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Name: Upthorn
Age: 39.94
I mostly post about:
- linguistics (with a focus on Japanese)
- programming
- niche computer/video games
- board games
- my own self
I sometimes post about:
- anime
- socio-politics
- geo-politics
- the current pan-western rush to embrace fascism
- gender politics
- US politics
- the fact that COVID still exists and you can still catch it
- media criticism
I can't seem to work up the nerve to post about
- kink
- porn
- other mature-content things
My hobbies are:
- linguistics
- video games
- anime
My fandoms are:
- Steven Universe
- Babylon 5
- anime
I'm looking to meet people who:
- believe that (all)
  - neoliberalism is evil
  - trans-rights are human rights
  - Opposition to unjust power structures is the bare minimum
  - Palestinians have as much right to exist unmolested as Israelis
  - terrorist attacks are no excuse for war crimes
  - opposing an ethno-state is not the same as hating its privileged ethnicity
  - The Saudi Monarchy is a blight on this earth
- bonus points if (any)
  - you're hot and available and open to a long-distance relationship
  - you can help me work out gender
My posting schedule tends to be: extremely sporadic
When I add people, my dealbreakers are:
- Right-wing tendencies,
- both-sidesism,
- simping for (any of) the rich and powerful,
- COVID denialism or minimising
Before adding me, you should know:
- I very recently realized I'm non-binary and have just begun my journey to properly express my gender of "colorful space-wizard (not to be confused with dumb old drab Jedi)"
- I'm currently working on/managing a project to translate a game from the undocumented conlang it was written in
- I'm basically 40 now
- I am poly, ~~hot~~, and ready to explain my situation a lot
- I could use a primary partner and am open to long-distance
- Or maybe just read the self-introduction post I ported from cohost

Oh hey, I remember you from TASVideos! :D

Hello fellow almost 40 linguistics fan. I'm very curious about your conlang game project.

The game in question is Platine Dispositif's comiket 87 stg so called because its actual title is in the same undocumented conlang as the rest of the game.

I used datamining to find plain-text scripts for the in-game text, and found that while it has a standard ascii representation (for ease of development) it is either not meant to be pronounced, or the mapping from glyphs to Roman letters is not concerned with phonetics.

There's a small discord server for collaboration, and a google doc for recording findings.

If it's a conversion to something that maps to Japanese it makes sense if there's no pronunciation associated. Very interesting project! (Both the game and the deciphering)

It doesn't appear to map to Japanese, (word order appears to be SVO, for instance) but it does seem to form meanings by combining glyphs to form concepts and then combining these concepts to form words, much like Japanese kanji compounds do

Hi! Welcome to Dreamwidth, home to many refugees from dead, dying, or objectionable platforms.

I checked out your profile, and our interests do overlap in places. 90’s anime! (my username is actually from an 80’s anime, though) – and anime in general – with #1 of My Favorite Anime Series being Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Also, I was once a programmer and have just closed out a 47-year career in technology. I love science fiction but reading has been on hold until only recently.

My blog is mostly anime and photography – although with retirement I’m posting about more random things in my life. Could be boring. My blog is public – subscribe or not; makes no difference to me. I don’t tend to comment a lot. Too busy!

hello! i was already hooked from the 39.94 specificity at the beginning, but i'm also a linguistics nerd (though mostly the evolution of english, but also spanish / portugese, and german!), am a very casual speedrunner, and a hobbiest game dev, so its seems we have a decent amount in common, if you'd like to try out being friends? :)

Certainly, that's why I made this post, after all!

Goodness, don't need to tell me about the war crimes stuff and using the "oh but ... terrorism" excuse to justify murdering ~40,000 innocent people who have nothing to do with the group they claim they're fighitng against.. and yet when you post about it on facebook you get shadow banned... grrr...

I like you.

Thank you :)