The-antihero-of-the-story - 「ᴀɴᴛɪʜᴇʀø」

Just started creating pixel art a few days ago (maybe 4-5 I forgot). I thought that I'll start posting my pixel progress every time I create something. Maybe I'll post some of my pixel art from the past few days.

ALSO I accept all forms of advice to improving my pixel art because it will probably be helpful for me since I just started.

To start, I'm not too happy with how this turned out (especially that grass, and the colour of that cloud thing). Advice and constructive criticism will be very much appreciated.

Also, it's kind of blurry because this was from a screenshot I took of my art. I currently am using the aseprite trial version because I want to use it and see if pixel art is for me. So maybe sometime in the future I'll buy it, but for now, I'll use the trial version. Sorry for the blurriness, but it might stay that way for some time.

Found a new language practice app!

Polygloss has you describe an image in your target language so another player can guess it. It encourages creative answers. The game works for people of all levels — you can describe simple pictures or try your hand at wordplay.

It has plenty of options and will let you add any language you’d like — tho it’ll probably be more difficult to find people to play with.

The current situation with climate change and how liberals talk about it is like if you had early stages of cancer, where it was still very much treatable, and instead of giving you any treatment all the doctors were talking to you about accepting death, and giving you pamphlets for the terminally ill, and explaining to your loved ones how to put everything in order for when you die. And when you said it was treatable everyone would either act like you were in denial, or explained to you how impractical any treatment was (chemo therapy, don't you know radiation is deadly). And when they talked about the future they'd talk about one where you were dead, despite the fact that it's still 100% treatable, and every day you don't get treatment it gets worse. And eventually when you tell them "fuck you I want to live" they act like you've broken some unspoken rule.

“Depending on how you see it, you need either the fullest expert knowledge for philosophy, or none at all.”

— Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments

English and Dutch erosion

The word neighbour has two syllables, but it comes from an Old English three-syllable word, which in turn stems from a Proto-Germanic five-syllable word. In the last few weeks, I've shown how French eroded. Now it's time to have a look at and a listen to English and Dutch, which had a way with erosion too...

we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?

You know we don’t actually have an accurate count of how many bilingual people there are in the US because our census asks people “do you speak a language other than English at home?” and not what some other countries might ask which is “can you comfortably have a conversation in a language other than your native language” or something similar.

When people say “20% of Americans are multilingual” they mean that 20% of Americans speak a language at home other than English.

This doesn’t account for people that speak English at home but also speak another language. I personally know multiple people who speak Spanish or another language even though they speak English at home. I know someone who speaks six languages conversationally and she’s not getting counted by these statistics because she speaks English at home.

We don’t actually know accurately how multilingual the US is. Like imagine if they just asked Dutch people if they speak a language other than Dutch at home. The Netherlands has a multilingualism rate of something like 95% but that number would probably go down substantially if you just asked if they speak Dutch at home or not.

you can make nearly any object into a good insult if you put ‘you absolute’ in front of it

example: you absolute coat hanger