I like using word association as a game. It’s quick to learn, doesn’t need any equipment, and it’s no problem to join or leave the table whenever you like.

Try to get from some word (eg HOME) to some other word (eg SUMMIT) taking only small, obvious steps.

Each step should make a pair of terms that “obviously” fit together. They can fit together because they sound similar (HOME -> ROAM), or they are written similarly (HOME -> HOLE), or have an obviously-related meaning (HOME -> AWAY)… anything that makes sense to the group.

You can take turns around a circle. When it’s your turn, you announce the next link. If anyone thinks the link isn’t small enough or obvious enough, they can object and you’ll need to pick a different link. Then it’s the next person’s turn.

You can play competitively if you like (the person to reach the target word wins) but it also works fine without announcing a winner.

In a technical context, yes, a GIF refers to a specific image format. However, plenty of people now use “gif” to mean any short soundless video loop, regardless of how that video is stored.

It’s silly, but I can see how it happened.

According to the PieFed developers page:

The API for third-party apps (frontends, bots, etc) is 95% the same as the Lemmy API.

I don’t know if there’s anything special that Voyager needs to do. Maybe it even works already!

And now the cropping is fixed, so the comments deriding the cropping don’t make sense anymore.

No. Duolingo is a for-profit company.

And even if they were a non-profit org, cutting jobs isn’t a good thing. It’s sometimes an unfortunate necessity.

Yeah some of the libraries near me have a selection of video games on the shelves. At least one even has board games.

I love libraries.

Those caps are meant to affect the way you read it.

In this post, the capital letters (plus the “How To”) suggest a title, like a book or something.

Ha, I missed that part. Subtle.

Are you lost?

I can’t see why you would make this post here.

Maybe you mean one of the “ask” communities?

What does Willow (1986) have to do with data? Isn’t it, like, a sword-and-sorcery fantasy movie?

Oh I bet there’s a character with a name that sounds like the word “data”.

!science_memes@mander.xyz discussed long-term storage:

https://mander.xyz/post/26896717

(dunno if linking to a post is going to work, let’s see)

My friend had light switches that glowed with a bright blue LED glow.

I couldn’t stand it. I prefer to sleep in the actual darkness.