stevedice
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- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 9 hours ago:
A couple of figures of speech from Mexico that I find equally nonsensical:
Simón: Means yes.
Nelson: Means no.
Mátala(o) (kill it): to finish a drink or a snack.
Jalar (pull): To go somewhere or agree to a plan. You may also hear its long form “¿jalas o te pandeas?” (do you pull or do you bend?) meaning “are you coming or not?”.
¿Se va hacer o no se va a hacer la carnita asada? (Are we doing or not the carne asada?): It means “Is the plan still on?”
Chapulinear: There’s no literal translation for this one but I guess it would be like “grasshopper-ing”. It means seducing a friend’s partner.
Tirando el perro (throwing the dog): Flirting.
Arma la vaca (build the cow): To make a small fundraise.
Here’s a modern one:
Quesadilla: Means “that’s so sad” because it sounds like *Qué sad (illa)*tal
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 1 week ago:
Troubleshooting Simulator. Hopefully, Far Cry 3 a couple of hours from now.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 cranks the bandwidth to 96Gbps and aims to eliminate audio sync issues forever 4 weeks ago:
It is, but I’m just ranting about what I want so I’m allowed to ask for fairy dust and tasty sugar-free candy.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 cranks the bandwidth to 96Gbps and aims to eliminate audio sync issues forever 4 weeks ago:
I mean, sure, but we’re assuming they’d have to be truthful.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 cranks the bandwidth to 96Gbps and aims to eliminate audio sync issues forever 4 weeks ago:
Seems like you got a perfect is the enemy of good kinda situation going on.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 cranks the bandwidth to 96Gbps and aims to eliminate audio sync issues forever 4 weeks ago:
Perfectly content with 4K120
Come on. You say it like it’s a compromise.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 cranks the bandwidth to 96Gbps and aims to eliminate audio sync issues forever 4 weeks ago:
Can someone force cable manufacturers to print the bandwidth or at least the version on the fucking cable already?!
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 4 weeks ago:
Those responses are not because OP doesn’t like smartphones, they’re because people correctly called out his disingenuous bullshit. Imagine I make a post saying I can’t think of a single way tractors have improved my life. People tell me all the ways tractors have improved everybody’s lives and I go “well, I buy my vegetables from the supermarket so tractors are still useless to me”. I’m basically announcing I’m not interested in having a good faith conversation and am just here to be antagonistic. People don’t like that.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Hats off to you for being brave enough to play Dragon Age on a handheld, sir.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Mad Max. I’ve only played for like an hour but it’s been pretty good so far. Reminds me a lot to the Arkham games. I think it’s on sale for another 30 minutes.
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 4 weeks ago:
Getting downvoted isn’t getting piled on, it just means that people disagree with your post and OP made several antagonistic posts; of course people are gonna disagree. You’re seeing violence where there is none.
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 4 weeks ago:
Hostility doesn’t have to be rude, just antagonistic. OP is dismissing everybody’s valid points and just flat-out ignoring a bunch of them when it doesn’t suit his preconceived point of view. That’s literally the definition of antagonistic.
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 5 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I had it in my wishlist for years but literally nobody talks about it so I never bought it. I only did it because I was about to buy BG3 and told myself “Hey, for the price of BG3, I could buy these other 5 games”. Turns out it’s very fucking good.
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 5 weeks ago:
No. Being overly hostile against smartphones because you don’t do much in your life is having a low-effort life. You’re basically saying soap is useless because you don’t shower.
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 5 weeks ago:
Do portable GPS also have a list of every single business near my location?
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 5 weeks ago:
Do you never leave your house?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
Just picked up Ghostrunner for $9 on GOG. Really fun and it’s a game you can play for like half an hour at a time, which is not very common these days.
- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 1 month ago:
Grezzo 2
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations? 1 month ago:
lol, yeah. The animators definitely have a kink. They’re still pretty fun games, though.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations? 1 month ago:
Can someone recommend some good 3-player games? Already bought Aliens: FE and I’m sick of Apex and DOOM.
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 1 month ago:
Wait, you can refund your kid?!
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 1 month ago:
You receive a call from an unknown number and they tell you they’ve kidnapped your wife. They then give her the phone so you can hear her but she didn’t do it through Signal so she’s obviously not your wife so you just hang up.
- Comment on Bi-weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 1 month ago:
Oh, God. I started Kingdom Come Deliverance a couple of years ago and spoke to a girl in the starting farm which, apparently, is how you trigger the DLC. I finished the whole thing thinking it was just a long mission and ended up with her becoming a badass only to be thrown back to the main game back in the body of the useless kid and haven’t touched it ever since.
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 2 months ago:
Coding is the one who damages the soul. Obviously.