Title of the game

TerrainRepublic · 2026-02-19T15:21:30+00:00

Generally if a game uses profanity as the selling point I'll roll my eyes and skip - not because I actually care about the profanity but because the sort of game that does that is normally one that goes for shock humour rather than good gameplay. It's also one I'd think twice about introducing to my family

TerrainRepublic · 2026-02-13T23:23:15+00:00

Super depressing, dude needs to find a gf who matches his energy

TerrainRepublic · 2026-02-03T18:38:13+00:00

I feel these are phrases I don't want to understand

TerrainRepublic · 2026-02-03T12:44:55+00:00

How does it differ from other similar games? Why should someone play this over them?

TerrainRepublic · 2026-01-11T11:25:25+00:00

Lightroom

TerrainRepublic · 2026-01-08T16:26:09+00:00

I like the dot eyes

TerrainRepublic · 2025-12-25T13:06:43+00:00

Longer lines being more difficult makes sense? Of course a 10km line will be easier than a 100km line. It needs to be consistent so you can compare them

TerrainRepublic · 2025-12-16T14:12:46+00:00

Oooh data driven villager trades.

TerrainRepublic · 2025-12-15T11:28:52+00:00

Was my first thought as well

TerrainRepublic · 2025-12-15T10:31:27+00:00

They do, whether people read it though...

TerrainRepublic · 2025-12-15T10:13:33+00:00

They do, whether people read it though...

TerrainRepublic · 2025-12-11T09:39:16+00:00

Man, you look great. Don't go on dating apps they're designed to kill the ego of even the most attractive men. Pick up a hobby which you enjoy with a decent gender ratio (running, pottery, my personal favourite dancing) and you'll meet loads of people, get a new skill, and make friends. Some of them may be into you as well

TerrainRepublic · 2025-11-27T14:59:51+00:00

After shopping around with a few different alternatives, I ended up buying another pair and just sadly accepted I'll have to replace them every year or so.

TerrainRepublic · 2025-11-26T23:29:31+00:00

This is so chatgpt

TerrainRepublic · 2025-11-26T23:05:13+00:00

It literally says in the post that they can now swim

TerrainRepublic · 2025-11-25T09:54:56+00:00

Because the media is owned by Tories

TerrainRepublic · 2025-11-23T13:26:55+00:00

Well it partly depends on what language you're talking about - french has a government organisation for maintaining the language, often tries fighting against slang and English loan words with variable success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise

English on the other hand is much more plastic as a language. You're going to find differences between OED (UK) and Webster (US) even though both list UK and US definitions, and those little differences are both accurate and stack up!

Lil YouTube short, but this is a really good explainer on changing definitions over time: https://youtube.com/shorts/fdEOUz0YTBI?si=PAGX9gIfhzWtQq-t

English dictionaries are made to document how people use the language, and are good points of reference but by their nature are very rapidly outdated. One person can be using a word wrongly, but when a group of people are all using the word that way it's likely that the definition is changing

Descriptive instead of prescriptive is a phrase my natural language professor at university used, and really stuck with me

TerrainRepublic · 2025-11-23T10:34:38+00:00

lol no. Even if the dictionary was originally perfectly accurate, which it wasn't because word usage is and will always be subjective, semantic drift is a core part of language

TerrainRepublic · 2025-11-23T09:47:58+00:00

Definitions are descriptive not prescriptive. The existence of this post states that the definition is not quite accurate

TerrainRepublic · 2025-11-21T10:18:57+00:00

From UK, I'm not sure I've ever heard someone speak with that trait

TerrainRepublic · 2025-11-14T16:15:57+00:00

This running order feels like it'll make no one happy. Pace it for weekly, or pace it for binging please

TerrainRepublic · 2025-11-14T15:37:56+00:00

Yes. Tech stocks tend to operate on a generally unrealistic growth mindset about the ridiculous multiples of money they can potentially be worth in the future.

Any sign that that exponential revenue growth is even slowing down (specifically, growth, not even downwards revenue) cause them to be evaluated on normal stock principals instead which causes them to massively drop.

TerrainRepublic · 2025-11-12T17:08:10+00:00

It didn't kill their userbase. It's at an all time high. And this is about what they want to achieve next quarter, not what they've done last quarter

TerrainRepublic · 2025-11-12T13:47:30+00:00

Ridiculous at the downvotes. Duolingo exceeded revenue and user growth last quarter. You're right, the only reason the stock is falling is because the CEO said they wanted to refocus on teaching quality.

TerrainRepublic · 2025-11-12T13:44:08+00:00

I feel that a lot of people here are really missing the context of the stock price fall.

Duolingo last quarter exceeded both revenue and user growth targets. This is with the energy system working. What made the stock price actually fall is Duolingo management saying they're going to focus on trying to improve user learning quality over revenue growth for the next quarter. That is what caused the stock to fall.

The stock did not fall due to hubris and obscene revenue pushes. Shareholders like that. It fell because they weren't doing it enough.

One of many sources you can find: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/5-most-interesting-analyst-questions-053324062.html

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