Board 8 > Jim Sterling's Top Ten Shittiest Games of 2020

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We had this debate just a few days ago..no idea how you have the strength to get into that again, I am still on cooldown
But good job fighting the good fight

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UltimaterializerX posted...

Read how dumb posts 46 and 47 look. It is completely grammatically incorrect and you will never convince people otherwise.

a significant enough amount of people say irregardless that dictionaries had to start including it. People dont give a shit about correctness, you can convince them of anything. inevitably as the old people who are resistant to singular they die off, it will become a completely normal and uncontroversial part of our language.

Youll either get over it or become the weirdo who cant stop clinging to some bullshit no one cares about.
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MoogleKupo141 posted...

a significant enough amount of people say irregardless that dictionaries had to start including it. People dont give a shit about correctness, you can convince them of anything. inevitably as the old people who are resistant to singular they die off, it will become a completely normal and uncontroversial part of our language.

Youll either get over it or become the weirdo who cant stop clinging to some bullshit no one cares about.

Not every change is a good change
Some people want to keep using stuff they are familiar with and hate change

And who the fuck are you to tell them it's wrong?
Like there is the "Harry Styles" fiasco, and people go all "clothes don't have genders" and call for "everyone can wear everything they want"
Which is fine

But wishing for social norms to be like they were and dress codes is "not fine"? yeah, way to go. Who do you think you are the write the narrative?


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Me, literally every time Ulti posts some shit you can disprove in 2 seconds of Google from now on:

They clearly dont know what theyre talking about.

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who?

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Nanis23 posted...

Not every change is a good change
Some people want to keep using stuff they are familiar with and hate change

And who the fuck are you to tell them it's wrong?
Like there is the "Harry Styles" fiasco, and people go all "clothes don't have genders" and call for "everyone can wear everything they want"
Which is fine

But wishing for social norms to be like they were and dress codes is "not fine"? yeah, way to go. Who do you think you are the write the narrative?

Im no one, Im not making a value judgement in my post about whether any of this is good or bad, Im just saying its done. The guy arguing about singular they is like the Japanese soldier on some island in 1950 who still thinks the war is happening.

but heres what Ill say to your point.

Like there is the "Harry Styles" fiasco, and people go all "clothes don't have genders" and call for "everyone can wear everything they want"
Which is fine

But wishing for social norms to be like they were and dress codes is "not fine

yes. The first group of people is saying do what you want, the second group wants to control other peoples behavior which isnt their business.

Dont like change? Great, dont change. No ones making you put on a dress.

Men used to wear suits all the time, now were super casual. Women couldnt wear pants, now they can. Some people probably complained for way too long when people stopped wearing powdered wigs. whens the last time you saw a powdered wig?

history has shown that youre not actually going to stop the change, so you may as well get over it now.
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Lets see what the Oxford English Dictionary has to say about singular they.

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/

Well, would you look at that. Singular they predates Shakespeare by a couple centuries.

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It's absolutely caught on. I will use "they" as a singular to refer to someone if I don't know their gender.

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UltimaterializerX posted...

Most people understand how grammar works.

Doubt

UltimaterializerX posted...

Youre talking about popular use, which definitely happens in English. You are correct.

Its the exact reason they as a pronoun for a singular human being has no chance of catching on. Most people understand how grammar works.

lol no they dont

and theres nothing grammatically wrong with the singular they because it has been defined as a singular pronoun. Legitimate dictionaries include the singular use of they.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/why-did-we-stop-using-thou

youre like a guy in 1680 who refuses to refer to a single person as you. 200 years from now people will consider your complaints as silly as we consider thou. Youre free to keep resisting it, but youre an old man yelling at a cloud.
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Who's Jim Sterling?

Some British game game reviewer? I haven't heard from him in ages.

Weren't there like 5 games released in 2020?

Hey peeps, a reminder that blocking Ulti is the hip and cool thing to do for your sanity. He's a completely worthless existence who is incapable of not being a total piece of garbage. Any lingering attachment you have to an Ulti of 15 years ago should be let go just like any fondness you may have had for The Cosby Show.

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PrestonWheee posted...

Who's Jim Sterling?

Some British game game reviewer? I haven't heard from him in ages.

Weren't there like 5 games released in 2020?

why did you ask who Jim is and then display a knowledge of who Jim is
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To be clear, predates Shakespeare by a couple centuries, was just a cool line to drop the mic on. Anyone who bothers to read that blog post in its entirety will find the objections to singular they thoroughly debunked.

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Pretty much. This isn't a case similar to when some people argued "google isn't a word" a decade ago or even all the other words people were trying to use to specify a non-gendered person. Anyone fighting this is either uneducated on the subject or has ulterior motives.

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as with the last time this topic came up it's always incredibly bizarre how people are so adamant at just being wrong, insisting on strict rules that don't even exist

nobody even likes a pedant so why you trying and failing lmao

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Singular they is grammatically fine, but there are times when it can sound stilted. especially when the subjects gender is known and theyre in close proximity (physically or figuratively)

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DeepsPraw posted...

subjects gender is known

The problem is that some people don't want you to think like that

Have you ever heard about "did you just assume their gender"

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UshiromiyaEva is suspended for what he wrote about Ulti
This is like the first time ever I am actually respecting the mods

I don't understand what makes you think you can talk like that about a person. I hate you yet I would never say those things about you. And not about anyone else here.
It seems like if you think that people are "garbage" it means you can disrepect them and spit on them.
Why does the radical left think this is ok? "radical right" people are still people and not the monsters you think they are

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Actually the suspension was for having ACAB in my signature, they apparently did not care about the Ulti stuff.

I will also never stop talking shit about Ulti nor will I change my sig.

Ulti is a terrible person, people should block him.

Nanis23 posted...

The problem is that some people don't want you to think like that

Have you ever heard about "did you just assume their gender"

did you just assume their gender is a right wing meme.
Its very uncommon as a legitimate complaint. People are much more likely to just gently correct you if you get someones gender wrong.
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MichelBollinger posted...

Actually the suspension was for having ACAB in my signature, they apparently did not care about the Ulti stuff.

I will also never stop talking shit about Ulti nor will I change my sig.

Ulti is a terrible person, people should block him.

WTF lol
But you had it for months

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I just assume I was marked by Ulti after he logged into an unblocked account to see the post, as he often does, and someone who doesn't like the sig saw it.

That's actually really funny. If i put "anyone who chooses to partake in a profession that regularly gets away with murdering children and gassing innocent and peaceful protestors is a bad person," would i also get suspended?

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can confirm that i bought more than 5 releases from this year

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Perhaps Preston is thinking of movies released in theaters.

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PrestonWheee posted...

Weren't there like 5 games released in 2020?

We get it, you don't buy new releases right away

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