I don’t believe Voynichese is any known or unknown natural language, and even unusual Romanisation wouldn’t explain the peculiarities of the manuscript text. In my opinion, there are only two likely scenarios:

1) Voynichese is an unknown constructed language

2) Voynichese is highly structured gibberish, created systematically and with great care to mimic the behaviour of real language.

Even if the second is correct, it would be a remarkable achievement for some early 15th century scribes. The amount of linguistic awareness required to create this language-looking gibberish is impressive in itself.

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Only just started Pentiment. And by that I mean I got through the background selection, and I’m now trying to decide if I’m happy with my choices or want to go with something else. The game looks really good so far, I’ve heard good things and I’m excited to see how it plays out.

It’s still completely up in the air, and as I said above: paradoxical. Voynichese doesn’t behave like any known language, and has several problems besides just entropy. On the other hand it obeys Zipf’s Law, and topic analysis indicates the content of the writing varies with the subject matter of the pages, like a real language would.

All evidence suggests it was created in the first decades of the 1400s by several scribes. It would have taken weeks to write, and probably a year to finalize including the illustrations. The materials and labour cost would have been rather expensive at the time. It could still be a hoax, but it’s a very old and elaborate one in that case.

It is, however, incredibly unlikely that the text itself is a natural language. That much is widely agreed among experts. The big question is whether the text contains meaningful information at all. Is it a conlang, an elaborate code or is it a nonsense text generated through a series of rules and mechanisms that merely visually imitates language?

The paradoxical nature of the Voynich is part of its allure. It’s so easy to think it’s “just a hoax”, but then you start looking into it and more and more the hoax theory starts to feel unlikely. Then you start to think “maybe it is a language”, but the more you look into that the less sense it makes as a language with all the strange patterns and rules and behaviors that are so unlike known languages.

It’s a very compelling mystery, it doesn’t surprise me that it has consumed so many people and destroyed quite a few careers.

Yeah I do this too and I fucking hate it.

They are indeed. Very curious how they’ll end up solving the Max Payne remake with James McCaffrey passing.

Though the game I really long for is Alan Wake 3, but I’ll probably have to wait 5-7 years for that if not more.

You tried, Remedy. Now can we please get back to you guys making the type of games we actually want you to make again?

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Sam Lake is still out there fighting the good fight. Kojima too - whether you think he’s a genius or think he produces incomprehensible nonsense you can’t deny he is at least flying the flag for the weird.

Okay I’m interested. Might give this game a shot, I’ve sort of been missing a detective game after finishing Blue Prince.

I would have thought there should be several hurdles for a FederatedFans type site: money being one, legality being another and content control a third. How do you ensure your content is only showed to paying members once it’s been federated?

However Mitra seems to exist, though I have no further info about it as I literally only found it just now.

Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 35 average - 0% recommended - 18 reviews

Dear lord you don’t see that often. I mean, it’s no surprise and it’s definitely deserved as the game is a hot pile of garbage but even then. They didn’t buy off a single reviewer?

I never particularly feel well rested, but it’s a chicken and egg situation. Am I tired because I’m depressed or am I depressed because I’m tired?

Very relatable comment in general, but the above was the most relatable.

I’m already taking magnesium supplements and have been for a long time.

Mainly problem falling asleep, which I’ve struggled with my whole life. Can’t turn my brain off, can’t really fall asleep easily unmedicated. Has always taken forever to actually fall asleep. Lately I’ve been struggling with poor sleep quality too, with increasing severity over the past 7 years or so. Keep waking up multiple times at night and have trouble getting any deep sleep.

Not sleep apnea as far as I know, or narcolepsy. Probably just a mental health thing.

I’m AuDHD and have had pretty bad sleep issues my whole life. My doctors have told me it’s common for people with these diagnoses.

Hoppas detta fortsätter resonera med folket och att vi kan få väck denna regering. Trött på att skämmas över att vara svensk.

I’m back on my first playthrough of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided after a two-month break for Blue Prince, Clair Obscur and F.E.A.R… It’s a great game, but I think I did it a disservice by taking the long break, I can feel I’m so much less invested now than I was when I began playing it.

It’s very unfortunate that the series ended on a cliffhanger, what they have here is really good and in many ways an upgrade on Human Revolution. A third game from the studio would have been a true masterpiece, I think.

This is a known issue that has already been reported and i believe idunnolulz has noted it.