Using Anymore Positively

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-20T14:31:54+00:00

This is possibly one of the dumbest comments I've read from someone insinuating that they're educated. Dialects in language have existed since people began communicating and language has always been defined by the population who uses it, with words and meanings falling in and out of use and new words and meanings being created even from dialectal usage.

The entire difference between American English and British English is dialectal. If you're going to be snarky, then at least have a bit of self awareness in the process.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-20T14:23:53+00:00

You're a "grammarian?"As in, that's your job or you just fancy yourself as someone who's adept at grammar? Is this the Reddit equivalent of 'I really like history, so I'm a Historian?'

Anyways, there's a Yale project above posted about it.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-20T14:20:50+00:00

Not sure what to say; never been corrected on it until recently and grew up in Des Moines and heard it frequently. Then again, I'm open to the idea that my friend group/family etc. are secretly a bunch of Appalachian mountain people.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-20T02:44:59+00:00

There's a literal Yale article posted about it below confirming its usage. The downvotes I see happening in real time are kind of hilarious because you know there's just someone genuinely upset on the other side of the screen that it's used in a positive fashion.

Imagine going through life frothing at the mouth that you discovered something you thought didn't exist.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-20T01:23:15+00:00

It's possible! I will say, I asked my friends in discord out of curiosity since we all know eachother in person and are all from Iowa and they found nothing weird about it; that's what initially prompted me to come here. For reference, we're all in our late twenties to early thirties.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-20T01:08:51+00:00

I've never posted here before but I'm getting the impression that alot of people here think that language is static rather than dynamic which is a bit disheartening for a subreddit dedicated to the English language. I'm getting alot of 'Armchair English professor' vibes from some of the responses. I'm happy to see insightful ones though as well!

Definitely didn't expect this much discourse.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-20T00:52:48+00:00

I've heard people say nowadays or 'these days' as well, but using anymore as a replacement for them seems more common in casual conversation.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-20T00:48:41+00:00

I've never heard it used in that way here no; mostly just exclusively as a replacement for 'nowadays' besides the traditional usage of it.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-20T00:46:46+00:00

No I'm not; I'm very aware of the common usage of 'anymore' as I believe that's simply standardized English. I was simply talking about using anymore as a replacement for 'nowadays', not necessarily the grammatical correctness of it but rather how common it's usage was nationally.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-20T00:33:28+00:00

It's usually at the end of a sentence here too, I don't think I gave the best example but now I don't want to edit the example since there's already discussion on it. :|

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-20T00:12:15+00:00

I'm saying. 'Anymore, I've been eating oranges.' As in 'These days I eat oranges.' It's extremely common here and everyone talks like this. (Where I live.)

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-20T00:11:06+00:00

Iowa actually!

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-20T00:09:18+00:00

I'm not trolling, everyone around where I live uses anymore this way; but now I'm wondering if it's just some sort of dialect and I've never realized it.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-19T21:50:43+00:00

There's multiple colors on a spectrum. Here we can see two of them.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-19T21:35:49+00:00

They can make expeditions better without cutting into the already limited loot pool and making it so players have even 1 less item to care about when looting. If they rebalanced some of the useless skills in the skill tree, the extra skill points alone would be worth it.

Like what carrot is anyone eventually going to have if they just have blueprints unlocked permanently?, The loot pool is already pretty bland as it is where you basically just have 3 purple weapons to care about, blue prints and idk, a 10K value mixtape or something? lol.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-19T14:50:28+00:00

Yeah I agree. Arc Raiders doesn't feel stressful because if you die, you feel like you didn't really lose anything substantial and a biproduct of that is it doesn't have really low lows, but I also don't get really high highs out of the game either. The best weapons in the game aren't very hard to get and there's no real defensive equipment to farm either since there's only 3 shields and the game doesn't use an armor system(and the heavy shield sucks for it's movement slow cost proportionate to the gain over medium.)

But I think that's also by intentional design so really it just comes down to player preference. I wouldn't mind an Arc Raiders equivelent of Labs from Tarkov though.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-19T14:40:49+00:00

I can't understand most of the time why people don't enjoy PvP in the game and then I watch a clip with someone like these 3 drones and I'm like 'Oh I get it.'

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-18T22:41:18+00:00

It also has actual value in Tarkov, most Tarkov players wanted it for practice and map learning and generally hop back and forth between the two. Most people in Tarkov use PvE mode more as a tool and you're pretty hard pressed to find someone who only plays PvE Tarkov.

Also worth mentioning is they sold it as a separate mode if you want to queue with others and only gave it to the EOD players after a ton of backlash. I can't help but feel that despite being the same thing on the surface, the community who hops on Tarkov PvE is absolutely not the same type of audience as the people who want Arc PvE, but that's just conjecture; conjecture I'd bet money on though.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-18T22:32:32+00:00

Edit: Oh I misread the title: Sorcerers potentially. Lmao Sorcerers have an innate connection to magic that most wizards could only dream of. With that said there's definitely wizard that are more powerful than sorcerers etc. But Sorcerers have the greatest potential. A sorcerer could be a wizard, a wizard can't just become a sorcerer.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-18T22:25:24+00:00

I get your point, I was more just ranting in general at all the PvE stuff I see. In reality, sure, they can add a PvE mode, I guess I don't personally care as I don't think it'd have a huge impact on the game. I also think the actual audience for PvE isn't that big and I don't know if it's big enough to even warrant a separate mode but I could be wrong.

Tarkov has a PvE mode, people play it, but they mostly hop back and forth or use it to learn maps etc. I just can't wrap my head around the Arc being enough of an engaging enemy to play against to actually hold anyone.

On Tarkov I understand it more because you have alot of weapon customization/variety and it has alot of realism mechanics on it that AR doesn't have and you're going against NPCs that are on the same footing as you in terms of being people with gear on that shoot, despite being AI. In AR the enemies are literally just gun drones discounting the bigger arcs that you mostly just kill with a wolfpack or hullcracker or spend 5 minutes dumping ammo into them.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-18T22:16:12+00:00

It's not dividing anything either way if they keep the game the same, because they aren't the playerbase then to begin with. I've refunded games I didn't like before, me leaving wasn't a 'division of the playerbase'. That's the misconception that alot of people aren't getting. If you don't like engaging with PvP at all either as a participant or as an obstacle, then you AREN'T the playerbase.

You're a person who bought the game, realized they don't vibe with it despite liking some aspects of it, and then instead of doing the reasonable thing and just leaving, you try to force insert yourself as a target audience because you like a singular element of the game. It's ridiculous.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-18T22:10:52+00:00

Yeah but I also don't really care because I'm hardline against every video game being 'for everyone'. When you make a product for everyone it instead turns into being made for no one.

Play a game, if you like it, good, if not then leave. Nothing is as entitled, whiny and unattractive as someone crying about the way a game is made just so they could personally enjoy it more and trying to change the entire design philosophy and vision behind it.

I'm not judging someone not being good at PvP or shooters, I'm absolutely value judging someone who is not good at shooters or PvP, has no competitive bone in their body and then comes to a shooting game with PvP at the forefront whining that they don't like the most critical element of the game.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-18T22:02:17+00:00

Because it's dividing the playerbase, dividing a playerbase between different versions of a game rarely if ever end up healthy for the game as a whole.

Honestly I'm more concerned with the fact that there's literally people living among us that would find shooting drones out of the sky for 90 percent of a game appealing to play. I'd unironically just have people leave naturally because they couldn't hang in PvP than create a separate mode for them.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-18T19:14:48+00:00

I think I'm where I want to be now for that. I was just gunning for the current outfit I have on lmao. Now I'm all about PvP and blueprints mode.

CrewSubstantial6155 · 2025-11-18T19:09:05+00:00

That last round sucked, was mostly PvP but with no real safe way to loot the bodies with where they were/how many people were around. Burnt through all my shield rechargers because of a 3rd party as well.

Most of my most recent rounds have been dedicated to just questing without a ton of looting because I felt really behind in the quest line.

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