adam_y @ adam_y @lemmy.world

Synth noodling conceptual artist

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Yup. Any of the YouTube culprits... NordVPN, Raycon, that sort of thing. Nope.

Calling people "normies" as if Nintendo products and video games in general aren't mass market items.

Ick.

I've had some decent times with inoreader.

This is a classic mafia move. It will end with the mafia owning something that used to belong to someone else even though that person did not want to sell it.

I'm asking this genuinely, how did the salute Elon gave differ from what you think a nazi salute is?

Musk fully on.

You just know Don is going to be furious that Elon has stolen the limelight today.

See this? This is my shocked face.

This was so obviously what was going to happen.

Excellent use of language.

I did. Quite a few. Even taught a couple.

Here's the thing. You aren't entirely wrong.

Language can be studied and taught in two distinct ways.

There's prescriptive language, which teaches, "this is how language should be used".

And there's descriptive language, which teaches, "this is how language is actually used".

You are clearly leaning into the latter there, and that is fine. However, it does miss the point that for effective and articulate communication, rules are pretty useful.

Think of it like a programming language where you have to be very specific around syntax to get the exact thing you want.

Obviously, spoken and written English is far more forgiving. In fact we can say something really specific without saying it at all due to cultural and situational inference.

But prescriptive English forms a baseline for effective communication across what should be the broadest scope of a population.

Anyway, "on accident" is an Americanism. Thought to exist because of a conflation of "on purpose". If anything this conflation is an attempt to enforce a rule, to make language more prescriptive than allowing for the differences in "by" and "on".

Now, let's deal with that jibe in your comment that I never took English class.

Class.

You talk about the working class. Then you talk about prescriptive language and being all cool with that. Then you seek to belittle me by undermining my education. You say that the correct way of speaking is for posh people yet you criticise my understanding of language.

That would make you a hypocrite, wouldn't it?

It's the first Mario game in a while where I feel that a huge part of what the game offers is completely beyond me.

That's what the author feels is weird. That they find the game a bit too tricky compared to what they are used to. That and it feels new and strange.

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too

Grandpa Simpson

Nope.

Those inverted commas around 'elite' are doing so much work they should probably unionise.

Duns and Boses

A lot of damage is done by parents telling their kids that they are special and gifted.

I know they mean to be kind. It's just that reality always turns up like the Kool-aid man.

Yeah, it was a joke. I know.

Yeah, there's a missing comma.

Don't, be evil.

There. Fixed it.

This is nonsense. He wouldn't have been convicted and the proof for that was that he wasn't convicted.

It was never going to happen. The timing made sure of it.

A convenient excuse.

My homework would have got an A+ if I had handed it in.

We could make great games, or we could spend our time crowbarring AI into places where it isn't needed and no one wants it.