When you show your buddy The Matrix for the first time and they complain that it overuses bullet time effects.
To be fair, I thought that the first time I saw it back in 1999.
(I’ve never been a fan)
Ahhh a Dark City fan.
I’ve fallen for this when playing Ultima IV. “I dunno it’s kinda too generic” Only realized how stupid my way of thinking was when some people on Lemmy pointed it out.
Will always hold a place in my top 10.
Have you heard of Moonring? It’s a modern reimagination of the series (particularly 4 and beyond) with a hint from roguelikes’ combat and indie TTRPGs for the systems and the setting. I like the revamped talking interface and secrets scattered throughout its map.
HUH. I will have to look. The word “roguelike” is an immediate turn off but my love for the series is enough to make me curious anyway
That Socrates guy doing the Socratic method?? C’mon. Ancient Greek philosophy should learn to name their characters better.
;3
That used to be my attitude about the Dragon Quest series, that they always felt so generic. Wasn’t aware of how pioneering the series was.
As someone who spent a full time jobs worth of hours playing Dragon Warrior (NA release) III on my Game Boy Color… you couldn’t pay me to play that game again lol.
I once spent 2 weeks grinding in the final boss area because I didn’t recognize some obscure graphic on the wall to be doors to the final boss. Needless to say the final battle was anti-climactic.
This had me thinking of Avatar (blue alien one) and the Unobtanium bring called unobtanium.
I think it’s silly that they used the term as a term in a movie like that when it’s a trope term, but we have billionaires naming surveillance companies Palantir and the tunneling companies Boring Company. It feels somewhat accurate in that sense. Someone sort of vaguely nerdy, out of touch, and giving something a name that’s just way way way too on the nose.
That still pisses me off. I get the reference, and it’s still stupid. Then again so are the humans in that movie. They just had to nudge an asteroid so that it hit the area, then moved in with no local xenos or wildlife anywhere nearby. Nobody ever should have had to fight a single space smurf. I hate poorly written villains.
It is worse than that.
Assuming similar solar system formation physics as ours, there would have been plenty of unobtanium in the remnants from the forming of their solar system.
They shouldn’t have even needed to land.
Scientists are nerds, if a scientist in real life discovered a naturally occurring room temperature superconductor they would absolutely call it something nerdy like unobtanium.
My introduction to unobtanium was The Core, which is a bad movie, but one of my favorite movies lol
And the Trojan horse was literally shaped like a horse, a bit too on the nose, no?
Something something literacy in America… 😒
Doctor: “You have an oedypian complex.”
Oedypus: “I have a what?”
Doctor: “You heard me, motherfucker.”
“This comment really shows you have a ZeroGravitas complex,” They said in reply, their JackbyDev complex showing plain as day.
betting we’re gonna get this kinda feedback on the Neuromancer tv adaption
I was in a game store and I overheard a couple of guys learning how to play Netrunner (a cyberpunk hacking game) and one of them laughs and says “So, this is what happens when you can’t get the Shadowrun license!”
I coulda swore there was a legit Shadowrun rule set back in the day…
… there’s gonna be an adaptation of Neuromancer?! 😮💨
yeah the first real trailer dropped the other day
Wonder what percentage of people will claim it’s a CP2077 ripoff lol
Oh I hope so. Can’t wait to hear someone complain about the dub or the way they jack in to a cyber deck being a copy of the matrix.
The Achilles thing made me chuckle. And then it made me weep a bit because general education seems to be dead. I learnt about the Trojan war and attached mythology at school, doesn’t that happen anymore or is it an attention issue?
I don’t think I ever covered any Greek myths in school in the UK. Like many others I did have an interest in them so I did read the Iliad and Odyssey in my school years (though I don’t remember which translations). We did cover a few Norse myths; the bit of the Prose Edda with the giant Skrymir was one that stuck with me for some reason
At the end of the day there is simply far too much history to give everyone an overview of all of the big things. There are interesting aspects of the relationship between myth, history, historiography, and archaeology that I expect Troy could be a great subject for, but I don’t think there’s anything so unique about it that it has to be a topic
Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Victorians and WWI are all part of the UK national primary curriculum and have been for at least 30 years.
Yes, but there’s a lot to cover about them without touching any of the myths
Here in german speaking central europe i learnt (i wont stop using it just to piss @[email protected] off lol) about the wars among the greek citystates, with references to Homer, and later on when learning Latin (which i sucked at, but that’s not so important right now) we read excerpts and learnt (hahaha roflcopter) about the mythology a lot more. There also were references to the Greek mythology in our literature classes.
Thanks for letting me live rent free in your head!
Dude i’m just chuckling when i see you pop up. We could make a running gag out of it if you are up to it - i keep using “learnt” and you keep shitting on me for using something you are not used to lol
I would even offer that everytime i use it, i send you a PM so you can comment on my incorrect usage ;-)
Alas, poor atomicbocks, they learnt that people spelt some words differently in other parts of the world. Whilst they knew what was meant, 'twixt comment and reply all their indignation swept them up. They dreamt of a world in which they telt all speakers of the tongue how they ought to have exprest it
And all but two of these examples can still be heard regularly where I am!
What’s interesting is I use both “dreamt” and “dreamed”, depending on the circumstance. I’m not completely sure when I use one over the other.
Aw come on, stop ribbing him ;-) I looked up what he comments normally, and he seems like a stand up guy, and i have no hard feelings at all, as long as i made my point that education does not protect against assimilating different pidgins and integrating them into your common vocabulary.
Ahahaha, fair point, I respect that civility
I don’t remember learning about the Greek myths in Canada’s (Ontario) public school either. I heard about them for the first time when I studied it in a university history class. We did ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt as a young kid but I don’t believe the myths were mentioned.
Here in the U.S., we cover the Greek stuff A LOT. Like it is hammered into your head. The reason for this is, of course, the U.S. sees itself as the heir to Athenian Democracy and Roman Republicanism, so we have to really emphasize that in our conditionin… Uhhh education.
Studying Greek classics being used as an “America bad” is the biggest stretch, jfc. Not everything is a conspiracy. Take it down a notch.
That’s not an “America Bad” thing, it’s just fact? That’s the explicit reason for the entire framing of western history in American classrooms. We start with Egypt, then the hand the torch over to the Greeks, then they hand the torch to the Romans, then the Dark Ages (spoooooky), then the Renaissance, the British Empire, and then the USA. It’s one of our foundations for American Exceptionalism
I don’t think your history experiences sound very typical. I didn’t have anything about the Egyptians outside of pyramids in elementary school, very little Greek mythology, and then nothing about the Romans (beyond a bit about how they had good tech like aqueducts), dark ages (maybe a little about the plague and feudalism), or Renaissance. Did you go to a school with extra history requirements or something?
Sudying Greek history and mythology merely for the sake of propaganda and as a through line to exceptionalism is not a fact, no.
No, the reason is that the storytelling methods which we still use to this day originated in Greek drama and comedy. It’s foundational for a complete understanding of literature, theater, poetry, and indeed most all art forms. Any education without at least a significant time spent on the classics is utterly worthless.
Thank you for the sane take.
I read a lot of Greek mythology on my own and through elective classes but I think the only core course material I had on it was pretty brief. Shakespeare was pretty much every year starting in middle school but not much Greek.
Ya, like most things in the us, it’s not ubiquitous. But my experience was similar to yours. We covered it, but it wasn’t beaten into us like it was on some “we’re the heir to the Athenian dynasty” tip.
It’s fine, you’re allowed to learn things outside of school. Something many people apparently have completely forgotten.
Skrymir
Oh great, those nords are now copying Skyrim and changing letters around to try and hide it!
Interestingly, my education regarding norse mythology was sorely lacking after school. We touched a few subjects, but without personal initiative i wouldn’t know shit about it outside of Odin, Loki, Thor and the Midgard Snake.
Maybe it’s just anything Greek. I remember reading a comment chain right here on Lemmy like 6 months ago, something about a thing/machine/software named Prometheus. One commenter wondered why they’d name themselves after an Alien movie.
Ouch. Prometheus himself would probably have turned around and returned the fire where it came from if he knew about that.
That’s not how forethought works!!
“I still get punished for helping those idiots thousands of years ago? Boy, that was so not worth it.”
Right!? The Alien from ‘Kablam!’ who taught Bob deserves better than that.
Thanks for reminding me about Kablam!
Deep cut lol
Yeah, after suffering so much.
We did too but that was a few decades ago.
I took a whole Greek Lit class in high school… but that was like 20+ years ago.
fuck I’m getting old
at least you are not growing old alone, i going with ya all the way ;-)
…general education seems to be dead.
…learnt…
Is this intentional irony?
So your edit is just “I’m wrong but going to pretend I’m not”, neat
That’s not what I said.
Sure thing, keep telling yourself
“Learnt” is how the British spell the past tense of “learn.” It’s perfectly valid.
no, that was unintentional. But if you really like my mistakes as a non-native speaker you can print them out, stick them to the bedroom wall and masturbate to them to fuel your superiority; i aim to please.
Edit: I looked it up, it’s correct. You can still use it as a masturbatory template if you wish so.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/learnt -> past tense and past participle of learn in american english.
Learned is more commonly used than learnt.
From your own link…
But I guess reading would get in the way of being a pervert.
“More commonly used” doesn’t mean that the other is incorrect, as your comment implies. Also, it’s only more common in the US, and we can’t tell where the person is from by his initial comment.
I’m from the EU and originally learnt (haha) UK English, but since i’m a net citizen, some americanisms have found their way into my vocabulary - understandable when taking US exceptionalism into account.
“Less common” is not the same as “wrong”, and it’s doubly not the same as “wrong” when it actually just means “normal in other dialects of the language”
Ain’t is in the dictionary, it’s still considered incorrect.
Pretty sure that ain’t right.
It’s considered informal, and in some dialects (mine included) unusual. The Grammarly link you edited into your first comment doesn’t even support a classification of “learnt” as informal, it literally just describes it as a dialect difference. You’re doing the same thing as telling a Brit that they’re spelling the word incorrectly if they write “colour”
I think you are confusing informal and irregular in this case.
Prescriptivist assholes being wrong is like the sweetest nectar
As a former ESL professor, I both learnt and taught: learnt, dreamt, was, became, began, taught, blew, meant, brought, thought, caught, drew, felt, fought, lit, grew etc. as part of the (very long) list of irregular English verbs in the past and participle forms.
I’m assuming your insistence is born (not borned) out of embarrassment over your initial mistake. It’s ok to not know something, admitting a mistake is a far better look.
What part of me posting the correct answer is insisting? I really don’t understand why everyone needs this to be a gotcha so please fuck off.
Sure bruv
Does it mean the word mentee is wrong? (please say yes even though that’s not how language works so I don’t feel stupid for not having known it in high school)
basically “why’s pythagora using the pythagorean theorem??”
Smartest Twitter user.
Odysseus: “Its time for us to embark on our Odyssey.”
Crew: “Our what now?”
Odysseus: “A long an arduous trip named after its only survivor.”
Crew: “Oh, ok… wait a minute…”
I had a friend do this. Not in the theatre, but a week later when we were talking about the movie. I wasn’t sure how to tell him without embarrassing him, but he joked about it himself later.
