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Unread postby icycalm » 11 Jan 2013 14:14

I must have read that piece at least three times. Weird that I didn't pick up on this myself, thank you.

Also, typo thread moved back to the Welcome forum from Off-topic, since Off-topic will be leaving us soon.
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Unread postby Texas » 07 Feb 2013 17:52

http://insomnia.ac/commentary/hardware_porn_prologue/

It was such an unbeliavably exciting time
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Unread postby NeoKubrick » 15 Feb 2013 03:34

http://culture.vg/reviews/in-depth/stre ... 08-ac.html
SF4 also copies dashes from SF3, and to try to compliment them, the designers slowed down the walk speed.


It should read as "and to try to complement them".
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Unread postby icycalm » 15 Feb 2013 03:53

I am not so sure about that. At first I latched onto that too, but then I felt that complement does not fit very well either, because you are not "complementing" the dashes by slowing down the walking speed, for the two aspects may be distantly related, in terms of the mechanics, but fundamentally they are separate things. There's no immediate connection between them, so that the they could be said to complement each other. Complimenting isn't the right word either, but I think it gets closer to what he means, as in, by slowing down the walking speed the designers are "bringing out" the usefulness of the SF4-copied dashes, and in this sense "complimenting" them, I guess, if your grasp of English is poor.

We really need a new word here, and I am too tired after several hours of formatting and editing to think one up (which is why I left the current word as is).

As for Texas's correction, it's fixed in the book. The essays in the book have been thoroughly edited before publication (in substance too, in a few cases), and there's only one serious typo I am aware of in the first book. I plan to update the ones online too when I move them over to the new site.

And by the way, typos in the books should also be reported here, and will be fixed in future editions.
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Unread postby NeoKubrick » 15 Feb 2013 04:39

I assumed that it was just a typo, not an editing choice. I usually reserve 'compliment' for something one person gives to another person. Strictly, 'Complement' does not fit either, as you said, in the sense of his meaning. I can't think of an appropriate substitute except maybe the verb 'effect'.
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Unread postby icycalm » 15 Feb 2013 05:00

"SF4 also copies dashes from SF3, and to try to EFFECT them, the designers slowed down the walk speed."

You want to substitute something that almost makes sense with utter gibberish? After half a day of mind-numbingly boring formatting and editing work, I have to come to my forum to take this asinine bullshit from you?

Next time you test my patience you are gone. You'd already be gone if you weren't a staff member. If you are too dumb to contribute anything of substance, then just don't.
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Unread postby icycalm » 15 Feb 2013 05:14

And look at this fucking retarded bullshit:

NeoKubrick wrote:I usually reserve 'compliment' for something one person gives to another person.


Oh, the illiterate retard usually reserves blah blah blah, as if anyone gives a fuck what illiterate retards reserve for what. So you don't know how to use phrases like "Those earings compliment your face" -- but of what interest are your retarded incapacities to those who are not retarded?

Jesus fucking christ today. This is the thanks I get for half a day's worth of tedious fucking work. Is it possible to collaborate on a videogame site with someone who's not spastic?
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Unread postby icycalm » 15 Feb 2013 05:19

Even the sentence you used to try and point out the correction was stupid:

NeoKubrick wrote:It should read as "and to try to complement them".


There should be no "as" here. How old are you? Either you are below 15, or English is not your first language -- and you suck at it (in which case omg why are you trying to play the editor?) -- or you are clinically slow in some manner -- in which case omg why are you trying to play the editor once more?

Don't fucking reply. I am so pissed off I'll ban the entire fucking forum if I hear another stupid word from you.
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Unread postby icycalm » 15 Feb 2013 05:23

And now of course, people will be scared and less willing to point out corrections here. That's what the retards do to me, like that Nic P moron who slowed my Online forum to a halt for almost an entire month after I kicked him out of my Lost Planet 2 party. These morons FORCE me to be rude to them -- the very LAST thing I want is to be rude -- and then because everyone else here is a cowardly weakling with the self-confidence of a new-born panda, after every time I give someone the drubbing down they deserve the fucking forum slows to a halt, and it takes fucking WEEKS and MONTHS of work to get it going again. Which of course makes me despise the morons EVEN MORE, if that were even possible.

Jesus fucking christ today. You are lucky you are not within striking distance from me, dude. I would have fucking choked you.
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Unread postby icycalm » 15 Feb 2013 05:28

And all of this for what? Because you have nothing better to do today in the institution you are locked up, than to come here and play English editor even though you can barely string two sentences together without mangling the fucking language beyond recognition. All of this simply because you are bored today and lack the sense to realize whose fucking patience you are messing with -- that's for what.
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Unread postby mothmanspirit » 23 Feb 2013 07:46

http://insomnia.ac/commentary/the_video ... ws_racket/

Alex Kierkegaard wrote:They give everyone everything they could possibly ask for -- no matter how worthless, banal or even deprived.


Did you mean depraved? This is also in the book.
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Unread postby icycalm » 23 Feb 2013 18:29

Yep, good one. I'll put it on the list of fixes for the second edition, thanks.
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Unread postby MrPattywagon » 08 Mar 2013 05:51

http://culture.vg/features/commentary/dr-mundolove.html

Derivations from this pattern (running kill lanes in bot for example)


I think Sullla meant "deviations". A kill lane is a contrast to or opposite of the AD/support pattern he is describing; it is not derived from it. Sullla correctly used "derivation" earlier in the essay so he knows how to use the word but I'm pretty sure it's wrong here.

(I've long liked Sullla's material on the Civilization series and am happy that so much of the best of his writing has been incorporated into Insomnia. They're wonderful additions.)
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Unread postby Amor fati » 29 Mar 2013 21:26

http://culture.vg/features/commentary/c ... ction.html

Fabius Mayland wrote:The television series was so engrossing that we watched the entire seaon on Netflix in a single sitting.
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Unread postby El Chaos » 07 Apr 2013 17:18

http://culture.vg/features/commentary/i ... lling.html

Fabius Mayland wrote:This is made clear multiple times. So this is the "rule set" of the matrix. It's obviously not our rule set (they perform superhuman feats), but it is a rule set nontheless.
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Unread postby El Chaos » 05 Nov 2013 23:35

http://culture.vg/reviews/in-depth/beyo ... 3-ps3.html

S.A. Renegade wrote:As for the story side of things, I also like the concept, I mean, who wouldn't want a ghost friend that lets them run around being a god moding troll? Are you fucking kidding me? Think of the possibilities.

S.A. Renegade wrote:The plot basically amount to: there's a secret ghost world, the military wants to harness it for their greedy interests but obviously can't control it, so you have to stop them and save the world because you have ghost powers.

S.A. Renegade wrote:See, meeting the killer's mother in Heavy Rain actually served a purpose in leading you to discover his current identity.

Did he mean "real identity" here?
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Unread postby El Chaos » 29 Nov 2013 23:44

http://culture.vg/reviews/videogame-art ... 86-ac.html

icycalm wrote:Why did this game, and the genre it launched, became such a huge success?
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Unread postby El Chaos » 30 Nov 2013 00:55

icycalm wrote:But let's take it a step at the time.

Shouldn't this be "a step at a time"?

icycalm wrote:Guardian Heroes and Viewtiful Joe appear to be among the handful of exceptions to this rule, but they are not really, since Guardian Heroes still works in a three-dimensional space since it features two tracks of movement, which is to say TWO PLANES instead of one, and Viewtiful Joe bamboozles you into forgetting how restricted a single-plane beat 'em up is by throwing as many special powers, slow-mo zoom-ins and gimmicky variety segments at you as it can (whilst Guardian Heroes achieves the same sort of effect through leveling and stat customization, remember).

Guardian Heroes actually has three planes.

icycalm wrote:You'd need a modern dual stick controller with a ton of buttons, and you'd need some serious technical wizardry and a shittload of sprite frames and scaling effects, but it could be done.
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Unread postby El Chaos » 06 Jan 2014 00:51

http://culture.vg/reviews/in-depth/pape ... 13-pc.html

Meekrob wrote:I didn’t realize that was a controversial opinion and people needed to be play a boring game in order to be convinced of it.
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Unread postby icycalm » 12 Jan 2014 21:09

Finally got around to fixing the typos pointed out in the last few months (except the ones for which I'll have to get in touch with the authors for clarification; these will take longer). Thanks to everyone who pitched in, and especially Chaos.

(My Guardian Heroes error was not a typo, by the way. I really did think the game had only two planes. That's the impression I got from reading Josh's review and from skimming a YouTube video. But I will be playing the game eventually because I want to write a new review with which to replace Josh's.)
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Unread postby jeffrobot494 » 23 Jan 2014 19:04

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icycalm wrote:But above all with a fuckload of talent and a crapload of resources. Which is were you come in.
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Unread postby System Blower » 08 Feb 2014 22:22

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icycalm wrote:With Hercalitus it's flux, with Schopenhauer will, with Stirner the ego, with Kierkegaard faith, with Niezsche power,


icycalm wrote:Speaking comes first, even historically, and grammar much later, not the other way around, as Chmosky and his followers still seem unable to understand.


icycalm wrote:It is idiotic to talk about software when the hardware than can run it is lacking.


icycalm wrote:187. You are never closer to someone, than when you fucking or killing them.


icycalm wrote:171. The feminine feelings being idealized and glorified in Twilight are wonderful, because perfectly complementary to the male.


icycalm wrote:For there is, of course, no more staunch proponent of manliness than woman, just as the there is no greater lover of feminity than man.


icycalm wrote:Not the faintest clue that your protagonists should be better looking than your fucking neighbors, at the very at least.


icycalm wrote:Wake up you fucking eurotrash! movies are supposed to be exciting!


icycalm wrote:In short, "deep philosophical questions" are only asked — and answered — in philosophical works, duh, and if you still except show business people or novelists or journalists or clowns or gypsies or priests or politicians, or your fucking aunt Bertha, to pose, much less answer them, you need to have YOUR FUCKING DNA CHECKED.


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Unread postby icycalm » 12 Feb 2014 12:09

Several of these are not mistakes, but I fixed the rest, thanks.
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Unread postby ingolfr » 27 Mar 2014 05:01

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298. Gerry Coulter doesn't understand what Baudrillard means by evil (as seen, for example, in his obituary of Robert McNamara, "To Speak The Name Of Evil"). Coulter uses the classical subhuman (and later Nietzschean) definition of evil = power. But Baudrillard's evil is not power, but the reaction to power, which is, of course, weakness (for if it weren't then power wouldn't be power either lol), consistent with his inversion of all Nietzschean terminology. Coulter is just not subtle enough to understand what Baudrillard is doing, so he stays with the classical definition, interpreting it moreover, in a moralistic fashion. Yes, the Allies where more evil (i.e. more powerful) than the Axis powers, and that's why they won; so what's your problem, dude?
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Unread postby icycalm » 27 Mar 2014 20:26

Thanks, I fixed it, but you have an active account on the site, you don't have to post corrections here.
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