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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[–] enkille@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

E-sports should be hyphenated, or at the very least stylized as eSports.

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 months ago (13 children)

"Roguelike" has become overused to the point that it's basically meaningless. Nobody's even played Rogue so it just means "a game that's like other games that are described as roguelike," which is like, any game. There's a set of games where the term originated where it actually made sense, games like Angband, ADOM, Castle of the Winds, etc, that are all closely related where the term makes sense. Cogmind and Pixel Dungeon are more recent examples.

Some of it gets resolved by describing those as "traditional roguelikes," and using other descriptors like "action rougelike" for Hades or "rougelike deckbuilder" for Slay the Spire, but like at that point why not just use "Hadeslike" or "Spirelike" instead of constantly harking back to this 40 year old game?

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 22 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Brioche is an inferior burger bun.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Slackware is still an important and useful distro.
It doesn't make any assumptions about how you want to use your computer.
Do you want a system that's more stable than Debian or as bleeding edge as Arch?
Do you want a minimal system that runs on an old 486 or a full-featured KDE desktop?
Do you want to compile from source, download tarballs from Github, install .deb packages, .rpm packages or FlatPaks?
Are you running a web server or a laptop?
Slackware don't care. There's no "Don't break Debian", no "Partial upgrades are unsupported", no "Don't mix in other repos", no "Don't edit this file, it will be overwritten". Do whatever the fuck you want, it's your PC.

[–] cmoney@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's a water heater, not a hot water heater, why would anyone want to heat water that's already hot?

[–] nick@midwest.social 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well technically the tanks do heat the water that is already hot, to maintain the temp.

But I do get your point; I myself say that sometimes by accident.

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[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (19 children)

Don’t use the term impacted when you mean affected. Use impacted only for when physical bodies collide. Never use bastardized variants of impact such as impacts, impactfullness, impactedly, etc.

Don’t use the term concept when you mean idea.

[–] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

I've heard effect and affect so many times but never this one.

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[–] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Games with kernel level anti-cheat.

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[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Loose and lose bother me. When I see these words used incorrectly, I become mildly irritated.

I figuratively would of had fewer of a reaction if less persons made that missed steak… literally.

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[–] LMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

3 meals a day is completely unnecessary, and just eating one large meal works just as well. Saves time, too. I can sleep in because no breakfast to worry about cooking, lunch can be used to just relax or do something else, and then dinner is larger, but cooking more of the same food doesn't generally take that much longer.

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[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 4 months ago (11 children)

The paperclip character from Microsoft Office is called Clippit, not Clippy.

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[–] Brocon@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Black and White Checkered Vans High Tops are not good shoes.

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[–] tmp21@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I can't take people who say "your guyses" seriously.

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[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I will always choose to read stupidly spelled product or brand names exactly as written.

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[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 16 points 4 months ago (6 children)

People trying to stop an industrial war machine built on religious differences and racism by saying "I'm not voting for ______ until _____ happens" are ineffective idiots too stupid to understand the blatant bullshit they're peddling or the power they have in their vote.

If you want to change a politician's mind, you don't do it by dangling your vote on a carrot.

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[–] Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The way too common misuse of the personal pronoun in the objective case. There are legitimate grammatical uses for "me" and the objective case is one of them. Learn it, kids.

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