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actually did you know famicon was sharp's family convection oven first and the family computer was never called famicom for legal reasons until sharp and nintendo came to an agreement and that's how you have the sharp twin famicom and why nintendo got to call the sequel super famicom

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thinking about how different cultures shorten popular names

jpn:
"family computer" -> "famicom"
"magnetic video camera" -> "mavica"

gb:
"resident evil" -> "resi"
"sensible soccer" -> "sensi"

i'm getting better and better at opening up a text post field, typing out my inflamed discourse thoughts, and then closing the field without making the post.

i love it when people say something "sounds like midi" like yeah sis it sure sounds like music notation without an associated sound!

i want to build a new text to speech voice for myself (something i will carry around to use to speak), i do not want it to sound human, if you know any cool off-the-beaten-path stuff like this please let me know

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i wish there was something like the dectalk voice but feminine without it being just the dectalk voice in falsetto

@jk i think that just used the same engine as dectalk, didn't it?

i want to build a new text to speech voice for myself (something i will carry around to use to speak), i do not want it to sound human, if you know any cool off-the-beaten-path stuff like this please let me know

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i wish there was something like the dectalk voice but feminine without it being just the dectalk voice in falsetto

my lamest claim to fame is having composed the soundtrack to a game released on steam built with the "grandma platforming engine" which means that the mobygames database believes that i have once contributed with Maddy Thorson of Celeste fame on a video game

@lexbailey anecdotally, we have composed music since 2007 and have soundtrack credits even on a few games released on steam and we still don't know music theory, so, 🤷‍♀️

@nicklockwood it's hard to find fediverse software that doesn't turn every image into webp now, with the exception of some forks, for example

denying webp inbox breaks most of the fediverse's incoming posts etc

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