00:05 <SnoopJeDi> !wpn -add:wpn somnambulist

00:05 <galois> Added wpn 'somnambulist'

00:10 <UmbralRaptop> note to self: overheating messes with my night vision

00:12 <SnoopJeDi> please do not overheat the diapsid

00:17 <SnoopJeDi> why are you overheated, UmbralRaptop?

00:18 <UmbralRaptop> recovering from a cold messes with my thermoregulation

00:18 <SnoopJeDi> ah

00:45 <UmbralRaptop> !wpn -add:adj huge

00:45 <galois> Added adj 'huge'

00:45 <UmbralRaptop> !wpn -add:adj colossal

00:45 <galois> Added adj 'colossal'

00:45 <UmbralRaptop> !wpn -add:adj gigantic

00:45 <galois> Added adj 'gigantic'

00:45 <SnoopJeDi> !wpn -add:adj leviathan

00:45 <galois> Added adj 'leviathan'

00:45 <UmbralRaptop> !wpn -add:wpn magnetoresistance

00:45 <galois> Added wpn 'magnetoresistance'

01:30 <UmbralRaptop> when you've angered duo https://twitter.com/RealSardonicus/status/1227341325621760006

01:30 <galois> title: Sardonicus on Twitter: "Cat’s Nightmare by Louis Wain 1890… "

04:53 <SnoopJeDi> !wpn -add:wpn 騎士

04:53 <galois> Added wpn '騎士'

04:56 <SnoopJeDi> UmbralRaptop, I like this word ^ just been watching some シドニアの騎士 for the first time since I started poking duolingo again, and figured the title of a thing I'm sorta-kinda watching is a no-brainer in terms of words to look at

04:58 <UmbralRaptop> Knights of Cydonia?

05:02 <SnoopJeDi> I would sell it as "Eva in space, in a good way"

05:03 <SnoopJeDi> Rather less pretentious than Eva though lmao

05:03 <SnoopJeDi> It's an adaptation of a manga I think

05:05 <SnoopJeDi> oh neat, Hideo Kojima had this to say about it, which I had no idea about, but I feel a lot better than I'm this into it: "It's a kind of anime that we haven't seen for a while that has that sci-fi spirit. Using digital technology cultivated through games, it creates animation that encapsulates Japan's cultural assets like manga, cel animation, kanji, giant robots, etc. What's born is a unique

05:05 <SnoopJeDi> made-in-Japan work that could never be cooked up in Hollywood."

05:06 <UmbralRaptop> Yeah, it's based on a Tsutomu Nihei manga

05:14 <SnoopJeDi> I think that stuck in my head because I'd like to pick a reading goal at some point

05:15 <SnoopJeDi> Because my original goal was to be able to read the hiragana, and that started sinking in a lot faster than I'd expected

05:30 <UmbralRaptop> It doesn't feel like there's a particularly clear cutoff until you get to ~2000 kanji

05:34 <SnoopJeDi> Cutoff how so?

05:43 <UmbralRaptop> In that lots of kanji seem fairly common so they're necessary for basic reading. (Though media with names like 魔理沙 might be skewing my perception)

05:43 <SnoopJeDi> Ah, so 2000 is kind of like where "basic vocabulary" is?

05:44 <SnoopJeDi> I'm sure it corresponds(ish?) to an official reading level, which seem very well organized, although I don't know the particulars

05:45 <UmbralRaptop> It does

05:45 <SnoopJeDi> which one, out of curiosity?

05:50 <UmbralRaptop> jōyō, which looks to be 2136 at present

12:40 <egg|work|egg> !wpn whitequark

12:44 <egg|work|egg> is that an Aperture Science thing

12:44 <egg|work|egg> https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1093707569313579008

12:44 <galois> title: whitequark on Twitter: "do not look directly at the operational end of the device… "

20:23 <SnoopJeDi> UmbralRaptop, amending my Sidonia synopsis to "Eva in space, in a BSG way"

20:35 <UmbralRaptop> uh

20:35 <UmbralRaptop> Eva in space, but with Mormonism instead of Kabbalah?

20:58 <SnoopJeDi> more like just the space combat energy

20:58 <SnoopJeDi> the launch sequence is basically a direct homage

20:59 <SnoopJeDi> but Sidonia itself is a seed ship, so the "fragment of humanity struggles against existential threat" plotline is basically the same

21:00 <SnoopJeDi> (it's not clear yet if it's the _last_ vestige of humanity, but the Gauna Wars have lasted ~1000 years or something I think?)

21:00 <SnoopJeDi> from where I am in the series I mean

21:26 <UmbralRaptop> ah

22:32 <UmbralRaptop> Yelling about the close approach of an asteroid when it's going to be at ~1/3 of an au is… a reach