Mine’s that people who insist on correcting others grammar on internet forums are little shits who peaked in grade six as a teacher’s pet and get off on exerting their “superiority” on others.
Fuck you “less than” is just better than “fewer then.” Think I’m wrong, tell me what these symbols are called “< >” that’s what I thought loser.
If you believe in the Marxist critique of art for art’s sake, congratulations, you are a religious evangelist.
(I do however, believe in Nietzsche’s critique of art for art’s sake, which is that it fundamentally does not exist)
Legos with stickers suck. They should just print it in the parts or not have a design. It’s too much stress on the person building them :/
Oh god I almost don’t want to say this in this environment…
Techy people aren’t the most intelligent in other/all areas just because they have some technical expertise.
I have worked with, and interacted with people, all my life who are technically very intelligent in some specific way, and even been one of these people… Who thinks that one area of proficiency grants them unearned respect in other areas.
Eg." I’m great at maths therefore I’m logically infallible". Or “I’m an engineer, so I know exactly how society should function best”." I’m a doctor so my every opinion on everything is more important than yours".
This platform is proof positive of this take lmao buncha tech nerds who can’t read to save their lives
God help you if you accidentally use an analogy on here
I’m not like this but I am very curious.
When I went to the dentist and they were taking molds of my teeth I shared that I was a 3D printing hobbyist and wanted to know a bit about the process. I always start with an apology “sorry I’m curious by nature as an engineer but could you share details on X?”
Dude was the owner and gave me a full run down. He even told me about the time he got a free rental for a crown 3D printer to have on site. It was stupid expensive but it was free to use for a few months. Then pay to keep it. Get crowns in hours instead of days. He returned it because labs do much better work.
Ben Carson is the epitome of this for me - absolutely brilliant neurosurgeon, ate up every bit of the MAGA party line.
I feel this, my frustration isn’t that people aren’t smart enough to use tech, but that smart people panic around tech and can’t learn or experiment. Like I get it, but you have to dive in at some point surely
The real hot take hidden in your sentiment is that less educated blue collar workers who live in rural communities and tend towards conservative politics aren’t dumber than you are. They just have different competencies than you do.
My hot take is that I don’t care what other people’s hot takes are.
When asking an open-ended question on the Internet, OP should put their own response as a comment, not in the post body, so people can judge it separately from the question and it’s not elevated above other responses.
That’s it. That’s my hot take.
Also it avoids that the first 10 comments will be from people trolling you for the exact thing you used as an example instead of answering the question
Yeah that’s probably good advice
People should be able to get suicide assistance. Including healthy people.
others grammar
others’ grammar
Fixed it for ya!
My hero
“It gets better” is an awful statement. You don’t really know that. Bit of a thought terminating cliche for people who still have such a chance.
People who can’t stand being corrected. Instead of learning and improving, they feel diminished and hateful.
Maybe they are just hatefull from the start, and you correcting them puts you in their line of sight?
I’m not really in a position to correct anyone, as English is not my native language.
Knowing the rules and knowing when they’re needed are two different things. A racecar driver doesn’t need to floor it on their way home. Likewise a conversation doesn’t need to employ strict grammatical compliance, we’re talking not drafting a treatise. At the end of the day people who get upset with incorrect grammar do so because it’s an ick or theirs. They then proceed to make that everyone else’s problem. You’re not learned and scholarly for being pedantic.
It’s “fewer than” not “fewer then”
I’m shaking and crying rn
This is peak
Or is it pique?
… Probably both. Peak pique.
Got his ass
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Capitalism is going to kill us all if we don’t kill it first.
I’ve got a spicy one.
Despite all the patches and updates, Cyberpunk 2077 is still a meh game. I hate the UI, the RPG combat system with damage numbers, the edgy aesthetic and slang words, the lack of vehicle customisation, and the overall lack of non-mission side activities to do in the world.
The ratio of style to substance is heavily weighted in favour of style.
I’ve been complaining about the cyberpunk genre for years and 2077 is basically a distillation of everything wrong with it at current. They use the aesthetic and gut the meat, to the point where they’re often the very things cyberpunk is supposed to be critiquing. Soulless cash grabs its embarrassing we let it happen. 2077 wasn’t even mechanically fun for me. My favorite genre and I feel like we’ve rarely made things better than just reading neuromancer. We should have plenty of really mind blowing rhings with this much time to improve on it but it’s so few and far between 😞
I didn’t dislike it, but it didn’t live up to my hopes after all I’d heard about it.
I don’t regret having bought and played the game, but I never bothered to go back and fully finish all the side missions.
I do think that the edginess is kinda part of the cyberpunk genre. I can’t beat up on them for that.
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It has high production values, a lot of modeling and texturing and such — I’m amazed how much money they have to have sunk into assets only to use them briefly — but the actual core gameplay didn’t grab me the way, oh, Halo did when it first came out and I played it. Night City is painstakingly created in tremendous detail, but end of the day, the point is to create the backdrop for gameplay, and I feel like they spent a disproportionate making of resources on that.
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The combat is pretty, but for all of the work that went into various systems, I didn’t play it much differently from the way I would another shooter.
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I also had been expecting something more like a Bethesda RPG, and got something more Grand Theft Auto-ish with a beefed up skill tree.
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I wasn’t that impressed with the braindance stuff from a pure gameplay standpoint — it’s kinda “hunt for the hidden object” stuff — but I do think that it was original and it served as a useful justification to show “flashbacks” to earlier events.
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Obtaining and managing clothing is a significant chunk of game and content, but I almost never actually see the main character, so the clothing doesn’t have much impact. Maybe if there were a third person camera mode or frequent reflections or frequent looking through a camera or something.
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Having played some games like Saboteur and Grand Theft Auto, I kind of expected the differences between autos to matter more, given how much work went into creating them and all, but from a mission standpoint, they’re surprisingly interchangeable. A couple missions are easier with some, but a lot of the vehicles don’t really have that much gameplay point.
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Johnny Silverhand is a major part of the game, but wasn’t really a character that I found very plausible or super interesting. I dunno, maybe if I had been into the punk music scene, it’d be different. I felt like they really were trying to shoehorn a punk band leader into the role. That being said, I did think that most characters were pretty solid.
Lots of good points!
ChatGPT-ass emdashes with spaces on either side
(I know there’s three dashes I’m sorry hahaha)
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Mother Nature is really, really angry at us and payback is only barely beginning to start.
I am not religious or superstitious or whatever, it’s just a way of expressing that very soon we’re gonna have it very bad. The heatwaves, the storms, the utilities unable to cope, the displaced populations, the overwhelmed over-egotistic political systems - we’re in for a ride, and that ride starts yesterday.
I kinda look at it like mother nature is angry at herself. It spawned us to finish it
This is not even a hot take. It’s just facts.
Yeah as Carlin said, “the earth will be fine, the people are fucked”. This is a hot flash for the planet on the galactic scale. It will recover. It may take a few thousand years but on the planets scale it’s nothing - a cold, a flu. We are the ones who are just living on the surface, subject to whatever corrective actions will be taken as it corrects itself
The only grammar thing that annoys the hell out of me is “on accident”. No idea why, it just really sticks out and bugs me when I come across it. I rarely mention it when I see it though, because I know that noone actually cares.
I’m gonna start saying “on accident” by purpose from now on
I didn’t realize this was a thing for me until now, but that sentence grinds all of my gears, and I hate it.
You’re just saying that because you know you’re going to do it on accident anyway, and you’re trying to get ahead of it
I think this is a dialectical thing! Iirc, in the US it’s more common to say “on accident” and in the UK it’s “by accident”, but I’m not certain
I’m not sure I’ve heard someone say on accident it’s always by accident in the PNW (West Coast USA)
Repping East Coast, that’s what we say, or simply, “accidentally.”
PNW here as well, I only hear ‘on accident’. It makes more sense than ‘by accident’ since we also say ‘on purpose’ and not ‘by purpose’.
The rules of the English language have never had anything to do with making sense.
Canada, by accident!
That bugs me as well. Another is ‘off of’. There is no use case when ‘off’ isn’t sufficient.
I often hear that in “based off of” where “on” makes even more sense. The thing that it’s based on forms the basis or foundation that the new thing is built upon, so you’re basing it on that.
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We pivoted from social justice causes like child labour to systemic racism (but only in the first world, not where our actual daily racism is practiced) and transphobia etc because the former requires personal sacrifices while the latter mostly “requires” snarky takes on social media.
I can’t help but notice that identity politics stuff ramped up to 11 right as Occupy Wall Street was fizzling out. I really think the alphabet soup agencies unleashed this monster on all of us
If I wanted to ensure the status quo and prevent real change, I cam think of no better sociological judo than getting the progressive Left hooked on identity politics.
There is only one struggle and it is the struggle between the excessively wealthy and everyone else.
To the kids who make your clothes, you are excessively wealthy.
Yeah. Not a lot of people in the west are comfortable acknowledging the fact that the life of relative luxury we enjoy is a result of decades to centuries of exploitation of other cultures. We enjoy things like cheap clothing, food and electronics because the people who make these things aren’t being paid a fair amount.
The reality is for people reading this comment, a sustainable future is one where you have less. And to get to that future you have to give things up. That is not a popular opinion and basically makes you unelectable. People love to blame capitalism for always demanding more, but the population at large won’t accept less than they already have. People don’t want to stop eating meat; people don’t want to pay more for clothing or electronics.
Personally, I try to do what I can. I went vegan, I stopped driving, I try to use what I have before I get something new. Globally I have more than average, I’d happily live in a world where the collective wealth of humanity is distributed equally among us all. Even if that means I would personally have less.
Armchair activism. The least you could do – literally.
It’s “hashtag activism” these days, which is a term I really hate.
We pivoted from real activism to bumper stickers and yard signs and campaign donations to candidates who signalled the right wealthy class social virtues in the 90s and haven’t looked back
