#i'll put it on the to-play list

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than calcium

I beat Trauma Center: Under the Knife! Savato's a little SHIT but I killed it! And now the GUILTs are eradicated forever and will never hurt anyone again. Until the writers immediately bring it back in the sequel because they didn't have any other ideas

Also here's a treat:

SURPRISE! TRICK! 21 KITKAT BARRAGE ATTACK!!

[a2zillustration]

The desire to draw these two again but without the motivation to make something more than one of these little charts (oops)

Thank you Valc0 for making the sheet!

[dramatic-dolphin]

heyyo, sorry if it's a bother but I remember you mentioning somewhere (in the tags of something?) that hungarian might even have more than 18 cases if we count it a different way and I lost that post but I'm still very curious, could you tell me more about this or point me to a source? I love terrorising international friends with the hungarian case system

It's NEVER a bother to talk about linguistics :DD This is gonna be a bit long tho.

The reason for this is that Hungarian has like a million suffixes and not all of them are created equal. So there is a bit of debate over what, exactly, constitues as a "case" here.

The currently accepted safe list of the 18 Hungarian suffixes that are definitely totally cases looks like this:

This is already hilarious, because you, as a native speaker, have no idea what these terms mean, and also because there is nothing at essive-modal in this example. Because we just do not decline the word jég in that case.

(Essive-modal is the -ul in "jutalmul" and "[beszélek] magyarul" btw. Is 'jegekül' a word that exists and makes sense? Discuss.)

These are the "bare minimum" of cases that fit both of the two (currently accepted) rules that 1) a case can be a compulsory argument of a verb (aka you can have a verb that you have to use a specific case with, like "beléptem a házba") and 2) only cases can follow other suffixes (I actually can't think of an example for this rn lol).

Thinking about it, you might even get by with saying we have 17 cases in a pinch, since essive-modal is such a weirdo and useless for like most nouns. Don't quote me on this one though.

Anyways, if you're a bit more daring, you can look at all the other suffixes and say "well, why can't these be cases too?" Like come on, this is missing genitive. Why is it missing genitive? So you put in genitive (embernek). And if that's in, then why can't the others be there too? Which is how you end up with off-the-wall cases like temporal (ötkor), sociative (kutyástul), locative (Győrött), distributive-temporal (hetente), and so on until you reach like 34, or however many suffixes there are. Every suffix can be given a fancy overly specific case name to horrify poor non-Hungarian speakers.

Wait, did I say the bare minimum was 18(-17) cases? Actually no, the bare minimum is ZERO cases. Because you can take the enlightened opinion that "case" as a concept should not be applied to agglutinative languages like Hungarian, and Hungarian cases are actually better understood as postpositions affixed to a noun. (Funnily, this is actually how some of those suffixes became suffixes. Ex: hodu utu rea -> hadi útra.)

So, there you have it. The number of cases in Hungarian is a number between 0 and 35. But probably 18. Unless it's not.

[crabsnpersimmons]

question on tumblr etiquette:

if you fall under a user's DNI list, but that user reaches out to you via ask or DM, without knowing you fall under their DNI list, do you still respond?

hypothetical example: user A specifies on their blog "DNI if you're over the age of 18", but then user A reaches out to user B. User B is over the age of 18, but user A does not know this because user B doesn't mention it on their blog. User B does know that user A does not wish to interact with people over the age of 18. does user B respond to user A?

[morosexualhoratio]

so i'm doing an intensive program on greek tragedy this summer and to prepare i'm gonna be reading a ton of plays in the next 2 weeks. i'm probably gonna liveblog the plays i read and maybe the program as well if i remember while i'm there so if you don't wanna see that block "#graces tragedy summer" . much love <3

[ink-stains-and-constellations]

So, uh, I saw Ginny Di's merfolk homebrew video.

Guess who now has an octopus mermaid character who was raised by pirates. Who I'll probably never get to play because I mostly DM.

[autumnrory]

woooo my niece took 5 of my 13 lego sets, one of which was one of the three larger ones, so that's one huge box out of the way and i'm just glad she wanted them because like they ARE twenty years old and they look fine ofc but sometimes kids aren't gonna want stuff that isn't new and shiny ya know, but she did seem to want everything which would've been fine with me but i knew there was no way they would take all that with them, and at least i still have stuff of my own to sell, plus should get at least a cut of my brother's stuff for doing the inventory and putting together that stuff that wasn't already done

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

i can't remember what it's like to just casually listen to music from lots of different bands/artists all the time without getting severely attached to just one and wanting to only listen to them for a large amount of time

[soulrph]

I’m so nervous to put in an ask omg 😭 might you have any ideas for reassurance prompts ? 😽

my beloved, i have a LIST!!! unless you're actively looking for proper ideas for like, plots or potential thread ideas, in which case i'll happily oblige, BUT! on the off-chance that you meant a list of prompts, here you go!

REASSURANCE PROMPTS!

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Very cute that this website thinks I'll sign in with google and make an account to make a business card

[realboutfatalfury]

looking back at my fighting game list... i want to update it...

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: March 25

"Groovy Little Summer Song" by James Otto

[aquilamage]

steam sale -> downpour acquired. aka extra incentive to get on my Hunter second try + more lore playthroughs

which means questions: 1) I'm gonna do the recording part anyway but does anyone actually care about watching game attempts vs just the live blogging I've been doing

2) is there a good way to spoiler-free see where all the basegame colored pearls are?

[lunarcry]

mitiles prophecy is so much cuz 1) what the actual fuck 2) if rutile(..or mitile) dies then mithra loses his magic which means thats mithras fkng dead too

[miharuhebinata]

monthly game tag time!

november

1. Scriptic: Crime Stories - Dead Man's Phone: Redman

while the investigation aspect of this game was pretty fun, i think the story did not handle its themes very well at all, but maybe that's just because i got the bad ending and was too bummed out to try for the good ending. also the freemium "wait [x] amount of time before you can continue" aspect would have completely ruined the experience for me if i hadn't been able to play the netflix app version, so there's also that. just a very meh experience overall.

*spoiler warning* if you want to play this one for yourself, heavy tw for anti-Black racism & police brutality.

2. Doors: Awakening

fun little mobile puzzle game. nice to play in your downtime

3. Doors: Origins

same as above lol

december

1. Little Nightmares

i watched an lp of this a long time ago, but only now got around to playing it myself. the perspective fucked me over a few times and the load times were extremely annoying, but other than that, it's a good game. although... idk if it's just because i already knew what happens, but it felt very "baby's first horror game"-esque to me. which isn't a bad thing, just that it didn't creep me out nearly as much as maybe the game wanted to. idk. i'm not saying this to be mean or anything, i still really liked the game and the world/lore is very fascinating to me! just my opinion lol

2. Very Little Nightmares

now this game, i really really enjoyed! idk if it was the difference in artstyle, the less frustrating change in perspective while still keeping to the same general tone as the first game, or what, but i definitely liked this game a lot more than the first one. again, the artstyle was very much up my alley, the music was great, and the puzzles were just a bit trickier to the point that i even struggled with a few of them. plus i loved finding all the collectibles, which was not the case in the first game lol. of course, this one being a mobile game, the movement could be frustrating at times, especially having to double tap to run, but ultimately, it was nothing that made the game unplayable. overall a great game that i definitely recommend, especially if you're a fan of the little nightmares series :)

started but not finished yet:

Echo - started in november. played through tj, carl, & part of jenna's routes in december. hoping to finish in january, but we'll see 😅

[chrisodonline]

Just doing a welfare check. How’s everyone doing?

Still coping?

I am trying to make myself clean the stuff I gotta clean even though I want to 1. write a long business-y post about the decision which may or may not come off as positive, depending on how you look at it and 2.write that “From the Desk” fic I have notes for, even if it’s not the best. Both just for old time’s sake and not because I think people are super interested.

So we’ll see if I finish enough in time to get to do that this weekend.