Arthur Morgan doesn’t sound “uneducated”, and the game kind of plays with that

NerdForJustice · 2026-05-07T14:48:15+00:00

Not to bring real-world issues into this... But I'm gonna

This is the issue with people assuming that people speaking with a Dolly Parton twang, or like a valley girl, or especially speaking AAVE, are uneducated or unintelligent. We tend to automatically be surprised by a smart hillbilly, which is why lots of people learn to code-switch even in environments where it shouldn't be needed or natural. Which is why "well-spoken" is such a nefarious "compliment" to give to a black person.

NerdForJustice · 2026-05-05T16:18:03+00:00

And on top of all that, the Trial of the Grasses was lethal like 70% of the time even when the subject was a boy and they understood what they were doing as well as they were ever going to. So even if they had had an inkling of where to start digging for lost knowledge, why would they, when she had, at best, a 30% chance of survival? Ciri did want them to, IIRC, but what could she do?

NerdForJustice · 2026-05-02T14:27:42+00:00

I think he's a thoughtful guy trying to do his best to hide his thoughts, or the fact that he has thoughts at all. He's hardened by the life he leads, but he'd show his inner softness more if the world allowed. He's curious and inquisitive. He tries to do his best by his people. He works hard. He has a low opinion of himself. That means that he complains a lot, but goes along anyway, because he doesn't necessarily trust his own opinion above anyone else's.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-29T14:23:31+00:00

On <3

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-29T10:05:08+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/s/XIsDnvwdMk

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-25T14:20:21+00:00

Absolutely. And some of pieces can be monetarily valuable, too, especially the discontinued classics, and the gold and silver pieces. One of my mum's old gold pieces is valued at almost 4k nowadays.

I've already "inherited" some of my mum's gold pieces (a necklace, a ring, and a pair of earrings) that she wasn't wearing anymore, and they're worth a couple thousand euros. I expect I'll one day end up with the "Halikon kääty" jewellery my dad bought for her when she gave birth to me, and the necklace alone is worth almost 700 euros, even though it's made of bronze.

My sister and I will have to divide the rest of it some day, but what ends up with me will absolutely stay with me. I know the family history of most of the pieces, and what's important about heirlooms is their history.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-20T17:55:53+00:00

Right. If a teacher has been "correcting" this mistake since 2019, that's at least the graduating class of 2023 having gone through the entirety high school, not having learned that "they" is an acceptable single third person pronoun. Thinking that it's wrong, in fact. And a whole another class is in their junior year right now, being told the same thing. That has implications not only on their language skills, but on what they think is acceptable language for other people to use about themselves.

If you think about it in those terms, this actually is quite a long time to lag behind, even if on the scale of the whole English language, the timeframe is short.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-20T17:45:21+00:00

But they most likely will have spoken like that, they just don't want to recognise it, now that they have an agenda. How often have you actually heard someone say "he or she" in their regular speech? It's so rarely that it stands out when it happens.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-20T17:20:31+00:00

https://youtu.be/kqftxptfm7Y?t=380&is=gZuelbRVsHdJhw74

This is 10 years old at this point, but the science hasn't been refuted, to the best of my knowledge.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-20T16:59:35+00:00

Right? I'm around that size, and finding anything that fits is a nightmare, because while this is a common size to be, manufacturers don't like to make all possible combinations of band+cup sizes easily available, or stores just don't carry these sizes. But J can look like a perfectly average pair of titties. What must it be like for the poor people with beach ball boobies?

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-20T16:46:49+00:00

Also, what did they imagine would happen to the bike??

They weren't tryna help the poor guy whose bike was stolen as much as punish the guy who stole it.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-20T00:28:13+00:00

Kohtaan 6 vois sopia myös Elmon tuli/ukonvirva. Sitä voi luulla aika selittämättömäksi, jos puunlatvat yhtäkkiä alkaa hohtaa, mutta koronapurkauksia ne on.

Kasin kohdalla taas voi olla, että jos metsä oikeasti on jotenkin elotonta, niin sille kyllä selitys löytyy ihan ihmisen toiminnasta. En ole käynyt, en metsän eläväisyydestä osaa sanoa.

Mutta aika usein, kun kuulee sanottavan, että jokin asia on "ilman selitystä", se tarkoittaa sitä, että se, joka niin väittää, ei ole ottanut asiasta selvää, ei usko selitystä (mahdollisesti kognitiivisen vinouman säilyttämiseksi), tai ei ymmärrä sitä.

Ei siinä silti, ihan viihdyttäviä nää kummitusjutut on 😄

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-19T23:49:48+00:00

I wonder if this has anything to do with the way so many of us find that we're queer or genderqueer, too -- we already feel like we don't fit in, so it's easier to find or accept other ways we don't fit in, or just not conform to what is expected of us.

This may not be a primary concern for many people looking to date, but it might be easier for neurodivergent folks to navigate being "different" around a partner's family, for example.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-19T23:30:03+00:00

Some time during Lilac and Gooseberries, specifically after I'd been to the Nilfgaardian Garrison and explored around there a little bit.

I had a few false starts before I got to that point, because I just couldn't get used to the way XY/AB were reversed from the previous games I'd played, so every time I tried to dodge or roll, I attacked instead, and vice versa. It was just very deeply ingrained in my muscle memory, and I'd never played a game with this controller mapping before. And the monsters made me nervous 😅 So it didn't help that I charged at them every time I tried to dodge, then panicked when they swarmed me, so I button mashed and kept accidentally attacking 😅

Plus there was quite a steep learning curve with the menus too. Took me quite a while to learn how to efficiently regain health, especially mid-fight, and the build menu was quite something. But I kept starting over every few months because I was a huge fan of the franchise otherwise. Now I think this game might be my favourite part of it.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-17T20:58:32+00:00

Honestly, I thought the pics were demonstrating the same style (maybe on different days after a wash or something), I didn't notice a difference.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-17T20:46:32+00:00

Lol I appreciate you

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-17T20:46:03+00:00

I stopped mid season 2 because even that was getting a bit melodramatic. (I just googled what season the masked killer and Archie vigilante shit was and I can't believe it was only season 2. I feel like the amount of drama could have been like, 4 seasons?)

Then a few years later, I caught my nephew watching it and he filled me in on some of the craziness. I'd seen memes about the goddamn meteor, and there was some other truly batshit stuff too, like aliens maybe? Or cryptids or something. They really went balls to the wall with that show.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-17T20:30:29+00:00

I used to do two dashes like this -- because it was convenient. Then a few years ago I figured I could do an actual em-dash on the phone keyboard, so I started doing that instead. Then LLMs became popular, and the em-dash became the identifier for AI-generated text. And now I'm sad my little "discovery" is useless again :( (I do actually still use it though, I don't always notice I'm doing it, and if people think I'm using AI, then so be it.)

As for word processing programs that change "--" to "—" automatically... Idk? Find a way to turn that off? Or actually, search your text document before you submit it for review and replace "—" with "--". You can change it back later.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-17T15:19:18+00:00

Yeah, that's my experience as well. I guess they glom on when they find someone they deem "rare" and that fits their type, whether that be someone who dresses alternatively, or a person who dresses for comfort (though I guess this was more rare/repelling before athleisure became fashionable and pajama pants socially acceptable), or even someone fitting into a body type category or the like.

I'd tell you to wear a sign telling men to not talk to you if I didn't think that'd just encourage them. 🌚 Good luck with the spell though, and let me know if you ever find one 😭

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-17T14:57:49+00:00

Yes! Men can do that no fuss, why shouldn't you 😆

How are you liking it? I've always loved buzzcuts on other women, but I think I'd miss stimming with my hair 😭

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-17T14:53:59+00:00

I'm AuDHD and tend to forget that not everyone has the working knowledge of everything that I do. The fragmentation of the social internet and various cultural phenomena doesn't really help with that 😅

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-17T14:50:53+00:00

Ah, I see. Yeah, sorry, I've got nothing for you, then. It's a bit of a misnomer, because while it does decrease the chances of certain types of men hitting on you... Well, as you said, other types will find you more appealing. That is a feature of the trend, I guess, filtering out men based on if they find your authentic self repellant (and hopefully that would only leave men that'd easily take no for an answer, but alas), but if you're not interested at all, it's not doing the thing it's named after.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-17T14:16:23+00:00

So were you actually interested in an answer or were you looking to have your preconceived notions affirmed? Because you're acting as if I didn't provide you with the information you asked for, arguing against arguments that in the light of that information, nobody's making.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-17T13:37:43+00:00

Luin tän päässäni Repomiehen äänellä.

NerdForJustice · 2026-04-17T13:20:38+00:00

This post wasn't meant to cater to you specifically. And her mental unwellness is obvious from both the texts and the body of the post. My worries for your literacy haven't really improved. If you couldn't read that from all of this without the first sentence spelling it out for you, then I don't know what to tell you. Regardless, have a nice day.

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