Man, what a non sequitur. Seizing property as part of legal requirements isn’t “on your way up”. The only people in this situation that were ever on their way up were the oligarchs, and from what we know of Putin and his cronies it’s highly unlikely that they were nice to people on their way up. So the only way your…

I’m well aware of everything you’ve said. I was only saying ‘gift’ as a pronunciation example. Apparently I should have just said “hard g”.

Yeah, since English doesn’t have consistent rules why bother changing the spelling? The other languages actually need to change the spelling so their spelling rules match the pronunciation of the original word as best as possible. Or at least match the preferred pronunciation in the new language.

I’m aware that foible is a real word. It’s not exactly rare. However, it normally means weakness, not mistake. That said, from my reading of the sentence it doesn’t matter which definition is used because neither makes sense. The rest of the sentence is talking about a small event/story in a collection of…

That’s certainly an argument. But it still has just as much validity (i.e. not much) as almost all of the other arguments on here. As with any living language, pronunciations in English depend almost entirely on common usage. So if the most popular usage for .gif sounds like gift, then that’s likely what it’s going to…

For Featherstonehaugh, I’d have to look it up. I’ve watched plenty of British shows, but for the life of me I can’t get it below 3 syllables.

True. Majority use is the only rule that English can reliably go by, given that it has no universal/consistent rules for spelling, grammar, or pronunciation. It’s frankensteined from at least 3 other languages with mostly incompatible rules.

If that were a valid argument then every use of the letter g would sound like a j. 

Maestro ghastly foible

Given the uniqueness of the card, how sure can grading companies be that this is a genuine article? None of the 19 other cards are available for comparison, and it was printed in a limited run so the telltale printing aspects may not be the same as “normal” cards. I really hope someone investigated the card’s…

That’s fair. I have had to fight NPCs that attacked me first (though Patches got a temporary reprieve since he wasn’t outright hostile and I didn’t actually die when he pushed me). As far as accidentally attacking them, I can only think of one instance of that, though it was due to putting down my controller and…

It seems odd to me that anyone would intentionally kill NPCs in a souls game, at least during the first playthrough.  You don’t know who you’re going to need to talk to or why, especially merchants.  

Yeah, I can agree with wanting to take a nap, especially after a good sized meal with the drinking. It was especially weird to me back when I was a programmer. Like, we’re expected to be able to carry out complex thoughts and ideas, while also tipsy? How does that make sense? End of day was okay because we wouldn’t be…

its turn-saving combat–improved

I’m trying to decide if that’s better or worse than a manager I knew that threw things at people when he thought they weren’t working.

Sadly, the games industry is more likely to have these kinds of immature people than other industries.

Honestly, something needs to be done about this shit, because if we keep sleeping through it then nothing will ever change.

Having worked in both corporate America and in the games industry, strip club visits sound like an extreme/fringe event, though I can’t speak to every company’s culture so it’s possible some companies have evolved very specific cultures. The most “unprofessional” behaviors I’ve seen in both areas is drinking during…

It’s true that a specific behavior, like visiting a strip club, isn’t automatically problematic on its own. The people that visit strip clubs aren’t all sexists that objectify women. In this case, though, the visits are also in relation to various sexist actions, which changes the visit(s) from an isolated event into…

Apparently. In my defense, Poe’s Law is in full force here. There’s literally no difference between RTLewis’ comment and earnest comments by completely ignorant fans of the genre. Heck, Lewis’ comment is tame in comparison to some claims people have made.