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Y'know, it's actually started mildly bugging me, the whole "lowest form of wit" thing. Critter might be trying to damn it with faint praise, but it's still admitting it's wit. Lowest form's still a form.

As an american, the t in that can't is is NOT clearly audible. Some americans, a minority really, really do pronounce t differently. Here's some examples, though I pronounce the t in all the 4.1 examples.

I take back the statement on hearing care

Uh, yeah, the t is clearly audible. Similarly even in hicksvilles stateside even the drunks pronounce the t in batman.

... maybe time for a hearing check, ree?

Haven't tried it, but I've been watching gameplay vids off and on. It does look interesting, and it's been tempting me. Also yeah the aesthetics are pretty on point.

... that said, if I ever do get around to playing it step 1 will be pointing cheat engine at it and freezing the stamina bar at full. It looks like it'd be notably more enjoyable without having to deal with that, heh.

Natural blueprints are generally sodding terribly optimized, tho'. They're like the literal incarnation of if-it-ain't-broke-enough-don't-fix-it, with a side order of GIGO, RNG-hell, and an entire QA industry's worth of shitty bug testing efforts. Like, it's the actual pile of random, potentially useful stuff we'd be hypothetically discarding for nicely optimized replacements, not the other way around.

There's all sorts of reasons to want to keep around biodiversity and rummage through nature-y stuff humans haven't screwed with much for junk to steal, but... yeah. Nature is not good at engineering or optimization, it's just been throwing shit at the wall for much longer than we have and doesn't care if the results dies, so it has some novelty, here and there.

... it's probably worth noting most of the useful stuff we can still yoink out of its squishy bits, we're primarily interested in to fix how much of a biological clusterfuck we are. Nature is not good at any particular job, it's just had literal millions of years to be shit at things. The original Shakespearean typing monkey, save it's less Shakespeare and more tenpenny bodice ripper schlock and now we're stuck trying to edit that shit so we die less.

saw wawoodo you mean

Been giving them space for decades, nenj. Ain't been working too hot, really. Younger people have been changing, but only so much the rest.

Couldn't really say if it's the best way to go, but stopping that and lettin' folks either own up to their shit or fuck off definitely seems more viable, these days. Majority-minority in my lifetime~