Not exactly. If I remember correctly (at least 10 years ago) the official way in Germany to uppercase ß was to replace it with two capital “s”.
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Well, it is called an analogy, isn’t it? No one said it is exactly the same.
> One person can only have one car crash, ever, […]
Except not. As people who can be infected, infect others, fall sick again, and so on. People can have multiple accidents with varying degree of charm for themselves and others. Also, you forget that car crashes can also have more than 2 vehicles involved, especially on highways.
> a disservice to any attempt at getting antivaxers to understand the seriousness of the situation.
Well, I took for granted I am not talking to one. I would certainly need to use a different approach then. The issue with antivaxxers is that the reasons for their behavior often seems orthogonal to logical arguments, and aligns more with emotional responses like fear of the unknown and political and/or religious views.
Compare with a far more detailed Figure 1.15 [0] from “Game Engine Architecture”.
What if people are in passengers’s seats? Their bodies can be launched with a lot of kinetic force killing people in the front seats. Eventually with enough force, the driver can be launched out of the car and hurt somebody else.
Granted, it is not always happening. The same way someone infected do not always pass the virus to somebody else before getting better or dying.
In my opinion the analogy is quite fitting. People think it is about them, not noticing how it can impact others.
How to define who is marginalized by whom? And by what actor? Creators of the code, users, customers? What if both groups think they are marginalized by the opposing one? Who can use the code then?
Forbidding manipulation of public opinion is also too lax of a term to use that way. Look for example into such polarizing topics like pro-life/pro-choice debate worldwide. Each side can accuse the other of manipulating the public while still believing they are in the right.
Controlling weapons is probably the point that could be easily defended in terms of being rather concrete, but I think it could be placed as some kind of custom license (IANAL).
Putting things that should be confined to decisions made by some kind of regulatory body like a country’s judicial system in a text file is rather a pointless signaling in my opinion, although it can be easily understood why somebody would want to include something like that.
Of course, it can fail too, but in my humble opinion it is one of the best approach to game design.
Are they? I would say that they are, but not for video games, but for all things in general.
Sturgeon's law [0] states that "ninety percent of everything is crap." And it was supposedly originally about sci-fi novels! “Fifty Shades of Grey” was completely criticized on all fronts by reviewers, but still became one of the top bestsellers.
If you look at ancient myths, we have things like a series of myths with a central plot resolving around a god raping humans of all genders (significant chunk of Zeus-related mythology), Loki changing into a mare and getting impregnated, because gods wanted to prevent a builder from getting rightfully earned reward [1].
Most of the stories created today are low-quality ones. And that was always so. Only when we look at the past creations, we can only experience those that were good enough to be preserved. The same will probably happen with video games if various DRMs will not prevent that.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sva%C3%B0ilfari
And as in my previous comment, languages for non-humanoid species do exists if someone prefers to go in that direction.
Similarly, toki pona was designed to contain only the most popular phonemes among human languages, because it was designed with humans in mind.
Edit: I should stop starting the comments with “well”, shouldn’t I? :P
Edit 2: The “spoken” aspect can be similar to why we use CSV and TSV file formats, while even ASCII had from the beginning assigned characters for record delimiter — humans grasp easier thinks they can see/hear.
For a constructed language using non-human forms of expression, you can check out Rikchik language, created by Denis M Moskowitz [0].
> No one is going to ever speak this language except the creator to himself.
Well, it’s a hobby and an art form. Do you ask someone drawing still life compositions, why he/she is doing this, when photography is a thing? Besides, people DO use the language in this particular example, although more as an interesting pastime activity than a regular language.
Granted, constructing languages makes an extremely niche hobby. Still, without it there probably wouldn’t be The Lord of the Rings (for Tolkien’s opinion on language creation, check [1]). There are still people learning Klingon, Lojban, toki pona, Dothraki, and so on.
Esperanto and modern Hebrew (to some extent) are also more practical examples of this art.
For a more elaborate insight into this hobby, there is the book “In the Land of Invented Languages” by Arika Okrent.
[0]: https://www.suberic.net/~dmm/rikchik/rikchik.html [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Secret_Vice
> ‘The chief clown, John Quijada, is engaged in constructing a new language for the good of everyone.’
(Quijada likes to use clowns in his examples, don’t ask me why)
I would like to recommend looking into the most recent script proposal at [0], especially if someone is inclined toward calligraphy.
In my humble opinion the script for Ithkuil III and the current proposal adapted from it are both together a work of art in itself.
[0]: https://ithkuil.place/4/archive/script/script-v0.3.5-2019-11...
For more detailed explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_English_%E2%9...
It was a long process of L-vocalization [0] that started around XVI century. The first segment of the population to be affected by it were peasants (it is also one of the reasons why the original sound quality of «ł» survived relatively long among Polish artists in early XX century as a sign of professionalism, similarly to English’s Mid-Atlantic accent [1]).
I suspect that L-vocalization’s proliferation was aided by multiple wars, partitions and occupations that followed, which caused many waves of both natural and forced internal migration and disappearance of most dialectal differences.
According to [2](PL) the pronunciation of «ł» as /w/ was codified as the standard around XIX/XX in both informal and formal settings. There are still remaining populations using the old sound quality, but they are mostly confined to the areas in proximity to other Slavic languages.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-vocalization [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent [2]: http://www.dialektologia.uw.edu.pl/index.php?l1=leksykon&lid...
I don’t know if https://github.dev version of Visual Studio Code supports extensions/plugins, but if so, then there is also a rich text editor for markdown ready.
All that’s left would be an instant refresh for editing.
[0]: https://utteranc.es
If we are talking about ready game engines like Unity and Unreal... it is probably a naive assumption about input being 1 byte wide and things getting lost because of that in some gamedev-made script.
In the case of the Windows operating system, the worst fact is that every single part of it behaves differently. Some parts display the path with a wrong encoding, but handle it correctly. A third-party app can display it correctly, but fails while trying to access any file. From what I remember, even the built-in PATH variable editor/manager goes through some arcane steps to display the letters in a wrong way, but getting them to work sometimes.
I can only imagine how much more pain it is for someone using any of the less widely-used writing systems or those with more advanced features compared to ASCII (Hebrew’s RTL, Arabic scripts mid- and final forms, etcetera).
A smartphone is an easy scapegoat, but I think its role is greatly exaggerated. People simply like to complain about things they are not used to. It does not mean it is not the root cause, only that a “gut feeling” reasoning can easily be wrong. Not so long ago teachers were still trying to “correct” left-handedness.
That said there are certainly many issues surrounding modern use of smartphones (starting with microtransactions), but I doubt that it is the main issue there.
By the way: While I can’t find the website where I read it, there was supposedly a period before widespread TV, when reading too many books was considered a developmental issue for a child.
Extra Credits once did a series of videos describing various weak points that could lead to the Late Bronze Age collapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkMP328eU5Q
> For example, researchers already knew that just thinking about the sun could constrict the pupils and that thinking of a dark room or mentally calculating something could dilate them, […]
Apparently, it is about changing the pupil’s size without any physical or mental stimulus.
Central Europe here, I doubt this gesture would be understood here that way. The closest meaningful gesture would be demanding money (if the thumb would move along the index finger).
> What kind of permission granting seances would they have to go through, if any?
From personal experience of using this: WinFSP have ready .msi installer. After going through the standard process of installing it, then you need to install the file system implementation you want (for example SSHFS from http://www.secfs.net/winfsp/rel/).
The required permissions amount to the standard installation prompt, at least from my experience on Windows 10.
- Mac OS X Public Beta (2000)
- SUSE Linux 7.0 (2000)
- Debian 2.2 (2000)
- OpenBSD 2.7 (2000)
- Solaris 8 (2000)
- AmigaOS 3.9 (2000)
- and so on... [0]
Hardly “no alternatives” in my humble opinion.
And in office space, MS-DOS was still a thing for quite some time.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_operating_systems#...
Beyond that, I suppose it is also a some way to prototype. Celeste[0] was originally created as a PICO-8 game.
[0]: http://www.celestegame.com [1]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2145
[edit]: a missing -s
Using my experience from a Polish university from a field of study focused on computer science: Most of my acquaintances know what RSS is. Several of them use it, and way more at least tried. Granted, it is not something nearly as popular as Facebook, Discord or other similar software, but to say no one know exactly what RSS is seems unlikely to me. Maybe it is simply a situation around your peers? Seeing that even Vivaldi browser added built-in RSS support lately, it seems that people that remember RSS are still common enough.
[0]: https://tic80.com