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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by stonecutter (?) » Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:39 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:
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Was Shazam any good?
I thought it was a fun movie. :crack:

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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:40 pm

Prince Adam's personality doesn't change when he transforms into He-Man, but Cringer's does, and that's kinda messed up
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Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:48 am

it is, especially since cringer's transformation is forced and he-man's isn't.
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Post by Adiwan (?) » Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:45 am

There needs to be a word for the emotion one gets drinking the last gulp of tea that has become cold.
An emotion of moderate disgust and unpleasantness combined with experiencing something familiar (here tasting) that has been altered by a small but significant difference (here temperature) with the knowledge that it could have been prevented easily (here drinking faster or not forgetting the time) that turns into a kind of regret.
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Post by Madeline (?) » Thu Mar 11, 2021 6:43 pm

Real “reevaluating what I want to do and where I do it and who with” hours going on here

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Pocket (?) » Sat Mar 13, 2021 6:59 pm

People make a big deal about the weird punctuation in "Demon's Souls", but I just realized that everyone pronounces "Dark Souls" with emphasis only on the first word, as if it were all one word. That's weird too, right?
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:37 pm

how to prounounce something was never my strongsuit so i just go with whatever
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Post by Madeline (?) » Sun Mar 14, 2021 6:18 pm

I pronounce them as “_______________” because the fan base they have has turned me off the idea of ever playing one

that’s my hot take that nobody wanted :v:

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sun Mar 14, 2021 6:23 pm

the dark souls fanbase is the dakr souls of fanbases
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Post by Pocket (?) » Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:23 pm

It's the fanbase it was designed to have, really. Games like that do the gatekeeping all by themselves.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:00 pm

This is probably not a new observation, but Mati was actually pretty powerful in "Captain Planet" when you think about it. His Heart power basically enabled him to do mind control. He just wasn't malicious about it.

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Post by Jill (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:12 am

DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
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how to prounounce something was never my strongsuit so i just go with whatever
i like to pronounce things wrong on purpose tbh

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:37 am

i tended to read "pegasi" with the s sounding more like a z, though not on purporse
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Post by Jill (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:34 am

language is a heckin joke anyway

ever notice how "mine" is pronounced differently in like every other word that ends with it

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Post by Jill (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:36 am

bro mean? fuck that, bro mine

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:36 am

i find stuff like that infinetly fascinating

language rules and conventions develop on their own, often with little input, they just happen

it's super interesting
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:38 am

loan words are also a fascinating aspect of language, especially when the loaned word developes a different meaning from its original one
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Post by Jill (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:39 am

Jill wrote:
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bro mean? fuck that, bro mine
actually, it's pronounced like "promenade". braw-me-nay

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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:13 pm

DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
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i find stuff like that infinetly fascinating

language rules and conventions develop on their own, often with little input, they just happen

it's super interesting
It can be a testament to the culture that wielded the language. Look at the horrid mishmash of words and rules that English has, or how Spanish picked up a lot of Nahuatl words after their conquest of the Aztecs.
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Post by Pocket (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:10 pm

And every country that inherited the Latin alphabet had different ideas about how to apply it. Some of those ideas required attaching extra bits onto some of the letters, or combining them in weird ways to make radically different sounds. Or in the case of French, both.

And on that note, don't ever let the French invent a written language for a country whose language sounds nothing like theirs. That's how you get the monstrosity that is Vietnamese spelling.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Pocket (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:20 pm

And since this tangent started with Dark Souls, let me bring it back around by saying it's my headcanon that Ornstein's partner in bosshood is pronounced "Smuff", and none of you can stop me.

(Note: I have not actually played the game, so if an NPC actually says his name out loud, feel free to stop me.)
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:01 pm

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It can be a testament to the culture that wielded the language. Look at the horrid mishmash of words and rules that English has, or how Spanish picked up a lot of Nahuatl words after their conquest of the Aztecs.
Serbian contains a lot of Turkish words, as well as Persian and Arabic words filtered through Turkish (loan words of loan words, in a way), that were the result of the Ottoman empire ruling over this region for centuries. Likewise it also has a lot of German, from the Austrian empire. And let's not forget Greek and some Latin from the Byzantines.

Over time it has also picked up Hungarian, English and a very small bit of French.
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:07 pm

Then there are the more specialized/technical examples, which are harder to nail down and often come from the language of whatever country the thing originally came from.
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:10 pm

And let's not forget Greek and some Latin from the Byzantines.
And I just remembered that cyrillic is derived from Greek.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

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(Note: I have not actually played the game, so if an NPC actually says his name out loud, feel free to stop me.)
I don't think they do. Generally we know the bosses names from their healthbars.

There's a handful of characters that are referenced and named in dialogue, but not many of the bosses.
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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:36 pm

There's a reason why English is pretty much the only language where spelling bees are a thing. It's the only language with convoluted rules enough to where you just need insane memorization skills to be able to spell everything.
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Octavia wrote:
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There's a reason why English is pretty much the only language where spelling bees are a thing. It's the only language with convoluted rules enough to where you just need insane memorization skills to be able to spell everything.
Almost the only language without like, ideograms. There are Chinese character writing and recognition competitions.
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Bad North is the only good roguelike by virtue of the permadeath being optional.

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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue May 11, 2021 6:48 pm

Really wish the D&D Beyond logo didn’t look so much like the Breitbart logo, it’s messing with my head when an ad pops up
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Post by Pocket (?) » Wed May 12, 2021 2:26 am

I just learned that the "I have the power of God and anime on my side" meme is from 2017 and that's hard to believe. It feels like it's been around longer than that.
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I HAVE THE POWER OF GOD AND ANIME ON MY SIDE
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed May 12, 2021 9:09 am

i'm rather fond of that meme
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed May 12, 2021 9:12 am

there was also that video where someone is riding a lawnmower and holding a revolver and goes "eeeyeeee i've got the power of god"
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there was also that video where someone is riding a lawnmower and holding a revolver and goes "eeeyeeee i've got the power of god"
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that's the one!
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Post by Pocket (?) » Mon May 17, 2021 6:17 am

I've never fully made my peace with people who use "lol" like it's a period and escalate to "lmfao" over the slightest signs of actual amusement, but sweet Frith, people who punctuate their posts with "🤣🤣🤣" are on a whole 'nother level. And they always seem to be the biggest douches too. It's right up there with Pepe and anime-sex-face avatars on the "signs that this person is incapable of having a single right opinion ever" scale.
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Post by Pocket (?) » Mon May 17, 2021 6:19 am

Also when did our forum start converting emojis to flat, Twitter style ones? Is that a built-in PHPBB feature now?
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Mon May 17, 2021 6:52 am

i can't tell the difference either way
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Pocket wrote:
Mon May 17, 2021 6:17 am
I've never fully made my peace with people who use "lol" like it's a period and escalate to "lmfao" over the slightest signs of actual amusement, but sweet Frith, people who punctuate their posts with "🤣🤣🤣" are on a whole 'nother level. And they always seem to be the biggest douches too. It's right up there with Pepe and anime-sex-face avatars on the "signs that this person is incapable of having a single right opinion ever" scale.
My impression is that the people who use those emojis are either people who aren't very online (i.e. "normal people") or are so severely irony poisoned that they're mimicking said "normal people" in an attempt to be sarcastic.
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Also when did our forum start converting emojis to flat, Twitter style ones? Is that a built-in PHPBB feature now?
Yes, and from glancing at the way they're displayed on the page, I'm guessing phpBB is doing it in a way to provide support for older devices that might not have native emoji fonts. Twitter's emoji set is the easiest to use for that purpose.
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Mon May 17, 2021 8:58 am

people who aren't very online (i.e. "normal people")
god i wish that was me
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