BillyClark

Well, it depends on the actual settlement, but surely the worst thing for Krafton is if the game doesn’t sell.

I think if they’re forced to continue paying the fired devs based on sales, then the advantage of buying the game is to help the devs, not hurt Krafton.

Forum rules should be public, and it’s generally better for everyone if they’re specific, too.

When I report content, it’s better when the report form gives me a list of stuff to choose from, and I can check off the box.

When moderators remove content, they should have the same experience. It makes things easier for them.

Users who read the rules don’t end up getting upset about wasting time having their content that they worked hard on removed.

I don’t think it’s a good experience for users if moderators even appear to be power-tripping, and that’s often what it looks like if they are moderating without rules.

The exception that I think most people would agree with is that when the rules are specific, you can get trolls who specialize in barely not breaking the rules, while tricking other people into breaking the rules. So, good moderators do need a little discretion, but I think most of their moderation would be easier with specific rules.

That’s baffling. If he’s really 2% body fat, all of his fat must be in his second chin. I think he’s supposed to be strong like the world’s strongest man competitors who are noticeably fat, but they wouldn’t have 2% body fat. If Fisk is 2% body fat, then if you saw him naked, he’d have one of the most bizarre looking bodies. All fat around the head and hands, and absolutely ripped everywhere else.

Also, I’m not sure that cows are really all that fat in the first place. They’re more big than fat.

I suspect that blindness changes the rules and expectations by quite a lot, so most of my advice would fly out of the window.

However, I do personally have a problem with remembering names, and so I have one bit of advice that I think is relevant.

there’s no polite way for me to say “hi, who are you again?”

My advice is that, if you think you have, say, a 60% chance of getting their name right, just say that name. If you get their name wrong, they’ll probably correct you, but if you’re anything like me, when you think it’s 60%, the odds are actually much higher.

That is actually what I do, personally, as a person who is bad with names. I realized that I used to mentally punish myself when I messed up a person’s name, but conversely, when somebody else messed up my name, I didn’t care and immediately forgave them. Basically, I was holding myself to an insane standard that I didn’t hold anybody else to.

So, instead, if I think I more likely than not know the name, then I say it. I’ve only had one person get upset with me in all the time I’ve been doing this. It’s a person who I used to run into fairly frequently, like once every couple of months, but I seemed to have a mental block on his name specifically, and I simply couldn’t remember it no matter what I did.

My only other advice is to be careful about letting people know you can identify them by odor. It depends on the odor and the person, but some people could probably be offended by that.

For most people, their own name is one of their favorite sounds in the world. If my friends didn’t call me by my name, I wouldn’t think we were as close of friends.

If you know somebody’s name, it’s really good and normal to greet them using their name. Even if you only say their name during the greeting, it will improve relationships and moods with just that. It’s so important that I would even recommend that you “fake it 'till you make it” in this case. Even if it feels awkward, start greeting people in person by saying something like, “Hi Steve,” or whatever similar greeting feels comfortable to you.

You can use people’s names more that that, but it’s a skill how to use names without being too weird. So if you’re not used to it, start with greetings.

I know it’s not currently the law, but I think if you’re a politician, you should legally have to maintain a higher standard for things like this.

Slapping a phone out of a reporter’s hand? Maybe if it was a private citizen being targeted, or I could even excuse a politician doing that if he was protecting his family.

But just the politician alone in a parking lot, and the reporter isn’t even getting in his face? Unacceptable. Surely there’s some law that he technically broke, like assault or something. Even if you wouldn’t charge a normal citizen, a politician should have a higher standard.

I say no excuses for politicians doing things like that. He should at least be arrested and booked into jail.

Okay, so I am weird about spoilers. I sometimes call things spoilers that others insist are not spoilers. For example, I think it is possible for the opening or closing animations to spoil the later half of the season. I typically skip the credits until the later half of the season because of that.

In this case, though, I have already read all of the available LNs and manga, so there’s no spoiler for me.

But I do have to say that in this episode, I think the after credits scene about the ordonnanz has a very weird spoiler.

Specifically,

Also, and I can’t imagine how the rest of this could be a spoiler, Ferdinand’s description that you can’t use an ordonnanz without a schtappe is completely correct with the lore, but I’ve always thought it was weird. They’re just saying it activates with a minuscule amount of mana, so you’d think that a noble who has very little mana, or a noble with very good control, could activate it without a schtappe. But it seems that they can’t. It requires a schtappe.

It’s too bad they don’t work in an office with a more supportive environment. I’ve worked in that kind of office before, where nobody ever asks how your anus is doing, and let me tell you, it can hurt pretty bad, especially if you’re not used to it.

Something has gone very wrong in those kids’ upbringings if they dream about riding a motorcycle without wearing any protective gear.

debt collector

There have been a lot of newly crowned kings who died soon after.

I absolutely 100% stand by my original comment

Great, so I guess you’ll talk specifically about why it was both “ignorant” and “misleading”.

Of course we all want even better and cheaper batteries, it’s a braindead comment to make.

Whoops. It seems you failed to say anything about why the comment was “ignorant” or “misleading”. Even if you accept it’s “braindead”, and I don’t, that only means it’s not using brain power, like the author is just on autopilot, and doesn’t mean “ignorant.”

Of course, it would have been an impossible endeavor to prove your point, because their comment was neither ignorant nor misleading.

Anyways, I’m done here. I’ll be reporting you for violating Rule 3 and blocking you.

You called their comment “ignorant and misleading.” Do you actually stand behind those words?

So asking for more research and less talking when the progress of actual research is publicized is just moronic idiotic, and everything else describing ignorance.

They didn’t ask for “more research.” They were asking for more of these cheap and effective batteries to be available for them to purchase.

Your comment is both ignorant and misleading.

“Less talking. More X,” is a cliche that doesn’t imply that there is zero “X.”

I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding their comment and then attributing your mistake to them as if it’s their mistake.

IIRC, in On Writing, the bad habit he spends most of his time talking about is his drinking. And he claimed that when they took his booze away, he started drinking mouthwash. He was so blackout drunk for so long that he doesn’t remember writing one of his books. I think it was Cujo.

Fish don’t eat a lot of earthworms. They eat other aquatic animals. So, in the last panel, they’d more likely be eating the guy in the casket than a plate full of earthworms.

Stephen King’s book On Writing is a pretty good resource for advice for aspiring writers.

For the high level points, writers should write. A lot. That’s his biggest piece of advice.

Writers should also try to “expand their toolbox”, meaning they should be able to use different methods. Just keep practicing writing with the tools you have and the techniques and tools you discover. Eventually, you’ll find what works for you. You can’t just expect to use a tool proficiently without practice. But everybody is different, so in the case of outlining, for example, if you practice with it and it just doesn’t work, then you’ll eventually know that it won’t work for you.

The last big point is to develop writing habits. Like, follow a specific daily schedule. Write a certain number of words each day.

The sun isn’t really setting, it’s just the Earth turning

That’s what a sunset is. When the sun begins to become occluded by the horizon, for whatever reason.

Usually “set” in the terms of putting down is a transitive verb. Like, “he is setting the bucket down.”

“Sunset”, though is intransitive, right? The sun is setting. There is no reason to think that an intransitive verb must have the same definition as a transitive verb with the same spelling.

I was thinking about your comment, and I think they did similar things in earlier episodes.

One thing is that in the book, Myne in her commoner days was much more disabled than she appears to be in the anime. I remember reading the first LN in the series and wondering how it ever got a second novel, since the first one was essentially about fate repeatedly torturing a severely disabled child to death. Most of that and her efforts were glossed over.

But for me, I liked it. I could sort of watch it like I knew all the stuff that went on behind the scenes.