chocosoldier

It's all too common when anti-phrenology people don't understand phreno101.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=dU8VPQsTqFU

oh look yet another warmed over "DAE the kids r bad" talking point that i've been hearing literally since i learned language.

Dude Socrates was convinced that reading and writing would ruin everyone's memory who grew up with it. Whining about somehow handicapping the next generation by making them "too dependent on technology" or whatever and couching it in reasonable-sounding terms is as old as language, and time always makes fools of those who indulge in that sort of masturbatory delusion. You're just jealous we had cooler toys, own it.

edit: replied to wrong user

"Gifted" education in the US means they burn us out with weird "critical thinking" extracirriculars and then berate us when the senioritis hits two years early.

I transferred schools in the middle of 10th grade, and the new Algebra class I landed in was several chapters ahead. I never caught up, but the teacher passed anyone who turned in literally anything for homework so I did that.

Now in my 30's I'm getting into indie game design, and I need that gap filled so I can write the code I need. So I went to the local thrift shop and picked up a couple old textbooks (since it's safe to assume that nothing groundbreaking has happened in the field of basic algebra in the past twenty years) for fifty cents and I've been working my way through them. I don't understand everything that's happening, but I'm pushing ahead with the faith that somewhere along the line things will "click".

who the hell calls rugby "rugger"? that's even worse than "soccer".

1. This is foosball.

2. The sport with the egg is "gridiron football", we call it "football" for short for the same reason other countries call association football "football" for short, it's the most popular variant here.

3. We don't call it "American football" because that's not what it's called, you lot say that because of point 2. Nobody is going to say "European football" because that's not what it's called either.

4. The word "soccer" was imported from the UK (seriously that word is british as hell, you really think we came up with that shit?), and we use it for reasons outlined in points 2 and 3, and also because "european football" is inaccurate, tiresome, and stupid sounding.

~~5. This is the first and only time I've ever heard of rugby union football being referred to as "ruggers", I never thought I'd read a dumber-sounding word than soccer but you're just full of surprises today.~~ For some reason i was imagining one of the replies was the same person, this was in error.

i find that people who cry about this-or-that is destroying humor or whatever, are pretty much universally bad at being funny. maybe up your game and stop blaming punctuation.

yes.

~~For the curious, the image is from the movie Automata starring Antonio Banderas, which is more or less an extrapolation of I, Robot's premises in a PK Dick style post-apocalyptic setting. Worth watching IMO.~~ wait nvm i looked again and it's K2SO lol im high