As folks who know of and/or tune out Valles' world building rants from the Legendary Global channel could attest, I got into a conlang rant myself.
So, as part of the project to create a conlang or two for his story, I worked up this piece of "pseudo poetry." For pronunciation, consonants and digraphs are what you'd expect from English, vowels are the "Italian five" and "@" represents "schwa" or the sound represented by "u" and "o" in "button."
Shuz@ tirebe m@d,
Noi letala ko pal@ g@sita.
Cheni layomi supeya more sa!
Nigeche nalu.
At this point, nothing means anything, this is just trying to get the sounds to flow, or get a feel for the language.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

I was browsing the site yesterday and poking at some preview chapters, but they arent there today.

Anyone know whats up with that?

WETA Workshop makes
functional mermaid tail for double amputee.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

So we all love BGC's music here, yes? It's one of the huge selling points of the series.

Well, I've always liked it, but occasionally, I want a little more. Like lyrics I can actually understand/sing along with. And in my endless trawl, I have
discovered the four below.

Rock Me

Mad Machine

The ones below here are basically direct rips from the dub, but never fear, those who prefer the Japanese spoken vocals will only have a smattering of English
to wade through.

Konya Wa Hurricane (From Tinsel City)

Say Yes! (from Double Vision)

Credit for Rock Me goes to Baseload, who provided the Anime Music Radio recording that I tweaked a little to remove the bumpers, while Say Yes! was located by
Spud.
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

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"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

I have no one to blame but myself.  Well, and Ops.

Hm.  Needs more puffy shoulders, maybe Cyborg Sphere?.  Must get through Outbreak and to a tailor, stat.
Superdeformed design reference, activate!
--Sam
"In the name of the Loon, I'll punish you!"

I promised Ran-san that I'd post what I consider to be the "anime proportions that I always apply to my female faces. Here's a comparison - first
the standard, then the custom. So you can see exactly the way the changes make things look.

Does anyone know the artist and title of the song played under the action movie montage during the Oscars tonight? The one where the singer twice went
"tick tick tick tick boom"?
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I think it has been recced on here before like ... a couple years back. It was a System Shock fic featuring a hacker who took out the ethics constraints on
SHODAN on a space station and asked for some hacking tool in his hand in response. Then it ends up everyone has been killed while he's been in surgery and
he has to find a way to take out SHODAN before she completely takes over the world.

Anyone know what it was called or have a link? Thanks for any help.

Completely OT, my apologies.

Despite my b/f referring to her as a Rent-a-Friend and remarking that I have him to talk to for free, I went and saw a therapist on Thursday. Figure I've
tried dealing with "this stuff" on my own long enough. (Bob knows about some of it. If anyone else wants to know, especially after reading further,
I'll be happy to indulge you.)

She didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, but I suppose it was nice to hear it anyway. Here's what she thinks I've got going on:

"Definitely" panic disorder (was also told this by a psychologist in '03)

Depression

"Possible" PTSD (the laundry list of things I told her had happened, and she could only say "possible"? Ha!)

"Possible" C-PTSD (Complex PTSD, go look it up)

Talking to her about everything, I actually cried a little. Didn't expect that to happen. Guess I'm not used to spilling everything at once IRL.
I'd definitely like to go back and see her again.

-Amanda
"Hey, it's not like dying is on my schedule for this week."
--Yumeko Asagiri, Bubblegum Crisis: The Next Generation, part 3