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Like this example that I pulled from some Unicode docs...is it really useful for some with limited vision to hear the full character names for each character? We should do better.
Portion of a function for inhomogeneously broadened multiwave mixing taken from https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1.pdf, which discusses encoding mathematics symbols in Unicode
August 27, 2023 at 7:12 PM
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Foosball in French is baby-foot

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby-foot
First few sentences of the French wikipedia article for foosball. My rough translation (leaving the names of the game preserved) is: "Baby-foot or babyfoot (in France, in Switzerland and in Canada: faux-anglicism) soccer sur/de table or football sur/de table (in Canda), kicker (in Belgian) or also foot-foot (in Switzerland) and officially named table football by the French Federation is a game simulating a..."
August 25, 2023 at 1:33 PM
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Man with giant tomato on head: "Answer the damn question"
July 31, 2023 at 8:26 PM
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someone take this game away from me
11 JRPG characters standing in a semicircle, 9 of them wearing tanks on their heads
July 31, 2023 at 8:23 PM
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A man wearing a tomato head saying, "But don't worry, I've got a disguise ready. No one'll recognize me." He is saying this to a woman wearing a giant tank as a hat.
July 18, 2023 at 7:46 PM
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why can I put giant tank hats on my party
Four people wearing giant tank hats surround a woman, offering her help Four people with giant tank hats lean over a man sitting at a table, barely visible behind their tank hats, while an off-screen voice calls out to them
July 6, 2023 at 5:36 PM
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Every game should let you wear your dumb costumes in cutscenes
A man with giant tomato on head says, "How 'bout atonement?" Man with giant tomato on head looks at gun in hand, thinking "A resin gun that fires gunpowder bullets... Can't be found by metal detectors..."
July 6, 2023 at 5:26 PM