Not Europeans, it's the rest of the world. Only you people are crazy enough to use that unnecessarily complicated system.
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Not Europeans, it's the rest of the world. Only you people are crazy enough to use that unnecessarily complicated system.
I've switched to using single quotes in all my writing. First of all, it's easier to type since you don't have to shift. Second, they just look way cleaner and I love them. The comma instead of the decimal might be silly as hell, but those Europeans do occasionally have some good ideas.
brutal!
It's very simple; You've got twelve inches to the foot, three feet to the yard, 220 yards in a furlong, eight furlongs in a mile, and three miles in a league.
We can all unite behind this.
I have always loved you.
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Noray
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they're actually
homophones, because nobody actually says "could HAVE" in casual conversation. It's an unstressed syllable therefore it gets schwa'd
But yes it annoys me in spelling too
blocked.
Trabuch spreading the knowledge
Well yeah, everyone needs to know.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
US, Liberia and Burma (I think)
Single quotation marks though? That's news to me.
How about Kerbal Basketball?
I really don't care. We learn your language, we don't complain. Just use your own language correctly. That's all we're asking.
I probably care too much about this tbh.
But grammar is important.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Man, that would actually be amazing (if the game is any good. They could just play Blood Money though). Hitman can be incredibly fun to watch since there are so many variables. Of course you have to replay levels a couple of times to get how they are working, but that's part of the fun. It'll never happen though. Never.
stump sock
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super helpful, thanks gamespot
I don't know where the three point line is in space, so I don't know if Vinny's system would work.
Not even just that, man.
1 liter of water is a cube with side length 1 dm and weighs 1 kg.
Like...how do you do that in the imperial system? Not at all is my guess.
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Noray
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It's not my language buddy, I'm Dutch. I'm just telling you there actually isn't a difference in speech between "could've" and "could of", which is why the common misspelling exists. One day it may may be an accepted spelling, if it persists. That's how language change works.
Except "of" makes no sense in the context.
I could have eaten the cake.
I have eaten the cake.
I could of eaten the cake.
I of eaten the cake.
Two of these sentences make sense. Two don't.
PinkCrayon
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I didn't know you could repack parachutes, neat.
N
Noray
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Lotta stuff in English doesn't make sense. I agree that it's unlikely though for that reason.
Incandenza
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Austin's twitter makes me thing that maybe increasing Twitter's character count is a good idea because at least I could actually follow what the fuck is going on in his feed for once.
Wait, the Dutch have their own language? I always thought that your king Rudi Carell was really drunk all the time so his German sounded funny.
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Felix Lighter
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Imperial system is terrible. I don't know how many generations need to die before the metric system is truly adopted in this country. It's weird because in school and college, metric was used much much much more than the imperial units and math with decimals is much easier and less prone to error than fractions. I would have thought my generation would have been the tipping point, since we've had so much exposure but I'm not seeing it. Soda companies are trying to do their part but the shitty dairy industry is holding us all back.
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Noray
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America's sense of identity is really, really fragile and insecure. Anything they can do to NOT be like Europe, they'll do it, because "not Europe" is basically what America's national identity is founded upon. And I think every state could decide whether to adopt the system or not?
So it's a mess. Fix your education system America. Ideally just let the Federal gov't run shit in all departments, but that seems unlikely.
Hey guys, maybe a few of you remember me from a couple days ago. Vinny uploaded his Project B.E.A.S.T saves, so I re-did my Duna mission with the official Luda Lander, and made of video of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiRt376Q0J8. This attempt went way smoother than my other attempt with the Luda Lander I tried to create myself. Although during decent onto Duna, I was very sure I was going to crash and everything would die. It looks a lot less stressful when its sped up 600%.
Seeing how much delta-v I have at the end, I figure I can send the lander to a lot of other bodies in the Kerbal system. I think my next target is Eve (fake Venus) and its moon Gilly. I have an idea involving Gilly that would probably give the Beast crew a panic attack.
Hah, just saw somebody else posted this a few minutes ago!
Seeing how much delta-v I have at the end, I figure I can send the lander to a lot of other bodies in the Kerbal system. I think my next target is Eve (fake Venus) and its moon Gilly. I have an idea involving Gilly that would probably give the Beast crew a panic attack.
Hah, just saw somebody else posted this a few minutes ago!
User 85168
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That beautiful aerobraking on Duna
That was amazing. I look forward to watching your next mission!
N
Noray
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I've watched 2 Q&A's from Florida comiccon (Brent Spiner and Bill Nye) and almost no one was awkward! How come Giant Bomb always gets the loonies asking questions?
That was super awesome, congratulations!
Felix Lighter
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Delta V for days.
Speaking of Delta V, I had it right with my post after the first episode
LurkerPrime
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I had the opposite experience, stopping 20 minutes in. It's so boring and uneventful.
Nice work. I can't believe the Luda Lander can make it all the way to Duna... From Project BEAST I wasn't even sure if it could get to Mun and back again.
What a game. What a series.
...What a community.
stump sock
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well, I just discovered the incredible world of Rocksmith custom DLC
goodbye real world
goodbye real world
air jordans for dogs
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Street fighter V is going to be my first fighting game in so many years. Which pad should i use DS3, DS4, xboner or 360?
Get a stick. I'm playing P4 Arena Ultimax with a pad and it's a huge step down from when I played Arena with a stick.
BreezyLimbo
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I really hate the whole 'Oh Stick is better!' It's like...no it's not. I dominate Fighting games on my controller, and I suck on sticks. Controller is just better for me, and I can compete against someone with a stick.
It's the same BS with 'Oh Keyboard and Mouse is better than controllers!' It's like, no it's not. Go put that keyboard where the sun don't shine.
It's the same BS with 'Oh Keyboard and Mouse is better than controllers!' It's like, no it's not. Go put that keyboard where the sun don't shine.
I think the One has the best Dpad, but the worst overall trigger situation. The only one that will really be an issue is the 360, which has an untenable Dpad situation.
Let's not get crazy
I just play with analogue sticks on those two, works great.
BreezyLimbo
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air jordans for dogs
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Guess ill try with the bonercontroller and the ds4, im going to be terrible either way. If i really get into the game ill invest in a stick (always wanted one)
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