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Well, if we are doing nitpicking, then let me put my twocentsgrosh: The word city itself in English language generally means a large settlement, with modern threshold usually being considered at around 100.000 citizens or more (or any settlement with its own cathedral in UK). If it is less than 100k, it's more likely to be considered a town, though the USA's legal definition of what is and what is not a city might be different and might vary by state...What's hilarious is that I was *just* complaining about this on our trip -- possibly even to LordSynos, but more likely some poor random Brit on a train: In the U.K., there are concrete definitions of cities, towns, villages and the like. All based on the size of their churches, but still, at least a consistent definition.
I liked finding the very first definition for California: "In California, the words 'city' and 'town' are used interchangeably," and basically all you need is a charter and you're a city.
You can even go here and see that we have FOUR "cities" with populations of under 10.
I think I'm gonna make my house a city! :-P
But there would be no population because NobodysHome!
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Now to attempt a nice, relaxing evening. No rehearsal tonight!
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Oh, I love Albany's history. Surprised Wikipedia got it close to right...
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Oh, I love Albany's history. Surprised Wikipedia got it close to right...
how many people did they have to kill?
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Chrono Cross proved that time travel only leads to problems, even as a result of said "best ever" time traveling in Trigger (which I too adored).
Not only is this a knock on Cross, but given what happenwd with Schala, time vortexes, pocket universes, and more, nothing was actually fixed.
If I'd meant to include Cross, I would've said the Chrono Series, rather than just Trigger.
We ignore Cross for a reason. Lots of reasons, really. Being an incomplete project is the most forgivable of them. (Though the music is amazing. Its existence is tolerable for that, if nothing else.)
Yasunori Mitsuda is a genius that needs Nobuo Uematsu's agent.
It is sheer volume of work that makes mee like Nobuo more; if Yasunori were as prolific I'm sure he'd have the same amount of international symphonies covering his work, but alas, Square seems to have no understanding of what it means to hire a genius more than twice...unless his name is Uematsu, and then they hire him until every game sounds the same.
Pretty much.
Also Yoko Shinomura. Though she's gotten a lot more publicity thanks to Kingdom Hearts admittedly, I still can't ever remove her from my list thanks to her work on the Mana series. The three of them are basically the holy trinity of JRPG music.
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a drunken lie. This is one of the best cases of engrish I have ever seen, only The House Of The Dead 2 comes close. I want my original translation, dammit.Tough. Blame yourselfYou know, if an entire group of VERY senior software engineers is circumventing your security policies, shouldn't you at least question those policies?
*SIGH*
(I just get tired of being barely-informed on IT security, yet still being better-informed than the decision-makers for most IT departments. Most of whom have no background in IT at all, unfortunately.)
So.
Who's fault is this? I just want someone to blame, dammit!
or God.War of the Lions retranslated that for the better.
"Tis your birth and faith that wronged you, not I."
This is how I get about the retranslations of FF6 and CT. Yes I know the Woolsey translation is a tad inaccurate. I don't care. It's still, for the most part, the interpretation I prefer.
Frog/Glenn in CT is easily the biggest culprit. Give me my Frog with thees and thous, it's part of what makes him such a character to remember. His dialogue in the DS remake just comes across as pale in comparison.
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The example I've got to go to for this is the one I was introduced to the concept over: Fahrenheit 451.
** spoiler omitted **
This exact kind of thing is why I keep wanting to replay Pokemon X/Y with a running commentary of why the game depicts Kalos as a well-concealed cultural dystopia in the clothes of a functional society and an Ayn Randian nightmare especially with the villains. I'm fairly sure I could defend the position 100% from the storyline of the game alone. And I'm also fairly sure it's 100% not what Nintendo/GameFreak intended.
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a drunken lie. This is one of the best cases of engrish I have ever seen, only The House Of The Dead 2 comes close. I want my original translation, dammit.Tough. Blame yourselfYou know, if an entire group of VERY senior software engineers is circumventing your security policies, shouldn't you at least question those policies?
*SIGH*
(I just get tired of being barely-informed on IT security, yet still being better-informed than the decision-makers for most IT departments. Most of whom have no background in IT at all, unfortunately.)
So.
Who's fault is this? I just want someone to blame, dammit!
or God.War of the Lions retranslated that for the better.
"Tis your birth and faith that wronged you, not I."
This is how I get about the retranslations of FF6 and CT. Yes I know the Woolsey translation is a tad inaccurate. I don't care. It's still, for the most part, the interpretation I prefer.
Frog/Glenn in CT is easily the biggest culprit. Give me my Frog with thees and thous, it's part of what makes him such a character to remember. His dialogue in the DS remake just comes across as pale in comparison.
I am blasting a remix of his music in his honor. SLURP SLASH FOREVER!
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My therapist thinks I should go to law school.
He brought it up when we were discussing the possibilities of if I was misdiagnosed with bp type 2, and am maybe just drug resistant severely depressed, as I at most get hypomanic and uncommonly at that. (Technically that IS bp2, but EVERYONE has stupid moments where they act without foresight, let their id run wild, and regret the results. Considering I've never done hard drugs, cheated on a partner, or anything else like that during my ups, I tend to question the diagnosis of late. Plus...I haven't taken my meds for about two weeks due to initially a medicaid issue and now just because I feel BETTER without them.)
I talked about previous docs thinking I had Aspergers due to my obsession with rules, honesty, etc, my nigh-unto-but-not-quite-perfect eidedic memory, my inability to let go when I know I'm right about something, and my social difficulties where people think I'm an ass even when I'm trying to be nice. Then I was severely sarcastic with said doctor to prove him wrong. (Asp usualy makes sarcasm difficult to understand.)
It was only recently I learned there were other high functioning spectrum folk, that depression was highly comorbid, and that one can learn to deal with this stuff through study. Like for example... getting your BS in Psychology in an attempt to understand why EVERYONE IS WEIRD BUT ME as I did.
(I get people's motivations now, even if they seem stupid. It's the root for THOSE motivations that are a mystery now. So you beat your kid because it's what you learned...but don't you love your kid and remember how it physically hurt you? So you drink cause your dad did, my own damn brother, but how did you not see what it did to him? Etc. I am told this is "being human" which I ultimately haven't felt socially a part of since I was ten.)
Anyway these things he pointed out can be strengths in the right areas, which lead to the whole lawyer shebang.
Lawyer was my childhood dream job. Get paid to argue and not back down when I know I'm right? Hell yeah! Get paid to use the system to scream at the man about how the system sucks? Hell yeah!
But as I got older I learned I hate the educational industry, for reasons summarized in the past page by many of you, and that I hated society and it's stupid rules on formality, and purposefully got extremely visible tattooes to force myself to never be able to work a white collar job again. Nobody who requires a tie will hire a man with hand tattooes.
While I feel with my research, writing, debate and other skills, along with my life story being an easy shot at acceptance into OU here in town should I decide this path, I don't like working for an ultimately futile effort.
I am a rebel by my entire nature. I would wear a tie that has "ties are stupid" embroidered in it into a courtroom if a judge ordered me to be formal. My Cousin Vinnie would look like Mr Burn's lawyer next to me.
So I ask my friends here for advice in this regard. My path otherwise has been formation of a plan for a comedy club here in town. I adore standup quite passionately and despite there being like 14 bars and 5 pizza joints by campus, there is no comedy. One can do open mic music and poetry in any number of locales, but nowhere to crack jokes.
Ah...the curse of a jack of all trades.
Damnit.
I'm a bard with perform oratory and comedy.
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Yeah...I've been down that road before. It's a large part in why I refuse to grade based on my agreement or disagreement, just whether they've backed up their claim. My ego is not dependent on whether or not a kid liked or disliked Gatsby.
A protaginist who is a lying privelaged philanderer. I hope the Scint opinion is "disliked". That book was an assignment to me in high school. I read about half, hated the writing style, wanted to kick Gatsby in the dingus, and decided not to finish. Got a B on the test because it's such generically written trite I could b&@*~*#@ the answers based on other novels.
The same teacher introduced me to The Naked Detective novel series, though, so he gets a pass.
Uh. A post I really thought I'd posted isn't here. WELP
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I've been driving a truck to and through a swamp to get to the house on the other side all day, 12 hours.
And now I get home and Crookshanks is crying in the bathroom for some reason.
Is it too late to go back to and through the swamp...
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If it helps, you have my sympathy. It's hard to empathize because I don't have a daughter, but I certainly sympathize!
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Yeah...I've been down that road before. It's a large part in why I refuse to grade based on my agreement or disagreement, just whether they've backed up their claim. My ego is not dependent on whether or not a kid liked or disliked Gatsby.A protaginist who is a lying privelaged philanderer. I hope the Scint opinion is "disliked". That book was an assignment to me in high school. I read about half, hated the writing style, wanted to kick Gatsby in the dingus, and decided not to finish. Got a B on the test because it's such generically written trite I could b@#*!+&~ the answers based on other novels.
The same teacher introduced me to The Naked Detective novel series, though, so he gets a pass.
The Scint opinion is that the best thing about the novel is that the Depression hit about 2-3 years after the story, so we can probably assume the characters who lived went bankrupt and died.
But it's great for working with symbolism!
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how many people did they have to kill?Oh, I love Albany's history. Surprised Wikipedia got it close to right...
We do have a bulb poking into the bay composed entirely of "garbage"...
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I've been driving a truck to and through a swamp to get to the house on the other side all day, 12 hours.
And now I get home and Crookshanks is crying in the bathroom for some reason.
Is it too late to go back to and through the swamp...
Have her call Impus Major. Just tell her, "I hear he's good with depressed kids," and have her tell him that.
It's just one of those "things" with him. Clinically messed-up kids are attracted to him and like to hang out with him. And he has no idea why.
I think it's just having a rock of stability amidst a sea of stupidity. Which is teenagerdom in a nutshell.
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I've finally finished updating my campaign journal for our "just the underwater bits" Azlant game. It's kind of nuts-and-bolts at the moment, though. I'm mostly keeping it because, after 2 1/2 years, I definitely still consider myself a "rookie" GM, and typing up my game notes forces me to be honest with myself about the calls I make with the PC's. It's a little embarrassing, TBH.
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Uh. A post I really thought I'd posted isn't here. WELP
The Post went on a Time Heist™. It should be back any time now.
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Mmm. Now that is some good FFT, right there. :D
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Were you secretly transported to the 70's?
That was a bad sexist joke back in the 70's (possible even 50's) that women would go to college to get their "M.R.S.".
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Being transported to the 70's is a weird thing. While your their pick me up some shag carpeting and tub socks. I have an experiment with static electricity I want to try.
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Tube socks where a thing! although probably not what your thinking of.
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They may also have been a thing. You don't know.
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If you ask the right physicist nothing exists and at the same time also exists so theirs that.
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... Are you that Physicist gran?
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NH, my password is ********.
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No. I'm not a physicist. I'm a philosopher.
... So then you admit you know nothing then!?!
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NH, my password is ********.
Huh.. weird.. mine too.
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Incorrect. I admit that you know nothing and need me to explain it all.No. I'm not a physicist. I'm a philosopher.... So then you admit you know nothing then!?!
A ha So I have tricked you. Socrates said "I know I know nothing" so by your own admission I know more then you. Since you admit to knowing something then you truly know nothing.
Check mate.
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I know.
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I don't know.
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Or do I?
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Maybe.
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Possibly?
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And apparently Sharoth is smarter then all of us.
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Who?
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What?
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Where?
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When?
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How?
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Why?
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