

it’s wild to me that there are people who still not only let this man talk, but write down the shit that come out of his stupid face and report on it.
it’s wild to me that there are people who still not only let this man talk, but write down the shit that come out of his stupid face and report on it.
i need something like this for people who have smoked in the last 12 hours. everywhere.
me when i steal the top spot in every alphabetical list
damn that’s good, we should have been using it for this game particularly but also pretty much every pvp survival game as well.
this is why you should buy games that are released
it’s not though. the point is games don’t need to be that costly or pricey to be good.
shut up oh my god with this lib shit. don’t clutch them pearls so hard.
no, laughing at a horrible person dying the way he wanted others to die every day is not lowering yourself to his level where he laughed at minorities and political opponents being shot and advocated for more of it.
and you’re wrong, the circumstances make it objectively funny. this is how you’d kill someone in a movie like Airplane, without the graphic imagery. people laughing at this aren’t necessarily saying it’s good that this kind of thing happens, or it should happen more; charlie kirk did. his last word was “violence”. maybe he shouldn’t have been advocating for gun violence with a massive head and neck that are hard to miss.
no, it’s not. unless there are people protesting outside so-called AAA company offices to only make games with more crunch, bigger empty maps with pointless busywork, more detailed “realistic” looting animations that take so long it becomes a chore playing the game, it’s their choice and waste to do so. no one asks games to cost millions to make, and no one demands them to make billions to count as successful. they pretend this is a demand. it’s not.
that’s amazing because I’m pretty sure he probably based it on real life; there are tribes that count very similarly to this (also covered in Ifrah’s book). there are languages with words for one, two and many, or 1-4 and many, but they can use combinations like two-one to mean three and two-two to mean four etc.
that makes so much sense! rabbit hole time…
one of the best nonfiction books i read was The Universal History Of Numbers by Georges Ifrah. years, even decades later, every now and then i learn a new thing about some linguistic quirk that ties back to what I learned from that book.
apparently, people (and some animals!) can instinctually and instantly “count” up to 4 objects! well, this is not actually counting, it’s just instantly knowing the quantity of a group of up to four items.
so if I showed you an image of 4 cubes flashed for a fraction of a second, and i ask you how many objects were in that image you’d probably have no problem saying four. once you get to 5 or more though it becomes very hard unless you can mentally group it into smaller chunks of 4 or less. the most obvious result of this is probably tally marks. the whole point of grouping in tally marks is to quickly be able to discern how many notches there are at a glance, so we put marks up to 4, and then a fifth one marks the end of the group for easy 5-by-5 counting except the fifth mark is usually put across the previous four, so you don’t have five marks in a row. that’s because it really becomes confusing once you go over 4. see if you have any trouble reading this “number” sequence:
I - II - IIII - I - III - IIII - II - IIII - I - III
pretty easy. now see if you have any trouble with this one:
I - III - II - IIII - I - IIIIII - II - IIII - I - II
chances are it was the sixth one that made you double take.
turns out this inherent ability we had way before math was even a thing naturally affected not only numeral systems but many aspects of language as well in different cultures.
you can find many cultural and linguistic features that suggest numbers up to 4 are more notable than 5 or more. in Latin for example a common practice was to give proper names to things up to the first four, and just use numbers for the rest. this may have included children, which is probably why you have names like Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, and most famously Octavius, named after the numbers 5-8.
they did the same with months of the year, the first four got named: #1 being March after the god Mars, April probably for spring (as it most likely comes from the verb “to open”), May after Maia the mother of Hermes, June after the god Juno. Then the rest were numbered: Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November and December, literally just the months #5-10. Quintilis and Sextilis would later be renamed after Julius and Augustus, which is why we don’t have those months numbered anymore but the bigger quirk is January and February being added to the front of the calendar, pushing March to 3rd position and the rest following it. so now we have a calendar that has months #9-12 named after numbers 7-10…!
while many languages have singular and plural, some languages can have specific forms for 2, 3 or 4 before getting to plurals for more. and here you can see Czech also having in some cases different rules for up to 4 things.
it’s not. one being infinitely more wasteful for a lesser product that costs more doesn’t make it a bad comparison.
people call everything that now. this is not dreamworks face.
well that’s the point isn’t it? it’s not a Bethesda game, you don’t gotta catch’em all and there are consequences to your actions
so what, first of all, you’re just assuming the person or people reading your comment will do the same thing that’s been done to you by others before, which is weird. I’ve had the same kind of comment downvoted and upvoted on different threads. not everyone sees every comment…
but even if you were 100% right, it’s still a bitch-ass pre-complaint. it’s one thing to start with “this is gonna be downvoted to hell but I’m still gonna say it” or something along those lines… what you said was specifically about the person you were replying to, and you even gave a reason like “oh this is gonna hurt your feefees so you’re gonna downvote it” it’s just weird. the vibes are off.
“when things are so bad you start obeying traffic laws as if you give a shit whether or not you’d kill some kid today.”
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