Traditionally none, but in some cultures that may vary.

Glad you are on the mend!

Morning Womble, sorry you are unwell! I’m reading A River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com really enjoying it.

I finished Empire of Sand by @tashasuri.bsky.social a couple of days ago it was also really good!

Pretty sure I’ve seen you post about this tentacle on Reddit a few times. Bookmarking to watch later.

Cost of living in Saudi was pretty low which meant we spent money on things we’d not normally have been able to afford.

My mum was a total bookworm and later retrained from nursing to be a librarian, I also grew up on a university campus so education was highly emphasised.

The paper dictionary is the only one I currently have I’ve got a concise oxford dictionary from 1920 something, unless you count the encyclopaedia I left at my parents house…

Can’t remember the last time I used vinyl, I got rid of all my VHS cassettes apart from my copy of Transformers the movie.

We had a Brittanica, or a Compton’s encyclopaedia (I can’t remember which one) and an Arabic encyclopaedia too. I used to just leaf through them as a kid and read random pages… Because I’m cool like that…

I’m confused, I’ve seen you in the UK and I’ve seen Blockbuster in the UK… Never at the same time in the same place. Are you secretly Blockbuster?

I think I’d just say the movie’s name being merrily oblivious to who made it and who is in it.

That’s very poetic, have you considered being a writer.

You’re gonna need a bigger shelf!

My condolences, not on the same level as losing a friend but we had to put our dog to sleep three days before heading down.

Glad for the distraction of the con, but coming home to him not being here was heartbreaking.

Hope your CT scans turn out okay.

A friend of ours allegedly drew a pentagram in red paint on the floorboards before laying down carpet in the run up to selling their flat.

I’d also need to figure out a timer for the power pellets…

Honestly it lends itself to a system like Time Stories uses…

Which might make more sense…

I’m going to mull it over for a bit…

Not counting each step, and instead having the entries represent nodes rather than each space.

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Could eliminate scatter too, and not represent eaten ghosts.

Some mechanism to track state too could be added…

Because the ghosts behaviour is deterministic, it’s doable, but you’d have to factor in backtracking and loops.

I’m not even sure the 13 million includes the ghosts being in scatter and chase modes, let alone them being in runaway, or eaten mode.

I think I could prune the permutations though.

English has nothing on Arabic, we have set phrases you say in specific circumstances ranging from when someone has had a haircut, to a funeral, each has a specific response, and sometimes there is a prescribed back and forth.

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