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Piroko 3 points ago +3 / -0

Your unrealistic and overly specific scenario undermines your message and makes it seem petulant.

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Piroko 2 points ago +3 / -1

slang predominately because their biology makes English difficult for them

It's bullshit.

Speech capacity doesn't form additively but subtractively. The brain figures out which muscle group connections it needs, and neglects the ones that aren't useful. Babies can make sounds their parents can't; most notably the latin double-R, erre, which many northern europeans lose in childhood.

A native Japanese speaker finds it exceptionally difficult to pronounce b and v differently, but if you raise their child in a native english environment, they'll have no problem with it at all.

Point is, where language is concerned, it's pretty much all nurture. Or more precisely, muscle training.

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Piroko 0 points ago +1 / -1

"I believed I was..."

"Chosen?"

"I have done four hundred years penance in the service of the Vorlons; and perhaps now they they will finally let me die. Good luck to you, captain, in your crusade."

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Piroko 2 points ago +2 / -0

Increases monthly basic pay for junior enlisted servicemembers in the grades of E-1 through E-3

Every Corporal tomorrow be like...

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Piroko 15 points ago +15 / -0

My understanding is Nimoy's criticism was foundational. The problem was the story itself. Having to spend far too much energy in the why just to swing a gimmick to pull off the what (get the two captains in the same scene).

As insulting as it was to ENT, if you want to get Kirk and Picard in the same scene, it's easier to do it "These are the Voyages" style. Give Picard some new mysterious crisis in the present that has to be explored on the holodeck in the past. Sort of a cross the episode where Picard orders Data to lie and the time Geordi creates a holo-engineer. A murder mystery, "piece it together" story. Kirk & crew encounter something, resolve it, but the threat comes back and their OFFICIAL report doesn't give Picard enough to go on so he has to get inside Kirk's thinking.

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Piroko 12 points ago +12 / -0

The thing about movies 3, 4, and 6 was this:

Nimoy had some control over all three. He directed 3 & 4, and for 6 he was behind the story (with Konner and Rosenthal of "Planet of the Apes" fame). And Meyer was friends with Nimoy since his contributions on 2 and 4.

In the aftermath of Roddenberry's disengagement from the franchise, you had two camps of thought with the ability to produce material for the franchise. The Nimoy-Bennett-Meyer group, and the Berman-Piller-Taylor group. And the two didn't get along all that well. They came from very different traditions, and the Berman group was very much "THE BERMAN SHOW (and you're just living in it)".

Now, Berman did understand that Nimoy was better at making MOVIES, where you only get two hours and you cannot afford the script to be a dud. So he called in Nimoy for Generations; Spock one look at the script, told him it was a dud and that it needed a total rewrite, and Berman told him to GTFO.

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Piroko 15 points ago +17 / -2

Graphical tech has reached the point where additional performance doesn't translate into superior visual experience.

Consider the PS4. Because of it's architectural similarities to the PS5, it's entirely practical for companies to target both systems for release, and many are doing so. The PS2 existed alongside the PS3 for many years but it was never in competition with the PS3; but the PS4 will probably remain in direct competition with the PS5 for the entirety of the PS5's lifecycle.

Microsoft for their part let the xBox brand fall apart by, ironically, making the same mistake Apple did in the 90's, with a big, confusing lineup of offerings that overwhelms the consumer with choices.

And Nintendo... is Nintendo. They'll survive simply by understanding the JP market better than anyone else.

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Piroko 3 points ago +3 / -0

But there's still one title out there that still remembers what anime is really supposed to be about...

Dengeki Oshioki Musume Gautaman

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Piroko 5 points ago +5 / -0

then we cut taxes on the rich, and the middle class died

This is true, and, the middle class would have died a lot faster if we hadn't cut corporate taxes.

We were running taxes at a level that could only be sustained as long as Europe and Asia were literally on fire.

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Piroko 5 points ago +5 / -0

Dudebros had nothing to do with games brah.

Too busy doin biznaz brah.

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Piroko 9 points ago +9 / -0

the hardest game ever

What, you don't remember the part in Star Wars where Luke killed all the jawas to save R2?

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Piroko 3 points ago +3 / -0

Definitionally it didn't used to exist.

I think it was wise of the government historically to treat marriage as a black box it did not peek into. That as long as people did not want a divorce, however they made a relationship work (healthy or otherwise), authority paid it no mind.

Most dysfunctional or abusive relationships are not one-sided, but rather codependent. Which is why quite a few spouses IN such relationships don't necessarily pursue divorce.

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Piroko 1 point ago +1 / -0

(Kosh voice): You do not understand. Listen to the music, not the song.

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Piroko 2 points ago +3 / -1

If that's your objective, why is it such a big ask for you to kneel to god five times a day?

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Piroko 1 point ago +1 / -0

Possible but really unlikely. This is in the middle of a 7 game road trip. If they were playing LA on the 4th then maybe he'd come out, but the 4th is at the Rockies. He didn't even go to Fenway last week.

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Piroko 3 points ago +3 / -0

Against the Brewers

I read this, and the first thing that comes to mind...

"Usinger's sausages, it's not baseball without it." - Bob Uecker

Fortunately it's a road game so it'll be Grindle & Maurer.

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Piroko 49 points ago +49 / -0

If you can successfully operate a studio somewhere like Eastern Europe or South-East Asia rather than in Los Angeles or London, you can bring down development costs significantly – at least in theory.

They hate us that much. They won't even consider opening a studio in Wausau, Fort Dodge, or Albert Lea. They're like "Whelp, we can't be in Hollywood so let's move to fucking Poland."

They'd rather be dead than live in the midwest.

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Piroko 4 points ago +4 / -0

It IS a joke. But it's also very real.

Biden's $300 million dollar supply pier got hammered by rough seas yesterday. Four boats were moored to it at the time and are now beached pretty badly.

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Piroko 8 points ago +8 / -0

Some serious "well there's your problem" energy here.

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Piroko 4 points ago +4 / -0

"We'll probably just shoot the ground around you to make you scared, and then you'll jump in your truck and speed off, hit somethin and do a wicked flip through the air."

"Well that would kill us."

"No no, you guys will just roll out of the vehicle and dust yourselves off and lumber back to your hideout defeated."

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Piroko 7 points ago +7 / -0

I'm against the modship of anyone who asks to be a mod.

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