User:Aoz0ra

This is a plural system with over a hundred headmates inside a single person and not multiple fully separate people behind this account.

Sorry if this causes any confusion.

That's not the only neurodivergence, of course — we're also on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum and have shown some ADHD-like tendencies.


 * Aoz0ra: Core of the system if that applies.  Fronted the most before the ‘moment of truth’.
 * Penelope: Competitive gamer with a passion for ambigrams.
 * Tiffany: Keeps everyone calm and takes care of those in need, inside and out.
 * Kaiden: Bulletproof, truth-seeking mathematician and objective writer.
 * Blaze: Firebending princess from Sonic's world.
 * Shadow: A hard shell containing a soft heart.  From Sonic's world.
 * Sonica: Sonic, but as a girl.
 * Cream: Simple English user and checker of clarity.  From Sonic's world.

Additional information will be added whenever we feel like it.

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We're also on CodePen, Minecraft, and even Uncyclopedia.

We're a bit more open there, letting out our full typing styles. We're User:HooPammI there.

We use the new version of the Vector skin that already made le Wikipedia en français and the Hebrew Wikipedia look very nice.

Got Pfizier.

And even so:

As companies rely on trust, we have chosen to continue wearing face masks.

In addition, we have chosen bowing in replacement of handshakes.

Colours
Other headmates have their own favourite colours. Penelope's, for example, is #00BBFF Sky Blue. Aoz0ra even has a secondary favourite of light yellow!

Our favourite colour palette for programming is Ethan Schnoover's Solarised.

Since we grew up with computers always by our side, we tend to think in RGBA and HSL simultaneously, or at least RGB.

This means that to us, black is the absence of colour.

Computing
Part of what makes us the Free Spirits.

Just don't go spreading lies (especially about us), okay?

While copyright laws may have their pros, a different system could potentially work better.

Requiring donations is where we draw the line. Winamp 5.666 is at least okay by reducing some features in capability.

This means that anything we make, you can freely distribute and modify as you wish.

Just don't turn it into malware, of course.

Aoz0ra is known for hating Comic Sans being used wherever it shouldn't. It does have its benefits for dyslexic users, though.

(Kaiden: And Silver is a fan of the font.)

KDE Plasma has been Aoz0ra's favourite for a while now, with LXQt + Openbox coming in at a close second. We eventually aim to make our own ‘Quintessence’ desktop based on Plasma 5 that brings back lost features from versions 3 and 4 of KDE's desktop environment.

If we can use Linux, we will.

Windows is a compatibility nightmare and macOS only runs on — get this — Macs.

It's a nice, free and open source alternative to Adobe Photoshop.

And Photoshop isn't normally even available on Linux!

We made our Dreams of an Absolution X4 COMBO with it!

I gotta say, hearing Bentley Jones and Bentley Jones and Bentley Jones and Bentley Jones with four instrumentals active can be quite nice.

And then we added on the 2019 version.

I can make it look exactly like Winamp 5.

Typically, you'll see that Linux text editors are also IDEs or nearly so.

Windows and macOS only provide a basic text editor by default, whereas Ubuntu's default comes with syntax highlighting!

In Search Of Awesome!

Specifically, we primarily use an ASUS X555QA with:

20.04 LTS.

Ubuntu is very popular as a Linux distro.

It's common for laptops like the ones we mainly use.

Fun fact: 1366x768 is slightly off from a true 16:9 aspect ratio.

All of our computers do,

including the mobile devices.

QWERTY is very popular, even being used for languages it definitely isn't optimised for. There are a few variants, but one small change will throw us for a loop.

And in the cases where we can't,

we fall back to a web browser.

Specifically:

Customisation is definitely one of our favourite things to see in software.

English
There are only a few things that we mess up on — one of those being always spelling ‘separate’ with an E for the second A until somewhat recently... that one even made it into shadowOS. Aoz0ra still has trouble with ‘possessive’ and ‘tomorrow’.

We also used to always use ‘it's’ even for the possessive. Thank goodness we no longer do that ^.^

Things are not ‘able to be done’... and we have no idea why that restriction exists.

And even...

‘Y'all'dn't've’!

‘Fewer’ is for discrete amounts

‘Less’ is for continuous values

The word sounds powerful...

...But when you really think about it...

Deci- is ‘one tenth’

-mate is ‘destroy or remove’

Unlike other Germanic languages, English gets a good amount of its vocabulary from Latin and Greek. Anglish is whag would happen if it ‘looked the other way’ and took no words from other languages at all.

Publix used to do this if we remember right.

Now they say ‘10 items or fewer’.

...though perhaps such a difference is just a hypercorrection.

Even though they weren't originally.

In technical writing, we revert this change.

We were initially taught that ‘data’ was singular only for some reason. MathsIsFun later corrected us.

And then there's ‘fora’,

the more originally Latin plural form of ‘forum’.

English is littered with irregularities!

In moderation, especially in formal writing.

Doing so too much is something up with which we will not put.

It used to be that male-only was the default (or indeed the only option) in English.

Now we even use male forms of words like ‘actor’ for females!

And neopronouns don't really work out for us.

Just stick to the standards.

Tails in the system goes under both ‘he’ and ‘she’,

and N is ‘he’, ‘she’, and ‘they’.

Again, this affected our usage of ‘it's’ vs ‘its’.

There was even a voice within that told us to always spell it with an apostrophe.

‘It's’ is short for ‘it is’, while ‘its’ is a possessive.

Weird Al even commented on this in his ‘Word Crimes’!

Comma splices are when a comma is used where a full stop should be, an example is in this very sentence. They can be fixed by either using a full stop and a capital letter or a semicolon.

(It pained Aoz0ra and N to write that comma splice)

‘The team, Sonic and Tails’ and ‘The team, Sonic, and Tails’ are different!

And while ‘Sonic, Tails and Knuckles’ is fine, it somewhat irks Aoz0ra and N. (Even Cream of the system uses the serial comma!)

We were taught otherwise, but we feel it increases readability — especially for fonts that don't distinguish the comma that much from the period.

America says otherwise.

Even some of our friends prefer logical quotation marks with American English!

Tails: I think it's always been our preference.

To connect two related sentences, and to separate items in a list when at least one has a comma.

This is, of course, a troubling punctuation mark. Even Tom Scott is only mostly confident in his usage.

‘To boldly go where no man has gone before’...

To heatedly debate about splitting infinitives! (...to deliberately add them in writing!)

It's fine in very informal English,

though we still correct such usage right now.

It is used only in moderation by us.

Too much, and they will be changed to active voice.

We're not sure about other languages.

But then again, English is basically littered with irregularities like this.

‘Than’ is for comparison,

while ‘then’ is for time.

‘Their’ is possessive,

‘there’ is for location,

and ‘they're’ is ‘they are’.

Larry from VeggieTales even had a section in his ‘Homophones’ about this.

Neat.

Other languages suffer from this too, besides Ithkuil of course.

‘Your’ is possessive,

and ‘you're‘ is ‘you are’.

Variations and dialects
Not our preference —

we switched during Trump's presidency.

And even when we write in American English,

we still use the IUPAC spellings of element names.

Colour, localise, favourite, neighbour,

labour, armour, etc. We also default to British quotes.

And then Aoz0ra also uses Australian English, and N has her own dialect,

but we still use British terminology even when speaking!

Added it as an option the moment we saw this very userbox.

Conservative Received Pronunciation users can now stop whining.

Use ‘one’ instead.

Unless you're formally giving directions.

We're getting most of it from Marine.

That there's how good we're at. Nonetheless, Aoz0ra really likes the sound of it for some reason, alongside Scottish and Cockney

Other variants
We accept all Englishes,

no matter how far removed from British English.

Cream of the system mainly writes in Simple English!

We also have a userpage on the Simple English Wikipedia.

Russian, specifically.

Complete with the rrrrrrrrolled R.

Silver (even in the system) often doesn't ‘get’ jokes or other wordplay.

It's okay.

Other languages
Knowledge is fading.

Rapido.

We're still capable of reading it well enough, though.

Now that's quite the experiment!

Ithkuil is so specific it's very hard to make jokes.

Tails: Someone should translate that very userbox into Ithkuil

We're certainly interested in this level 5 language, though!

Three scripts, very different grammar, some context, etc. At least it gets points for being easier to pronounce with just 5 vowels and 14 or 15 consonants, and a simple (C)V syllable structure for the most part.

We know a few basic phrases — 「私の名前は[name here]です」, for example, and we're learning it with both Tofugu and Duolingo.

Sometimes we forget the kana corresponding to a rōmaji representation, but almost always we can go the other way around. We know what the dakuten 濁点 and handakuten 半濁点 do and how to modify sounds with small kana (as seen in Wikipedia's Japanese name, 「ウィキペディア」).

We also know when to use on'yomi 音読み vs kun'yomi 訓読み, when to use hiragana ひらがな vs katakana カタカナ vs kanji 漢字, and how to type Japanese 日本語. We use a rōmaji layout by default as it's relatively easy to switch to from the layouts of European languages.

Miscellaneous
Tails: I will agree, 1337 can be hard to read.

But that's what you get when you try to avoid chat filtres whilst staying within ASCII.

Tails: It's like a lighter version of 1337 with overly casual speech (and some exaggeration).

If I remember correctly, AIM has died off quite a bit.

Usually we correct them right away, but sometimes we don't.

And then Penelope of the system tends to skip apostrophes.English has a good amount of vocabulary from French. ‘Façade’, for example... and then Spanish, as a Romance language, has even more similarities. (Those silent letters in French, though...)

Kaiden of the system might also prefer this one, though we're not entirely sure yet. (Aoz0ra: Ironically, I understand this userbox.)

It does seem like they have some fun with the vowels (Kaiden: and the timing!), though! Italian and Spanish are somewhat similar, enough that we might get some words, and then Spanish and Portuguese are even more similar.We're particularly drawn towards this language's Let It Go for some reason. Not sure why... perhaps it's just the sound?English also has a good amount of words from German — so many, in fact, that we can get some understanding of the German Wikipedia.Speakers of non-tonal languages are known to trip up with the Chinese tones. And then there are multiple Chineses, some with their own hànzì.It's the most used script out there. Kazakh is even switching. This also has the most characters across all of Unicode, enough to constitute at least 10 blocks! There were some influences from Greek and Latin.

Cyrillic is almost entirely small-caps as well.It's the first true alphabet.

ギリシャ語、ありがとう. [Thanks, Greek!]

Hangul is one of the easiest systems to learn — it's a combination of a featural alphabet and a syllabary.

And that's just what we're interested in for the most part.

Programming
aoz0ra@wikipedia:/user/Aoz0ra$ su t-tails

t-tails@wikipedia:/user/Aoz0ra$ _ Writing the pages

with HTML tags div.css-showcase:before {

content: "Styling the pages"; }

console.log(String.raw`Writing useful tools

in JavaScript`) Sometimes we switch to the visual editor

which notifies on attempts to type wikitext We made 3 of them so far, both of them userboxes. Templates are pretty cool — they're like JavaScript functions, but for wikitext. >>> print usage

"Not used for much" /(regular expressions?|regex(p|es)?/

They seem daunting, I know. ~TailsWe still occasionally pop over there. It's a nice introduction to programming for the kids! There are some well-known older users as well.

Did you mean: User:Aoz0ra?

Google also has the same easter egg.

Linguistics
Some of us may be linguists at heart.

N in particular is a grammar nerd.

At least mostly — we use slightly different definitions for some words or, as in the case of ‘biannular’ and ‘biweekly’, say they only mean once every two years or weeks respectively. (Same with ‘bimonthly’!) And so we suggest ‘semiweekly’ snd ‘semimonthly’.

Mathematics
Especially Kaiden of the system!

She helps the others with their maths work.

o

O

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And those who weren't expecting this to be in ternary!

3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 5...

The farthest calculation so far has been into the billions

Twilight approves of this.

As always.

Autistic, affected by ADHD, colour deficient, furry, pitch perfect, simultaneously in to Sonic and MLP, plural with many fictives, typeface and graphic designer in spare time, artist, pixel artist, in to Japan and Japanese culture, Linux user, Minecraft player, Crüxshadows and Birthday Massacre fan, writer, etc.

We collectively are quite gifted!

Music
As always.

We even make our own!of course.

We even start off with our own theme songs! ♪Libérée, délivrée♪♪Simple curiosity tries to take a bite of me / Let me show you just What I'm Made Of now!♪ Sonic Heroes was pretty good, even for its time.They're Luna's favourite,

enough so that Shallow Grave is her theme.

Her style is even inspired by them!They aren't nearly as popular as they should be. We were surprised to see that they also sing in German!

(Tails: Rogue has actually used the A-word in a live performance?!  Damn.)

That's a particularly hard song for just about every instrument, besides the vocals. Even The8BitDrummer had some trouble with this one at times.Panic! At The Disco's lead sounds similar, especially in the lower registers. (Oh wait, their lead is actually their only consistent member.) ♪Into the unknown!♪RIP Chester Bennington 1976 ~ 2017 - He couldn't reach out after battling with depression (complete with his final album having an appropriate tone)Bohemian Rhapsody is notorious for using a lot of styles.

Wow./Wish we could turn back time / To the good old days/ - They're pretty good at coming up with (at least given our knowledge) unexplored topics.

And that's just our main interests.

We also enjoy Touhou's music and just about everything from the Sonic games.

ａｎｄ　ｉｎ　ｔｈｉｓ　ｃａｓｅ，　ｎｏ　ｍａｔｔｅｒ　ｔｈｅ　ｌａｎｇｕａｇｅ，　ｔｈｉｓ　ａｌｗａｙｓ　ｆｅｅｌｓ　ｌｉｋｅ　ｉｔ＇ｓ　ｆｒｏｍ　ａｎｏｔｈｅｒ　ｗｏｒｌｄ　ｅｎｔｉｒｅｌｙ．．．　ｗｈｉｃｈ　ｉｓ　ｐｒｅｔｔｙ　ｃｏｏｌ

TheOdd1sOut says the same. We're fine with the occasional motif, but we believe that swears are totally fine in rock.

/Chunks would load when we gave the word / Now every night we go stow away / Hide from the mobs we used to slay/ - oh wait, that's Fallen Kingdom.

We know the English, Latin-American Spanish, French, and Japanese lyrics to this and have probably heard it about a hundred times now. (And now I can't let go of Let It Go... ~Tails)

/I'm gonna swiiiiiiiing from the chandelier~, from the chandelIER/ - Sia is a vocal POWERHOUSE. And we mean it.

(Wow.)

MIDIs of Sonic, Undertale, My Little Pony, Deltarune, Ace Attorney, Frozen, Frozen II, etc. We even have the MIDIs from Windows 3.1!

We primarily make edits of others' MIDIs, but we have one of The CrüXshadows in development. Edits are mostly to add extra style.

We're also doing one of Dreams of an Absolution.

Franchises and favourite characters
We initially seemed to dislike it, but deep down...

...we knew otherwise.

Aoz0ra: I think it's impossible not to like Fluttershy.

She's so cute!!!

And the same here!

Even Cream X Shadow content is nice, and we're also fine with Sonadow.

Sonario is where we draw the line, though.

♪流れてく　時の中ででも／気だるさが　ほらグルグル廻って／私から　離れる心も／見えないわ　そうしらない？♪

Anime and manga アニメと漫画
Aoz0ra's also in to other OS-tans.

95-tan is one of her favourites.

No favourites yet aside from the Frozen II / アナと雪女の王2 manga (even before reading it!)

We even make our own sometimes.

We even go with the original Japanese audio for Sonic games whenever possible and, when we can read it, also use the Japanese text option.

(Then again, we're learning Japanese.)We've watched only Ponyo ポニョ so far.

Also the Lo-Fi Girl says hi

We even themed our Minecraft マインクラフト around it for some time!

(When you want to make Minecraft look like a different game...)

4kids...

オマエ　ワ　モウ　シンデイル.

Other
He's played probably the widest variety of games out of any YouTubers we know — even The Henry Stickmin Collection!

There's even a game centred around him.

...or do we?

cue the Vsauce music

It's somewhat up to chance, but often we move our finger in the direction we want it to start spinning in and eventually it switches. Kaiden seems to have it down pretty well.

Tails: Closing our eyes or looking away works even better!

Aoz0ra: Indeed it does.

Astral projections, lucid dreaming, tulpas, other forms of plurality, etc.

We want to master the first two in particular.

Like, since when should the time be shifted by an hour for part of the year? We prefer if daylight saving wasn't really used.

Since the earliest dreams we can remember!

And that's from when we were very young up to now.

Knowledge has faded, of course, but we still know how to multiply on the very predecessor to calculators.

Normally, of course, we use calculators on computers.

User:Aoz0ra writes YOU!

Wikipedia reads YOU!And we also use the visual editor.

Y'know, going into the backend can also feel like magic.

It can be pretty cool to see what's actually going on behind the scenes!

Trump was basically doomed from the start. If we did choose to vote, we would've chosen Hilary.

And to that end, we have several young ones in the system! We can still be seen watching kids' shows at times. (No wonder the Protegent Antivirus ad reminded Aoz0ra of SuperWhy...)

And as such, we prefer ‘disorder’. Why should the disabled and disordered be considered lesser?

Meta-userboxes
We got over a hundred in days. 面白い……

There are definitely a lot.(This line intentionally left blank)

(This line intentionally left blank)Mostly for us, but you can request one and we'll make it!

...just nothing too sensitive.Error 404: Userbox Description Not Found — this is probably the error you've seen the most.Indeed, we have made some misktaes before.

(Like right there and then!)Favourite pony is Fluttershy, User is plural, Cream

Again, request away if you want!And perfectly valid as any, and as such an inalienable right in our eyes. Part of what makes us the Free Spirits.Is it not obvious already?

'Tis, probably.

This is a blank description; please tell us if you see it because it doesn't exist.

(Also, comma splice!)

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