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Local Dog said:
I don't get how people can just say "facts" like "animals can't ask questions" when every person that ever had a parrot or engaged with apes can disprove that. Similar to how "Kanzi was the only non-human ape that could comprehend spoken English", no, again, every single person that worked with apes has countless experiences that can directly disprove this. Even dogs and cats understand spoken language to sometimes very impressive degrees
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there are a lot of animals that can understand spoken human language in some measure. simians, cats, dogs, foxes, pigs, elephants, a lot of different species of birds, and so on. i don't think kanzi was particularly unique in this respect, just a bit more advanced than most. i also think the claims that he could truly "comprehend" the english language to a human degree are, like similar claims about koko and other great apes, overstated. he still didn't have any grasp of morphology, syntax, or function words, and a lot of the times people were just extrapolating a human interpretation of what he was saying from a handful of words thrown together. he could recognize and respond to novel commands and sentences, sure, but everything he was doing amounts to about the level of a human toddler. his ability to understand and replicate language was impressive, no doubt, but i think all of these great-ape language studies have a lot of wishful thinking involved
 
DaddyBuzzwole said:
there are a lot of animals that can understand spoken human language in some measure. simians, cats, dogs, foxes, pigs, elephants, a lot of different species of birds, and so on. i don't think kanzi was particularly unique in this respect, just a bit more advanced than most. i also think the claims that he could truly "comprehend" the english language to a human degree are, like similar claims about koko and other great apes, overstated. he still didn't have any grasp of morphology, syntax, or function words, and a lot of the times people were just extrapolating a human interpretation of what he was saying from a handful of words thrown together. he could recognize and respond to novel commands and sentences, sure, but everything he was doing amounts to about the level of a human toddler. his ability to understand and replicate language was impressive, no doubt, but i think all of these great-ape language studies have a lot of wishful thinking involved
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shoutout to apollo and friends on youtube, apollo knows the difference between shrock and metal hat
 
We really went from slapping Kraft singles onto the fire starters to dipping their heads in ketchup huh. When will the madness cease :psycry:
 
phoopes said:
Nobody:
Your unemployed friend at 11:15AM on a Monday:
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625 points is a one in a million game for me. After my previous post I had scored 529 and 533, so my high score progress had inched up ever so slightly. So breaking my record by almost 100 points came out of nowhere. The stars really aligned for me on this one lol.

After starting with HAHA, everyone’s favorite Smogon reaction, it was a pretty pedestrian start with the next two moves being RUME and ONE. But then that’s when I went sicko mode. RESTAtE, TURBINE(S), and (E)JECTION (for 104!) all in a row, followed by DYES for 90 since I got the (DEJECTION)S hook meant I had a good shot at my record. But the hits just kept coming. QI(N) was pretty standard, but I’m very happy with my RECLIN(E)S find. ZI(N)G and I(C)KY were relatively tame for this game, but then I got another big 50+ point play with DIE(D), hooking (PORTAGE)D. Seriously, hitting all those triple words this game was nuts. Getting L(U)X hooking (O)X for double word each way was just icing on the cake. And then my final move of (E)L/L(I) I was just feeling euphoric.

This game had a LOT of things go my way. I got four bingoes which ties my highest ever, was able to hit a bunch of triple words, I was able to use the Q, Z, J, X, and K all pretty effectively, I got one of the two blanks, three of the four S tiles… like I said this was a one in a million game for me. I don’t see myself breaking this personal best any time soon lol. But it’s really cool to see myself at the peak of my Scrabble powers (so far).
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Wow it’s been a long time since I’ve given a scrabble update. Here’s a great game that I just played this morning:

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3 bingos, one being a triple triple which is exceedingly rare for me (I think I’ve gotten around 5 ever including this one) so that was def able to push me pretty high. Didn’t break the fabled 600 barrier again like my “one in a million” game but 581 is still pretty fire emoji
 
shedinjaenjoyer23 said:
how do you get the little nametags :(
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The one that goes directly under your name that's just text = profile setting you can change if you have a badge. I think you can get them as rewards for other stuff sometimes but that's the main way

The one with the Pokémon mini sprite and the banner = usually for being the leader of a subforum or winning a major tournament
 
Blizihguh said:
The one that goes directly under your name that's just text = profile setting you can change if you have a badge. I think you can get them as rewards for other stuff sometimes but that's the main way

The one with the Pokémon mini sprite and the banner = usually for being the leader of a subforum or winning a major tournament
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badges are the main way to get a custom title but you can also get them through likeshop whenever that happens (usually once every couple years but they might be an annual thing now? we've had 2 in a row), and also by boosting smogon's discord server. every now and then there's some sort of tournament or contest or something that gives one away i think but i could be wrong on that
 
Random thought: The well-known theory of natural selection refers to the process of nature selecting the best combination of traits to reproduce, while the rest die. The selected get to move forward, thus being selected is desirable. However, it is a well-documented phenomenon that when you are stabbing someone (or being stabbed), the designated stabber will often use 'natural selection' as an insult, to supplement physical pain with emotional pain much like smogon users supplement their nonexistant social ability with 84 million 14-and-a-half-reply smogoff threads. Does that not imply that the selecteder is actually selected to not reproduce and die, again much like a smogon user, and being selected is undesirable? Or perhaps it implies the stabee is in factor naturally superior to the stabber, and the stabber is announcing their defiance of nature through violent murder and inconsistent wording?
 
Just A Shroom God said:
Random thought: The well-known theory of natural selection refers to the process of nature selecting the best combination of traits to reproduce, while the rest die. The selected get to move forward, thus being selected is desirable. However, it is a well-documented phenomenon that when you are stabbing someone (or being stabbed), the designated stabber will often use 'natural selection' as an insult, to supplement physical pain with emotional pain much like smogon users supplement their nonexistant social ability with 84 million 14-and-a-half-reply smogoff threads. Does that not imply that the selecteder is actually selected to not reproduce and die, again much like a smogon user, and being selected is undesirable? Or perhaps it implies the stabee is in factor naturally superior to the stabber, and the stabber is announcing their defiance of nature through violent murder and inconsistent wording?
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knife fight is over my guy
 
I am in the era of my life where I get into random interests and recently I got into fragrances. Here's what I learnt so far:

- the majority of expensive designer fragrances that are good will have dupes that are either equally good or better for a fraction of the price. Never pay 300 bucks for Creed Aventus when Club de Nuit exists
- public opinions on fragrances mean very little. I don't like Eros, Le Male, The One, Sauvage and a couple other very popular perfumes as they don't interact well with my fur and as they massively underperform with the vast majority of people that aren't deep into fragrances, because
- fragrance heads will have a developed sense for picking up artificial scents, 95% of people don't, even when their sense of smell is pretty good, they're just not primed on it. Anything that's called "subtle" will usually have no performance with a few scant exceptions
- the single best way to get fragrances is to go to stores, try out the designer fragrances on strips, then on skin, and to then look up the best and closest dupes
- the classification of men/women doesn't mean much in many cases. Most men fragrances are unisex and a good 25-30% of women fragrances don't smell very feminine. Like YSL Libre is completely wearable by men
- sexy fragrances for men are usually pretty awful. Vanilla, tobacco, leather and musk notes that just smell like they try too hard whilst being often overwhelming and not inviting. Coffee, cinnamon, floral, many fruit notes, cocao... These smell inviting and attractive because they're delicious and enticing. You want to smell more of that. Leather, musk, vanilla and tobacco are ok in moderation but just become too overwhelming and lack sophistication (Fahrenheit is the exception here that proves the rule)
- sweet fragrances are 99% not good
- niche fragrances are not worth it. The ones that are wearable can be easily replaced by much more affordable alternatives, and the ones that aren't are just for people with weird curiosities. Nobody wants to smell like Secretions Magnifique or like Zoologist Tyrannosaurus Rex, and as good as Bat is, it just isn't worth the price

so yeah just don't listen to influencers and try shit out at the store before buying anything
 
Local Dog said:
I am in the era of my life where I get into random interests and recently I got into fragrances. Here's what I learnt so far:

- the majority of expensive designer fragrances that are good will have dupes that are either equally good or better for a fraction of the price. Never pay 300 bucks for Creed Aventus when Club de Nuit exists
- public opinions on fragrances mean very little. I don't like Eros, Le Male, The One, Sauvage and a couple other very popular perfumes as they don't interact well with my fur and as they massively underperform with the vast majority of people that aren't deep into fragrances, because
- fragrance heads will have a developed sense for picking up artificial scents, 95% of people don't, even when their sense of smell is pretty good, they're just not primed on it. Anything that's called "subtle" will usually have no performance with a few scant exceptions
- the single best way to get fragrances is to go to stores, try out the designer fragrances on strips, then on skin, and to then look up the best and closest dupes
- the classification of men/women doesn't mean much in many cases. Most men fragrances are unisex and a good 25-30% of women fragrances don't smell very feminine. Like YSL Libre is completely wearable by men
- sexy fragrances for men are usually pretty awful. Vanilla, tobacco, leather and musk notes that just smell like they try too hard whilst being often overwhelming and not inviting. Coffee, cinnamon, floral, many fruit notes, cocao... These smell inviting and attractive because they're delicious and enticing. You want to smell more of that. Leather, musk, vanilla and tobacco are ok in moderation but just become too overwhelming and lack sophistication (Fahrenheit is the exception here that proves the rule)
- sweet fragrances are 99% not good
- niche fragrances are not worth it. The ones that are wearable can be easily replaced by much more affordable alternatives, and the ones that aren't are just for people with weird curiosities. Nobody wants to smell like Secretions Magnifique or like Zoologist Tyrannosaurus Rex, and as good as Bat is, it just isn't worth the price

so yeah just don't listen to influencers and try shit out at the store before buying anything
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I appreciate your insight and these are good tips. Thats something I don't think I put much stock into, I know its literally 20% of the senses but I dont really have a good sense of smell.

Are you wearing fragrances like depending on the day/event? I dont think I would want to put that much thought into. Its there a no-brainer low cost fragrance you think men should use to smell nice?
 
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