The thing is, I was a voracious reader since I was a kid. I started reading early and never stopped. My school had competitions to get kids to read and I always won by a landslide, so I honestly probably heard or read the term then, but couldn’t tell you when. Could have been five, could have been fifteen years old.

About the only specific thing I remember about anything with a name when I was a kid was that the first book I ever failed to finish was Anna Karenina, when I tried to read it in fifth grade since it was worth the most points in the reading competition.

Other than that, it’s amazing to me that people really remember anything specific about their childhood, because it’s all a blur and blank to me.

I don’t know how anyone could answer this honestly, unless they have a photographic memory

I’m confused what the goal is here

deepseek v3.1 had an (almost) perfect clock once for me.

We need people to build joke languages because it’s essentially the next generation of language designer. They’re learning how to write a language and can work on getting better and better at it. A joke language has no reasonable expectation of being maintained. It’s essentially a throwaway open source project showing off your skills. A portfolio project.

Huh? You said it would be unfunny nonsense if it wasn’t a child that said it. I’m saying the child has nothing to do with it, it’s a cool monster anyway, it isn’t nonsense.

Now you’re saying that it’s not about being unfunny or nonsense, it’s that it doesn’t “have the same hook”. Which is it? Is it nonsense? Or do you just not like the method of delivery?

Have you actually played a ttrpg? Or really heard any jokes at all? The way a line is delivered matters. Saying “i beat the goblin” is completely different than saying “i sliced through the goblin, cutting it in half, its body flying through the air where i punt it between the masts of the sailboat like a field goal”. They might be the same exact outcome, the same exact scenario, but the delivery makes one more fun than the other.

The spider dragon sounds like a dope-ass monster to fight, and the kid sounds like an awesome GM. You can have the cool monster with your GM. The delivery here allows you to imagine the fun you can have.

Put it another way: ‘“imagine there was a small short green goblin that fights” just doesn’t have the same hook as this expression’. No shit sherlock.

Isn’t this what conky does? Puts it on the root layer?

In what way is it unfunny nonsense? Seems like a legit monster to me.

Sure thing! There’s a bunch of options there, like having it flash the lights of the room you’re in, ring your doorbell, send you a text or notification, etc.

You could “build your own”. Use home assistant to play music or a sound bite on smart speakers around your house. Or even just have it send you a notification. Home assistant can run on pretty much anything as well.

I bet you can take the back off and put whatever you want in there for the clock face.

No need to go looking that far back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_cassowary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casque_(anatomy)

No worries.

Maybe aliens’ vaginas sounds like magnetars.

All joking aside, it took us almost 40 years to figure that out, the aliens have only had 30, and in the magnetars case we can use other celestial bodies to help figure that out. Aliens have to figure out our vaginas from scratch.

Or they got the signal and had no fucking clue what it was, like when we got that strange noise from space that happened just once and never again.

Because that’s how many legs crabs have…

They actually have ten, but I’m guessing you’re not counting their claws.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250909074342/https://news.safaritravelplus.com/animals/how-many-legs-do-crabs-have/

https://www.mainelobsternow.com/blogs/resources/the-anatomy-of-a-crab

You signed up on one of the most political instances there is. Switch instances and browse Local. Like the other person suggested, lemmy.zip or programming.dev are both good options.

Sidebery

Wouldn’t chameleon make you just as trackable unless you’re also switching your vpn every time you switch user agents?

That’s just not true though. And you stating it like it is a fact is just ignorance.