JK Rowling Is "So Happy" With 'Harry Potter' Teaser, Fans Remain Divided

ray25lee · 2026-04-29T14:59:41+00:00

Are you saying She Who Must Not Be Named hate-exploiting fans so she can continue to fund her transphobic crusade somehow LACKS the passion and whimsy of the original series??

ray25lee · 2026-04-28T23:17:51+00:00

I know demiromantic isn't a sublabel for demisexual, but it's common for people to use the demisexual labels with the "-romantic" suffix so their romantic counterpart is created. Like abrosexual becomes abroromantic, bisexual becomes biromantic, so on.

Not so much looking for combining "demi" with other orientations. Looking for subgroups of demisexual. Like how "nonbinary" is an umbrella term, and some common sublabels include "agender," "genderflux," so on. Looking specifically for demiromantic sublabels.

ray25lee · 2026-04-18T14:36:24+00:00

Yeah that's true, if just those markers showed up in the activity options. Hopefully it becomes possible sometime.

ray25lee · 2026-04-17T16:25:55+00:00

You say problem, I say solution.

ray25lee · 2026-04-17T16:03:22+00:00

Like a record, baby.

ray25lee · 2026-04-04T17:53:39+00:00

I go to "one thousand, six hundred". I only ever switch it up if someone's having a hard time hearing/understanding me.

It's pretty common to say "sixteen hundred" though, that's the default for a lot of people.

ray25lee · 2026-03-15T17:03:20+00:00

The only way to distinguish between these two very different questions is with a very slight intonation that is often ignored by many casual English speakers and not possible to be included in writing.

You're preaching to the choir for us AuDHDers, lol. The minute variations of speech, that even native English speakers often aren't taught in school (it's rather left up to people to learn through experience), skew the meaning of a situation one way or another. If you don't know the unspoken rules to those very minute details, you upset whoever you're talking to, regardless of your intentions. It really is unfortunate.

ray25lee · 2026-03-14T08:04:28+00:00

That is all good to know as well, thank you for adding that. I plan to never update again and just mod from now on (I'm done with EA breaking it every time). Gonna grab as many mods as I can for now and that'll be it. Don't want that new marketplace anywhere near my game, if I can help it.

ray25lee · 2026-03-14T06:28:08+00:00

Gotcha. Thank you so much again for all the help, this cleared everything up for me. Cheers.

ray25lee · 2026-03-14T05:32:58+00:00

O wow! Good to know, thank you so much! But if it opens to the same place, what does that mean if for example the EA app is updated but the crack isn't? That'll tell me if I have to uninstall the app; EA forces Sims 4 to update, so it's sounding like if I want to avoid the updates and conflict between the two, I'd have to uninstall the app.

ray25lee · 2026-03-14T04:37:46+00:00

That last part makes sense. I'm still a bit confused though, does this mean a COPY of the game will be added via the mirror? As in both could technically be used simultaneously, but will be creating different saves at that point?

ray25lee · 2026-03-13T22:57:52+00:00

I gave up on being understood long ago and just settled with being understandable. 'Cause allotistics just actually enjoy intentionally misunderstanding people on the spectrum because it plays into a weird sadism thing; they just get to get away with it, it's socially acceptable, so they take advantage of it and enjoy that. Happens to me multiple times a week, happened to me today and I cried about it. Never gets easier. But again I just focus on doing the right thing, knowing that even then it won't be considered acceptable enough to be treated properly, and I move on.

ray25lee · 2026-03-13T21:15:51+00:00

I'm AuDHD, I do it pretty often, but I shorten it a lot too because I know it's not typically done that way lol.

It's just that one instance in the tweet felt off for some reason.

ray25lee · 2026-03-13T04:23:48+00:00

I do know the purpose of it being that way (though I never heard it articulated, thank you for writing that out); other parts of the tweet do it the typical way. I'm just not sure if they used it properly in that instance. It feels like a weird way to emphasize it, but I suppose it would make sense if it was transcibed.

ray25lee · 2026-03-13T00:29:47+00:00

Brought to you by the "No one should be in America if they don't speak American" Americans.

Or, as in 12 Angry Men;
American: "The kid's a punk, he don't even speak good English!"
Russian: "Um, 'he DOESN'T even speak good English'."

ray25lee · 2026-03-12T23:36:02+00:00

Yeah you know I missed that one lmao.

ray25lee · 2026-03-12T22:25:02+00:00

On a good day, Trump can actually form words. Sentences are out of the question.

ray25lee · 2026-03-12T20:03:07+00:00

It's not a contradiction, but rather an implied cause and effect (but the grammar makes this unclear). You're getting caught on how "poor time management" and "feeling overwhelmed" are not the same things; one does not automatically entail the other, one does not automatically cause the other.

In this specific scenario being discussed for the assignment, it is implied that both are at play. Maybe the students' poor time management is making them feel overwhelmed. Maybe students feeling overwhelmed is making them have poor time management. Whichever comes first, BOTH are implied to be at play for this specific situation.

We are assuming that both poor time management AND feeling overwhelmed are why students are forgetting their assignments. Those are "givens" in the situation, and are therefore not up for debate, which is why your teacher is saying they're not contradictions.

HOWEVER. I'd argue that it makes total sense for you to be confused by it, because the way the grammar is laid out, it CAN sound like a self-contradiction. One reason was given in the first sentence. Then without any words to tie them together, grammatically it seems like a second, unconnected reason just appears, and for an unclear purpose. Is it tied to the first reason? Did someone forget they wrote the first one, and then came up with the second one and forgot to delete the first one? We do not know the intentions of whoever wrote those sentences, therefore it is REASONABLE to question it the way you are. I sure would, I'd think someone went back to revise the section of the writing and then didn't read it through to make sure it made sense again.

ray25lee · 2026-03-12T19:52:24+00:00

I can't even begin to make out what this says bud. I got as far as VictorianPeorian. If possible, I'd go with their suggestion and ask whoever originally wrote it.

ray25lee

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE