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imagine rolling two standard six-sided dice. what is the sum of their results?
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okay if you haven't yet, participate in the poll before clicking the readmore because I'm gonna respond to someone's tags and I don't want to influence your answer
so first of all this is a poll where I've prompted people to play pretend with imaginary dice and I cannot comprehend what assumptions you'd have to make to think this is a question with a correct answer.
but if it did have a "correct answer", surely the correct answer would be whatever the most likely result of the sum of two six-sided dice rolls is, right? and that's seven. because there are more ways for the results of two six-sided dice to add to seven than anything else. like, it makes perfect sense that the results of this poll are what they are. what are you talking about.
I love Apollo + the moon as a motif…
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Obsession, guilt, and hatred that affected everyone.
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how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english
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really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll
i am losing my fucking mind
#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so
"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)
"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)
"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools
Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.
I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"
That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.
I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.
Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.
“Obscure facts” Boo boo I was taught it in elementary school. One with a state standardized curriculum.
Ms. is marriage-neutral and it’s pronounced Miz. It is deliberately different from Miss.
On principle I do just assume people's schools sucked in this regard and didn't teach them it (even if it's "standard" that's not a guarantee) but that only goes to show how much we're missing when it comes to feminist education.
In the current global climate that's so defined by reactionary antifeminism, maybe it's time we start getting loud about Ms. again? So that everyone knows what it was made for, and nobody can ignore why.
ah yes, cuz english is the only language on the entire planet and everyone knows everything about
who care how someone says Ms.
"oh but it's pronounced like miz"
shut the hell up, it doesn't mean crap
"oh but it's common knowledge that it was part of a feminist movement"
in USAmerica maybe, not in any other country in the world
English isn't the default language, heck, it's not even the first language of most people on the world!
it's the most spoken SECOND language, and trust me, they don't have time or care to teach the difference between Ms. and miss and Mrs.
because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter crap
what do matter is EVERY OTHER PART OF GRAMMAR
and if you dare to be like
"oh but how about history class"
I can assure you, there are more important things in history you need to learn about than one teeny tiny thing from the usa
were you aware of Ms. ("Mizz") as a deliberate alternative honorific to both Miss and Mrs. that doesn't specify marital status? and are you a native English speaker?
yes I knew that, English is my first language
no I did not know, English is my first language
yes I knew that, English is not my first language
no I did not know, English is not my first language
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^ poll to see if being aware of this is in any way correlated with being a native english speaker
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still not over that chest:waist ratio this man is like 30
showing off her card collection!
(my friends got me into ace attorney and it's lwk taking over my brain lol)
Not shaving and not wearing make up are literally nonbehaviors. They’re a complete lack of action. But doing nothing is considered masculine because women are not allowed to just be. this goes double for trans women.
reblog this version because transmisogynists don’t know how to fuck off.
"We need more flawed women in fiction" a lot of you all couldn't even handle Franziska von Karma
may the people have a Gregory Edgeworth?
sure
Et le grain mourut Devlog #4
Yes, finally. It's been exactly one year... So yeah April 16. Happy birthday Anatole France and Harahel. So. The devlog.
Overall progress
I did quite some things since the last devlog! Well, some various things happened in my life that prevented me from working on the game as much as I originally planned, but I'm still trying to do everything I can to be able to release the game in 2026. It won't before late 2026 tho (no ELGM tomorrow...). Tl;dr of the current state of the game if you weren't in the loop yet: it is fully playable (and several of my friends have already finished it), all features are here... but I need to finish the graphics and the English translation.
English translation
Nothing reminds you that you aren't a native English speaker more than translating your 70k word project into the language lol. Besides the personal stuff I have just mentioned, the translation is a big part of why I took so much time to write this devlog... I just didn't think it would take me so much time (and I'm not even done yet)! And as opposed to graphics it's hard to share interesting wips without spoiling anything. Brings me back to when I was working on the script... Currently, I'd say I'm around 60% done.
OmegaT is an open source CAT (computer-assisted translation) tool, and the program I use when translating ELGM. It helps me keep things organised and consistent. I recommend it if you ever have to translate big documents with repeated terminology or segments!
I'll be honest, I don't think ELGM is an easy text to translate, haha. Besides the usual difficulties you might encounter when translating a work of fiction, I had to make a lot of... choices given the setting, time period and the voices of some characters. I also sometimes had to adapt the text to make some concepts clearer, as I'm aware that the English version of the game will be played by an international audience. I hope the end result will be satisfactory enough and that you will be able to enjoy ELGM no matter which language you choose.
Character sprites
I've also finally started cleaning up character sprites, and will be able to progressively say goodbye to my sketchy and messy placeholders. Currently, I'd say I'm around 35% done with them, and once they are done I will move to cleaning up CGs. Other small graphics, such as inventory items or achievement icons, have already been done last year.
Émile and Cécile have finished sprites, but Olivier is still a placeholder. Of course the main character is going to take me some time...
I work character per character: first I properly place placeholder sprites of them in each scene they appear in, with the poses and expressions I want. I do that so I know which expressions this character will and won't need; depending on their personality and scenes, some character won't ever require a sad sprite, but could benefit from several nuances of anger, and vice versa. Seeing placeholder sprites together in-game can also help me fix stuff like heights and proportions ahead of time. Sometimes I notice that a character is supposed to noticeably shorter or bigger than everyone else they interact with, so I had to fix their eyes to make them look up or down and make it a bit less awkward!
Once I'm satisfied with every sprite I planned for this character, I clean everything up and make extra eyes and mouths for the blinking and lip-flap animations. That's a very time-consuming step but it makes everyone look more lively!
The Ace Attorney thing where two characters who have a connection of some kind share some sprite poses
Harahel crochet doll
Not directly tied to the development of the game, but I want everyone to look at the wonderful birthday gift I got :) It was made by https://www.instagram.com/plumes_crochet/!
Feat. my 1921 edition of Anatole France's Revolt of the Angels, Hara's favourite book and one of the inspirations behind ELGM
That's it for now! Remember that you can wishlist the game on Steam or follow me on Itch.io; besides just showing your support, it will allow you to receive an email when the game will be released (again, hopefully this year)! You can also follow me on Bluesky, where I sometimes post little updates ahead of time.
i'm in my pixel art era apparently
