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Suchian Musings And Ramblings About General Designs Involving Notable Estuaries

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  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Home now.

    I think it is strange how people will make fun of an American accent in media where it doesn't belong (that one Robin Hood movie), but don't seem to have any issue with English accents where they don't belong (Leslie Howard in Gone With The Wind).
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    English accents belong everywhere, for some reason, but especially in Rome.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2017-07-23 23:36:50
    Glad to hear you're back home safe.

    I get the sense that for Americans, the generic American accent is sort of the default, the southern/Texan drawl represents folksiness or the Wild West, the generic British accent is used to sound old, to sound formal or excessively polite/fancy, or in fantasy settings, and then there are just some handful of racial stereotype accents.

    Astute listeners may pick up on more subtle accents like New York or New England accents.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Aliroz said:

    Home now.

    I think it is strange how people will make fun of an American accent in media where it doesn't belong (that one Robin Hood movie), but don't seem to have any issue with English accents where they don't belong (Leslie Howard in Gone With The Wind).

    Technically in all Shakespearian plays, everyone should be talking vaguely like pirates


  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Some day, I want to do, Star Wars But Everyone Is From Savannah, Georgia as a dub.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Wait til you see my Southern Gothic Tintin play
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Odradek said:

    Wait til you see my Southern Gothic Tintin play

    Cat on a Hot Tintin Roof
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-07-23 23:51:22
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    My accent is, well, it's one of the main reasons why I don't put recordings of my voice on the internet (the other reason is that a voice is a large part of a person. I'm not going to reveal that much of myself in public).


    It's too boring and generic to be interesting, too rural and redneck for me to narrate anything, and not rural enough to hide the fact that I come from a dirty quasi-liberal college town and have grown up in a world of mass media.
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-07-23 23:55:15
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Odradek:. I'd actually pay money to see that.

    Also, Original Pronunciation Shakespeare is weird and fascinating. Sounds like sideways Scottish to me.
  • CrystalCrystal
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    Welcome back Al.
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    i pretty much cannot recognize american accents other than TV newscaster (mine), southern drawl, and fast talking bostonian

    like i guess there are others but they all pretty much sound like one of those
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Klinotaxis said:

    i pretty much cannot recognize american accents other than TV newscaster (mine), southern drawl, and fast talking bostonian


    like i guess there are others but they all pretty much sound like one of those


    The Phillie guy is how Sredni and Yarrun talk, and the Pittsburgh guy is how me and Imi talk

    (not really but we totally know people who do)
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    Oh come on, I did not exist in that space long enough to be infected
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Yarrun XIX said:

    Oh come on, I did not exist in that space long enough to be infected

    The Philly Phanatic is a terrible mascot
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    my accent is "the letter X is an explosive device"
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    I have, like, traces of a southern accent
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    i sound definitely minnesotan if you pay attention
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Calica said:

    I have, like, traces of a southern accent

    I did not notice that at all when I heard you talk.
  • SF_SorrowSF_Sorrow

    I am training myself to have an unholy combination of California English and Received Pronunciation
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
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  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
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  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-07-24 21:58:25
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
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  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    Geometric!
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-07-25 00:29:23
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
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  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    things that tricked me into thinking they weren't actually animated
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
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  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    this is a good thread.
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-07-25 00:58:11
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
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  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I always thought that looked cool, but I can't be bothered to learn how to do it.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
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  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Where are you finding all these, anyways?
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
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  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Google searching "spinning gif", and then going down the ravvit hole of related images.

  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    edited 2017-07-25 01:13:21
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Odradek said:

    Aliroz said:

    Home now.

    I think it is strange how people will make fun of an American accent in media where it doesn't belong (that one Robin Hood movie), but don't seem to have any issue with English accents where they don't belong (Leslie Howard in Gone With The Wind).

    Technically in all Shakespearian plays, everyone should be talking vaguely like pirates


    Or from, y'know, with a Western Scottish accent. Or a Cornish or Black Country one. It's in that area.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    imageimageimageOldies but goodies.

    Down the rabbit hole:

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  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-07-25 01:38:44
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
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    And our third place for the "moves when you look at it but not when it's just in the corner of your eye" category is:image

    Aaaaaand that's enough gifs for today.  I'm all spinned out.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Holy crap these are awesome.
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Also the white-and-black stripes in circular designs make me think of Leliel from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Notice the one with the cube and the belts around it is actually a 720 degree cycle
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Calica said:

    Notice the one with the cube and the belts around it is actually a 720 degree cycle

    I knew we could count on you to math it up! :D
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Does anyone else do that thing where you make up ways to split up an imaginary estate, and then turn it into something that sounds like a logic puzzle?
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2017-07-29 03:32:45
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Well, maybe more of a math problem, I guess.

    In the case of multiple inheritors:

    First, let each inheritor bring two stones, one in each hand.  Lay all the stones of the inheritors on the table.  Remove one stone, for God.  Place the rest in a jar. Let each stone represent an equal portion of the estate.  All inheritors must receive at least one stone's worth of the estate.

    Second, place a number of sticks in a jar, that number being equal to the number of inheritors.  Let each stick represent an equal portion of the estate.  No inheritor may be granted more than two sticks' worth.

    Then, place some number of pebbles in a jar.  Let each pebble represent an equal portion of the estate.  Let all inheritances be measurable in pebbles.  The difference, in pebbles, between the largest and next-to-largest inheritance shall be equal to the difference, in pebbles, between the next-to-smallest and smallest inheritance, and shall also be equal to the difference, in pebbles, between the next-to-largest and next largest inheritances, and the next-to-next-to-smallest to the next-to-smallest inheritances, and so forth, that all may proceed as is harmonious.




  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    That's

    Pretty interesting
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    it's an arithmetic progression. what are the stones and sticks for? you could establish a minimum and maximum number of pebbles without them.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    It comes from an idea I had of combining Ripuarian inheritance law type (also Salic Inheritance Law) with my preconceived notions of how a culture without numbers past two would operate.

    The Sticks and Stones are to establish a minimum and maximum inheritance without using any numbers above two. 
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    Yarrun XIX said:

    That's


    Pretty interesting
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    I have a pet peeve that is the reverse of XKCD 483.

    It bothers me when I see phrases or words used in fiction that should be specific to Real-Life Earth..

    Like that old Star-Wars tie in book from 1979 that my uncle had, The Maverick Moon.  "Maverick" as an adjective comes from Samuel Maverick refusing to brand his cattle (and thus getting to claim that any unbranded cattle were his).

    It's like using "Chauvinist", "Achilles' Heel", or "Draconian" (Baldur's Gate made this mistake).
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    Somewhere in my mind I know the etymology of "draconian" doesn't actually have to do with dragons, but it's always my first thought anyway.
  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    I mean, it indirectly does, since that's literally what Draco's name means. :P
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