Zompist Bboard Again

Someone created a raycaster (think Wolfenstein 3D) using zeptoforth, my S15.16 math routines, and my 8-bit ST7789V graphics driver which runs on the Tufty 2040, and after a small bugfix (a number specified was out of the range of possible S15.16 numbers) it worked perfectly. I could walk around the...

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2024 3:25 pm

alice wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2024 2:50 pm A very thick book about the Reformation.

May I ask which one?

You may, and if you do, the answer will be Reformation : Europe's House Divided 1490-1700, by Diarmaid MacCulloch.

Ketsuban wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2024 4:56 pm That section of my copy of Lass is well-thumbed, but I thought the increased detail you provide is more relevant for conlanging.

That's nice to know

Ahzoh wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 2:35 pm Provided the Republicans don't spend the next two years working hard to disenfranchise more and more voters and gerrymander. And now they won't have any restraints.

And provided there any elections left to vote in. The President-elect did after all say you wouldn't need to vote ever again.

A very thick book about the Reformation.

And once again my past comes back to haunt me. Did nobody notice that Lass's Phonology got there first?

As far as I recall, there was this general rule of thumb for a naturalistic vowel system: 1. Pick one of: /a i u~o/, /a e~ə i u/, /a e i o u/, /a ɛ i ɔ u/, /a ɛ e i ɔ o u/ 2. Make up to two changes. A change is one of the following: dropping a vowel, adding a vowel, substituting a vowel with anothe...

zompist wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 6:23 pm If it's not a key plot element, you can also use that most useful of sf elements, handwavium.

Note to non-chemists: if you're looking for this on your Periodic Table, it's element number -1, and its symbol is Hw.

(Australia very sensibly uses day/month/year format. I’ve yet to comprehend why anyone would voluntarily use middle -endian order…) This raises the very important question: is the (obviously correct) day/month/year little- or big-endian? Little-endian, because the bit which changes the fastest come...

The profit motive is extremely useful as you say, but only up to a point — once you’ve exhausted all the ways to increase profit by improving your product, the only thing left is to increase profit by worsening your product. (This remains one of my favourite statements I’ve made on this forum.) It'...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2024 11:02 am I do have to say that this has been a really fun little project of mine.

It certainly looks it, and I can imagine how much satisfaction it's given you. I wish I'd been able to continue with mine, and it's been bittersweet watching yours go from win to win.

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 3:07 pm Congratulations and more best wishes.

Seconded.

Good: I have written the first three chapters of my attempted novel. Bad: As of now, I have no idea what I want to happen in the fourth chapter. Now I'm at the same point after Chapter 4. This is not unusual. Take some advice from a well-known author from the last century - whose name has sadly sli...

Dammit, this should have gone into the "Conlangery" forum. This is a good subject for making your conworlds seem more alive. Consider the following remark, which one might use to assert one's presumed sociocultural superiority over another: Why do you X Y? That is so lame! Anyone with any ...

Many congratulations!

I'm not sure what I did to merit thanks, though!

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2024 1:53 pm Yeah, it's time to fork Python.

I'm sure there's a tongue-related pun in there somewhere.

Aye.

That's really awful. All the best for a full recovery.

Darren wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 3:43 am I believe the red script is the Latin alphabet.

Or it might be Cyrllic, except for the last letter, which might be an idiosyncratic variant of backwards-N.

As for the other one: is this Serali coming back to haunt us?

zompist wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 3:15 pm All writing rules are things that a beginner needs to learn, and an experienced writer can ignore.

Doesn't one of your Almean culture tests say something like "An artist is expected to be conservative in his youth and daring in his old age"?