I unironically think that Xenoblade X has the best open world of any game to date.

I mean, this is just false though. They're incredibly engaging, well-written, and quite funny to boot (except maybe the Silver Chair and the Last Battle). I can't wait for my kid to be old enough to read them for the first time.

Taylor Swift. Utterly mediocre pop music somehow gets her a billion dollars and the undying loyalty of like half the US population. If that isn't some genie shit I don't know what is.

This kinda stuff is exactly why I finally sold my four-decade collection for $20k and just play everything on emulator with filters now.

And then they have the gall to point to sales of physical media being down.

Like, if you make your physical media shit on purpose, you can't use that to support your argument for digital-only distrubition. It's actually infuriating.

I start at 15%, and for everything notably good I go up 1%, and for every bad thing I go down 1%. I've been as high as like 27%, and as low as zero.

This way I'm always happy - I either get good service or I save money.

So much badlinguistics in this thread I don't even know where to start.

Not OP, but my wife and I were incredibly disappointed by Interstellar after seeing how much praise it got.

SPOILERS BELOW!!!

First off, the pacing was waaay too fast. I felt like I was getting whiplash from how they spent like five minutes in each location. I hear people complaining about the long runtime (like the other comment that was just posted, lol), but I have exactly the opposite problem - I think this movie really needed like four hours to do everything they tried to do right.

The biggest failing for us, though, was how ridiculously terrible and inaccurate the science was, from start to finish. From little things like needing a full multi-stage booster system to break earth's gravity, but being able to effortlessly jet off the ocean planet with no help, to absolutely bonkers ridiculous stuff like just casually going beyond an event horizon without getting spaghettified in the process.

So yeah, valiant attempt, a couple of really cool story ideas, and some good (but overrated) cinematography, but, while I wouldn't go so far as to say I hated Interstellar, I would absolutely say that I didn't like it, and that it was actively painful to watch.

This but unironically.

Yoiks! And away!

They may be talking about how the English translation is, for some reason, "The princess is your...", while the Japanese is basically the opposite: "You are the princess'..."

I assume Link's uncle's full line would be "You are the princess' only hope", but that won't work with the wonky English translation, and instead it makes it sound like she's your sister or something.

Maybe they were going for "The princess is your responsibility now"?

This grammatical line and the completely nonsensical line "Around the survivors, a perimeter, create" can both be explained by the fact that these are both imperative (command) sentences, and that doesn't work for the syntax they tried to give Yoda in the prequels.

In the OT, Yoda's syntax (word order/sentence structure) was all over the place, with varying degrees of grammaticality, but in the prequels for some reason they decided to standardize his nonstandardness to "move the main verb and anything that follows to the beginning of the sentence, adding 'do/does' if necessary" (VP-fronting with dummy-do support where necessary, in linguistic terms). This is at least marginally grammatical for most speakers, but heavily marked, making this way of speaking stand out.

In the vast majority of English sentences, this leaves the subject and any modals/auxiliaries ("helping verbs") stranded at the end of the sentence. Give (most of) Yoda's (prequel) sentences their idiosyncratic flair, this does.

Imperatives in English, however, are characterized by the fact that they have implicit (unstated) subjects and no modals/auxiliaries. This means that there's no way to tell if the VP has been fronted, because the verb would occur at the beginning of the sentence anyway.

There are a few ways to fix this: 1) Just have Yoda say the sentence normally, as happened here, 2) Come up with something that is completely ungrammatical in English, as in the second example above, or 3) Never have Yoda use an imperative, and instead only have him use exhortative constructions like "We must...", which they often do throughout the prequels.

Basically, because of how they standardized Yoda's syntax in the prequels, there is effectively no way of getting a true imperative in English that both a) shows a nonstandard word order and b) is not complete word salad.

Source: I wrote a paper on Yoda's syntax in grad school.

Fuck Jensen and his shitty jackets.

No, that's an IED. You're thinking of efforts to ensure that marginalized people aren't discriminated against.

You know what? I'm gonna not buy it even harder.

This is just an old copypasta. Hardly worthy of BestOf.

My dumb ass pronouncing it "onionized" when I read it.

Wow, I didn't even know that it was illegal to say "Anti-Fascist"!

Chairman Pao being brought on to take the fall for accelerating Reddit's downfall.

I see you know your judo well.