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The Good News: "Mega Man X2" speedrunners finally found an RTA-viable way to clip into the room under Magna Centipede's stage.
The Bad News: The only required stage boss on the new any% route is Crystal Snail.
Sometimes it feels like the universe goes "hey, you know what would be REALLY funny?"
The Bad News: The only required stage boss on the new any% route is Crystal Snail.
Sometimes it feels like the universe goes "hey, you know what would be REALLY funny?"
February 11, 2026 at 3:45 PM
The Good News: "Mega Man X2" speedrunners finally found an RTA-viable way to clip into the room under Magna Centipede's stage.
The Bad News: The only required stage boss on the new any% route is Crystal Snail.
Sometimes it feels like the universe goes "hey, you know what would be REALLY funny?"
The Bad News: The only required stage boss on the new any% route is Crystal Snail.
Sometimes it feels like the universe goes "hey, you know what would be REALLY funny?"
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I made a stupid mistake in the spelling of the Proto-Indo-European reconstruction.
Here's a correct version of the graphic.
The most recent version of my graphics can always be found on my Tumblr:
www.tumblr.com/yvanspijk
I made a stupid mistake in the spelling of the Proto-Indo-European reconstruction.
Here's a correct version of the graphic.
The most recent version of my graphics can always be found on my Tumblr:
www.tumblr.com/yvanspijk
February 10, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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I made a stupid mistake in the spelling of the Proto-Indo-European reconstruction.
Here's a correct version of the graphic.
The most recent version of my graphics can always be found on my Tumblr:
www.tumblr.com/yvanspijk
I made a stupid mistake in the spelling of the Proto-Indo-European reconstruction.
Here's a correct version of the graphic.
The most recent version of my graphics can always be found on my Tumblr:
www.tumblr.com/yvanspijk
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People! It's official: our all-new album is called The World Is to Dig. It's all bangers. The first preview single Wu-Tang is out today as a download at TMBGshop and is FREE TO ALL. Pre-order or just get the shirt. And we would appreciate it if you told a friend.
February 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM
People! It's official: our all-new album is called The World Is to Dig. It's all bangers. The first preview single Wu-Tang is out today as a download at TMBGshop and is FREE TO ALL. Pre-order or just get the shirt. And we would appreciate it if you told a friend.
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"hazel" and "nut" appear to be traces of a lost ancient language of Europe, or of two different ones. These words exist in Celtic, Germanic, Italic but not other branches of Indo-European*.
February 6, 2026 at 6:58 PM
"hazel" and "nut" appear to be traces of a lost ancient language of Europe, or of two different ones. These words exist in Celtic, Germanic, Italic but not other branches of Indo-European*.
Huh, "zany" isn't zane + y. Was a noun first: The Zanni was a commedia dell'arte character type (category?), a servant, sometimes stupid and silly, sometimes clever and cunning. From the name "Gianni."
Go fig. I guess it'd be like if we had the adjective "palyatchy." "What's a palyatch?" "Wrong."
Go fig. I guess it'd be like if we had the adjective "palyatchy." "What's a palyatch?" "Wrong."
February 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Huh, "zany" isn't zane + y. Was a noun first: The Zanni was a commedia dell'arte character type (category?), a servant, sometimes stupid and silly, sometimes clever and cunning. From the name "Gianni."
Go fig. I guess it'd be like if we had the adjective "palyatchy." "What's a palyatch?" "Wrong."
Go fig. I guess it'd be like if we had the adjective "palyatchy." "What's a palyatch?" "Wrong."
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Been rewatching Golden Girls. Grew up with the dub, it's crazy how different the sub is.
January 7, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Been rewatching Golden Girls. Grew up with the dub, it's crazy how different the sub is.
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...horrifying message without context, thank you
February 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM
...horrifying message without context, thank you
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anyone want to come over? we can stand across from each other and do this
December 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
anyone want to come over? we can stand across from each other and do this
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"Every janky indie EarthBound clone has amazing music" is an illusion. Most of them have average music at best; they just get extra credit for bothering to have a discernible musical identity at all, as opposed to most contemporary big-budget console RPGs' aimless "atmospheric" drone.
February 3, 2026 at 3:39 PM
"Every janky indie EarthBound clone has amazing music" is an illusion. Most of them have average music at best; they just get extra credit for bothering to have a discernible musical identity at all, as opposed to most contemporary big-budget console RPGs' aimless "atmospheric" drone.
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January 24, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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The pronunciation of a language is always changing.
Its sounds don’t change randomly. Their articulation shifts ever so slightly.
Over the centuries, though, the result can be huge.
Click my video to hear and see how Proto-Germanic *staumaz became English ‘steam’ over the course of two millennia.
Its sounds don’t change randomly. Their articulation shifts ever so slightly.
Over the centuries, though, the result can be huge.
Click my video to hear and see how Proto-Germanic *staumaz became English ‘steam’ over the course of two millennia.
February 1, 2026 at 7:10 PM
The pronunciation of a language is always changing.
Its sounds don’t change randomly. Their articulation shifts ever so slightly.
Over the centuries, though, the result can be huge.
Click my video to hear and see how Proto-Germanic *staumaz became English ‘steam’ over the course of two millennia.
Its sounds don’t change randomly. Their articulation shifts ever so slightly.
Over the centuries, though, the result can be huge.
Click my video to hear and see how Proto-Germanic *staumaz became English ‘steam’ over the course of two millennia.
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If I was a horrifyingly amoral anime protagonist with a magic book that makes people die of any cause I want I would 100% get sidetracked from whatever unhinged crusade I'm on by testing to see whether it's possible to die of certain things. Just writing down Concepts and seeing what happens.
January 31, 2026 at 7:48 PM
If I was a horrifyingly amoral anime protagonist with a magic book that makes people die of any cause I want I would 100% get sidetracked from whatever unhinged crusade I'm on by testing to see whether it's possible to die of certain things. Just writing down Concepts and seeing what happens.
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Taking every shitty "and Zombies" adaptation of classic literature and search-and-replacing "Zombies" with "Knuckles".
January 31, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Taking every shitty "and Zombies" adaptation of classic literature and search-and-replacing "Zombies" with "Knuckles".
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English still had the equivalent word as late as 1200 😁
"Giet ic habbe muchel misdon ðurh ane oðre senne þe is ȝecleped inobediencia, þat is, unhersumnesse."
"Yet I have much misdone through another sin which is clept 𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎, that is, unhersomeness."
Vices and Virtues c. 1200 East Midlands
"Giet ic habbe muchel misdon ðurh ane oðre senne þe is ȝecleped inobediencia, þat is, unhersumnesse."
"Yet I have much misdone through another sin which is clept 𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎, that is, unhersomeness."
Vices and Virtues c. 1200 East Midlands
explaining a boycott to a dutch person; so imagine a burger
January 30, 2026 at 12:25 AM
English still had the equivalent word as late as 1200 😁
"Giet ic habbe muchel misdon ðurh ane oðre senne þe is ȝecleped inobediencia, þat is, unhersumnesse."
"Yet I have much misdone through another sin which is clept 𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎, that is, unhersomeness."
Vices and Virtues c. 1200 East Midlands
"Giet ic habbe muchel misdon ðurh ane oðre senne þe is ȝecleped inobediencia, þat is, unhersumnesse."
"Yet I have much misdone through another sin which is clept 𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎, that is, unhersomeness."
Vices and Virtues c. 1200 East Midlands
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In Super Mario World, Mario can use lava to create life from nothing. Throwing an empty Koopa shell upward on the frame it would sink into lava will make it turn into a living Koopa. It can then be extracted from the shell and the process repeated indefinitely for infinite life.
January 29, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In Super Mario World, Mario can use lava to create life from nothing. Throwing an empty Koopa shell upward on the frame it would sink into lava will make it turn into a living Koopa. It can then be extracted from the shell and the process repeated indefinitely for infinite life.
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A thing I love about 90s environmentalist kids' media is it'll still have the heroes fight a giant lizard, but only after making clear the lizard is not a mindless killer. The lizard has *principled ideological objections* to the continued existence of humanity. The lizard would be happy to explain.
January 28, 2026 at 9:06 PM
A thing I love about 90s environmentalist kids' media is it'll still have the heroes fight a giant lizard, but only after making clear the lizard is not a mindless killer. The lizard has *principled ideological objections* to the continued existence of humanity. The lizard would be happy to explain.
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Rabbie Burns, Jason Bourne, Bourbon whiskey, Diet of Worms, Barrow River, Furrinalia
Most or all of these from *bʰréh₁wr̥/*bʰr̥h₁wéns: "well, spring, source"
#BurnsNight
Most or all of these from *bʰréh₁wr̥/*bʰr̥h₁wéns: "well, spring, source"
#BurnsNight
January 26, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Rabbie Burns, Jason Bourne, Bourbon whiskey, Diet of Worms, Barrow River, Furrinalia
Most or all of these from *bʰréh₁wr̥/*bʰr̥h₁wéns: "well, spring, source"
#BurnsNight
Most or all of these from *bʰréh₁wr̥/*bʰr̥h₁wéns: "well, spring, source"
#BurnsNight
Reading a translated Japanese light novel and trying to figure out if I should know what "Ching Guang Juai" is before I give up and look it up, and it turns out it's just bok choy.
January 25, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Reading a translated Japanese light novel and trying to figure out if I should know what "Ching Guang Juai" is before I give up and look it up, and it turns out it's just bok choy.
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The word ‘outrage’ consists of neither ‘out’ nor ‘rage’.
Instead, it comes from an Old French word for “excess”.
‘Outrage’ used to be pronounced /outridge/, just like ‘garbage’ is /garbidge/, but it was influenced by the unrelated word ‘rage’.
Zoom in on my new graphic to learn all about it:
Instead, it comes from an Old French word for “excess”.
‘Outrage’ used to be pronounced /outridge/, just like ‘garbage’ is /garbidge/, but it was influenced by the unrelated word ‘rage’.
Zoom in on my new graphic to learn all about it:
January 25, 2026 at 7:07 PM
The word ‘outrage’ consists of neither ‘out’ nor ‘rage’.
Instead, it comes from an Old French word for “excess”.
‘Outrage’ used to be pronounced /outridge/, just like ‘garbage’ is /garbidge/, but it was influenced by the unrelated word ‘rage’.
Zoom in on my new graphic to learn all about it:
Instead, it comes from an Old French word for “excess”.
‘Outrage’ used to be pronounced /outridge/, just like ‘garbage’ is /garbidge/, but it was influenced by the unrelated word ‘rage’.
Zoom in on my new graphic to learn all about it:
At some point I started using the word "ewer" and I can blame it entirely on crosswords.
January 22, 2026 at 6:09 AM
At some point I started using the word "ewer" and I can blame it entirely on crosswords.