it’s wild to me that there are people who still not only let this man talk, but write down the shit that come out of his stupid face and report on it.

damn that’s good, we should have been using it for this game particularly but also pretty much every pvp survival game as well.

this is why you should buy games that are released

hahahahahaha

that’s amazing because I’m pretty sure he probably based it on real life; there are tribes that count very similarly to this (also covered in Ifrah’s book). there are languages with words for one, two and many, or 1-4 and many, but they can use combinations like two-one to mean three and two-two to mean four etc.

that makes so much sense! rabbit hole time…

one of the best nonfiction books i read was The Universal History Of Numbers by Georges Ifrah. years, even decades later, every now and then i learn a new thing about some linguistic quirk that ties back to what I learned from that book.

apparently, people (and some animals!) can instinctually and instantly “count” up to 4 objects! well, this is not actually counting, it’s just instantly knowing the quantity of a group of up to four items.

so if I showed you an image of 4 cubes flashed for a fraction of a second, and i ask you how many objects were in that image you’d probably have no problem saying four. once you get to 5 or more though it becomes very hard unless you can mentally group it into smaller chunks of 4 or less. the most obvious result of this is probably tally marks. the whole point of grouping in tally marks is to quickly be able to discern how many notches there are at a glance, so we put marks up to 4, and then a fifth one marks the end of the group for easy 5-by-5 counting except the fifth mark is usually put across the previous four, so you don’t have five marks in a row. that’s because it really becomes confusing once you go over 4. see if you have any trouble reading this “number” sequence:

I - II - IIII - I - III - IIII - II - IIII - I - III

pretty easy. now see if you have any trouble with this one:

I - III - II - IIII - I - IIIIII - II - IIII - I - II

chances are it was the sixth one that made you double take.

turns out this inherent ability we had way before math was even a thing naturally affected not only numeral systems but many aspects of language as well in different cultures.

you can find many cultural and linguistic features that suggest numbers up to 4 are more notable than 5 or more. in Latin for example a common practice was to give proper names to things up to the first four, and just use numbers for the rest. this may have included children, which is probably why you have names like Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, and most famously Octavius, named after the numbers 5-8.

they did the same with months of the year, the first four got named: #1 being March after the god Mars, April probably for spring (as it most likely comes from the verb “to open”), May after Maia the mother of Hermes, June after the god Juno. Then the rest were numbered: Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November and December, literally just the months #5-10. Quintilis and Sextilis would later be renamed after Julius and Augustus, which is why we don’t have those months numbered anymore but the bigger quirk is January and February being added to the front of the calendar, pushing March to 3rd position and the rest following it. so now we have a calendar that has months #9-12 named after numbers 7-10…!

while many languages have singular and plural, some languages can have specific forms for 2, 3 or 4 before getting to plurals for more. and here you can see Czech also having in some cases different rules for up to 4 things.

alone, probably

so what, first of all, you’re just assuming the person or people reading your comment will do the same thing that’s been done to you by others before, which is weird. I’ve had the same kind of comment downvoted and upvoted on different threads. not everyone sees every comment…

but even if you were 100% right, it’s still a bitch-ass pre-complaint. it’s one thing to start with “this is gonna be downvoted to hell but I’m still gonna say it” or something along those lines… what you said was specifically about the person you were replying to, and you even gave a reason like “oh this is gonna hurt your feefees so you’re gonna downvote it” it’s just weird. the vibes are off.

Removed by mod

let me side load something real quick

yeah i didn’t know it still exists lol

i don’t see it because I quit the millisecond third party apps did.

have you tried, like, not being sad?

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that explains why lots of people didn’t catch it

ask the art critic in your head

no matter how many times I see it, that’s still a wild spelling of that word and shouldn’t be allowed. in fact you should go to jail for it. fucking ghoti-ass spelling.

fascist takeover complete

not an anarchist but nice try. I just wanted you to prove you don’t know what anarchism even is and you did. i don’t give a shit what you have to do; block away. or stop saying stupid shit if you don’t want people commenting.

I don’t take orders

woah woah you sound like a pinko anarchist

also I know that must have sounded cool in your head but it’s super lame dude