Chuffed
Yes, very pleased or satisfied. Like, you'd be chuffed if you made a great pavlova, or parents got you a Megadrive for Chrissy.
chocobaco or something like that
Orion's Cocoa Cigarette. But Little Bobdog Cigarette is probably more popular.
As someone who spent the largest chunk of their working life involved in localizing games, and doesn't come from North America, this post was an 'oh yeah, that's knowledge I take for granted' moment.
You shouldn't feel dumb; it's just not been a useful thing for you to know.
I have a graduate diploma in economics and concur it's mostly bullshit. The lecturers essentially agreed. Didn't bother to continue to masters as I don't think there's anything more to learn from the field once you've confirmed that the world economy is based on lies and dice rolls.
Pre-home internet I remember running a line-in to my soundblaster card from a clock radio and recording Tool's Sober to my HDD.
The wav file took up a good chunk of the HDD. After a good amount of funking around with encoding it was barely comprehensible and still took up too much room. Was exciting and felt like a glimpse of the future.
After 25 years of writing Japanese and trying many cheap and expensive options...
「Zebra Clip-on multi」
is my forever pencil (+pens).
💯. I also got Discworld vibes!
Ah, the best game I got for free from work.
My company's giant publishing overlord handled distribution (in our region) for the giant publishing overlord that handled distribution for the giant publishing overlord that owned Monolith. (THQ, Sega, Warner)
Ah, what a shitshow of an industry. Happy days.
I find usually when I can't articulate something clearly, it's because I haven't thought about it/researched it well enough, and I should stop trying to contribute on that topic until I have a better understanding.
That's why I often end up writing long comments, but don't hit post. Not a waste of time though, as it helps me identify areas in which I'm more ignorant than I thought I was.
In the Saigon women's museum I read about a older lady who would create mines from unexploded US ordinance and blow up US tanks with them. That's pretty badass.
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In Chinese/Japanese, there's 四 rocks in both base 10, and base 4. (8 rocks would be 二四 in base 4).
I think the concept of "base" is easier to understand when you include a numeral for the highest base (10 = 十, 20 =二十).
Of course, arabic numerals are more concise, using position to imply meaning (21 = 二十一).