The ‘step’ in words like ‘stepmother’ or ‘stepsister’ has nothing to do with our word ‘step’. It comes from Old English ‘astiepan’ (‘to bereave’), which produced ‘steopcild’ meaning ‘orphan’. So ‘stepmother’ originally meant someone who became mother to an orphan.
I don't know how I didn't figure this out until just now, but the English word "reckon" is cognate with the German word "rechnen", meaning to count, reckon, or calculate. Of course, the word "reckon" is also used in this sense, an example being "I reckon it's worth about $12."
A wee bit of Autechre does ye good...some chilled electronic music 😮
#autechre #electronicmusic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8URk...
Official video for 1993 song "Basscadet" by English techno duo Autechre. From their debut album Incunabula. #Techno m.youtube.com/watch?v=TztU...
It's been a while since I've posted in this thread, but last night I came across a rare early Autechre track made circa 1991 (in the Lego Feet era), and HOLY SHIT, this sounds FUCKING AWESOME:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtA_...
Radar on an IBM PS2 model 25 286
A low poly pixel texture model of a shotgun with a clip on strap.
The underside of the shotgun model, giving a clearer view of the strap and the loading port.
The right side view of the shotgun, with visual hints as to how it ties in with my other posts.
The left view of the shotgun with extra shells held on the side.
The earliest model I made in my low poly pixelated texture style. I am pretty torn about guns in games; I love boomer shooters and survival horror, but I think there's an over reliance on shooting as a mechanical drive in most games. But here I am makin guns. #lowpoly #pixelart #gamedev #retrogaming
A wireframe view of my shotgun asset, along with model details.
Exploded view of all the pieces that make up the shotgun model.
Detail of the (purposefully) pixelated textures.
More details from the top of the shotgun.
Details of my low poly pixel texture shotgun from a few years ago. Though 1000 tris is reasonably high, this was designed to be used as a first person weapon that would have all action animations (reload etc), so a lot of moving parts were fully modelled. #lowpoly #pixelart #gamedev #blender
Displayed in New York in 2006: a Nintendo-branded microcomputer with a boxy joypad beneath it. It kind of looks like the MSX but with that Nintendo look and feel.
A grey and red Nintendo-ey looking cassette deck that would have played cassette-based games like many of its microcomputer peers
The joystick and the light gun/wand periph. Think of an 80s wiimote and you've got the idea. All would have been infra-red wireless - even the cassette deck.
🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⌛
Before the NES there was the AVS: Advanced Video System. Had this initial prototype, displayed only once at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1984, entered production, Nintendo of America would have entered not the console market but the home computer one.
A 3D model the Pansonic NV-MS4 S-VHS Camcorder. It used to work, but was water damaged during the extinguishing of a shed fire that destroyed all my possessions.
A 3D model the Pansonic NV-MS4 S-VHS Camcorder, including all the controls on the side.
A 3D model the Pansonic NV-MS4 S-VHS Camcorder, showing the VHS housing closed. All the inside has also been modelled and the housing can be opened, but that's not shown here and I will include it in a second post.
A 3D model the Pansonic NV-MS4 S-VHS Camcorder, with the back connections shown.
No idea why I insist on modelling the least exciting objects, but here's my first attempt at realism from a few years ago. I recreated my favourite camcorder (MS4) that was damaged in a fire (long story). I also made the inside because of who I am as a person. #blender #substancepainter #hardsurface
A 3D model of the Pansonic NV-MS4 S-VHS Camcorder. The top side is shown with all of the controls, attachment shoe and battery storage.
A close-up of the 3D modelled control features of the Pansonic NV-MS4 S-VHS Camcorder.
A 3D model of the Pansonic NV-MS4 S-VHS Camcorder with the tape housing open.
The underside of the 3D model of a Pansonic NV-MS4 S-VHS Camcorder.
Detail of my favourite camcorder (NV-MS4) that I recreated in #blender and textured in #substancepainter. The inside of the tape compartment is also fully modelled because I can't leave well enough alone. It will be missed.
#hardsurface
Very cool magazine ad for Ghost in the Shell on the PS1. Taken from the August 1997 issue of Tech PlayStation.
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"You Can Never Be Too Powerful or Too Thin." - the left of a double-page ad for Toshiba's T3100 gas plasma screen laptop. T3200 sports 12mhz 286, EGA graphics, and a 40MB HDD. Plus 1MB ram! T3100/20 has an unspecified 286, 640kb (all you'll ever need) of ram, plus a 20MB HDD. The T5100 has 16mhz 386, 2MB ram, and 40MB HDD! What a beast.
The right side of the ad with a photograph of three models of the laptop range on their back sticking up into the air to show the varying profiles. Two are wedges, one stubbier than the other, while the third on the right is blockier and stubbier. All have 3 1/4 inch floppy drives visible.
From a cyberpunk future 20XX, Datadyne's latest piece of wizware... no wait, these existed in 1986!
By the standards of the day, these Toshiba laptops are pretty damn sleek things - even more so with that red gas plasma screen. They'd feel so cyberpunk!
Specs in the alt text.
I stayed up way later than I thought I would, so I'll read your response later after I get some sleep. Glad to know I got the point across perfectly; that's what I like to hear :)
Hope you have a good day as well. Take care!
Oh yeah, I love Autechre
Also my apologies for only writing in English. I don't know much Japanese (I only know a couple of basic words and phrases. The same goes for reading Japanese), and English is the only language I'm fluent in. Hopefully Google Translate or DeepL translated my posts above into Japanese accurately.
Listen to how the "dæg" in "tō dæg" is pronounced. That is how you would pronounce the "mæġ" in "mæġden".
Old English was pretty interesting when it came to spelling and pronunciation of words, and I love it for that.
Also, as for the pronunciation of "mæġden", in Old English (specifically the "mæġ" part of the pronunciation), I will refer you to this video of The Lord's Prayer in Old English, as you will get a better understanding it than I can currently explain.
youtu.be/ZbNovjvjqt8?...
(Note that the asterisk symbol means a reconstruction, and not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence (they are referring to the practice of the comparative method in linguistics).
You are also correct about the meanings of the words as well.
That's right! The word "maid" indeed comes from the word "maiden". It comes from the Middle English versions of the word, which were "mayden" or "meiden". These of course, came from the Old English word "mæġden", from Proto-West Germanic "*magadīn", from Proto-Germanic "*magaþs".
A full overhead aerial view of the World Trade Center complex from a helicopter 500 meters (1968.5 feet) in the air, taken in October 1976.
A full overhead aerial view of the World Trade Center complex from a helicopter 500 meters (1968.5 feet) in the air, taken in October 1976.
You're welcome! :D Take care of yourself as well!
You're welcome! It's nice to know you found the topic interesting. Also, your English (assuming you're not using a translator) actually isn't that bad! In fact, I'd say it's very close to sounding fluent. It's kinda cool to see you be able to get to this point of understanding the language.
transparent original uk jewelcase of "autechre - incunabula".
"autechre - incunabula" cd front with some hardly recognisable disc rot on the outer edge.
jewelcase backside of "autechre - incunabula" with yellow price sticker "06-94 19 DM 32.99 WOM World Of Music".
selfmade inlay for "autechre - incunabula" cd with times & titles text in black & white and some typography shadowplay.
revisiting
autechre - incunabula
11.1993 warp 17 cd 💿
my copy bought in early '94 is rotting away (made by PDO), lowride & 444 don't play anymore. no rot progress in 5 years tho. - pic 4 is my selfmade fanboy b&w designers republic knock-off inlay.
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#wolfsmixedbag #autechre #DiscRot #CDFriday
It sucks that the disc is rotting, but man, Autechre's debut album sounds so awesome, even 31 years later.
Same goes for The Designers Republic. Even now, their designs from the 1990s (and even some of their designs from the 1980s) feel very futuristic!
I should've posted this 2 days ago, but on the 19th, I celebrated my birthday!
