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I got the Shen Yen brochure in the mail and these “testimonies” are cracking me up. They have these (maybe fake?) quotes from Cate Blanchett and Donna Karan praising Shen Yun performances. They even have Shirley Ballas from Strictly Come Dancing say it was “beautifully choreographed”! 😂 Well, maybe it is beautiful, but isn’t Shen Yun connected to a cult? I still laughed at the random quotes from famous people.
 
Yoshi155 said:
I know you can’t actually do this in game, but if you applied real life logic, it’s strange that no one’s ever tried this.
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how would you apply real life logic to a game with a bound set of logical rules?

pokémon don't exist in real life. 🤔
 
fenables said:
of course! just trying to decipher the thought lol.
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Here’s a better wording of what I said at first: “What if Pokémon existed in real life?”. If Pokémon were real, what if someone used Perish Song into a microphone?
 
I wrote my dad's obituary yesterday. Since it can only be so long, I tried my best to get across the most important facts, traits, and joys about my dad.

But it got me thinking now complex each person is. How many dads I've seen over the years in the papers and online who have passed- how much many of them meant to people- and how I will never know all the ins and outs of that specific person and the things about them their family loved or hated most.

I have more compassion now. We all get stuck in this strange rut of self-centeredness (not the bad kind, just regular human experience), where we feel like the center of the universe. How the people we love at the center of our universe. How other people don't "understand" or "love as much" or "experience what we have".

This main character syndrome is very hurtful to society. I know that the internet magnifies this problem a bit, but I have seen it in person more than I did when I was younger!
 
QueenCobra said:
I got the Shen Yen brochure in the mail and these “testimonies” are cracking me up. They have these (maybe fake?) quotes from Cate Blanchett and Donna Karan praising Shen Yun performances. They even have Shirley Ballas from Strictly Come Dancing say it was “beautifully choreographed”! 😂 Well, maybe it is beautiful, but isn’t Shen Yun connected to a cult? I still laughed at the random quotes from famous people.
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Another quote was from Celeste Holm, an actress who died in 2012. I looked up when she saw the show and it was around the time she had Alzheimer’s. I mean…Alzheimers’s or not, if one of your most relevant reviews is from 12 years ago, you need new quotes.
 
Every time I go back to something I've written, I'm always surprised by how descriptive and formal it is, especially in school assignments. I have this wonderfully extensive vocabulary, and it's only ever utilized in whatever subject I write. Some examples I can think of are "jeopardizing the affordability" (journal entry about rental housing for finance class) and "[It] won't make you prone to violence and debauchery" (opinionated article for English class)... I can assure you that I don't say 'debauchery' in casual conversation, I would just use a simpler, more slang-ish alternative.

Of course, I'm not saying I'm the most linguistically enriched person alive, but it's interesting to see the comparison of how I write vs. how I talk. I can't say my stories and journal prompts from elementary school were that detailed. They weren't bad per se, I did have some interesting ideas, but it was lacking panache. Using big words back then felt really odd my writing, so I'm glad I can use all kinds of language without it feeling out-of-place.
 
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There’s a reason why Haley couldn’t win the GOP primary. It’s because the very idea that the criminal charges against another presidential candidate were politically motivated exists. As long as people believe in such crazy idea, we can’t have a democracy.
 
ZeldaCrossing64 said:
Every time I go back to something I've written, I'm always surprised by how descriptive and formal it is, especially in school assignments. I have this wonderfully extensive vocabulary, and it's only ever utilized in whatever subject I write. Some examples I can think of are "jeopardizing the affordability" (journal entry about rental housing for finance class) and "[It] won't make you prone to violence and debauchery" (opinionated article for English class)... I can assure you that I don't say 'debauchery' in casual conversation, I would just use a simpler, more slang-ish alternative.

Of course, I'm not saying I'm the most linguistically enriched person alive, but it's interesting to see the comparison of how I write vs. how I talk. I can't say my stories and journal prompts from elementary school were that detailed. They weren't bad per se, I did have some interesting ideas, but it was lacking panache. Using big words back then felt really odd my writing, so I'm glad I can use all kinds of language without it feeling out-of-place.
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I did the same thing. I think I used a thesaurus or one of those sites similar to that. Oh yeah that sounds like a fancy word, I'll use that for extra points lol.
 
-Blue- said:
I did the same thing. I think I used a thesaurus or one of those sites similar to that. Oh yeah that sounds like a fancy word, I'll use that for extra points lol.
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Exactly what I did! Of course 10-year-old me wasn't going around using "colloquialism" or some equally fancy-sounding word for the hell of it, but I would intentionally use basic words and replace them with better synonyms for extra points, like 'joyful' instead of 'happy'.
I still use the thesaurus on a regular basis, but that's mostly because I don't like having repetitive writing. I actually did that for that post I made. I didn't wanna use 'descriptive' twice, so I replaced it with 'detailed' instead.
 
ZeldaCrossing64 said:
Exactly what I did! Of course 10-year-old me wasn't going around using "colloquialism" or some equally fancy-sounding word for the hell of it, but I would intentionally use basic words and replace them with better synonyms for extra points, like 'joyful' instead of 'happy'.
I still use the thesaurus on a regular basis, but that's mostly because I don't like having repetitive writing. I actually did that for that post I made. I didn't wanna use 'descriptive' twice, so I replaced it with 'detailed' instead.
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I still do it occasionally because I write in my spare time as a hobby. Most of the stuff I write is fantasy and not articles or anything similar. We use idioms all the time and I didn't notice how much until I started writing.

Reginald Fairfield said:
I found Brazilian candy bar ads with big-butted chocolate bar people.

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