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  • Native speakers of any language tend to not give a fuck about homophones. It can vary a bit exactly what between languages. But every language has plenty of things that native speakers just do not actually give a fuck about. Language doesn’t need to be remotely perfect to do its job after all.

    Its almost always foreign speakers who learned to do it right that get upset. Since to many having to put in the work to learn things the right way makes them angry when they watch someone just get things wrong that would have gotten them yelled at.

    The rest of the time it’s bigots getting pissy you arnt speaking “right” and attacking your language skills is little more then a stand in for racism, sexism or other hate.

    Enjoy the misused words.


  • It doesn’t at all and even thinking it does indicates an extreme lack of critical thinking.

    The idea of correct words, and proper grammar as a means to dismiss someone’s opinion is based wholly in; hateful origins. Mostly racism.

    It’s just a hold over as a way to dismiss the poor and slave classes because they can’t speak “proper” like the landed gentry.

    The only thing spelling, grammar and poor word choice indicates is that the speaker may be a non native speaker, young, poorly educated, lazy, using a different dialect, made an honest mistake, etc.

    None of these things should ever be used to just dismiss someone’s knowledge or opinion.

    Doing so makes you nothing more than a bigot.


  • That doesn’t actually do anything…

    Opting out of buying from a service only hurts them when the service is anti consumer.

    When the service is large due to pro consumer reasons then not buying just hurts yourself.

    An anti consumer service relies on momentum to maintain it self. Hoping people are too lazy to leave. Since growing the customer base is near impossible with out dirty tactics.

    A pro consumer service grows regardless, since it’s the best option. It doesn’t have to do dirty things to grow a customer base since by default the other options are worse.

    If you just stop buying games entirely then you also do not matter you removed yourself entire from the equation.

    You would need to start buying games from non valve sources that are in direct competition with valve. So things like the Amazon store, Uplay, etc.

    Which do the same things and worse.

    Functionally you do not get a choice of voting with your wallet. Because it doesn’t apply here. So all your doing is being stupid at worse and nothing at best for the cause.

    You ARNT the customer being hurt here. You can’t vote with your wallet. The game studios and devs are the customer in question. THEY have to vote with their wallet by not putting games on steam.

    You as a gamer physically can’t vote with your wallet unless you directly go to the competition.