Mine’s that people who insist on correcting others grammar on internet forums are little shits who peaked in grade six as a teacher’s pet and get off on exerting their “superiority” on others.
Fuck you “less than” is just better than “fewer then.” Think I’m wrong, tell me what these symbols are called “< >” that’s what I thought loser.
Oh god I almost don’t want to say this in this environment…
Techy people aren’t the most intelligent in other/all areas just because they have some technical expertise.
I have worked with, and interacted with people, all my life who are technically very intelligent in some specific way, and even been one of these people… Who thinks that one area of proficiency grants them unearned respect in other areas.
Eg." I’m great at maths therefore I’m logically infallible". Or “I’m an engineer, so I know exactly how society should function best”." I’m a doctor so my every opinion on everything is more important than yours".
Ben Carson is the epitome of this for me - absolutely brilliant neurosurgeon, ate up every bit of the MAGA party line.
People who can’t stand being corrected. Instead of learning and improving, they feel diminished and hateful.
Knowing the rules and knowing when they’re needed are two different things. A racecar driver doesn’t need to floor it on their way home. Likewise a conversation doesn’t need to employ strict grammatical compliance, we’re talking not drafting a treatise. At the end of the day people who get upset with incorrect grammar do so because it’s an ick or theirs. They then proceed to make that everyone else’s problem. You’re not learned and scholarly for being pedantic.
others grammar
others’ grammar
Fixed it for ya!
My hero
Capitalism is going to kill us all if we don’t kill it first.
When asking an open-ended question on the Internet, OP should put their own response as a comment, not in the post body, so people can judge it separately from the question and it’s not elevated above other responses.
That’s it. That’s my hot take.
Yeah that’s probably good advice
It’s “fewer than” not “fewer then”
I’m shaking and crying rn
Got his ass
This is peak
Or is it pique?
… Probably both. Peak pique.
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I’ve got a spicy one.
Despite all the patches and updates, Cyberpunk 2077 is still a meh game. I hate the UI, the RPG combat system with damage numbers, the edgy aesthetic and slang words, the lack of vehicle customisation, and the overall lack of non-mission side activities to do in the world.
The ratio of style to substance is heavily weighted in favour of style.
I didn’t dislike it, but it didn’t live up to my hopes after all I’d heard about it.
I don’t regret having bought and played the game, but I never bothered to go back and fully finish all the side missions.
I do think that the edginess is kinda part of the cyberpunk genre. I can’t beat up on them for that.
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It has high production values, a lot of modeling and texturing and such — I’m amazed how much money they have to have sunk into assets only to use them briefly — but the actual core gameplay didn’t grab me the way, oh, Halo did when it first came out and I played it. Night City is painstakingly created in tremendous detail, but end of the day, the point is to create the backdrop for gameplay, and I feel like they spent a disproportionate making of resources on that.
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The combat is pretty, but for all of the work that went into various systems, I didn’t play it much differently from the way I would another shooter.
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I also had been expecting something more like a Bethesda RPG, and got something more Grand Theft Auto-ish with a beefed up skill tree.
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I wasn’t that impressed with the braindance stuff from a pure gameplay standpoint — it’s kinda “hunt for the hidden object” stuff — but I do think that it was original and it served as a useful justification to show “flashbacks” to earlier events.
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Obtaining and managing clothing is a substantial thing, but I almost never actually see the main character, so the clothing doesn’t have much impact. Maybe if there were a third person camera mode or frequent reflections or frequent looking through a camera or something.
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Having played some games like Saboteur and Grand Theft Auto, I kind of expected the differences between autos to matter more, given how much work went into creating them and all, but from a mission standpoint, they’re surprisingly interchangeable. A couple missions are easier with some, but a lot of the vehicles don’t really have that much gameplay point.
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Johnny Silverhand is a major part of the game, but wasn’t really a character that I found very plausible or super interesting. I dunno, maybe if I had been into the punk music scene, it’d be different. I felt like they really were trying to shoehorn a punk band leader into the role. That being said, I did think that most characters were pretty solid.
Lots of good points!
ChatGPT-ass emdashes with spaces on either side
(I know there’s three dashes I’m sorry hahaha)
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I’ve been complaining about the cyberpunk genre for years and 2077 is basically a distillation of everything wrong with it at current. They use the aesthetic and gut the meat, to the point where they’re often the very things cyberpunk is supposed to be critiquing. Soulless cash grabs its embarrassing we let it happen. 2077 wasn’t even mechanically fun for me. My favorite genre and I feel like we’ve rarely made things better than just reading neuromancer. We should have plenty of really mind blowing rhings with this much time to improve on it but it’s so few and far between 😞
The mass noun ‘e-mail’, like ‘mail’, does not get an ‘s’ when speaking about more volume.
It’s as gauche as “y’all” in wedding vows, and leaves a similar impression.
Stay tuned, and we can talk about used-car lot jargon like “the ask” and “the spend” next!
Just thinking about the email one…
I would say one email, two emails… but a lot of email. If it’s an unquantified number then I drop the ‘s’.
Mother Nature is really, really angry at us and payback is only barely beginning to start.
I am not religious or superstitious or whatever, it’s just a way of expressing that very soon we’re gonna have it very bad. The heatwaves, the storms, the utilities unable to cope, the displaced populations, the overwhelmed over-egotistic political systems - we’re in for a ride, and that ride starts yesterday.
I kinda look at it like mother nature is angry at herself. It spawned us to finish it
This is not even a hot take. It’s just facts.
Yeah as Carlin said, “the earth will be fine, the people are fucked”. This is a hot flash for the planet on the galactic scale. It will recover. It may take a few thousand years but on the planets scale it’s nothing - a cold, a flu. We are the ones who are just living on the surface, subject to whatever corrective actions will be taken as it corrects itself
The only grammar thing that annoys the hell out of me is “on accident”. No idea why, it just really sticks out and bugs me when I come across it. I rarely mention it when I see it though, because I know that noone actually cares.
I’m gonna start saying “on accident” by purpose from now on
You’re just saying that because you know you’re going to do it on accident anyway, and you’re trying to get ahead of it
I didn’t realize this was a thing for me until now, but that sentence grinds all of my gears, and I hate it.
That bugs me as well. Another is ‘off of’. There is no use case when ‘off’ isn’t sufficient.
I often hear that in “based off of” where “on” makes even more sense. The thing that it’s based on forms the basis or foundation that the new thing is built upon, so you’re basing it on that.
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I think this is a dialectical thing! Iirc, in the US it’s more common to say “on accident” and in the UK it’s “by accident”, but I’m not certain
Canada, by accident!
I’m not sure I’ve heard someone say on accident it’s always by accident in the PNW (West Coast USA)
Repping East Coast, that’s what we say, or simply, “accidentally.”
PNW here as well, I only hear ‘on accident’. It makes more sense than ‘by accident’ since we also say ‘on purpose’ and not ‘by purpose’.
The rules of the English language have never had anything to do with making sense.
The Star Wars prequels are still bad movies. The Clone Wars may be good, but it can’t fix the problems with those movies.
Also, if those movies can be widely considered rehabilitated when the kids who watched them grow up, then so can the sequels.
The prequels have a solid narrative throughout, the sequels don’t even have a consistent narrative in a single movie.
Uh huh, sure but that doesn’t change anything. They are still really bad movies.
This is an insane take.
The Snyder Superman movies were good, actually.
Broooo what the fuxkkkk
Are you lobotomised???
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We pivoted from social justice causes like child labour to systemic racism (but only in the first world, not where our actual daily racism is practiced) and transphobia etc because the former requires personal sacrifices while the latter mostly “requires” snarky takes on social media.
We pivoted from real activism to bumper stickers and yard signs and campaign donations to candidates who signalled the right wealthy class social virtues in the 90s and haven’t looked back
Armchair activism. The least you could do – literally.
It’s “hashtag activism” these days, which is a term I really hate.
Family and blood relation means absolutely nothing.
It’s just that people decided that due to blood relation and marriages a certain set of people should not only know each other, but like each other and put up with each other’s bullshit for far longer than for other groups like friends.
Meanwhile these relations are no different from being coworkers.
Similarly, lacking this blood relation doesn’t matter aside from family anamnesis (and perhaps organ/bone marrow transplants), in case of adoptions.
I don’t understand why people go through so much struggle for their kids to be “their own” while there’s many waiting and hoping to get adopted. People don’t think anything special about adopting a cat or dog, after all, there is no other way, and yet they’ll fully love their pet. But suddenly when it’s small humans, which is even the same specie, it matters a lot.I don’t understand if people really feel something towards having really similar DNA, but I don’t see any logic in it.
Eh, the people you have the strongest emotional bonds with are likely the people you’ve spent the most time with. Logically that would be family for most people. Kinda weird obsession with blood ties their mate, don’t have to be related by blood to be family.
don’t have to be related by blood to be family.
But is family if blood related.
Strongest emotional bonds don’t necessarily mean anything positive. Most time spent only applies to immediate family, like parents. Outside that you likely do spend more time with coworkers or classmates.
Sperm donor kids aren’t all one big family. Family is a social construct.
For some reason, people using the contraction “everyday” as a noun drives me insane. “Everyday” is an adjective (e.g., an everyday activity), “every day” is the noun (e.g., I do this activity every day).
It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t.
Login is always a noun in my mind and the verb is “to log in”. There are some other weird ones with me in IT due to, I suppose, being older.
If anything, “everyday” in “I do this thing everyday” would be an adverb. (not that that makes it less wrong)
