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well we can't use one.
We'll have to bring in two.
Nico Robin, Princess Daisy and Helen Parr are the girlsThere are sexier drawings than others
(Not derailing the thread towards anime waifus...)
Anyways, enough degeneracy for this fiscal quarter. Here's another hot take
I sometimes feel like TV writers never went to high school or college. All media about HS and college depict it as this lively and important place, with parties and all that shit whilst never really getting into the academics of it all. They never show how dull and boring HS is and how frustrating college can be with all the deadlines you have. There's a never depiction of learning or anger with an incompetent teacher. There's weirdly enough always this depiction of people's entire social lives surrounding these places, which I can absolutely not confirm, 100% of my social life was outside of HS and 95% of it was outside of college
wrong thread, buddy. https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/post-your-freezing-cold-takes.3674388/
I don't like when games have like sliders for things like physics. Like, "more options is better", is it? I'd rather the designer just base the game around one thing. If you make so many options then you need to make your game world work fine with all of that, which means it's going to end up being more generic.
Ftr this isn't against options that are more quantifiable. Like I think having two physics options is reasonable. Especially when you can then easily have edits of levels to make one not impossible if necessary. But having so many options makes an optimal experience for each one unfeasible
Ftr this isn't against options that are more quantifiable. Like I think having two physics options is reasonable. Especially when you can then easily have edits of levels to make one not impossible if necessary. But having so many options makes an optimal experience for each one unfeasible
ok, this one im pretty sure that most of you are not going to know anything about, but trust me, in this slightly obscure community im in, this song is largely considered a bop. i, however, find it absolutely terrible, and i need someone to verify that i am not going insane. this is the song:
please, everyone is saying that this song is one of, if not, the best in the series, and i dont know what they are talking about
something tells me Gametal cover has made people talk about this song more
I love it because I feel like it has an amazing tone. I kinda wish it was more grungy around 0:30 though, but like that's fine. Overall I think it's a bop I'm sorry
to be honest, my main problem with it is that the opener actively makes me want to cry. the rest of the song is fine, and has some neet progression, but is nowhere neer good enough to make up for the opener. the tone is good, and i do see what they were going for with the start, and if it were another instrement i wouldnt hate it nearly as much, but the opener is so grating. and yes, the gametal cover is what reminded me of this song. if you want a song from the series that does everything better, listen to tough guy alert.
I am a mario/luigi fan ftr, my issue with Tough Guy Alert is that it feels too whimsical and unserious, even when it goes to its most serious point I think Dream Team does it better sorryyyy
funnily enough, thats also how i feel about never let up. i think big bang also outdoes never let up in every way. that being said, i jsut realized i dont hate never let up as much as i used to. the opener isnt as grating as it used to be, and i enjoy the other parts more. still think it is hella overated, but to each there own. as long as you agree that the best song from the series is destroy the dark power.
one problem with that buckaroo. famous wrighters have been making gramar mistakes for centuries. and there isnt a difinitive guide for language, as language is constantly evolving and changing. meme is in the dictonary now. books dont decide grammar, we do. you can say its figuratively all you want, but if more people disagree with you than agree with you, its litterally, and there is litterally nothing you can do about it. the book can say whatever it wants, but it cant control how we talk. and how we talk is language. if i get enough people to agree that language is spelled langwage, that is how it is spelled, and no amount of books can change that. language is how we communicate, so our comunication is what defines language. also, as someone once said, english isnt a language, it is three laguages in a trenchcoat.
See, the funny thing is that I agree that language can be fluid. What bothers me is that not only are hard and fast rules being set despite communication not being like that, those rules are being set and explained badly. Like, English could switch to OSV word order any time it feels like, but it does not currently switch between SVO and OSV based on passive/active voice, which you can tell based on the few case endings it still has.
get used to these. i dont spend time on fixing grammar when you understand what im saying.
dude, USA english classes still use The Things They Carried which has maybe some of the most annoying fucking formatting styles I've ever read
if we want to make one formalized ruleset, we can't be using examples like this to teach
overall, writers just get weird with it and kind of always had, so I get why there isn't that much focus on it in classes like that
Haven't played through Dream Team since around the time it came out (never actually owned the game till recently) but this song was always one of my favourites that I would listen to every now and then
So about English writing
A spelling reform would be great. I speak other languages too and I genuinely never wonder about how to write something in them because there are clear rules. In German, we have a fixed way to write every syllable. In Serbian, every letter is a sound, so you literally write as you speak (albeit I really don't like Cyrillic, it confuses me a lot as so much of it looks like Latin but isn't, genuinely prefer to write in Latin with Hatscheks)
English though? I have no idea how to write jack shit. If it wasn't for autocorrect, I don't think my posts would be intelligble, despite me speaking English rather proficiently
A reform would be really cool. Difficult as English is spoken all over the globe, but I would like to see the UK, US, India, Australia, Canada and the AU to come together for a reform. I really don't like how school is spelled for example
A spelling reform would be great. I speak other languages too and I genuinely never wonder about how to write something in them because there are clear rules. In German, we have a fixed way to write every syllable. In Serbian, every letter is a sound, so you literally write as you speak (albeit I really don't like Cyrillic, it confuses me a lot as so much of it looks like Latin but isn't, genuinely prefer to write in Latin with Hatscheks)
English though? I have no idea how to write jack shit. If it wasn't for autocorrect, I don't think my posts would be intelligble, despite me speaking English rather proficiently
A reform would be really cool. Difficult as English is spoken all over the globe, but I would like to see the UK, US, India, Australia, Canada and the AU to come together for a reform. I really don't like how school is spelled for example
Here’s one I’ve been waiting to post for a while now. I genuinely think the second phase of the Nintendo Switch (2021-2024) is better than the first phase of the system (2017-2020). I’m interested to see what people think of this, but as far as I’m concerned, the first phase of the Switch only had a handful of good games that just happened to be really, really good games for the system. The issue with that first phase is that as good as games like BoTW, Mario Odyssey, and Smash Ultimate are, there’s also a lot more underwhelming games that came out around this time to balance things out. “Phase 2” on the other hand gave us more consistent quality, with less instant classics but also less underwhelming games to balance things out.
"language is always evolving" argument can fuck off. every computer in the world has spellcheck don't be a goon. the next time i see the string "should of" i am going to do a violence
just bc language is evolving doesn't mean you can't be wrong!!!!!! god. i'm stewing.
if u can understan this the sentense is doing it's job stay mad
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