Live and Love under Patooties' peculiar light
Literally name ONE thing that’s better than a dog
Two dogs
SHIT U RIGHT
And what about 3 dogs
H…..holy f….fukc?????? Ur blowing my m ind.????
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An Open Letter to Everyone in My Generation and Younger
The word you’re looking for is “fanbase,” not “fandom.”
Thank you.
Sincerely,
A petty Grammar Nazi
Things heating up in the grammer fandom
Someone else pointed out that Fandom is a perfectly cromulent word. In fact, Merriam shows it’s in the bottom 40%, and was made in 1903. Fanbase, however, is in the bottom 10% and no date listed. So if anything, fanbase is the ‘fake’ word.
I myself use the two words to mean two different things. A fanbase is what an artist or company can rely upon as a source of income. A fandom is a culture of fans that are interested in a particular subject, but may or may not be a fanbase of any one particular company. Beliebers are a fanbase because they are devoted to giving him money. Punk rockers are in a fandom because its members may be creators instead of simply buyers, and the buyers support no one specific content creator.
The MLP fanbase are people who consistently buy Hasbro merchandise. But the MLP fandom may have people with OCs or webcomic makers who never once bought the actual toys.
Nightguard embiggens the explanation.
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This is why we need Multivac
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Revolutionary changes in Pokémon games through the ages, in no particular order:
- Physical-Special move division
- The various EV training facilitators
- Wireless communications and Internet connection
- Hypertraining
- HM Emancipation
- Quick-use Repel
- Move Tutors
- Type effectiveness indicators
- Mega Evolution and Z Energy
- Trainer customization
What is yet to come:
- Skippable tutorials
- Circumstantial auto-save
@gearholder don’t we have circumstantial auto-savin? I mean we don’t have it before stuff like legendaries, but it happens automatically after beating the champion doesn’t it?
That is critical auto-saving, since the game requires it to operate accordingly.
Circumstantial would be an optional setting that you can turn on and off and happens right before a gym battle or legendary encounter. Something in a Pre-Boss-Battle fashion, so it would be more of a checkpoint really.
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Reminder
Always have a break with a good KitKat™ bar!
What if I don’t wanna
I don’t fucking know break something else of yours
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Would you like to read a book in which this happens?
It’s one of my all-time favorite books. It’s called Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. He describes it as an “progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable.”
It is written in the form of letters between the citizens of the fictional island of Nollop, an independent nation off the coast of South Carolina and home of Nevin Nollop, who invented the phrase “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.” That phrase is written in tiles over a statue of Nollop in their town square, and when one night a storm causes one of the tiles to fall, the council decides that it’s a sign from Nollop that they are no longer allowed to use that letter, in speech or writing, on pain of progressive punishments including public beating and up to banishment.
Then another tile falls. Then another.
The citizens, who are all very attached to their words and writing, mount a campaign to come up with a phrase that uses all 26 letters but is shorter than Nollop’s, thus proving that he was not divine and negating all the edicts.
Because the novel is told in the form of letters the citizens write, and this is the genius part…the author must also stop using the letters as they fall. So the book gradually stops using letters until at one point I think they’re down to just five.
The resolution literally made me get up and dance around the room.
It’s clever, creative, and a not-really-veiled-at-all parable about monotheistic oligarchy. It’s not a long book, you can read it in an afternoon.
GO READ IT RIGHT NOW.
WOW I want to read that book
Very rarely is there a book that I must read at any cost
This is now one of themNote: locate book
I actually bought this book because of this post and let me tell you, it was a fucking great decision. Besides having a brilliant concept, it’s also so well written that in the beginning you don’t even notice when another letter is removed. There was one part I had to re-read because I couldn’t believe that there wasn’t a single ‘d’ in the last five pages.
Seriously, this book is fantasticI had to read this for high school and I loved it. I have no idea where my copy went though :(
I’ve owned 5 copies of Ella Minnow Pea because the people I’ve loaned it out to have refused to part with it, ha. Ended up investing in a copy for the Kindle where it’ll always be safe. But yes, it is a very cleverly written book!
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Revolutionary changes in Pokémon games through the ages, in no particular order:
- Physical-Special move division
- The various EV training facilitators
- Wireless communications and Internet connection
- Hypertraining
- HM Emancipation
- Quick-use Repel
- Move Tutors
- Type effectiveness indicators
- Mega Evolution and Z Energy
- Trainer customization
What is yet to come:
- Skippable tutorials
- Circumstantial auto-save
