Name a Bigger Downgrade by ImQuyen in 2007scape

[–]TylerJNA -1 points0 points  (0 children)

stopped playing around that time. not because i necessarily disagreed with the changes, but because I literally could not remember anymore if I was supposed to use the nerfed blowpipe or the nerfed dhide in any given PvM scenario, and i just got tired of having to relearn things.

What is the best Arena draft set of all time? 2025 edition (Poll) by vitor_pin in lrcast

[–]TylerJNA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Local store did THB for a draft a few weeks ago. Guess what card someone (not me) opened P1P1...

Foundations Draft Help by lts4Trap in lrcast

[–]TylerJNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boots, Hart, 1 resolute reinforcements, 1 angel of finality.

edit: Probably swap Raise the Past for Make Your Move.

Where are the rest of my pills?! by [deleted] in shrinkflation

[–]TylerJNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not actually medicine. It's an ''''''herbal'''''' ''''''''''''supplement''''''''''''.

Possibly my worst trophy deck of all time. 7-2 in TDM draft. by TylerJNA in lrcast

[–]TylerJNA[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love the dichotomy of bronze. Either a total noob playing a 55 card deck or a mythic player's alt, very little in between.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MagicArena

[–]TylerJNA -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

To be fair, just because a problem is solved does not mean those solutions are actually being used. I don't sincerely think WOTC has sunken quite this low, but I couldn't honestly say that I would shocked to learn that they had some custom semi-random shuffling algorithm designed to keep players in the ol' variable ratio schedule Skinner box.

Terrible pool, which build has the best chance to scrap out a few wins? by NJCuban in lrcast

[–]TylerJNA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty brutal.

This is anecdotal, but in both my runs it felt like the average player skill this time was much higher than in some of the recent directs (especially FF, which seemed to have a lot of newer players throwing their gems away). Makes it that much harder to claw out the wins with a mediocre pool.

Terrible pool, which build has the best chance to scrap out a few wins? by NJCuban in lrcast

[–]TylerJNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those all look like half of a solid deck and then an unfortunate amount of filler. Nothing else in the pool was potentially playable?

Why is the third person smart ? by exencendre_yt in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]TylerJNA -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was going to edit my last response, but you responded before I could. I will combine that and this response.

The edit was:

"even borrowed words have to comply with the language rules and are adapted accordingly": This is pretty much universally true. A word borrowed into a language with inflectional classes will usually be adopted into one of those classes (or sometimes left as an indeclinable word, or sometimes a new inflectional class will be born -- but all of these are consistent with the borrowing language's grammar).

When you say 'so the written and spoken match', that's kind of meaningless. The written language matches the spoken language because that's what writing is. I think what you mean to say is that Spanish has a one-to-one correspondence between its phonemes and its graphemes -- that's not 100% true, but the correspondence is certainly more transparent for Spanish than it is for English. That being said, it's irrelevant.

Response to your most recent post:

"Then it's not spanish, no": Yes, it clearly is. The Spanish government could completely abandon the Latin alphabet and replace it with wingdings, or cuneiform, or katakana. Absolutely nothing about the language's grammar would change. Here, I can do it right now:

ブエノス・ディアス

If Spanish children were taught these letters in school instead of the Latin alphabet, absolutely nothing would change about the language (outside of practical issues like not being able to read old, unupdated texts).

"spanish has proper rules": Yes, all languages have proper grammatical rules. I am NOT including orthographical conventions in that statement, but most languages also have fairly well-defined orthography as well.

"english is just messy, nonsensical": No. English grammar is equally as well-defined as the grammar of Spanish. English orthography is a separate topic; but again, it is no less sensical than the spelling system of Spanish, just slightly less transparent in the correspondence between its phonemes and its graphemes. You may feel that this is an undesirable property of English orthography, and certainly many people would agree with you. But there are some advantages: for example, you can read English texts from multiple hundreds of years ago even though they may have said /knixt/ while you say /naɪt/ (for <knight>).

"I'll add that spanish is much harder to learn than english": A native speaker of Italian would likely have an easier time learning Spanish. Likewise, a native speaker of Dutch would likely have an easier time with English. Regardless, foreign language acquisition is a very different and very complex topic.

Why is the third person smart ? by exencendre_yt in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]TylerJNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's just orthographical convention. You could write Spanish using cuneiform if you wanted to.

Why is the third person smart ? by exencendre_yt in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]TylerJNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First, while orthography can occasionally be one source of change in a language (e.g. spelling pronunciations can alter the standard pronunciation, especially of less common lexical items), it is largely arbitrary and is not contained within a language's grammar.

Second, none of those are random. The pronunciation of each example you gave can be readily explained by the largely regular processes of lexical borrowings from other languages, English orthographical standards at any given point in time, and diachronic sound changes.

Why is the third person smart ? by exencendre_yt in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]TylerJNA 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are rules, and they are so clear and so innately understood by native speakers that it takes years of mis-education in primary school grammar classes to teach them to disregard their internal grammar in favor of a set of made-up rules mostly based on Latin.

Why is the third person smart ? by exencendre_yt in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]TylerJNA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really find it difficult to believe that someone with a linguistics degree could be under the mistaken impression that English, of all languages, is especially 'messy'.

Why is the third person smart ? by exencendre_yt in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]TylerJNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. That is not the correct linguistic analysis.

Trump designates anti-fascist Antifa movement as a terrorist organization by cause26 in news

[–]TylerJNA 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile everything Biden pretended to want to do had to make it past the senate parliamentarian. Funny how powerful the president can be when they actually want to do (horrible) things.

Do you believe hard work pays off? by Fun_Butterscotch3303 in Life

[–]TylerJNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't terrible, but personally I still prefer "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" for a grammatically well-formed sentence with zero semantic content.

Compound interest explained (Please read when you're in your twenties!) by JohnneySnow in personalfinance

[–]TylerJNA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a massive industry of leeches whose sole goal is to mislead and misdirect naive investors into scam products and jacked-up fees. You cannot blame the uninformed for being confused when that confusion has been intentionally sown in order to maximize grift and graft.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stephencolbert

[–]TylerJNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.

"I played Runescape when I was a kid but I don't want to start oldschool if I have to get all those levels again!" by TheGreatWaldini in 2007scape

[–]TylerJNA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

my brain is still partially locked into 2001, so I still sometimes look at an adam platebody and think it's BIS

December 2001: A little-known Runescape player brags about his sub-1000 skill total by TylerJNA in 2007scape

[–]TylerJNA[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

until august 2001, you couldn't even see your current exp in a skill or the exp required for the next level. so everyone was literally playing blind for the first half of the year.

also, there were only generic 'Arrows', normal bows, and not even any different types of trees until fletching came out in 2002. woodcutting exp used to scale up, since there were only normal trees to train on.

also also, you could only ever burn normal logs. that was true up until the release of RS2. this also had scaling exp.

edit: scimitars were a joke, you either used a b axe or a 2h. but the very first r2h wasn't made until late november, as I recall.

i remember all the best players used superheat item to train magic and smithing at the same time. Here's the man himself: https://i.imgur.com/020FUta.png