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Honestly if not for this comment I wouldn’t know he was the live action Shaggy and not the animated one haha. I never watched the live action ones (not that I’d recognize him even if I had tbh) :3

Im just going by what I saw people say when I first encountered tbh :3 I couldn’t name you a single celebrity or what they’ve been in honestly, actor names is not a thing I ever paid attention to lol

He insulted Matthew Lillard, who is famous for playing Shaggy from scooby do. Matthew also appeared as a guest star on Legends of Avantris, a D&D show/podcast, not long ago hence the overlap between the 2

I made onion rings :3… and also gonna make a dessert thingy soon

Other than that I didn’t do much today, because it’s cold and I don’t wanna

A thing you spray on your hair that makes your hair less greasy without needing to wash it :3. I remember all the girls carried a can of it when I was in school

Didn’t one of those scammy windows themed distros actually have that? I think wububtu had something with activation keys lol… or maybe it was lindows

I plan on keeping the tv hooked up, cause honestly I mostly use it for watching/playing stuff from my bed rather than a secondary display, because as you can probably guess that’s a rather awkward experience lol :3 though I do occasionally use it to shove secondary apps onto

I might pick up a monitor arm for now and see how I like the possibility to tilt and turn my screen and think about the size and resolution for a bit longer.

And that’s fair. I imagine being able to position your display with the additional freedom of the monitor arm would make it easier to visualise the possible monitor configurations you may want

The difference is that the church doesn’t give you anything in return for the money unlike the traders /j

But seriously, much like everything else in the bible, those verses get ignored when inconvenient

Two smaller monitors over 1 large one would be my preference personally, just cause it allows more freedom in how you divide your content. You can have a game fullscreen on one screen and other windows (discord, browser, OBS etc.) on the other without having to run your game in windowed mode to see the other content, or you can have the 2nd one vertically and have a text document there while having other stuff on your main one and so on. Currently I have 1 24" 1080 monitor, and my tv (55" 4k) hooked up to my PC, but I do plan picking up a 2nd 24" 1080 one later this year :3

Also as someone who also has a small desk I am gonna recommend you get a monitor arm, to free up desk space for sure

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Do they warn you about the spyware they ship by default tho?

Lithuanian :3

A recent example I came across while doing Vietnamese vocab was several letters being used to make an “Z” or “L” sound in some cases.

There’s actually a similar thing in my native language, where we have multiple letters for the same sound :3. (Ų and Ū make the same long “oo” sound) those letters were originally distinct with Ų being nasal and Ū being long, but the nasal letters have come to simply be longer variants of the base letter, however both letters are still useful as they serve a distinct grammatical role :3… the letter clusters ei and iai also tend to sound the same but be used for different purposes

Sometimes the letters can also make the same sound in some words but not others due to palletization, I don’t know if vietnamese palletizes any letters, but it can make certain letters sound the same especially in some letter clusters, despite being otherwise distinct

in English we have things like “th” or “ch” where the resulting sound doesn’t sound like it comes from either of the building blocks.

Th is a fun one, because it did originally have distinct letters for both of the possible sounds it makes (þ and Ð) but with the rise of the printing press from germany which did not have those letters they were replaced with other letters like y (ye olde) and later th :3

But yes, the twelve/two example is due to the sounds shifting I believe, as that’s where most of the silent letters in English come from excluding the french origin words (so it would’ve been twuh-o back in the day instead of too)

Sometimes it’s because of linguistic shifts (like in the case of english), the letters were pronounced the same, but the pronunciation shifted while the writing didn’t

Sometimes it can also depend on things like stress, so for native speakers the sounds are the “same” just stressed/unstressed, so they have the same letter, but if you don’t know the rule it seems arbitrary

And it can also come from the use of loan words. If a language has an established writing system, but users adopt a word that uses a sound not otherwise present in the language they’ll write is as close phonetically and simply know that loan words have an exception to the rule, while this again is not obivous to an outsider

Probably some other cases too, and im not sure which one applies to the specific sound you’re struggling with but a couple of examples

I built an XP farm in minecraft :3… also used a happy ghast to go fetch some villagers, so I can set up a breeder/trading hall, and maybe an iron farm. Anyhow I don’t really like happy ghasts thematically still but they have made villagers a 1000× less annoying :3

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I used to play growtopia as a kid (don’t play it now, it went downhill lol), and I’ve seen a ton of scams/griefs among my friend circle, people would work for ages to gain someone’s trust and then either steal via picking up dropped items, not returning borrowed items, ooor… if you gave them access to your world they’d log in when you’re offline and literally tear the whole thing down to bedrock, even valueless blocks

Just played through Doom: Eternal cause it was on sale for 4€ a bit back. The entire time I was wishing I was playing Doom 2016…

The one time I had to do it they got pop!_os

Have you tried verifying file integrity to make sure everything is actually installed? Either that or switching proton versions