because the common people can’t understand it - only those who are chosen by the Catholic hierarchy can)

also of course it was in the nobles’ best interests to maintain and expand the culture of “writing is magical and sacred”

Patreon just told me to “get the app for a better experience” on desktop

I’m sorry but there is absolutely nothing you can do to convince me that a shitty phone app on a shitty tiny touchscreen is better than my actual desktop computer with a mouse and keyboard

@rowan I would love if you made that omgg 💕

@rowan omgg wait is it the morse code one?

@theking I’ve seen someone use that and it looks kinda cursed but like it’s a lot of fun lol. I’ve been meaning to check it out for a long time now

@rowan ooh that sounds amazing 💙 I would absolutely love to read that

I got nerd sniped by Trickster so hard that I am actually considering adding a macro preprocessing system to my Trickster language DSL

so that instead of me hand-writing spells in my Trickster DSL and then hand-transcribing them into spellcircles, there would be a preprocessing layer that would then spit out a lower-level version of my DSL code for me to hand-transcribe

@foolishowl I cheated with Neovim lol. I made it so that <Leader>y copies the entire file into my clipboard (with :%y+) and <Leader>p pastes my clipboard into the current file (with "+p). and I have a few other mappings like that

i hate that i can’t use the root word of anything as its own word in english and have it make sense. if i get into a car cident, i want to change surance, pair my car, and celerate way

I’m just happy that they replaced their jump scare notification sound though

Element’s UI is so bad for replying to long-form messages that I literally just copy the message I’m replying to into Neovim instead and then paste it back into Element, because any time you scroll up or down in Element you might as well be going straight to Narnia

don't refer to me using my honorifics, refer to me using my horrorifics