Interesting list. My handwriting is mostly what’s called “print handwriting” here, but my a and t are like the D’Nealian ones. And needless to say, my handwriting is not as pretty as any of these.

I never learned cursive, my native tongue uses an entirely different script, so for learning English as a second language, separate letters sufficed. This is what all cursive text looks like to me. I can never read it, even if I try really hard.

Only heard about him for the first time recently, in the context of the Stop Killing Games initiative. He spoke in support of it (which is a good thing, yay), and is apparently involved in some way in the drama that gave SKG the boost it needed.

Trying to figure out who the hell he is and how he ties into it, I watched one of his videos on YouTube (reacting to someone else’s video about SKG). Instantly got the impression that he’s an asshole… But at least he’s on the right side when it comes to SKG.

Yup, that about matches my thought process when I made that comment. Economies of scale make the complexity irrelevant.

Honestly I barely saw anything of her, I just knew she existed. Now she’s notorious for that 180 in the public’s perception of her, which is why she came to mind.

She’s far from the first, though. Very different circumstances, but Bill Cosby also springs to mind.

As for Taylor Swift, I know about as much about her as I did about Ellen, which is very little. I never got any icky vibes from her though, besides the inevitably hypocrisy that comes with being filthy rich and mega famous (private jet + preaching about the environment). Not enough to make her out as the bad guy.

Is that true? I’m too scared to look up prices. Electronically, touchscreens are infinitely more complex, but I can believe economies of scale brought it down lower than buttons… I just don’t want to believe that.

Ellen DeGeneres v2?

in case you’re not aware: modern browsers don’t actually keep all tabs loaded all the time.

We can all* agree that we want a person we find attractive to place some of their skin in contact with some of our skin. Beyond that, don’t sweat the details!

* I phrased this as inclusively as I possibly could but sorry aromantic asexuals, you might not be included.

I feel dumb that I needed this explained to me. Thanks.

I don’t get it… is there anything to get?

oh that sucks. have people in that group tried contacting support to regain access to the game?

What was that second point? I was an early buyer (before infdev) and I still have it.

:)! :)! :)! :)!

This would be read aloud as: S M I L E exclamation point! S M I L E exclamation point! …

(it would spell out the word “smile” instead of saying it)

This was perhaps the densest TTS runtime to character count.

I think I might

TL;DR (I only have a minute right now), does this change ANYTHING about the doll except a little note on the box she comes in?

Okay, I must confess, I knew about that, as well as the other options in the replies. I never used any of them but I knew they exist. When I asked it was sort of as a rhetorical question. People generally wouldn’t know about these obscure typing options, so I was playing the everyman.

Even if you do know it, if you don’t use it often enough you forget and have to look it up again next time.

Or far more realistically, just make the server binaries available. You can’t force companies (or individuals for that matter) to open source their code.

The Stop Destroying Videogames initiative deliberately doesn’t care how they make the games work without continued support, as long as they do it. Releasing server binaries (or code) is one way, there are others.

Response from Ross Scott (starter of the Stop Killing Games movement): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Ay_aOUcFw

TL;DW: all the point they say opposing the initiative are straight up lies. Some other parts of the statement deliberately pretend to misunderstand the initiative.

I like that this might as well be intentional. “[If you] don’t buy a year book, [you will] forget high school.” And the definitely intentional “Don’t forget high school! Buy a year book!”