Granted, I'm not sure you can properly dump someone in Fallout 4, but I definitely sent him to some far off settlement once "babe" started.
I should've sent him to outpost Zimonja with no beds and one sofa.
I think nicknames I like are the exception and not the rule, and I think this because of #Fallout4.
I want to tell Piper to not call me Blue (there's quite a bit wrong with her calling you that when you think about it), and Preston calling me "babe" after being romanced made me dump him.
Oof. Gerund. (Shakes fist)
AND WHOSE BRIGHT IDEA WAS “INFINITIVE”?!
Why reflexive pronouns and not ”reflective“ pronouns? They’re not reflexes, they’re reflecting! The more descriptive terms are, the easier they are to remember!
Boy, I sure hope someone got fired for THAT blunder.
You are in SO much trouble, Prince - www.egscomics.com/egsnp/cinder...
"Or would be, were you not the prince. Sort of. You wouldn't be in this situation if you weren't the prince, so the trouble you would be in, but are getting out of, would not be applicable."
#egscomics #webcomics
I still prefer the baseball, but I have options now.
Ball options.
I have a small basketball for absentmindedly tossing around now. It’s much bigger than the baseball, but still small enough to hold in one hand, and I won’t get sore from tossing it back and forth several thousand times 😅
And frankly, the context of someone being completely out of context while using video game tags is pretty much the social media equivalent of being a flasher. It’s not the same.
Context matters, and anyone is equally free to mute you or adjust their content settings.
And that was in response something that isn’t even a real rule. That was one of the “what if we pretend English was Latin” suggestions.
The circles of story analysis.
Oh no, your comments here are fine! We are communicating about the potential trials of communication. That, and my three posts were, well, three posts. There's plenty of different ways to take what I meant about being pedantic about grammar.
I've spoken a lot about corrections tonight, and my punishment is posting a comic with an extraneous "now." I shall correct it forthwith.
It's not that surprising. Very few people like being corrected.
Even when I appreciate a correction, I might not like it in the moment. In such cases, it is with a conscious effort that I am polite in my own response to the correction.
It is not pedantic in context, but it might be unappreciated.
You are in SO much trouble, Prince - www.egscomics.com/egsnp/cinder...
"Or would be, were you not the prince. Sort of. You wouldn't be in this situation if you weren't the prince, so the trouble you would be in, but are getting out of, would not be applicable."
#egscomics #webcomics
I do not believe it is pedantic to point out grammatical errors in formal contexts.
Not by default, at least. There's always the matter of delivery and potential other factors to consider (such as whom you're correcting).
Another reason to not be pedantic about Grammar:
The purpose of grammar is to assist communication. Grammatic pedantry interrupts, and potentially derails, communication.
It betrays the purpose of grammar.
Overall, however, grammar assists communication. It's worth learning.
And that's all the more reason to the let the occasional misuse of an apostrophe go. If there's grammar to be learned, it's not going to happen because someone was pedantic to them on the internet.
Also, maybe it was a typo 🙃
Grammar helps organize sentences in ways that make them easier to understand. The guidelines exist for the sake of clarity.
Some rules exist for questionable reasons. Some rules are heavily debated. Some rules aren't really rules and are the results of long dead people trying to make English Latin.
If for no other reason than people aren't going to correct their grammar in response to it, being pedantic about grammar isn't helpful.
It's also true that the most important thing is successful communication.
Grammar is worth learning, however, for exactly that reason.
The clock change (which happened in most of the US on Sunday) is beating me up and taking my lunch money.
Or maybe it was me waking up early in an attempt to adapt in one day.
I actually dumped him over that 😅
Only took four whole comics to clear the darn table - www.egscomics.com/comic/falsek...
Seriously, it definitely wasn't more efficient to summon the magic maid. That hadn't really been the point, of course, but it remains true.
#egscomics #webcomics
“In our game, sleeping with a companion you‘ve successfully romanced gives you a temporary 5% experience bonus.”
“So you’ve incentivized seducing someone in order to get a self-serving reward?”
“Um…”
“That’s pretty clever commentary on relationships.”
“That… Was not our intent…”
Only took four whole comics to clear the darn table - www.egscomics.com/comic/falsek...
Seriously, it definitely wasn't more efficient to summon the magic maid. That hadn't really been the point, of course, but it remains true.
#egscomics #webcomics
He was a perfectly normal mobster dressed like it's the thirties (we're going by Gotham standards) until, one day, he, um…
Something something… Corrected on his usage of whom... Something something… Electric eels… Colander with wires used as a hat… Batman gasps...
And that's how it happened.
New Batman villain: The Whomobster.
He's a mobster whose life revolves around adhering to inverse rules for who and whom. The only people he doesn't correct are using who and whom correctly.
His corrections inflict psychic damage, and he could do it with anything, but he's fixated on who and whom.
Pokémon Black & White protagonists:
You're not choosing gender. You're choosing to be way too cold at times, or way too hot at times.
It's been a long time since I've played, so I'm not sure who's worse off. I can't imagine either is comfortable throughout.
By the definition of "what I care about or acknowledge," it's equally valid to not care about what came first, and there can even be good reason to.
Stories can start out shaky—not that I'd know anything about that—and end up full of all sorts of retroactive continuity.
