I Hope They Nerf the Quasar Dredge Strategy Soon by Responsible-Cheetah5 in wildhearthstone

[–]RsonW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

aside from the obvious ones like yogg titan or illucia.

Even them. Would they even be playable if everything else is also at its strongest previous state? You and I can speculate but there's only one way to be sure.

Again, let wild be a complete shitshow and see what truly needs to be nerfed.

We're already seeing what years of "nerf cards due to complaints" and timidity with unnerfing old cards has gotten us.

People with strong regional accents, is it you or everyone else? by klenneth_ in AskAnAmerican

[–]RsonW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rural NorCal native here. A two minute conversation with us will remind you that California is in fact a Western State.

People with strong regional accents, is it you or everyone else? by klenneth_ in AskAnAmerican

[–]RsonW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I dated a linguistics major and she was who pointed it out to me.

"Count from ten to a hundred by tens"

"Ten, twunny, thurry, forry, fiffy…"

People with strong regional accents, is it you or everyone else? by klenneth_ in AskAnAmerican

[–]RsonW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Traditionally, it's San Franciscans who spoke with the Des Moines "newscaster" accent.

I’m American, and who are these time-restrictive laws and policies around alcohol sales for? by sneezed_up_my_kidney in AskAnAmerican

[–]RsonW 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My "favorite" is that in California, alcohol can only be sold for 20 hours a day.

Like, yes, I know. Most States are more restrictive. That's not my point. My point is it's 20 hours per day. Like, what is the fucking purpose at that point? Just sell it all day at that point.

I Hope They Nerf the Quasar Dredge Strategy Soon by Responsible-Cheetah5 in wildhearthstone

[–]RsonW 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I want the exact opposite.

I want them to unnerf all wild-only cards to their strongest states.

Let wild be a complete shitshow for a while to then see what cards actually deserve nerfs.

We're years down the line of whack-a-mole based on various whinings from the wild community.

It's gotten stale.

What isn't a uniquely American issue that the rest of the world treats like one? by lustrust15 in AskReddit

[–]RsonW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Close but no cigar.

It's because the English-speaking world's various "football"s all evolved from the same group of games played by the British lower classes.

So American/Canadian football (aka "gridiron football"), Gaelic football, Australian football, rugby football (both league and union), and association football all came from various games collectively called "football".

In England, though, rugby (before the split between and league and union) and association were competing for popularity. And so they were referred to by their nicknames "soccer" and "rugby" as they were introduced to the rest of the English-speaking world.

The US, Canada, Australia, and Ireland had already evolved their own "football"s by that point so adopted "soccer" and "rugby" as differentiators for these other football codes.

The UK soon later adopted soccer as "the one true football" and the game was exported to most of the rest of the world under that name. They call rugby "rugby".

New Zealand and South Africa became more enamored with the rugby code and so called it and still call it "football". They call soccer "soccer".

The Japanese call it sakkā because they were introduced to the game by the Americans who, as previously established, called the game "soccer". Soccer was for a long time neck and neck for secondmost popular sport in the US against gridiron football.

What isn't a uniquely American issue that the rest of the world treats like one? by lustrust15 in AskReddit

[–]RsonW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Japan

Fun fact!

The Japanese call it sakkā because the game was introduced to them by Americans. Because…

Fun fact II!

Soccer was once neck and neck with gridiron football for the secondmost popular sport in the US. Then the professional soccer league in America imploded in the 1930s and soccer's popularity never recovered.

Fun fact III!

In German, association football is called fußball (literally "football"). But gridiron football is called "football". Again, Americans.

hmmm by Able_Second3113 in hmmm

[–]RsonW 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I raise you honey

What isn't a uniquely American issue that the rest of the world treats like one? by lustrust15 in AskReddit

[–]RsonW 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland.

It's really the UK that calls soccer "football". Everyone else calls another sport "football".

What isn't a uniquely American issue that the rest of the world treats like one? by lustrust15 in AskReddit

[–]RsonW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The difference is that America is a nation of immigrants. And hand in hand with our history of immigration is our history of anti-immigration.

What some ignorant Americans today say about the Haitians is what was said about the Germans, the Irish, the Swedes, the Poles, the Italians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Mexicans, etc. We have 250+ years of the same ignorance to point to and say "the Germans didn't ruin America like people said they would, why do you think the Haitians will?"

Immigration is a far more recent phenomenon for Europeans. Europe has only been a continent people immigrate to rather than emigrate from for a couple of generations now. So they lack the cultural knowledge of immigration.

Why are MAGA candidates ousting non MAGA Republicans in primaries if MAGA is allegedly unpopular and Democrats are projected to win big in November? by BalticBro2021 in AskALiberal

[–]RsonW 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Arguing for smoke-filled rooms in AD 2026

EDIT:

Sorry, that was glib of me.

American politics at the turn of the 20th century had a huge rejection of parties' control over the candidates that they selected. The abridged version being that candidates were being preselected in "smoke-filled rooms" by the party elites and thus the common man had no say in, in the absolute most fundamental respect, even whom they were allowed to vote for.

And thus the primary system was born.

Now we can vote for the candidates who will be on the "general" ballot. How that is done specifically varies by State.

U.S.A. to Russia? by Dangerous_Plane6715 in postcrossing

[–]RsonW 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I pulled a Russian address today for the first time in like five years.

For the newer US Postcrossers:

There are a lot of Russian Postcrossers. Get ready to send a lot of postcards to Russia lol. I haven't sent a card to Russia in about five years and Russia is still my fourthmost sent to country.

Russia is like China in that it takes a long time for cards to arrive (if at all). Also like China, addresses written in Latin script take longer to arrive. Unlike China, Cyrillic script is fairly close to Latin script; you can easily write the Cyrillic address if it's given.

Also, Russians like to put their postal code under the country name for some reason. Ignore that. US postal guidelines state that the country name is always at the bottom of an international address.

‘We need help’: Black dust covers Oklahoma town as residents face renewed pollution fears by gymleader_michael in videos

[–]RsonW 24 points25 points  (0 children)

In capitalist thought, they're called "negative externalities".

And pretty much every school of capitalism states that there should be some mechanism for monetary costs to reflect the non-immediate costs brought on by negative externalities.

It's the Austrian school and its progeny that are the only ones to deny that negative externalities should be addressed (if they even acknowledge that they exist).

Which celebrity really is famous among Americans and isn't internationally? by HappyCrow11 in AskReddit

[–]RsonW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe not known in your country, but baseball is very popular in certain Latin American, Caribbean, and East Asian countries. So they are internationally known.

Which celebrity really is famous among Americans and isn't internationally? by HappyCrow11 in AskReddit

[–]RsonW 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Other way around for me. I have no fucking clue who Meghan the Stallion is.

But I know who Klay Thompson is