well ok i do find the Funi Acksent trope to be annoying but mostly because of how cartoonishly racist it can be. still curious to look at why people write germans the way they do ("Vat ze fak?!") because it's mostly borne from an implicit understanding of how sounds work. i just think that's neat

the choice of morphemes that are altered to better convey the way the words sound when your nose is stuffy is really cool to me. one of my favorite quotes from calvin and hobbes is when calvin got a bloody nose from a poorly-thrown baseball and exclaimed "BY OWD DAD ID DRYING TO GILL ME!"

holy shit you can wear the hylian hood down if you talk to cece? i didn't fuckin know that. that's awesome thanks for the tip

i wonder what other random tidbits are buried within these pages

meanwhile zd is like "here's a masterlist of main story walkthroughs, shrine locations, side quests, koroks, caves, items, armor, and an interactive map to show you where they all are." and it's all neat and laid out for you. i should have been using this ages ago

also the formatting is a bit of a nightmare, if i wanna know where a specific piece of armor is i go to the totk main page then navigate to Items, Armor, scroll through the List of Armor, click on the armor and hope they have its totk location listed, and then try and find that location in game. ugh

i try and keep my walkthrough usage limited to just general hints as to where i want to go, only looking up solutions to shrines or quests when I'm really stuck. but zw's articles amount to mostly "[shrine name] is a shrine in Tears of the Kingdom. (This article is a stub.)" like thanks for that

i just spent 5 minutes on a shrine where i hovered a box over a pit, used recall to suspend it in the air so i could attach a chest to it, then recalled again so i had time to grab and carry both of them to safety. it was only afterwards that i thought "why didn't i just use recall on the chest"

"the RADICAL LEFT is indoctrinating our kids into their DISGUSTING AGENDA!!" and then the agenda in question is "I think it's bad when children die"

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the reason my threads on here are always so long (aside from the 300 character limit forcing me to break them up) is because of that feeling that i still have things that need to be said in order to sufficiently explain my viewpoints. aaaaaaaand I'm almost out of characters again 🫩 lovely

i believe the compulsion to overexplain is an autism trait but like. what if i didn't say the right words in the right way to make you perfectly understand what I'm trying to convey. maybe if i just say more words eventually I'll stumble upon that magic sentence that makes everything fall into place