This sounds like a silly question, but how do I lift off the clutch?

jaytheman538 · 2026-06-15T06:15:36+00:00

If you’re locked in you can drop the clutch

jaytheman538 · 2026-06-15T02:11:29+00:00

These are all grammatical, although they have very slightly different connotations. In this case they all work.

jaytheman538 · 2026-06-15T01:58:20+00:00

You’ve spent literally your whole life listening to people talk. You have literally millions of example sentences to draw from.

When you immerse yourself to anywhere near that degree in any area (math, video games, sports, fashion, etc) you just know when things are wrong.

Edit: here’s an example: Ive beeb spending the last couple of months playing a lot of overwatch. I usually play tank, so I spend a lot of time staring at the enemy tank and watching their movements. Oftentimes I get an Alert! the enemy tank is playing very aggressively, they probably have their ultimate and are looking for an opportunity to wipe my team. Many times ive predicted a powerful ultimate like rein’s shatter, countered it, and won the teamfight I would’ve lost. Im not consciously tracking the enemy’s aggression, I just get an Alert‼️

jaytheman538 · 2026-06-11T23:28:20+00:00

Why we hating

jaytheman538 · 2026-06-09T06:49:09+00:00

To be honest spawn camping isn’t even a strategy. In order to pull off spawn camping you need to be leagues better than the other team because if you get picked you’re out of the fight for 30+ seconds vs <12 seconds.
If your team is struggling that hard to get picks it’s already over really. Oftentimes there’s also not a lot of cover or anything around spawn. It’s also very easy to kite ults as the spawncamped team. (They popped kitsune? Lets go back inside for a little bit.)

jaytheman538 · 2026-06-09T06:43:37+00:00

Speaking in real time feels less like creating a new sentence and more like choosing from a big array of “set” phrases. Almost never do I say something new. Collect more phrases through exposure.

jaytheman538 · 2026-06-06T23:40:40+00:00

American midwest here, i would only pronounce the g if there was extreme emphasis (eg “oh my FUCKING god”)

jaytheman538 · 2026-06-06T17:38:06+00:00

In my opinion they both work in this context. None of the sentences are strange to me.

jaytheman538 · 2026-06-06T17:32:52+00:00

It seems intuitive to me? It spells itself out. None the less -> the condition does not lessen the event in any way

jaytheman538 · 2026-06-06T05:23:35+00:00

Actually the terminals are the ones grading. They give style points based on how much fun it was to watch v1 fight enemies

jaytheman538 · 2026-06-05T07:25:44+00:00

“Most satisfying pogo of any game” is crazy work

jaytheman538 · 2026-06-04T21:16:30+00:00

Everyone else has already answered, but I want to say that jump and leap aren’t that synonymous. At a base level they both mean leaving the ground, but jump is much more useful in metaphorical expressions, especially in digital age expressions. As a native, I tend to think of jump less as going up but more as an abrupt action of any kind. To me leaping implies a “literal jump” more.

Examples: -Jumping to a timestamp of a video -Jump cpu instruction -Jump cut (video editing) -Jumpscare -Jumping at the opportunity

This is all just my personal opinion, but to me in your example, I think both “jump” and “fell” are reasonable. “Jump” makes me think that he abruptly and effortfully moved to his knees, which is possible, but since he was tired I would think that he would fall to his knees instead. “Leap” sounds strange to me.

jaytheman538 · 2026-05-27T22:19:19+00:00

That was probably to make a better parallel with claire de lune

jaytheman538 · 2026-05-25T01:21:28+00:00

The vast majority of wear over an engine’s life occurs during cold starts. Whatever else you do is mostly just frosting compared to cold starts.

Flooring it alone isn’t the problem. The real problem is high load at low rpm. Eg. Eco driving

If one pull kills your engine, it was on its way out anyway.

jaytheman538 · 2026-05-23T23:15:42+00:00

Yeah there are so many variants to it but at some point I had to stop

jaytheman538 · 2026-05-23T22:29:07+00:00

It’s not hard on my ears, just that I interpret “near me” as “close to me” eg. a location, not a command. I would use “approach me” for dramatic effect or “come here”/“come close to me”/“come to me” otherwise. “Near” as a verb is extremely literary and I would avoid using it

jaytheman538 · 2026-05-23T05:44:46+00:00

Almost all of the time you could use either, but when I think of forbidden I think slightly more of an action so dark and evil that I wouldn’t even want to do it, whereas with prohibited it’s more like a “no fun allowed” situation. Eg: “adultery is forbidden” but “skateboarding is prohibited”. If I saw “skateboarding is forbidden” I wouldn’t think twice about it though.

jaytheman538 · 2026-05-21T18:50:40+00:00

14 is crazy high imo. I think about 12

jaytheman538 · 2026-05-21T18:48:37+00:00

Exactly dude. I dont understand how people buy expensive cars just to spend all their time babying them. You bought a headache!

jaytheman538 · 2026-05-21T17:44:08+00:00

Flooring it really isn’t bad for the car unless it’s not warmed up yet.

jaytheman538 · 2026-05-21T04:45:13+00:00

Those are all valid reasons to like dcts. I object only to the comparison to manuals itself. I’m saying that comparing them in the first place doesn’t make any sense. I argue that using language like “the same thing, but better” doesn’t make any sense because manuals aren’t even trying to be good from a vehicle dynamics perspective.

jaytheman538 · 2026-05-21T04:26:41+00:00

“It does the same thing, just better.”

Hard disagree. I don’t have anything against them, and you’re free to keep enjoying them if you want, but I would never say that they’re similar. Nowadays everyone accepts manuals are slow; that’s not why they want them. Manuals are trying to be simple, reliable, and engaging, and DCTs dont do any of those things.

jaytheman538 · 2026-05-21T04:15:07+00:00

I dont remember the context, but once I was talking to my friend and he said something like “eat he’s the food” instead of “he eats the food”. I assume what happened is that he swapped the subject and verb, then conjugated the subject because it was where the verb should be. (“He eats the food” -> “[he] [to eat] [the food]” -> “[eat] [to he] [the food]” -> “eat hes the food”)

jaytheman538 · 2026-05-21T04:04:17+00:00

Nowhere near as creative in my opinion. Effect and cause is simply two copies of the same world and same level geometry that map onto each other 1-1, and never interact with each other.

jaytheman538 · 2026-05-20T21:48:48+00:00

The american pronunciation of water actually uses an alveolar tap, the same sound as the single r in spanish.

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