There is no ship in the Star Wars universe that should work in atmosphere. At all. Not the TIEs, not the Falcon, not the X-Wings. The snow speeders from Empire would never fly in the real world, the speeder bikes from Jedi, assuming you solved the problem of levitation, would last about two seconds in motion.

but there’s skepticism that this yearly schedule will really work for a studio like Bungie.

I’ll never bother a spider in or around this house... we have a massive mosquito problem. The kind where, most days, if you step outside wearing shorts, you have nine bugs attached to your leg within seconds.

Wouldn’t the easier thing be to bring the gif into Photoshop, drop the car into the individual frames and export? (But yeah, shadow, too).

I dunno... that sounds pretty good to me. Where’d you say you live again?

Mine’s a ‘99 Honda Accord with peeling paint, no rearview mirror, broken door lock levers and a stock stereo. I’m not worried ;) lol

The quality of the equipment you’re plugging the headphones into? Maybe? I don’t know where he was going with that, because I’d think more than 5% of the quality of your overall experience would come from the source.

So it comes down to The Law vs. common sense, being stuck behind a slow car in the twisties for 15 miles till the next actual passing zone, stuff like that.

30 years later and I can still feel the way the corners dug into my hands, just below my index fingers.

This supports my point, though. “All you can do is get better at guessing how your words affect people, so you can have a chance of finding the ones that will make them feel something like what you want them to feel.”

You say you got my original point, but your previous reply to me demonstrated quite clearly that you didn’t. I wasn’t responding to the study. I was barely responding to the article. I merely got something off my chest that was related to the topic of the article and the general conclusion that the study reached.

Which is why I specifically said a person shouldn’t replace every simple word with its most complex synonym.

Top 2% of Mensa yet you entirely miss my entire point. You almost hit it when you said that my post was little more than some automatically triggered “rant” which occurred when I read the title. In truth, I wrote it after reading the title, then the paragraphs here at Lifehacker. I did not feel like reading the study,…

And any chef would prefer to hear his creations called “cuisine” rather than “food” ;)

But the reason our language has such a variety of words is because they may have similar meanings, but “detest” and “abhor” connote stronger feelings than “hate.”

Context. Context. Sometimes certain words make a sentence flow better than others. Sometimes utilize works better than use simply because it makes the sentence sound better. Not always. But not never, either.

And yet education leads to intelligence. And with education comes an increased vocabulary. That’s not a coincidence.

Certainly. But “not needed” is subjective. And there are people who would get on my case for saying “certainly” instead of “right” and “subjective” instead of “different for everybody”. Like I said, I don’t think that every simple word in a sentence needs to be replaced with its most complicated synonym. But I also…

I agree that’s ridiculous. There’s a balance to be struck.

“...we aspired to intelligence, we didn’t belittle it, it didn’t make us feel inferior.” - The Newsroom