What'sss taters, preciousss?

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Whoa, investment banker?! Badass.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: tarmo888It's amusing that all the blockchain/NFT haters are already yelling "scam", but they aren't even accepting payments yet. Who exactly is getting scammed?

Investors.

As for "NFT haters", I think you mean "normal people". Nothing wrong with blockchain per se, but it's most commonly associated with burning the planet via proof of work, and it'll take a long time to shift perception on that.

The basic "blockchain" concept is a clever solution which has, ever since, been looking for problems it is actually appropriate to solve and instead finding problems it sucks at dealing with.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI do sometimes say or write "USAians", if I want to emphasize that contrary to what many of them seem to believe, they don't actually own all of America.

The idea that "America" is one continent is pure Eurocentrism, as is the idea that Europeans should be dictating how people in the Americas should speak their native languages, name themselves and name their places. Unfortunately, this silly idea of a unitary continent called "America" is still taught in schools in Europe, reflecting the attitude of disappointed colonialists that this hemisphere is one homogeneous mass that should look to Europe as a model. Some non-Europeans do see the imitation of anything European as inherently better.

The widely established colloquial usage of the word "America" (in English, particularly American English) has never entailed a claim to sovereignty over the entire "new world." The word lacks that content, nobody is using it that way, so to read it that way is to willfully misunderstand the intended meaning.

Almost every government and people in the Americas, in all their variety, celebrates its independence from European bullying on such topics as how they should refer to themselves in their native languages. Someday even Canada will formally repudiate monarchism. That will be a great day.

Yesyes, the Americas, true enough, I was just typing quickly, sheesh. I can't believe you did a multi-paragraph dissertation on what was basically a spelling flame. But my point stands: US people call themselves "Americans" as if there was nobody else on either continent. And if you don't think they claimed sovereignty over the whole thing I have a couple of "doctrines" to introduce you to--"Manifest Destiny" and "Monroe".

As to monarchy--Well, as a Canadian, monarchism is one of the few things helping us keep a smidge of cultural distance from the US, so I'm not giving up on it any time soon. In any case, while actual monarchy sucks, constitutional monarchy is pretty harmless and enables some useful political concepts, notably the "loyal opposition". If you don't know what that is you are probably not qualified to have an opinion anyone should listen to on the subject of monarchy.

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Well anyway, a "Slay the Spire" sequel is one of the few sequel games I'm rather looking forward to.

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Quoting: GetBeaned

Quoting: pbSo the whole hyped Triple-I Initiative was all about [External Link] announcing a few sequels and DLCs, am I missing something? Zero excitement for me, but then again, I don't watch or care for Triple-A announcements/events, so I guess I'm just not the target audience.

What did you think it was going to be? They advertised it pretty heavy as a quickfire showcase of upcoming games, indie games at that, not AAA.

Prince of Persia is an odd fit though. Not sure how "indie" a Ubisoft game can get.

Oops! Drat, that was a misspelling. It was supposed to be "Prints of Persia", the indie cult favourite fingerprint-matching game.

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On the plus side, I have to admit that picture does kind of look like a spaceship from Star Trek. That's something, right?

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Quoting: SolarwingRaise Excalibur, the Holy Sword

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI've been known to, but only because it's dumb.

I think I've only ever seen it done as a joke in a cartoon. Specifically, I believe it was in one episode of Dexter's Laboratory, where Dexter's somewhat-dense sister Dee Dee reads out their address on an envelope and sounds out "USA" as "Oosah".

I do sometimes say or write "USAians", if I want to emphasize that contrary to what many of them seem to believe, they don't actually own all of America. But even then I don't say "Oosah", I say the letters.

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Quoting: dibz

Quoting: kuhpunktJust a random question. How do you guys pronounce TR1X when you read/say it? Tee Are One Axe? Tricks?

I just spell it out, same as your suggestion.

I also pronounce GUI "Gee You Ai" because while Gooey is a word, GUI is not. Like, would someone say Oohsah/Ussah instead of the letters for USA? No, because that'd be dumb.

I've been known to, but only because it's dumb.

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