#Deciphering scripts

[bearsandswears]

Asena is perfectly comfortable with nonsexual nudity (you kind of have to be as a werewolf, the clothes don’t come with), but seeing a chance to make Gale blush activates her prey drive.

[swan2swan]

This is why she had to keep changing the passcode.

[keicordelle]

I appreciate the use of the proto-Eorzean/Norvrandt alphabet in Dawntrail. But it's also really funny to me that somehow Eorzean scholars looked at Norvrandt characters and somehow came up with a proposed common ancestral script that was dead on the money

[oveliagirlhaditright]

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone in the community talking about this. (Or maybe they have been, and I've somehow just missed it. ^_^')

All the kudos to OP for figuring this out.

@bluerosesburnblue @palizinhas @disneydreamlights

[artbyfuji]

someone asked for handwriting headcanons.

[heyclickadee]

I’ve said before that I don’t really get shipping and therefore don’t, and that is true, but if I see much more of people complaining about Phee having the audacity to exist in Tech’s general vicinity I’m going to start shipping them out of spite.

[owlbear33]

warning uninformed OSR Commentary (I don't know what I'm taking about)

due to prior discussion, I've been informed that magic users in a lot of old-style dungeon crawlers have such minimal access to magic because they're meant to depend on dungeon loot for a lot of their magic, scrolls and wands and potions etc

and this is frustrating - like don't get me wrong it's fine, interesting coherent game design - but why don't games spell this out clearly, (something something old dnd is 90% oral tradition by weight)

anyhow

doing away with spell slots seems sensible, all at-will magic should be in item form, break-to-cast spell tablets, potions, amulets and so on

all magic is ritual, it takes time, you cannot sit down and ritual for 30 minutes to fireball the enemy in heated combat, but it's fine with a bit of resources and extra time, a ritual can be set up to drop out delayed cast options

a wizard knows how to do this, but with a little education, any idiot can learn to smash a bit of air-dried clay (inscribed with runes), chug a vile of green slime (or was that meant to be applied to a weapon), or wear a strange pendant, they just need to focus to control the magic, in any case, going into dungeons to find lost lore is apprentice work, builds character

[andysambcrg]

so out of the loop of sunny content rn wdym the gang goes bowling s16

[theeultimatelifeform]

pretending like I'm not cramping and fighting the pain cause my mom would be upset if I left early. anyways

look at my script boy

[loz-the-noob]

hlep

(translations under cut)

This paper has smaller squares for serious stuff.

Like Marie!

Rude.

Hehe!

Hey, I’m fun! Who made you that fuzzy octotrooper costume last splatoween?

Oh my cod! I totally forgot about that!!

[sholangagaga]

sho did you see they cast someone for Mike's little sister in the FNAF movie?

I SAW AND IM CONFUSED MIKE SCHMIDT DOESNT HAVE A SISTER AS FAR AS WE KNOW SO I THOUGHT THAT CONFIRMS THAT HES MICHAEL AND HIS SISTER IS ELIZABETH BUT

IF THIS MOVIE IS A RETELLING OF FNAF 1 THEN ELIZABETH CANT BE IN THE MOVIE CAUSE SISTER LOCATION TAKES PLACE BEFORE FNAF 1 AND SHE DIES THEN

I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THIS MOVIE IS GOING AND ITS ANNOYING ME BECAUSE THE MOVIE IS SUPPOSED TO GIVE US MORE LORE FOR THE GAMES BUT NOW IT SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE IS ITS OWN UNIVERSE? OR SOMETHING???

[fleet-off]

[isca-rambles]

Watching the twitter side of the Chenford fandom grabbing at the tiniest pieces of BTS stuff and dissecting it so thoroughly they end up uncovering entire plot points.

I mean, kudos to them. A whole gaggle of little detectives running around out there.

[tokushuhere]

Me reading on Wattpad for the first time.

Writer decides to use words/code language that I don't know.

Notice the website doesn't support copy-paste so translating text is very hard.

Sigh and switch from smart device to computer to use F12 and locate the text from the website's code itself.

This is now my reason, why I went to study programming.

To learn how to copy paste text when the website itself doesn't allow people to copy-paste.

[cack1e]

interesting.........

[covenawhite66]

Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B

As a script, Linear B contains eighty-seven syllabic signs, or symbols that represent sounds, and over a hundred ideographic signs, or symbols that represent objects, units of measurement, or commodities. These ideographic signs, also referred to as “signifying signs” do not correlate to a phonetic sound but to a word describing an object.

It seems that Linear B was used only in administrative contexts—not for literature or other endeavors.

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The contributions of Alice Kober, a Hungarian-American classicist from New York, made Ventris’ astounding accomplishment possible.

Kober, who was born in New York in 1906, was always an exceptional student. She attended Hunter College after receiving a scholarship in 1924 and began learning Latin and Ancient Greek there.

After graduating from Hunter College, Kober received her master’s degree and later PHD in Classics from Columbia University.

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Born into a military family in 1922, he spent much of his youth studying languages and was fascinated with deciphering codes from a young age.

The scholar’s family moved to Switzerland when he was just a child, and it was there that his passion for learning languages began. The child learned French and German at an unbelievable pace and soon became fluent in Swiss German as well.

After eight years in Switzerland, Ventris and his family returned to England, and his parents divorced four years later in 1935. The teenager received a scholarship from the Stowe School, where he began studying Ancient Greek and Latin.