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#1 Posted by stalefishies (264 posts) - 2 days, 12 hours ago

I wish people talking about having good internet connections would remember where they are. Of course everyone has good internet connections, are you really going to be browsing this video-heavy website without one? You can't do a phone poll to work out how many people have telephones.

#2 Posted by stalefishies (264 posts) - 2 days, 17 hours ago

Xbox 359

#3 Posted by stalefishies (264 posts) - 2 days, 17 hours ago

It has Star Wars Kinect!

...and Halo, Gears of War, and Forza, which are all pretty good.

Okay, it has games. But is it stupid?

#4 Edited by stalefishies (264 posts) - 2 days, 17 hours ago

@maystack: Even the greatest among us can be horribly, horribly wrong. Unfortunately, he seems to not understand how language works. Just because you invent a term, it doesn't mean you own how it is truly said. It evolves beyond you. Natural language is what becomes accepted, not what was intended.

So, here's an animated "giff" in honor of your flawed but still great self!

There are plenty of languages which are explicitly defined, but that doesn't make them any less of a language. I personally don't care at all whether people pronounce it with a hard or soft g, after all it's a really difficult thing to change your pronunciation of a word when you're used to saying it one way. I don't want people to change their pronunciation, I just want those who say it with a hard g to admit that they're wrong.

#5 Edited by stalefishies (264 posts) - 2 days, 18 hours ago

No. Gift. End of discussion.

Giant Bomb.

#6 Posted by stalefishies (264 posts) - 3 days, 15 hours ago

I can imagine this is a product of F2P really taking off and getting big; with more F2P games the people who are going to spend big on them are being spread thinner and so prices have to go up to compensate.

#7 Edited by stalefishies (264 posts) - 9 days, 10 hours ago

This is only occasionally tangentially related to video games, but I really hate pull quotes in articles. They annoy me to no end, and they're probably my least favourite thing about the whole of the latest site design. I get that you want to make the articles look all nice with fancy formatting and stuff, but why not put something new there, rather than just copypasting a line from later on in the page? Perhaps a picture, or maybe a graph, or, just possibly, a quote which is there just once and not repeated?

It's just kind of annoying to have to read the same sentence twice

I mean, I don't have the attention span of a gnat. I'm going to read your article - if I wasn't I probably wouldn't have scrolled down far enough to get to the pull quote in the first place - and so you don't need to remind me about all the neat text I'm going to get to in half a paragraph's time. Plus it's just kind of annoying to have to read the same sentence twice; it's like you're almost spoiling me on the bit I'm about to read. But whatever, I can almost guarantee I'm the only person who thinks this.

#8 Edited by stalefishies (264 posts) - 11 days, 12 hours ago

I still think Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden would make an incredible (and not insufferably long) Endurance Run, but it's not like any of these suggestions are ever going to mean anything.

#9 Posted by stalefishies (264 posts) - 11 days, 12 hours ago

@immortalsaiyan said:

Original. Cool Ranch is fine as well.

In the UK, the blue Doritos are called 'Cool Original'. I'm assuming they're the same flavour as Cool Ranch, but you never know if the recipe's slightly different.

Also, Cool Original.

#10 Posted by stalefishies (264 posts) - 11 days, 12 hours ago

A proper announcement of GS5 in Europe? Welp, there goes the main thing stopping me from seriously considering getting a 3DS.

Use your keyboard!

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