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- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ Maker Nears $3.5 Billion Deal to Sell Games Unit 1 day ago:
Some people say Pokemon Go is already P2W. But as long as Community Days/shinies are still as available as they are with F2P, then I’ll stick around and even give them some of my Google Play money, lol
- Comment on Why do people from Western societies always seem to complain? 1 day ago:
For the majority of the last century, life has been pretty great for Americans, essentially putting them on top of the world. Generations have seen nothing but life improving for their children and grandchildren, with no indication of it slowing down. For most of this time, many people haven’t even needed to really sacrifice much for it the way that previous generations have.
This is finally starting to change.
Decades ago, we were told we’d finally have to start sacrificing to make a better life for our children. That didn’t sit well with some people.
Millions of people are coming to the West (not just the US) for a better life, and have been for generations. While we’re getting more tax dollars, resources are being spread more thin.
As well, it’s been harder for people to earn a living. Before some time in the 1970s, company earnings were tightly coupled with employee earnings. Since then, company productivity and earnings have skyrocketed, while inflation-adjusted employee earnings have stagnated. Of course, employee productivity continues to skyrocket with advances in technology.
Nowadays, the “current” generation is feeling the pain.
Before, a person could graduate high school and find a good job to be able to afford a house, a car, and a family. Sometimes their spouse needed to work, too.
Nowadays, two people working in a household often can’t afford to own a home. Yet the companies they’re working for are making more money than ever.
Long story short, the US has been on top of the world for decades, and for the last half a century, they’ve been funneling their wealth upwards while taking away from the working class. There was so much money to go around that it wasn’t enough to notice for generations. But now, people aren’t just noticing – they’re feeling it.
And there doesn’t seem to be any agreement on what needs to be done to make it better. (Partially because it’s cheaper to fund media-based distractions than to fund social programs that would help people, or to tax corporations and the rich!)
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ Maker Nears $3.5 Billion Deal to Sell Games Unit 1 day ago:
That sounds bad. I like Pokemon Go. What kind of ruining are we talking about?
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 3 days ago:
FWIW, this was the same thing that homophobes were doing to gay people.
It’s not based in evidence or logic.
Could be that phenomenon (illusory correlation?) where there are a few rare examples of someone who is [sexual minority aka. gay/trans] is also a pedophile, and that particular example of a crime becomes prolific…but the general population doesn’t have any experience with [sexual minority] people. So they assume that being [sexual minority] means you also have pedophilic tendencies because that’s the only connection they know thanks to that prolific crime.
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 3 days ago:
Some would say that’s what’ll happen when the human population is down to zero
- Comment on why do people say annoying/rude stuff and then tell you “it was a joke!” 5 days ago:
The correct thing to do with a swing and a miss like that is to apologize. If there’s no apology, it’s the asshole thinking they have an actual excuse.
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 6 days ago:
Interesting! How would “deadzone” be used, in that case?
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 6 days ago:
Ah, I usually type website (especially since we say websites, so the conjugation is at the end of the compound word). I tried to be careful with typos! Haha
Username was another cause of debate. Should the field be “username” or “userName”? Well, the username represents the identity of the user (e.g., “otp” or “Yaky”). userName would represent the name of the user, which could be their first name for example. So then we might want userFirstName or userPreferredName.
Filename is one of the weird ones where I think it should be filename but it looks too long to be proper.
- Comment on Most Civilization players don't finish a single game, going by Civ 6 data, and perhaps that's the best way to play 6 days ago:
I often have to push my way through. But especially for a domination victory, there’s a lot of time wasted on mopping up when victory is already completely guaranteed.
Kind of like Monopoly.
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 1 week ago:
Deadzone feels right to me. Dead zone feels like it should be a zone that died.
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 1 week ago:
I did get the joke, but I didn’t make it clear. My point stands that monolingual English speakers tend to make these mistakes more than German-speaking English learners, haha
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 1 week ago:
loic.suberville on Instagram does a whole lot skits about how weird French is (and English, too). You might enjoy some of his content!
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 1 week ago:
French is in a different language family. One nice thing about French is that, even with all the silent letters, it tends to be more consistent than English. The same letters should make the same sound (or the same silence) in any context…at least more often than English.
So if you know how “llon” in papillon is pronounced, you’ll probably be able to pronounce bouillon.
Whereas if you know how “ough” sounds in “rough”… you’re fine with “tough”, but might have trouble with:
- through
- thought
- though
- cough
- thorough
- dough
- drought
- bought
Those have all stopped looking like words to me though. <== This one too
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 1 week ago:
Isn’t written language just an arbitrary agreement?
So is spoken language! And I’d argue that it’s more the case for spoken language than written language.
As someone who taught English and had to try to find patterns, here are my tips…
- If it’s an adjective describing a noun, it’s two words (e.g. a house that’s green is a green house)
- if its one concept without an adjective, it might be a single compound work (e.g, the special building for growing plants is a greenhouse. Green doesn’t describe a colour)
- Compound words usually don’t have any conjugation when a verb is used…if there’s conjugation, then it won’t become one word (which is why we have “living room” and “bathroom”…but a “bathing room” would be two words. But not always)
- If the compound word that’s a verb needs to be broken apart to be conjugated, it’s probably not a compound wor (e.g., if you need to say “He works out” and not “he workouts”, then it should be “I work out” and not “I workout”)
But also English is just dumb. Especially with the dashes. I use those more for sticking together words that aren’t actually compound words. Or when it looks better, like with level-headed. It looks too long without the dash to my English eyes.
Also, “itself” is always itself. It’s the reflexive pronoun (I think) like myself, yourself, etc. It’s one word the same way that “hers” is one word.
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 1 week ago:
Icecream is new to me, but my autocorrect recognizes it.
Hotdog is how I usually spell it. It distinguishes a hotdog from a hot dog (i.e., a dog that’s excessively warm. No, nothing to do with yiff…)
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 1 week ago:
Native English speakers make these mistakes as often as, if not more often than, those learning English! Haha
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 1 week ago:
For historical or proper words, yes. But I don’t think mistakes would be influenced by Latin…right? Lol
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- Comment on "The insultingly low salary you would have accepted is still too high." 1 week ago:
I definitely agree! There are a lot of other factors that should come into play. A corporation is more likely to focus on money. A smaller org would have more leeway to use human judgement.
- Comment on "The insultingly low salary you would have accepted is still too high." 1 week ago:
I don’t get the skepticism. If you were deciding between two candidates of equal qualifications, and one asked for $65k, and one asked for $55k, and you chose the $55k one…what would you say to the $65k one?
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 week ago:
Garbage like that has no place anywhere.
If app developers can’t get money from paid apps, then it makes sense to run ads. Especially if they do offer a paid (ad-free) version.
But if it’s a paid app already, like in Steam, it should definitely be ad-free.
- Comment on Why do we put our hands on our heads when something makes us also want to yell "NO!" 1 week ago:
Probably, but I’m not familiar enough with all cultures to give examples.
- Comment on Why do we put our hands on our heads when something makes us also want to yell "NO!" 1 week ago:
There’s a reel of a dad watching a sport game on TV with his infant son. The kid keeps looking at his dad for how to react, and seems to understand what’s happening on the TV. When the team scores a point, the kid throws his hands up into the air and cheers, having seen his dad do that behaviour before.
Then he looks to his dad, who’s got his hands on his head, saying “NO!”. It was the wrong team that scored.
The kid puts his head into his hands, and collapses on the couch in his best imitation of his father.
You have years, perhaps decades, of watching people in your culture do this. So it feels natural for you to do.
- Comment on How realistic is the threat of the government remotely manipulating digital devices you own and planting evidence? 2 weeks ago:
Have anyone though about this?
Yes.
Am I just being over paranoid? Perhaps I watch too much movies…
Yes.
Most people’s thoughts are absolutely boring and unimportant to the governments of the world.
- Comment on Will online only "Device Activation" become the norm for every device in the future? / Will everything require an app in the future? 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t a democracy where a company can win if it only has a single buyer.
If the company in question doesn’t get your money, you’ve “voted against them with your wallet”.
You might be getting caught up in the literal semantics of the metaphor.
- Comment on Capcom Fighting Collection 2 - Pre-Order Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I didn’t realize that, thanks for the knowledge!
- Comment on Capcom Fighting Collection 2 - Pre-Order Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I agree! I rarely see people talk about CvS2, though!
- Comment on Capcom Fighting Collection 2 - Pre-Order Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Included Games:
- Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 Pro
- Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001
- Capcom Fighting Evolution
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 UPPER
- Power Stone
- Power Stone 2
- Project Justice
- Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein
These may be more “underdog” games, but the two Power Stone games and Project Justice have sold me on this! (… eventually, when it’s discounted, lol)
(Cross-commenting because I worked real hard for this formatting…lmao)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The questions on this comment are different from the ones in the original post, lol… people understood your question, but they (rightly) didn’t understand that you wanted an answer to a different pair of questions.
Doing something with people is more challenging than telling something to people, or even trying to reach something.
People are harmful to society for a wide variety of reasons. Trying to treat all of them the same way will lead to failure.
That’s why the North American way of either locking people in jail or making them rich for being harmful to society isn’t working. We’ve tried only two things, and we’re out of ideas.
Why don’t we do anything differently? We can’t agree on what the solutions are, for one…let alone the causes. Secondly, the status quo is doing a good job at keeping the rich and powerful people rich and powerful. So there’s no real incentive to change it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Two reasons that I can think of.
- As many others have mentioned, because many of the people taking advantage of others are not listening to ‘done’ mantras anyways. Changing it around would fall on deaf ears.
- Some people don’t realize they’re taking advantage of others (consider the phenomenon of taking people for granted). Some people might even think that they’re doing something good by taking advantage of someone.