I guess this makes sense. I'm "Normal" on first play, usually "Hard" on second or later plays, which I would say I do about 10% of the time. I don't find extreme modes fun, and I don't have small kids, so I don't need to play on Easy. So, on balance, Normal.
@tshirtman@evan I've found that the pro Russia agitators are some of the least trustworthy in general. Take Jackson Hinkle, who is saying pro-Palestine stuff for now, but has been generally okay with supporting (and denying) ethnic cleansing of Kurds by Assad.
So even when those people are right once, it seems based on "America bad" rather than any supporting anything good. Which means they're often okay with also supporting super lousy stuff.
@nus@evan yeah, i don't know this one in particular, but i've seen people use the palestinian cause to push pro-assad narratives, it's disgusting. I believe it's a strategy of co-opting passions about important subjects and redirect them into their particular politics, rather than being accidentally right about one thing.
While and whilst. Not looking the usage up and I know the latter is archaic, but...
I use while to state something happened within the same time span. I use whilst to introduce a time span or something asserted (usually as true) followed by another clause that what happened in the time span or something important about what happened because of the assert.
Whilst Feliz would easily pass as a Kenyan woman cosplaying an elf with cyan-dyed skin—she bled copper—her flying saucer pilot was a whole different can of worms. The dragon-humanoid groused, arms crossed. "I hate wearing clothes."
I appreciated he did anyway. A lot. At the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval we were going to, they'd likely appreciate if he didn't. A lot.
@sfwrtr to disambiguate between those two uses of while, wouldn't although work? In your example, I think although can be placed which is neither archaic nor ambiguous about what to expect next
@luc "Though" fits generically but lacks a time or duration nuance. You understand the term "overloaded operator." Though/although is that. This doesn't mean I don't use "though" the majority of the time. "Whilst" has to sound right for the sentence for me to include it.
Apple Music has released its inaugural list of the 100 best albums of all time. Lauryn Hill's "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill"came in at No. 1, sparking some debate by music fans who thought Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was a more worthy winner. Here's a story from the Independent about the list. We want to know, which of these DIDN'T make the top 10?
@allenmichie Some of the backlash against Apple has also focused on the fact that the company effectively destroyed the concept of the album when it introduced the iPod, and yet... “The list is an editorial statement,” says the press release, “fully independent of any streaming numbers on Apple Music — a love letter to the records that have shaped the world music lovers live and listen in.”
39% of the people who participated in this vote thought that "Abbey Road" by The Beatles didn't make Apple Music's top 10, but the correct answer was Joni Mitchell's "Blue," which Apple placed at No. 16.
The list proved controversial, partly because some folk were confused at how it was put together (it was chosen by Apple Music’s experts plus musicians like Pharrell Williams and Charli XCX, plus songwriters, producers and other industry pros), and partly because Apple is largely believed to have killed the concept of the album by introducing the iPod.
This post by @Paperposts tickled us — he pointed out that the UX for discovering the list was woeful — "a horrible, empty husk of an acquisition mechanic."