I'm 40 years old and have lived in the Helsinki metropolitan area my whole life. I have a licence, but I have never owned a car because I don't need it. I drive maybe twice a year when I need to go somewhere I can't reach by public transport, I borrow a relative or friend's car for that.

For those who speak strong English, yes

khan academy is available in many language

Single-syllable words can still be pretty long, like "squished" or "scrambled"

I just ran some code over the CMU pronouncing dictionary and the longest words identified as single-syllable that are English-origin and not proper names or possessives were

  9 SCRATCHED
  9 SCREECHED
  9 SCROUNGED
  9 SCRUNCHED
  9 SQUELCHED
  9 STRAIGHTS
  9 STRENGTHS
  9 STRETCHED

For eight letters, it found dozens of examples!

The CMU dictionary thinks that "scrambled" is two syllables as a vowel ends up between the "b" and the "l" in pronunciation. Wiktionary thinks this is a syllabic l (/l̩/), which should probably be counted as a separate syllable even if it isn't considered a vowel.

Wikipedia says

> Many dialects of English may use syllabic consonants in words such as even [ˈiːvn̩], awful [ˈɔːfɫ̩] and rhythm [ˈɹɪðm̩], which English dictionaries' respelling systems usually treat as realizations of underlying sequences of schwa and a consonant (for example, /ˈiːvən/).

That's consistent with what the CMU dictionary is doing, perhaps treating /l̩/ as /əl/.

English is the only language I know of that allows spaces in compound words at all. It's a very peculiar feature of English orthography.

Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language?

Nah I just didn't know anything about Mandarin really

I think it's about the simulation and agency that video games afford the consumer.

Too bad no one will be able to read it. Better make it a video essay.

with subtitles flashing in the center of the screen

Proton is available for desktop Steam as well, just pick your distro and go.

Me and my nerd friends had LAN parties in somebody's garage etc. I really miss those sometimes.

When its snacks and BS while everyone gets hooked up and gets files off the local share to install SC2 for the nth time. It would take hours to get set up. Then more hours of play. We'd go for 10 to 12 hours sometimes, just to get things working.

This was one reason why my crowd loved the Xbox for lan parties. Just make sure everyone bringing an Xbox had whatever game, only needed one box/TV per four friends, and the autoconfig networking meant all you needed is a switch to get a few of them taking on LAN easily. Plug everything in and you're good to go with a crowd.

If by SC2 you mean Star Craft 2, that's a bit too recent for me. We used to play Quake 2, Red Alert, Diablo 2.

Ironically, these are still the best games for a LAN party. I set up a fleet of old cheap computers running Linux, loaded with all these offline and now open-source games. We had a blast and ended up playing mostly Quake 3 until about 4-5am.

We couldn't play any modern games, because every single person at the party would have had to have a Steam account or some license to the game, and have to log into it on my computers, then sign out when they were done... what a bunch of garbage. Nobody had their Steam passwords on hand.

With Quake3, you could sit down on any free machine and jump into a game instantly. I was also really surprised because some computers had the "official" Quake 3 purchased from Steam on Windows (friends who brought their own computers), some had the open source Quake 3 engine running on Linux, and some had official Linux clients... and they all worked together flawlessly.

Red Alert was a favorite. Unreal Tournament: GOTYE was another. Also AOE2. I still play AOE2 with friends occasionally.

Perhaps I, as the author of this article, could have also been more careful with the terminology.

But you can just use the "step out" feature to get back out when you realise you've gone into a library function. Or "step over" when you can see you're about to go into one.

While that's true, it doesn't necessarily help me understand why my parameters for said lib or whatever lead to things blowing up.