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  • Nelots@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldNeil A.
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    11 days ago

    I agree that we seem to use language differently, and it’s pretty interesting to see. Both of us have been upvoted by at least one or two other people as well, so it seems some people agree with you and some with me despite our completely different takes, so I don’t think either of us are really wrong.


  • Nelots@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldNeil A.
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    10 days ago

    According to the dictionary, ‘is’ and ‘was’ are respectively a present and past tense singular of the word ‘be’. The definition of the word ‘be’ (or at least, the one I find relevant here), is “having the state, quality, identity, nature, role, etc., specified”. This seems like a significantly more important part of the sentence to be emphasizing here.

    On the moon he is the alien.

    As opposed to who? I still just can’t understand why you would emphasize ‘he’, when there are no other subjects that we could be talking about. Like, obviously we’re talking about Neil, so why would you put emphasis on it? On the other hand, the fact that he actually ‘is/was’ an alien is pretty surprising to think about and thus the important bit. That is to say, it makes more sense to emphasize the fact that he is an alien, and not the fact that Neil is the subject.


  • Nelots@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldNeil A.
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    11 days ago

    The emphasis is not being placed on was because it’s past tense, it’s being placed on was because the shitpost is ironically somewhat accurate. You can replace it with is if you’d like for the same meaning. On the other hand, everyone knows we’re talking about Neil as there is no other relevant subject, so bringing attention to the word he doesn’t really make any sense.

    Perhaps it would read better if they had said “…he actually was an alien”?





  • Nelots@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRogan rule
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    14 days ago

    I can’t tell if I’m tired and missing your point, or if you misunderstood me.

    I am specifically referring to inmate-on-inmate SA. As prisons are typically segregated by gender, the offender and victims would both be female in this case. Guard-on-inmate SA on the other hand is mostly male offenders as one might unfortunately expect.






  • Nelots@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBalatro Rule
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    11 months ago

    It’s a procedurally generated perma-death deck builder, where the only thing you unlock after death are new decks (which are essentially this game’s characters, of which I believe there are 10) and harder difficulties for each deck. You complete short 15-ish minute runs, where the only thing that makes the game easier is your own skill as you get better.

    Sounds like a roguelike/lite to me.