"Robinson"!?!
I'm sorry but you're going to have to hand in your passport.
It is a pretty cool name, honestly
Yeah my name is Link man,
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I'm more well known than Lil' Wayne
What's that? You thought my name was Zelda?
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That's a fucking girl's name!
I've saved the world like fifteen times,
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And saved the princess from demise
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And I do it all alone with no help and no advice!
(Hey, look, listen!
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Hey, look, listen, you _ annoying fairy!
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I'd rather be forced to listen to constant Katy Perry.)
I'm called the Bushwhacker
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And my bank account's maxed.
Got 999 rupees,
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But I'm forced to pay out the ass for these bombs in Castle Town.
So I can kick that dumbass Ganon
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All the way to Argentina!
L to the I to the N to the K, and he ain't gonna stop 'till the world is free of evil.
Legend of Zelda? Fuck that! Legend of Link!
Credit (and blame) to Smosh. By the way, while we're at it, can someone lend me their tomahawk, or maybe some meat in my mouth? Also, who's Evil Kneivel?
I suppose it would melt/refreeze the surface, and basically turn them into badass armoured snowpeople.
Why would they want you to have a working program? How does that help sell you more stuff?
Ideally you duct-tape a grenade to each of your "decoys" so it doesn't really matter either way which target they choose to prioritize
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Hey, would you look at that? This Lemmy thread is on the first page of Google search results about this.
forced to register as a sex offender under some American laws.
the GOP would have to have feel shame and/or have honor to hold her accountable.
…Has the state of New Rome/South Ontario deteriorated to such an extent that your political parties now have direct executive control or veto over the executive aspects of law enforcement?
Welcome to Cascadia, land of trees, salmon, and hydroelectric dams.
Sympathize with their plight if you find doing so worthwhile, but also recognize their response isn't helping.
Maybe they're just a fan of death?
…Or maybe they mean threatening death itself— As in, like "Stop killing my friends, Death, that's really not cool, and I'm going to start stealing your Death-beers from your Death-fridge if you don't stop".
That just redirects to thread 16j21jg. They're generating opaque unique IDs so they can track permalinks now?
as with all things, eventually runs out.
Nah. Cats are exempt from the first and second laws of thermodynamics, I'm pretty sure. They can just conjure more resources and more luck into existence at will. It's why the ancient Egyptians worshipped them so much.
Bruh. I offered a polite correction on an ultimately inconsequential grammatical error you made. You're the one who doubled down on the error, and then continued doubling down while ignoring everything I said except for specific sentences which you clearly didn't understand.
"Spewing out ChatGPT levels of text"? WTF is that even supposed to mean? I just quickly explained the grammar at first. Then, when you didn't get that, I elaborated on the reasoning for it, and linked to like, five different independent sources, instead of just making blanket assertions. You didn't understand, so I explained— Jeez, but that's the real issue, isn't it? You don't seem to like that very much.
This is so stupid. Does it even matter? Do you do anything other than moralize down at Internet strangers about petty and incorrect semantics while repeating yourself?
If I was saying that the change already happened I would have said ‘affectED’ past tense, which I did not.
I’m advocating for something to cause change, I’m not saying that change is already in the middle of happening or has happened.
Oh my god. You're using "change" as an object noun after a transitive verb which itself has no connotation or denotation of creation or causation. That implicitly means you're saying that the thing it's referring to must already exist.
I’m advocating for something to cause change,
Yes! That is what "effect" means.
I’m not saying that change is already in the middle of happening or has happened.
Yes you are! "Affect (v.)" already means "change (v.)". "Affect (v.) change (n.)" means "change (v.) the change (n.)". That implies that the "change (n.)" must already exist.
It's like if I said "This salt will really affect my spaghetti". That implicitly says/presumes that "my spaghetti" already exists, or else it wouldn't be able to be affected.
I stand by my usage of the word affect, over effect.
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FFS, I explained the grammatical reasoning, and linked to historical usage data, and linked to four different dictionaries to back that up.
You know what, fuck it. I only mentioned "effect" vs. "affect" because I thought that was somewhat interesting and more obscure rather than annoying to point out, but if you're going to just be obtuse about it I may as well have some fun and point out the various other grammatical and semantic mistakes too…
"The Congress app" should not have a definite article because the app you linked to is, per the app ID, developer info, and first line of its description, unofficial and unaffiliated with the U.S. Congress. "Representative" should be plural, though that's probably just a typo. The second "despite" should have a conjunction such as "and" immediately before it. "Want" should be conjugated as "wants" after "citizenry", because the noun it applies to in this case is the singular "majority". "Affect" should be "effect", because "affect change" isn't a thing and is actually nonsense. The clause right after that, beginning with "that's what the corporations", is a run-on sentence and should probably be fixed with a conjunction denoting causality or reasoning. The clause after "involved" is also a run-on sentence, and should probably either be its own declarative statement or be semicolon-delimited. The third "to" on the second sentence of your next reply needs a listing conjunction right before it. And in your latest reply, the clause after "cause change" is also a run-on sentence and should probably be delimited by either a full stop or a semicolon instead of a comma.
Now I suppose I'll wait for you to explain why you "stand by" these other plainly incorrect (and, frankly, inconsequential) errors as well.
It's funny how you started out pretending to champion political change, and to be against frivolously "commenting about it on an Internet forum". … I should know better.
It turned out to be nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls in what was described as the country’s gold find of the century.
Huh. I knew gold is one of the few metals that you can find in pure elemental form in the Earth's crust, but I had no idea it was already forged into pendants and jewelry and stuff! Geology really is fascinating.
Change is to alter something, not to create/produce something.
It's a transitive verb. "Affect change" places "change" as the object. You're not saying you're altering the political situation or you're altering Congress; You're saying the change is already happening, and you're merely slightly altering its direction. "Effect change" means "Make a change", which is what you're trying to say. "Affect change" means "change the change", which is probably nonsensical in most cases you'd use it.
Also, "effect change" specifically is a standard idiom. "Effect change" shows up in the English language around 8X more commonly than "affect change" between 1800 and 2000, because "affect change" is a semantically incorrect misspelling of "effect change". [1] "Effect a change" is also either explicitly defined in or given as an example usage in many major dictionaries, while the same isn't true of "affect change", because, again "affect change" is a generally incorrect usage that doesn't actually make sense or mean anything outside of potentially very specific scenarios that don't apply here. [2]
2: Defined in Collins. Used in example sentences by: Cambridge, Webster, American Heritage
I stand by my usage of the word affect, over effect.
I mean. Feel free to, I guess?
only way to affect change is to lobby
Don't want to be pedantic, but not American and don't really have much else to add here.
This is one of the few times when the correct word is "effect", not "affect". "Affect (v.)" means to alter, or have an impact on. "Effect (v.)" means to produce, and to create an effect (n.) of.
…Widespread knowledge of LLM fallibility should be a recent enough cultural phenomenon that it's not in the GPT training sets? Also, that comment didn't even mention mushrooms. I assume you fed it your own description of the conversational context?