Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I mean, I’m gonna be honest here… I’ve been duped before by games (15 years old fallout 4 fuck you bethesda) but a game like GTA 6 is kindof too big to fail. Like it’s already gonna be one of the highest selling games ever, no doubt. And I don’t think anything about how any one company acts is gonna change the way the “industry as a whole” operates. This is just what they do to us, no matter what. Rockstar makes good games, great games even.

I’m gonna shell out too much money for this dumb game cuz I’m gonna get a lot of fun out of it when I’m shacked up in the winter. I grew up playing games like this casually and the effect that has on even anti-corporate people like me is huge. I just wanna have some fun while the world ends. Idk people have every right to shit all over rockstar, but the whole hacker leaking situation(s) just made me realize that the discourse surrounding major events like this is damn near poison, especially in “normie” communities. It’s kinda funny to see rockstar get fucked over and over when they coulda just announced the damn game when they knew it was finished.

I guess my point is that I don’t know what anyone would be shocked at a billion dollar company to act this way. It’s like when Trump does Trump stuff, the media goes insane and calls it unprecedented when it’s just the same stuff he always does and that Reagan, The Bushes, Clinton, and even Obama has done before, just switch politicians with corporate.

It’s like if Apple got hacked and someone leaked the brand new iPhone or iMac or IOS, and people were like Oh my god what’s apple gonna say are they even gonna release !? Of course they would, and they’d drop a statement about how much they love apple fans and probably announce a new subscription to see the new IOS before it’s out, and reiterate that it’s because they LOVE you.

People saying "women" while meaning "woman" make my eye twitch too

I don't know, but a lot of people in this thread seem to suggest that it's them not being a native speaker that's the problem.

In my experience it's actually the opposite, so many native speakers mess up things like your/you're, it's insane. Well, any time something is off about the English grammar on the internet, we blame the American education system.

Sometimes it's funny, though. Like "for all intensive purposes".

That's the least of the grammatical problems in that post.

"We can't say how much pissed we are because you would see how greed we really are."

:eyetwitch:

It started happening to me after I degoogled my phone and predictive text no longer cares about sentence syntax. When I see it on a largely anti-google or anti-microsoft space I think that's a safe bet what's happening half the time

Oh, it sure as hell was.

The amount of times I've seen this error over the last 5+ years, and until now I've not seen one comment mention it. Thank you you've restored my faith in people knowing what words mean. I've got to the point that if I see it in prose I stop reading because I assume the writer is an idiot.

idk I always have a lil trouble with it and have to do a double take when writing it. it's just so ingrained that oo makes the u sound so theoretically lose should be spelled loose because lose should sound like lowe's. that might just be me doe

Perhaps for a lot of people… English is not their native language? (Including me). Grammatical stuff will always be iffy, even in peoples own native language. I even mess up grammatical stuff in my native language, lol.

That’s not all… auto correct helps with everything these days and thus people usually don’t really think anymore about what is the correct way to write a word. I suppose.

Though, why do you get so upset about something like this? Just boils your blood for absolutely no reason. It’ll just keep bothering you while you can’t solve the problem. Good luck.

As a non native speaker: where is the difference?

I read an article by a teacher the other day, who begrudgingly rejoiced a little bit whenever she found a spelling error in a student's work. Because that meant it at least wasn't written by AI.

It's tricky, isn't it? Will the amount of people who actually know how to spell decrease significantly because of AI?

Anyting to diverge the attention from any criticism to their beloved publisher