Bougie_Birdie

@Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the point of abbreviations for short words when they do not reduce times significantly when you type?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IPA is also the International Phonetic Alphabet.

  I’m all for recycling, but sometimes it feels like it never ends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the point of abbreviations for short words when they do not reduce times significantly when you type?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought spelling ‘through’ was tough enough though

  To a non-native reader (and maybe a few natives) that sentence is insane. It makes more sense as “I thot spelling ‘thru’ was tuff enuff tho,” although I admit I don’t like that very much either.

  Aside, if something gets abbreviated a certain way enough times, it might become the word. Like when you want to get dinner at the drive-thru. Also, nobody wants pornography anymore, we’re all into porn now.

  –

  Not exactly what you’re asking, but I have a peeve about acronyms. I suppose acronyms are a kind of abbreviation for common phrases, but often people assume you know the same acronyms as them and start throwing them out like some kind of word salad.

  It’s not very hard to make sure everyone is on the same page with whatever TLA (Three-Letter Acronym) you want to use. See how easy that was? Now when I want to talk about my issue with rampant abuse of TLAs, you have an idea what I’m talking about.

  You see this problem a lot in academia, software, and honestly probably any industry or hobby space. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s totally fine to use TLAs, brevity is useful in reading and writing. But sometimes those acronyms overlap with other acronyms and add to the confusion. Searching for shows with the BBC might get you the British Broadcasting Company - or pornography. Or if you’re looking for an Automated Teller Machine near you - and get porn again instead. Gosh, is there anything porn can’t do?

  Some acronyms are so ubiquitous that it feels silly to define them. Like everyone knows what LOL means, right? Well, unless you’re talking about League of Legends. Or you’re my grandmother who never learned it means “Laugh Out Loud” and signs all of her letters LOL because she thinks it means “Lots Of Love”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the more you know⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Split it, lick it, dip it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some grocery stores only give a staff discount on certain days of the week. But the five-finger discount works every day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arc raiders is a horrible game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I respect that it’s a populat format, but as soon as a game has both PvE and PvP the game is just PvP in my opinion.

  I don’t like most PvP games, so seeing both tags scares me off of most titles.

  Sometimes you’ll see a game like that where you can disable PvP, or host a private lobby, or some other compromise. Most of the time doing so reveals just how shallow the PvE content really is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney says Google AI infringes copyright “on a massive scale”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disney just announced yesterday that they were investing a billion dollars into OpenAI. I have a hard time believing any AI company is respecting copyright because infringement is their business model. This sort of reads like “the competition’s product is worse than ours.”

  It’s hard to know who to root for in a battle between giant AI firms and equally giant entertainment companies.

  You’re allowed to root for nobody. Sometimes everyone sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Existential Questions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  God, I hope not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well do you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s either that or fisting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In everyway⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case, they’re related by being played by the same actor. This incarnation of Puss n Boots was definitely influenced by Antonio Banderas’ Zorro

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think the reason we evolved 5 fingers is so we can carry hot serving dishes farther by alternating which one is in contact with the hot thing.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “There’s no way we evolved from monkeys, and I’ll prove it: humans are good at holding bananas!”

  Can’t make this stuff up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad person, probably not

  I'd call this behaviour to avoid though. Most people don't like being lied to or ghosted

  Sometimes you can't really avoid it, like if safety is a concern. But if you lie and ghost because feelings are messy then it causes other people to have messy feelings

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Laser ⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think in Cube it was razor wire, but they may have upgraded to lasers for Cube 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dying Light 2 Removes Stamina from Parkour System⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Credit where it's due, around the time Dying Light 1 came out, Roger Craig Smith was lending his voice to Chris Redfield, one of the more iconic zombie guys from Resident Evil.

  My favorite Redfield moment was when, without a shred of irony, he talks smack about the villain acting like a comic book villain. Then in the same breath, he punches a six-ton boulder into submission.

  Dying Light also really kinda shook up the zombie slaying dynamic with parkour. It seems like a fairly minor thing now, but that freedom of movement was a pretty big deal at the time, even if it was pretty janky.

  Narratively, I agree that Crane isn't a very strong character. He's a dime-a-dozen government goon turned idealist. I don't even remember how the story ends, or even most of the major beats except for a couple of major characters.

  But at the time, to kick zombie butt while scooting around the rooftops and listening to Chris Redfield quip one-liners: those were special times even if it was a decade ago. They're probably trying to recapture that magic, but I don't know. It was lightning in a bottle and you can't always get that back

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It looks scared⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd be scared too if I had to come back to work after being a victim in a hit-and-run