ladel

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[–] ladel@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This is a statement from North Korea, so I'm not sure they'd agree

[–] ladel@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've helped him out with just a couple of things, like a cloud boss battle, but he's mainly tackling it by himself, which I'm happy with.

FFIX seems to be regarded as a beter game in some ways, but I think FFVII is more iconic. I think I only ever tried out VI before (not for long, I couldn't get into it). I'm not sure whether I'll try out any others after this - I know there's IX and X at least also on the eshop

[–] ladel@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm stepping away from Super Smash Bros because now I'm literally just grinding gold extremely slowly to buy the last ~60 odd spirits I'm missing, which are all just DLC spirits. It's not fun that way.

Bought Echoes of Wisdom, but my son's been playing it and I probably won't tackle it myself any time soon.

Instead I bought FFVII since it was on discount and I'd never played it before. I'm slightly disappointed after hearing it being hyped for 20 years - but it's still enjoyable enough to carry on with.

[–] ladel@feddit.uk 37 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The fast pass has been a thing for years, but are you saying the last three chapters are permanently locked? That's terrible.

[–] ladel@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago

Current interest rates with six times my salary - not sure I could even afford the repayments.

[–] ladel@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Same here. I don't know that she's innocent, but there didn't seem to be any hard evidence. It's terrible for the parents to have this certainty over the deaths taken away, but I expect it will get overturned eventually.

[–] ladel@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bought nintendo online so that I could try out the online mode mode in super smash bros, and it's really discouraging. I thought I was alright at it because I've basically completed the game and done the hardest challenges, but on online I'm riduclously outclassed. I think I played like 30 games last night and won only 2. I know it has a ranking system to match you up with similar players - I don't know if it starts you out pretty high at first or something, because I feel like I'm a level 1 CPU right now.

[–] ladel@feddit.uk 24 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

The Home Office official said that because Alina is over 18 she is not being granted permission to come to the UK as a dependant of her parents.

They're not counting her as a dependent child because she's an adult, but it seems to ignore the fact that her parents care for her in some way

[–] ladel@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

In Smash Ultimate, do you mean the playable characters or the spirits? I've been grinding away at the spirits still, and I've got about 175 still to go. The spirit board is almost clear I think, so I'm guessing there's loads (like most of the DLC ones) that I still have to buy using gold.

[–] ladel@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

The 3D on the 3DS was a harmless gimmick because it could be turned off, and that's what I always did, but I would have liked a cheaper version without it. I think they eventually did that with the 2DS XL.

[–] ladel@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

iPlayer needs a login, I can't remember if you need to prove that you've paid for your TV licence

[–] ladel@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have passed 1000, so a few hundred left. A lot of those are summons and enhanceable ones, so I'll have to grind SP. And there's a few 4-star legends that I can't get past, it's Super Sonic and Evil Ryu at the moment that I've been beaten by multiple times.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/877454

This is a post about placenames because I find these kinds of things interesting. Fill in any blanks or make corrections if you can.

For whatever reason, Korea likes to refer to a connection (usually a railway or road) between two places by taking the first part of each word and combining them. When one of those places is Seoul, the syllable used is gyeong - for example Gyeongbu to refer to a rail line between Seoul and Busan, or Gyeongin to refer to the collective area/connection of Seoul and Incheon. Gyeonggi-do, the province surrounding the capital, literally means that. But why is "gyeong" used in place of "Seoul" or "Seo"?

Seoul is, as far as I know, the only native Korean placename in use. Everywhere else has over the course of history been converted to a Sino-Korean name, which can be written using Hanja (Chinese characters). For some places, the old native Korean name is still known, but is never used.

Seoul as a word simply means the capital. It's a word that has transformed from being a general noun (e.g., "the seoul of England is London") to being a proper noun referring to the city of Seoul. (Aside: I think 수도 is now the term to refer to a capital in general sense).

Seoul only became known as Seoul following the end of Japanese occupation. Prior to that, it had a few different (Sino-Korean) names, most recently Gyeongseong - a Sino-Korean word meaning capital city (gyeong/경/京 means "capital"). When Seoul Station was built, it originally took the name Gyeongseong Station. So it makes sense that when they named the railway line between Seoul and Busan, they called it the Gyeong-Bu line, right?

So when you see 경 in relation to Seoul, you might have a slight appreciation of why it's there. But just because you see it, it might not be related. For example, Gyeongnam province or Gyeongju city both have "gyeong" but have a different Hanja and a different, totally unrelated, underlying meaning.

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