RicOlie_2

I was hoping to see a new clip when I saw that you had posted, but that works too.

darth_ender said:

I clearly am, and I apologize.  I must be tired.  Part of the problem is that when I copied the link, I'd forgotten to export to the new setup, so while on my computer it looked different, the URL remained in an old position.  The second problem is that I again wrote the wrong space for my knight.  I am often in a hurry, and I am also tired, so I guess I'm just not looking well.  For the third, and hopefully last time for a while, sorry about that.

LOL, no problem. :)

What I meant was N-3c

JEDIT: Better include a link

 Now we're on the same page.

G-5h

darth_ender said:

N-2c

Thanks for understanding.

http://wormz.free.fr/kifugen/?kifu=jhfadarhjalaaadfnabbbbbbabbaaaaaabaaaaaaaaaaaaacaaaaaaccaccccccaomaaaesakigeaagik00000000000000

 *sigh* Ender, are you sleeping this game? ;)

A) You can't move your knight there.

B) Your knight didn't get moved according to that board.

C) Why is your Bishop on 2b right now? You dropped it onto 5d and it can't get to 2b from there...

Cool, I didn't know that.

Mis-usage of the word "can" drives me crazy.

Oh, this is so fun!

I hate it when people use "literally" as emphasis. "I literally had a ton of homework" means "I had a ton of homework", period. It is no longer hyperbolic if the word "literally" is used, so it doesn't belong unless you really mean it!

"Irony" is also frequently used incorrectly, and so are "like", "like", and "like".

It also bugs me when people confuse "stuff" and "things", or "much" and "many", saying "I have so much things, I don't know what to do with it all," instead of "I have so many things, I don't know what to do with them all."

I find that amusing! (That phrase is better rendered as "LOL" on other threads.)

Another thing that irks me to no end is the prevalent usage of "was like" in the place of "did", "said", "quoth", "exclaimed", "interjected", "replied", "answered", "threatened", "objected", "shrieked", "yelled", "called", "vocalized", "interrogated", "questioned", "queried", "inquired", "argued", "debated", "contested", "chuckled", "giggled", "laughed", "spoke", "hinted", "screamed", "lisped", "muttered", "mumbled", "grumbled", "murmured", "squawked", "rasped", "clucked", "tittered", "belched", "acquiesced", "admitted", "agreed", "conceded", "demanded", "ordered", "commanded", "barked", "purred", "tempted", "indicated", "hissed", "roared", "bellowed", "mused", "wondered", "decided", "proclaimed", "yawned", "spake", "gulped", "warbled", "sighed" (only on OT.cop would the connection between those words be apparent), "gasped", "sang", "hummed", "whistled", "chirped", "called", "groaned", "moaned", "spat", "cursed", "swore", "cussed", "snapped", "croaked", "growled", "suggested", "prompted", "urged", "acknowledged", "permitted", allowed", "wrote", "informed", "noted", "recognized", or "wavered" among teenagers and young adults today (and yesterday and tomorrow and several days before and after that).

Exactly. Except the fact that you can comment on this and have discussions/arguments and it is readily accessible right here on ot.com.

EDIT: And of course redundancy is right in line with my character.

I am also irritated by the improper usage of "your" and "you're" and of course "there", "their", and "they're". "They're" and "you're" aren't even pronounced the same as "there/their" and "your".

That leads to another thing that bothers me: when people mispronounce words. That is a pet peeve of mine, and I am equally annoyed when I do not know the pronunciation of a word. The words which tend to be mispronounced frequently include:

aye (pronounced like a long i; not "ae"),

yea (pronounced "yay"; not like the word "yeah"),

you're and they're (pronounced "you-er" and "they-er" respectively; not "yore" and "thare"),

voila (pronounced "vwah-luh"; not "wah-luh"),

our (this one I'm not sure about, but as far as I know it should be pronounced like "hour" rather than like "are"),

Thames (pronounced "temz"; not "thamez" or "tamez"),

and bury (I honestly don't know what is correct. I prefer "bar-ree" to "buh-ree, but "buh-ree" seems more likely to be correct).

Another pet peeve I have is the usage of phrases to describe something rather than using the designated term, such as using "the and symbol" instead of the word "ampersand" or "upside down E" as opposed to "schwa" (or "squiggly thing" instead of "tilde", etc.).

You're right...I will revise the title. I meant that I will be posting these in 2014, but the title is not representative of that fact.

xhonzi said:

I can't stand it when people misuse yeah/yay/yea.

Here's a little primer:

Yay! = A synonym for Hooray! (Yay, I got into college!)
Yea = An affirmative vote, antonym of Nay, or Biblical sentence starter (All for: Yea. All against: Nay; Yea, and in the fourth year it came to pass...)
Yeah - A casual synonym for "yes" (Yeah, it's okay I guess...)
Yah - Bill and Ted.     ("Ted, are you alright?"  "Yah!" "Excellent!" )
Yaw - Pivoting around the Z axis   (These jets adjust the spaceships yaw since there is no air in space on which to bank.)
Yar - Pirate for yes.  ("Cap'n, should we give chase to them scurvy dogs?"  "Yar!")
Yar - Pirate for no.  ("Cap'n, should we give chase to them scurvy dogs?"  "Yar.")

 ^THAT

Yeah, where is that Boost guy, I've never met him.

I like this thread.

Words like "amazing", "fantastic", "awesome", "awful", "terrible", "incredible", et al. used to actually mean different things! Go figure. "Amazing" once meant "causing amazement." "Fantastic" was used to describe something that seemed more fantasy than real life. "Awesome" and "awful" used to be synonyms, meaning "full of awe." "Terrible" things once inspired terror. Now they have been reduced to mean "bad." "Incredible" formerly meant "not credible" rather than "cool" which has also lost former connotations.

I could call something terrible, meaning that it was very scary, but since the word has lost its meaning it would not have the same effect, so I have to use a phrase rather than a single word to describe the silly thing.

January 7:

1610: Galileo discovers the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, and Ganymede.

1714: Henry Mill patents the typewriter.

The evolution of the keyboard began here...(unless you want to start with the invention of the alphabet).

darth_ender said:

Well doggonit, I don't know why I keep make silly errors like that, but I'm glad I'm showing the links too so you know what I meant to do.  Again, I apologize.

Hey, it happens to the best of us.

B*5d

 G-2h

darth_ender said:

I thought you might.  Technically only one gold general could have gone to that square, so I did not specify, but it occurred to me that you might forget that the other might not be able to make that backward diagonal step.

Bx8h

 I think you called the G-5b instead of G-5a, because I'm using the BCM Games Shogi software, which doesn't allow me to make illegal moves. But it doesn't matter, since my board now matches yours.

Sx8h

darth_ender said:

Let's try a strategy I've never tried before.

P-3d

Frinky

Those links are being helpful this game. I moved the wrong gold general in turn ten. 

K-1h

Finally a post here! This thread's been dead for two months.

I'm just doing my bit to keep this thread appropriate enough for me to read. ;)

Most new users would

a) pick up on the sarcasm

and

b) be more likely to be scared of with your hostility and your lack of humour.

Sure, maybe I should have left it Off Topic, but I figured enough people would get it that it wouldn't be a big deal. I guess I was mistaken.

darth_ender said:

G-5b

G-3h

I reek of Frink because I have a similar sense of humour. However, if you check out my thread here to see that I have an unusual amount of devotion to my sock account if I am a sock. And if I seem like Frink, that thread indicates otherwise.

Episode I: I prefer not to. Obvious reasons.

Episode II: See above.

Episode III: See above.

Episode IV: Adywan's version. I love his colour correction and his removal of stupid SE additions, and I also love his other additions like the improved graphics and TIE reveal as well as all the new rotoscoping and technical fixes.

Episode V: Will be Adywan's version for the reasons stated above, but is currently the original (though I've only seen the 2004 DVD version of it).

Episode VI: It will be Adywan's for the same reasons as the other movies (and I am also looking forward to any big changes he does to the Battle of Endor), but until then it is the original (though again I've only seen the 2004 DVD version).

Episode VII: I generally don't watch it, seeing as it doesn't exist yet and all that.

Episode VIII: See above.

Episode IX: See above.

Besides, you can ask the mods if you are so convinced. Not that that is conclusive, but it supports my non-sockiness.

darth_ender said:

Well, it's still a bit of a pain, since I would have switched the placement of my gold and silver generals, but I made the error, and it's not too big a deal.  I'll work with it.

Oh, well, it could have been worse.

K-3a

 K-2h