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Indeed. I was missing it.
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I'm making progress with tweezers. It's no great loss given Dai Atlas minor roles anyway, I really do prefer this mold for Titans Overlord and Sky Shadow,
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Had that happen once. Drilled a 1 mmhole in the peg and superglued a rivet into it for something to pull on.
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pliers, superglue, heat, nothing has worked so far but I had to take yesterday off due to pfizer side effects.
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is there enough plastic sticking out to yank it out with pliers?
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Oh great my Legends Dai Atlas fell and the gun snapped in two, the handle is stuck in the port on top of the vehicle mode.
@  Nevermore : (21 May 2021 - 04:14 AM)

Also, our compound terms are legendary among foreigners, because we throw them together as a single word, with no spaces and usually without hyphens too.
@  Nevermore : (21 May 2021 - 04:12 AM)

You can have straightforward sentences that are a literal word-replace translation of stuff like "I go to school", but once you throw in perfect tense and prepositions, you end up with insane constructions where the main verb is at the very end of a very long sentence, so you have to listen to the whole sentence until you have any clue what is going on.
@  Nevermore : (21 May 2021 - 04:10 AM)

And I stand by that. German sentence structure can be utterly insane.
@  Nevermore : (21 May 2021 - 04:10 AM)

Fun fact: When I was teaching German kids English, I kept telling them that English grammar and especially sentence structure is more logical than German.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (21 May 2021 - 01:17 AM)

e.g. Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den was by a Chinese guy pointing out the weirdness in his own language, rather than the frustrations of somebody learning Chinese as their second. So English isn't the only case where native speakers might enocunter funky issues.
@  PlutoniumBoss : (21 May 2021 - 01:17 AM)

Then I shall concede, and retire.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (21 May 2021 - 01:14 AM)

I'm not sure if that's even all that unique to English.
@  PlutoniumBoss : (21 May 2021 - 01:07 AM)

Which is why I specified those comparing learning it to learning other languages as a second language.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (21 May 2021 - 01:04 AM)

And I don't think "ancedotal frustration" means much, considering that every language has complaints from people trying to learn it.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (21 May 2021 - 01:03 AM)

The fact that these stand out certainly makes Japanese "not a smoothie". And it's only consistent within more recent loanwords. Older ones stick out in a different way.
@  PlutoniumBoss : (21 May 2021 - 01:00 AM)

Even writing them generally in katakana is a consistent treatment, and gives someone learning the language a general expected approach. I'd say the anecdotal frustration with English by those learning it compared to learning other languages as a second language is a demonstration that this sort of consistency and organization was not a valued thing in the past few centuries of the language's development.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (21 May 2021 - 12:28 AM)

Frankly, it just sounds like you think other languages seem a certain way because you don't look into them all that much.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (21 May 2021 - 12:28 AM)

It's pretty pervasive in Japanese as well, with how these feature into everyday speech.. And I don't know what you even mean by "deep", since writing them in a particular character set basically calls attention to not just their derivative nature, but their relative recency as well.
@  PlutoniumBoss : (21 May 2021 - 12:25 AM)

Indeed, every language has those artifacts if you examine deeply enough, but in English they're not deep, and they're pervasive.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (20 May 2021 - 11:56 PM)

like Japanese using three different script types together, and more recent word borrowings tend to be in katakana.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (20 May 2021 - 11:51 PM)

I don't know what you mean by "cohesively". Borrowings are probably obvious if you know what to look for.
@  PlutoniumBoss : (20 May 2021 - 10:16 PM)

I say that not because it draws from diverse sources, but because it doesn't bother integrating what it takes as cohesively as other languages. It's a salad, not a smoothie.
@  wonko the sane? : (20 May 2021 - 04:27 PM)

If you're going by that definition: the only real language is the one that immediately followed cave man grunts.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (20 May 2021 - 04:22 PM)

Maybe there are uniquely unruly aspects of English. But to say that it's "just a glorified creole" (or whatever) due to having multiple sources is, well, you could say a lot of languages aren't actually languages by that standard.
@  wonko the sane? : (20 May 2021 - 04:13 PM)

It's to excuse the fact that native speakers are some of the most poorly taught and spoken in the language.
@  NotVeryKnightly : (20 May 2021 - 03:58 PM)

Why do people bring up "English borrows from lots of other languages" as if that makes English uniquely chaotic? Lots of languages have multiple different sources.
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English is just a glorified creole of a half-dozen or so other languages anyway.
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We mustav elocution lessons so foreign visitors can understand wor engerlish. If not fer them dee it for the wee bairns.
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Me fail english? That unpossible!
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That non corrects.
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English has no real rules. You can use anything as any type of verb as long as you don't care enough to think about it.
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"The toy is shipping now." Okay, so what is it shipping? "The movie is releasing." Releasing... what?
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Am I the only one getting annoyed by people using transitive verbs that should require the passive voice when used as the subject of a sentence as active verbs without an object? Prominent examples: "Ship" and "release".
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What's the conversion rate of Quatloos to Triganic Pu?
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Quatloos are only redeemable on Omega 3.
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Americans will measure with anything but the Metric system.
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My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's how I like it!
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Drams are liquid volume, and hectares are land volume.

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The Legend of Korra

Started by Whirl, Feb 23 2010 09:39 PM

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#3181 Ironbite

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 01:26 PM

So let me get this straight.  According to the world we're ok with women getting suffocated, blown up, electrocuted, and burned to death but two girls declaring their love for one another by hand holding and staring lovingly into one another's eyes is "open to speculation"?

 

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 01:34 PM

no.

 

it's just not something a children's network's advertisers, shareholders, or the bible belt is comfortable with.

 

and yes America has a very notorious 'Violence okay/ Sex bad' culture

 

after all  'an eye for an eye' is fine... but having a peak at SnG = turn to salt

 

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#3183 Fero McPigletron

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 01:47 PM

Which lady got burned to death?

Earth queen - suffocated
Combustion lady - head blown up
Water bender amputee - electrocuted (I didn't realize she died. Mako killed her!)

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 04:01 PM

Violence being okay isn't as clear cut as that. Gore, for instance, is considered too extreme for young children's programming.


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I think the concept of being educated and being able to educate is something that more people need more of in their lives.

No, we don't all know everything but we should spread and share that what we do know.

If I'm consistently misspelling a word, I would want and expect people to correct me as should I imagine all decent people who know the value of good literacy.

Its just arrogant laziness to know you're spelling a word incorrectly and not correct yourself or ignore the advice when people do tell you how to spell a word correctly.

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 06:24 PM

Also note how carefully everyone avoids the word related to death. 


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#3186 Chris McFeely

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 06:35 PM

"carefully" = with thudding, distracting obviousness


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Posted 25 December 2014 - 07:08 PM

'Least they weren't sent to another dimension. "HFIL" I think it's name was. :p


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QUOTE(Bass X0 @ Aug 17 2013, 08:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I think the concept of being educated and being able to educate is something that more people need more of in their lives.

No, we don't all know everything but we should spread and share that what we do know.

If I'm consistently misspelling a word, I would want and expect people to correct me as should I imagine all decent people who know the value of good literacy.

Its just arrogant laziness to know you're spelling a word incorrectly and not correct yourself or ignore the advice when people do tell you how to spell a word correctly.

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 08:46 PM

Kuvira's sentence is community service. She must work for Santa in delivering gifts to every child on the planet:

 

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So I'm guessing all these kids are getting rocks, erector sets, or Titanium Series figures?


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Posted 25 December 2014 - 09:46 PM

Nah lead paint boxes ;)

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Posted 26 December 2014 - 07:27 PM

So, Tom Preston ended up making a 'Korrasami' super-Cut, which narrows down the series to everything involving the two, just to see how well it did or didn't play out. He's posted the file for download to any that want to judge for themselves:

 

http://tompreston.de...R-CUT-502574662


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Posted 26 December 2014 - 09:11 PM

Excuse me if I don't want to touch anything Tom "inflation fetish" Preston puts out.


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Posted 26 December 2014 - 09:38 PM

Excuse me if I don't want to touch anything Tom "inflation fetish" Preston puts out.

 

Yes, because that is anything near relevant here, its like ignoring my posts because my avatar is an Anthro Bat considering how much hate furries get. -_-


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Posted 27 December 2014 - 02:46 PM

yeah I've got the blurays I'll just watch  them again


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Posted 27 December 2014 - 02:52 PM

 

Excuse me if I don't want to touch anything Tom "inflation fetish" Preston puts out.

 

Yes, because that is anything near relevant here, its like ignoring my posts because my avatar is an Anthro Bat considering how much hate furries get. -_-

 

 

To be fair, Preston can be a touch delusional when it comes to fiction (look at his views on Link from LoZ)

 

Still it's better to judge things on their own merits.


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Posted 28 December 2014 - 05:18 AM

Is this like that video of the first three eps of Transformers Armada with all the kid related scenes removed?

(wow, TF Armada is a decade plus ago already)

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Posted 28 December 2014 - 07:47 AM

Finally got to see the last four episodes last night and this morning, and I have to say...wow. They knew it was coming to an end, and yet, it doesn't feel like it's ending. There's so much more room to maneuver in this universe.

 

Perhaps one day, we'll see where things go. Still, one hundred and thirteen episodes (is that the count?) sounds like a good length for any franchise.


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Posted 05 August 2015 - 06:16 PM

Chief Lin Beifong statue/model kit?

 

There are parts of toys/collecting/merch that I don't pay much attention to, but this is the first time I've seen anything for Korra.

I hope this is a sign of more to come.

 

edit:

Seems like the whole point of this company, at the moment, is going to be making Avatar statues.

Cool, but not really my thing.


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Posted 05 August 2015 - 09:41 PM

Nice, but something's off with that statue's face. The jaw line might be a little too soft? I don't know exactly what it is, but the result is that she doesn't read as tough as she should.


#3199 Eneon

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Posted 05 August 2015 - 09:44 PM

Yeah, she looks younger or something.



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Posted 06 August 2015 - 08:20 AM

likely it's book five Lin, after she's let go of all the anger and goes on a quest to track down her Dad.

 

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I can't wait to start reading the comic that's coming out soon


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