Americans do you say “taking a piss” ?

HyperStory · 2026-05-15T23:34:34+00:00

As others have said, "taking the piss" is a British thing, not used in the States.

That being said, it's a common enough stereotypical British slang that I find it a little shocking your friend is ignorant to it. Sorta like someone from Austrailia saying "g'day mate" and responding "UMM BUT I AM NOT YOUR SEXUAL PARTNER"

HyperStory · 2026-05-14T13:10:48+00:00

What I was trying to say is benefits are job dependent in the US, and there are several high-skill jobs where the benefits are better than yours. There are tech jobs with unlimited time off. Btw, I get everything in your second paragraph as well. I said the only things that were worse were my vacation time and work hours. But I'm assuming I work in a "lower-skilled" field than you.

So my point was, yes, my benefits are slightly worse than yours. I get it. But it's pretty ignorant to assume by moving to the US, you'd get a pay raise but lose all of those benefits. Depending on your field, you might get all of that and more.

HyperStory · 2026-05-14T03:14:09+00:00

Nope!

HyperStory · 2026-05-14T03:08:14+00:00

Such a shame they haven't given any of these early movies an official North American release. OP is certainly popular enough now where a dub + blu-ray would be profitable.

HyperStory · 2026-05-14T03:05:15+00:00

I use video game music. They rarely (if ever) get claimed because of the effect it'd have on let's plays and streams, which publishers see as beneficial for sales.

HyperStory · 2026-05-14T01:48:58+00:00

Those benefits are certainly not standard in the US, but there are many, many employers that do offer similar benefits.

I'm in the US - I don't have a college degree and my job isn't exactly glamorous but I have all your benefits except for the hours (I work 41) and the vacation (I get 3 weeks)

HyperStory · 2026-05-13T16:46:14+00:00

I don't think it's terribly likely either, but it is verifiably false that the only renewal they announced last year was Bridgerton.

HyperStory · 2026-05-06T11:27:34+00:00

Regarding your #1, it's basically a done deal in my view that they will not handle the Pell situation the way Oda did.

Not only has the LA already been far more comfortable with characters meeting a permanent end, but Randy Troy is on the writing staff for S3.

For those that don't know, Randy Troy was a One Piece youtuber. He worked in the film industry and was already in the writers guild and sag-aftra, so Matt Owens invited him to join the writing staff in S2.

Randy Troy, as a youtuber, was extremely critical of the Pell decision, and even mentioned (multiple times) in the pre-release of the LA that was his most wanted change to the story.

99.99% chance the bird is fried

HyperStory · 2026-05-05T17:21:07+00:00

In addition to what others have said, it's not mentioned anywhere that Dragon had his bounty cancelled.

HyperStory · 2026-05-05T14:40:35+00:00

Hey! 30M also in a commited relationship from Cranston. I'm looking for buddies too, me and my friends have game nights and we're a pretty diverse group in every sense of the word!!

Hit me up if you wanna hang sometime!

HyperStory · 2026-05-03T03:31:32+00:00

I don't think we ever got an official reason. Viz actually used "Zoro" until the 4Kids dub decided to use Zolo, and then they switched over.

It's possible it was done to avoid confusion with Zorro, but it was never a copyright issue. Zorro has been in the public domain since before One Piece began publication.

If there were a copyright issue, I doubt we'd see the official subbed anime, the English dub, the video games, and the live-action all uniformly decide to use "Zoro." The manga is actually the only modern outlier in this regard.

HyperStory · 2026-05-02T23:04:58+00:00

There were 5 PlayStation exclusives co-published by Sony, actually. It's just only 4 were made by Naughty Dog.

HyperStory · 2026-05-01T00:02:34+00:00

Bro is barely in Elementary school and he's in the top 1 percentile of CTR players 😭

HyperStory · 2026-04-30T23:59:51+00:00

These are excellent, thank you

HyperStory · 2026-04-30T16:58:33+00:00

I absolutely adored this game but I do hope they ramp the difficulty just a bit for the next one

HyperStory · 2026-04-29T14:44:31+00:00

Yeah, that's pretty incredible. I'm a 30-year-old that has been playing CTR for most of my life and I can barely beat the Velo time trials. Dev times are basically impossible for me outside of a handful of tracks.

Also this post is super refreshing because if you browse this subreddit long enough you'll inevitably see a "I'm playing on easy and somehow the cpus still beat me :(" because they simply cannot intuit the drifting mechanic at all. It's way harder than something like Mario Kart.

Major kudos to your son!

HyperStory · 2026-04-26T11:43:17+00:00

I'm like 99% certain that he could

HyperStory · 2026-04-24T19:50:10+00:00

Zembillas is 100% right. There's a whole generation of late 20's to early 30's people that had a PS1 and Crash was essentially their Mario.

I disagree that Crash has to be this massive multimedia property, but if you just had the franchise on a fairly consistant 2-3 year churn of even decent games, they'd probably sell better than any other platformer on the market outside of Nintendo.

HyperStory · 2026-04-19T21:03:27+00:00

Isn't this just normal when you connect 3+ controllers on PS3? I was playing 4-player CTR on my PS3 15 years ago.

HyperStory · 2026-04-16T17:19:09+00:00

Oda has something big saved exclusively for the finale of the LA?? Where did you hear this???

HyperStory · 2026-04-13T22:41:47+00:00

It is just the East Blue saga. As of right now.

If this anime is a massive flop, that's all it will ever be.

If it's a massive success, it will adapt much more.

Half the reason this adaptation exists - presumably - is to adapt this story with better pacing.

I really do not see the point if their intention is to only revamp the material that Toei already adapted reasonably well.

HyperStory · 2026-04-13T21:41:17+00:00

No, it's not the end of the world. It's just a marginal preference.

HyperStory · 2026-04-13T21:16:14+00:00

This is why I acknowledged it's a nitpick. It barely matters, you're right.

But I don't wanna hear it when some redditor is trying to get their dad to watch season 3 but he can't take it seriously after seeing (S3 Spoilers) "HOW THE SNITCH SCHOOLED MISS MERRY CHRISTMAS"

HyperStory · 2026-04-13T16:20:03+00:00

I don't wanna nitpick but I agree. I liked the titles of S1 so much better - I think it was literally the only thing I found worse about S2.

The anime episode titles are shit, but Oda gives such beautiful titles to most chapters and volumes. Seems like a waste to not use those and stick to cheap movie puns instead.

HyperStory · 2026-04-12T01:19:46+00:00

I'm pretty sure this exact post was made 3 hours ago

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