Nobody Cares if it's Off Topic

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Romans not respecting the tropps. Where are they now?

 

[Govi]

What language/alphabet is used by Aurelius Polion? It doesn't look like the Roman or the Greek alphabets; did they look different handwritten on papyrus from the way they looked carved on buildings?

 

[danielravennest]

What language/alphabet is used by Aurelius Polion? It doesn't look like the Roman or the Greek alphabets; did they look different handwritten on papyrus from the way they looked carved on buildings?

It's lower case Greek. I recognize a number of the letters, not because I studied Greek, but rather physics. We still use Greek symbols in formulae.

 

[Soen Eber]

It's lower case Greek. I recognize a number of the letters, not because I studied Greek, but rather physics. We still use Greek symbols in formulae.

That, and the lack of spaces.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Yup; by the time of Rome, Greek had been increasingly the common written language of Egypt ever since the Ptolemies began around 300 BCE. At this point hieroglyphics were in slow decline, really only used for like monuments and such, and eventually fell out of use completely. It wasn't even strictly hieroglyphics in the more commonly-thought of sense; it was a sort of cursive derivation called Demotic.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Is this for real?


Not that I text many people, but do people pay attention to the supposed connotations of various forms of punctuation?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Is this for real?


Not that I text many people, but do people pay attention to the supposed connotations of various forms of punctuation?

I can grok that for a text message medium, and that's very interesting. I'm going to pass it along to a millennial friend for comment.

And also note I like to add a smilie when I absolutely wish to be sure I'm friendly and positive.

 

[Ava Glasgow]

Is this for real?


Not that I text many people, but do people pay attention to the supposed connotations of various forms of punctuation?

Yes, according to my nieces, a period can make a text come off as terse, annoyed, or facetious. Particularly for thanks, when no smiley or emoji is used:

Thanks.​

Right around the time they informed me of this, the sitcom Corporate did a whole episode about a guy's exclamation point key not working, making everyone think his perfectly normal emails were actually vicious snark. I've always been a smiley-and-exclamation-point work emailer, but felt like people might see it as unprofessional. Turns out I was just ahead of my time!

Side note:
I finally started texting last year after a chat with my nieces. One of the three teenage nieces was going to France for the school year, and the other two were distraught that they wouldn't be able to text her. I laughed and suggested they email her and they just looked puzzled. Finally one said that emails were only for more formal communications, like thanking a hiring manager for a job interview. The thought of using email to chat with friends was outright rejected as something that is simply not done.

Which explains why they never acknowledged emails I sent them. Now I text and all the nieces and nephews actually respond to me!

 

[Ashiri]

Side note:
I finally started texting last year after a chat with my nieces. One of the three teenage nieces was going to France for the school year, and the other two were distraught that they wouldn't be able to text her. I laughed and suggested they email her and they just looked puzzled. Finally one said that emails were only for more formal communications, like thanking a hiring manager for a job interview. The thought of using email to chat with friends was outright rejected as something that is simply not done.

What strange times we live in.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

What strange times we live in.

We're gonna need more lawn bowling, old person pants, and get off mah lawn signs.

 

[Ashiri]

We're gonna need more lawn bowling, old person pants, and get off mah lawn signs.

Lawn bowls, get of mah lawn signs? I think not!
I'll just be a cantankerous old fart in my MMOs.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Lawn bowls, get of mah lawn signs? I think not!
I'll just be a cantankerous old fart in my MMOs.

 

[Clara D.]

We're gonna need more lawn bowling, old person pants, and get off mah lawn signs.

Since I've decided to transition late in life, I'm going to need more baggy hot pink tracksuits with inexplicable patterns drawn on them with glitter.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Since I've decided to transition late in life, I'm going to need more baggy hot pink tracksuits with inexplicable patterns drawn on them with glitter.

You'll be among the most fabulous People of WalMart.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I can grok that for a text message medium, and that's very interesting. I'm going to pass it along to a millennial friend for comment.

And also note I like to add a smilie when I absolutely wish to be sure I'm friendly and positive.

Two Millenials reported back with confusion: "Wait, that's even a thing? Huh." An Aussie and a Yank.

Eta: will try to remember to ask on guild Discord where there are a few post-millenials.

 

[Soen Eber]

So I handed in my HTML/CSS final 3 minutes before the deadline of 11:59 PM tonight. Not quite what I wanted, but it'll get at worse a B. First 6 days of the assignment I was putting in 10 hour days on a small team communications presentation, then I dithered, spending 3 days researching wireframing tools before getting back into gear and rereading the book, took two days selecting fonts and creating fancy menus, ate a chicken dinner at the local deli, was sick for 3 days, wasted the weekend because it was too damn cold, and ...

got to the coffeeshop at 10 this morning and spent 8 hours there and 2 hours here knocking it into shape. Threw out everything I had and rebased from a couple of old youtube videos, discovered half my fancy work was failing the CSS validator because they're STILL working on validating custom variables, chose an ugly color scheme (by my standards) that was still readable, got everything working, and did the wireframes in 8 minutes in PowerPoint. I'm going to lose points on presentation quality because of margin and padding issues and I STILL don't have float and it's assorted hacks memorized yet, but I'll be happy to settle for a B for the class.

CSS can die in a fire. Word and PowerPoint and oodles of open source office software has figured out how an idiot can make a half-assed presentation by clicking and dragging, and we're still in the 90's apparently when it comes to automating web page presentation.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I think I'm getting the hang of this Blender stuff.

 

[Erich Templar]

I think I'm getting the hang of this Blender stuff.

To be honest, I was torn between 'Yay!' and 'Jealous'. My Blender skillz are at a rather lesser level.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

To be honest, I was torn between 'Yay!' and 'Jealous'. My Blender skillz are at a rather lesser level.

I'm paying for online classes, so I'm not like some kind of savant or anything. ^^

There's all kinds of free YouTube tutorials for Blender, but the upside of paying for classes is consistent quality. The downside of course is money....and time; some of the classes have deadlines and not everyone is in a position to be able to devote that kind of time.

I think you definitely CAN get by with nothing but YouTube, it just takes a little longer and you have to motivate yourself to practice. And don't ask for critique from Reddit.

 

[Adeon Writer]

You better not tell me you’ve modeled that human form from scratch because I’ll be very depressed at how much I’ve learned blender in a year