I think it’s the harsh consonant sounds. I’m not a linguist and am sure there’s some term for it, but it seems like we identify words in English more from the distinct “framing” of the consonants and are more flexible about hearing variations in how the vowel sounds in between are pronounced.

For example, it’s the same reason that whispering (which largely takes out tone/pitch of vowel sounds) is super easy in English, but more difficult in some other languages.

It’s nobody’s decision but yours, but I will point out that as humans, we are very poor predictors of how we will think or feel in the future.

When we’re depressed, our brains process thoughts of the future as if we’ll be sad forever. When we’re happy and have lots of energy, we make big plans as if we’ll always feel that way. Lottery winners feel an initial euphoria and think they’re set for life, but studies show their mood returns to baseline after about 1 year. Age and development helps you push the fog of foresight a little further, but it’s still hard.

I don’t know you, but if I were speaking to myself at age 22, I would caution making a decision like that so early. I still cringe about being tasked with picking a college major at 18 and how wrong that could’ve gone, and this is easily 100x more important.

Remember when we all dressed like that 10 years ago?

I’m not a judge, but isn’t internet essentially a utility these days? Cutting someone off because of piracy seems like cutting off electricity or water because they did something illegal with it.

Just restarted to see, but no change. It’s not acting like the app has been fully reset: I’m still logged in. It just forgets some settings (switching back to the large cards instead of compact, combined votes vs separate, etc.). The worst of it is that my favorites list is gone, because my community subscriptions need some serious pruning. I had just slowly built the list back after it happened a week or two ago, and then it did it again by this morning.

Also do you have offload unused apps enabled?

I’m on Android, so maybe I have whatever the equivalent of that is. Although I use Voyager every day, so I’d be surprised if that got triggered.

Oh wait, for some reason I was picturing the votes on the post, not the buttons TO vote on a post. I think I need sleep.

Oh I see what you mean now. I figured it defaults to combined (at least on android), but if for some reason it’s showing you a downvote button, you can tell it to go away.

There’s a setting to view votes as total/combined or separate. I usually have it display separately and had to toggle that back as well.

(Edit: wait, is blahaj one of those instances that has downvotes turned off?)

I’m on Android.

Sometimes I forget how long it’s been!

The moment I see myself in an ad, I’m giving up on technology and joining the Amish.

What a loss. =(

It’s a strange quirk of lemmy that we will continue to be able to see content from lemm.ee even after they’ve shut down. It’ll feel like seeing ghosts.

They’re still cities, but people tend to start calling them “rural” when you get a certain distance from the big cities and things spread out, often also near farmland and/or nature.

For example, this would probably count as rural.

I bought Sim City for PC at a used bookstore, and it didn’t come with the reference page for a code it would ask you for after playing a certain amount of time.

Without this code, the game would turn on all hazards (tornados, fires, flooding, Godzilla, etc) and make itself unplayable.

This must have been a common thing, because you’re the 2nd person in the comments to mention this!

It’s funny now to think that if you couldn’t figure out a game pre-internet, you just didn’t get to play it. I know that happened to me plenty.

(edit: curse you, Batman on Sega Genesis!)

Oh yeah, that makes sense.

Honestly, I do enjoy that though.

I’m interested in your take on what Blue Prince and Dark Souls are echoing, if I’m reading this right.