We can see 5, and there’s one that we can presume is covered up by the child nearest the camera.

There’s also a single line (that doesn’t form a point of the star, because you need two lines to meet to form a point) coming out at the top left.

Here late at night to whine about our late night public transport service. Last year I went to the /r/brisbane art show at Woolloongabba. I live in St Lucia, which is a convenient bus trip through the busways away. But after that event, I ended up walking ~4 km home because the buses were not operating at that time through the busways, and instead I would have had to take a different (much less frequent) bus into the CBD, followed by a walk, followed by another (infrequent) bus home.

Tonight was the next time I was at the Gabba since then. And again I’ve ended up walking home because an hour-long walk still managed to be faster than the massive detour via the CBD (and significant delay waiting for once-hourly buses).

It has a fucking stupid name, but assuming they don’t end up cutting back on their promises even more than they already have, the Brisbane Metro should be such an enormous boon to our public transport service.

I think I’ve been spoilt by the Definitive Editions of AoE too much. I find it hard to go back to older versions of those games. Not because of graphics, but because of the lack of quality of life features like universal shift-queuing and good hotkey systems.

Is glottalisation where [t] is replaced by a glottal stop, like is common in Cockney? Australian English is much less varied than American or British, but still varied enough that I can believe that, even though as far as I’m aware it doesn’t feature in my accent.

perhaps [i] (and potentially other vowels) block flapping for you.

Yeah I suspect that’s probably it. I recall seeing a list of vowels where it’s done in Australian English, and I think [ɪ] was on it, but not [i].

Yeah I mean, I know dogs come in a wide range of sizes, but I feel like default dog is a lot bigger thanks default chicken.

I don’t know anyone that owns a dinosaur

I do. It’s somewhat more common with people living in more rural areas than in the city, but I’d guess they’re the third most popular pet after cats & dogs.

Fyi Lemmy doesn’t do spoilers the way Reddit does. The syntax for spoilers is:

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I’ve never actually played them. Would love to try them out, but I’m afraid they’d be too dated. Would love to see them get a Definitive Edition similar to what Age of Empires has received.

It is in my time zone, where it’s Saturday already.

Hells yeah AoE4! I’ve been a Byzantines main since they released that civ as an option. Love the cistern & aqueduct system.

But I think the above commenter was referencing tabletop wargaming, not RTS.

Civ is prehistory to futuristic. AoE2 is mediaeval.

Empire Earth or Rise of Nations would be a better answer to @Agent641@lemmy.world’s question.

Pretty sure they’re talking about something more like Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis than Age of Empires.

Isn’t this basically the first episode of Castle?

also: happy cake day Picard Maneuver!

That Just Stop Oil is funded by the daughter of an oil exec is very easy to prove and not at all controversial.

Why she funds it is another matter entirely. If she’s sincere, she wouldn’t be the first child of a conservative billionaire to take a more progressive stance. On the other hand, if it is a false flag operation, it wouldn’t be the first time that’s been done either.

Here is her sharing her own perspective.

To take an Occam’s razor approach, that she’s sincere requires assuming…that she’s being sincere. That she’s operating a false flag requires assuming that she’s lying to the press by claiming to care about the environment, and that she has successfully fooled not just the press but also the people she’s giving the money to (or an even bigger assumption: that it’s a massive conspiracy and everyone involved in JSO is in on it, but nobody has leaked) of her sincerity, and that she believes the best thing she can do to prevent action on climate change is to fund organisations aiming to promote action on climate change.

It’s certainly not impossible, but yeah. Occam’s razor suggests to me that unless we get more evidence to the contrary, we should put more stock in the idea that she’s sincere.

How does it make you feel to know that a bunch of the best players (not the top 2, but a few of the top 20 and even more of the rising stars) weren’t even born when Age 2 first came out?

Huh, I’ve seen Manscaped ads in the form of specifically-placed sponsorships in podcasts and at the end of videos. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen their ads come up in a randomised ad slot.

I also never order pizza on an app though, so maybe that’s their target audience.

I thought that might be the case too, and actually had half drafted a paragraph explaining that. But then I actually took a second look and no, I stress the first syllable of “ghoti”. I do stress the second syllable of “goatee”, which has all the same phonemes (well, unless the fact that ghoti has [i] but goatee has [i:] matters), but a different stress for me.

I don’t really know what the flapping “rules” are for my dialect. I flap in famous examples like “butter”, but for whatever reason not here.

That “/r/” is representing tapping.

Oh huh. That’s weird to me. Flapping is definitely a significant feature of my accent, but I definitely don’t do it with ghoti (or goatee).

You’ve already pointed out the problem with using / / when what was meant was [ ], but you kinda brushed over the problem of using [r] when they meant [ɾ].

Do you think the same thing there is what lead to the final vowel? [i] vs [ɪ]? It’s a bit harder to explain because r could be explained as “it was the closest I could get on my keyboard without extra effort”, but ɪ requires having gone to seek out non-standard keyboard characters.

Yeah I agree. Age of Empires is one of my favourite gaming franchises, but I’ve never really been able to get into RTS games outside of it, although I’ve tried. I had a bit of fun with Warcraft 3, but it never really clicked with me properly, and others I’ve tried I didn’t really even enjoy.

Well that’s not quite true. I also loved Battle for Middle Earth 2. But I’ve never played it online at all, and obviously it’s completely unavailable in any legal form today, so it’s hard to really count it.

But still yeah, absolutely love the Age games. The DEs have been handled so brilliantly, and I am enormously excited for Age of Mythology: Retold, since AoM was my favourite part of the franchise.

This context does not explain why it’s /hɔʊrɪ/ instead of /oʊti/ in the title.