Mike (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} iaminyourhead) wrote,@ 2009-05-29 17:05:00 |
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Let's talk about what words mean, shall we?
OK kids. Sit for a moment, and listen.
There are a few pieces of speech that you seem not to understand, and maybe it's just that no-one ever explained them to you, right? It could be that you're not collectively a bunch of dim-witted troglodytes. It could be that the problem is not the steady dumbing-down of the human race. Maybe it's not stupidity. Maybe it's ignorance. Let's try to fix that, shall we?
First off, "addicting" is not an adjective. It is a verb. Stop trying to use it as an adjective, because it makes you sound like a retard. Let's examine some proper usages of "addicting" and the word you most likely should be using, "addictive" :
"I am in the process of addicting my girlfriend to crack cocaine, so that the bitch won't leave me."
"I am utilizing the addictive properties of crack cocaine to make her my ho."
In short, because "addicting" is a verb, nothing can be inherently addicting. Understand? Things may be addictive, or they can be addicting something to something else. The next time someone tells you that a game is addicting, ask them what it is addicting to who.
Second lesson for the day is a bit of modern slang: Easter egg.
An Easter egg is something small hidden within something else interactive, such as a video game or DVD, which is of little value beyond mild entertainment, and perhaps a small feeling of accomplishment for having found it. An Easter egg is NOT:
* a piece of referential humor, no matter how oblique, which is just. Sitting. There.
* a way in which the environment in a game behaves which you happen to find amusing.
* necessarily funny
please, if you're planning on putting together a list of Easter eggs for some piece of media, make sure that they are in fact Easter eggs, and not just jokes. Not every Easter egg is a joke. But more importantly, not every joke is an Easter egg.
Final lesson for the day is one for the kids. "Scene" people. Look: it's not OK to appropriate a subculture's name. You can't take the name for a group of people, and call a completely different group of people the same thing. Now, unlike our other lessons, I don't expect this one to sink in. In the case of scenesters, the damage is done, and I get that there's nothing we can do about it. But next time a bunch of you decide to try out some horrendous new fashion trend, simultaneously listening to the newest bullshit music, try to come up with a name for your group of tasteless fuckwits that wasn't already used by another group of tasteless fuckwits, OK?
I mean, It's clear I don't like either group of scenesters. So it's not as if I care all that much, but it causes difficulty in conversation with the few people of your generation I actually like.
OK, you've sat and had your lesson, now, do me a favor, take what you've learned, and DDoS www.addictinggames.com, OK? I mean, seriously. Do it.
OK kids. Sit for a moment, and listen.
There are a few pieces of speech that you seem not to understand, and maybe it's just that no-one ever explained them to you, right? It could be that you're not collectively a bunch of dim-witted troglodytes. It could be that the problem is not the steady dumbing-down of the human race. Maybe it's not stupidity. Maybe it's ignorance. Let's try to fix that, shall we?
First off, "addicting" is not an adjective. It is a verb. Stop trying to use it as an adjective, because it makes you sound like a retard. Let's examine some proper usages of "addicting" and the word you most likely should be using, "addictive" :
"I am in the process of addicting my girlfriend to crack cocaine, so that the bitch won't leave me."
"I am utilizing the addictive properties of crack cocaine to make her my ho."
In short, because "addicting" is a verb, nothing can be inherently addicting. Understand? Things may be addictive, or they can be addicting something to something else. The next time someone tells you that a game is addicting, ask them what it is addicting to who.
Second lesson for the day is a bit of modern slang: Easter egg.
An Easter egg is something small hidden within something else interactive, such as a video game or DVD, which is of little value beyond mild entertainment, and perhaps a small feeling of accomplishment for having found it. An Easter egg is NOT:
* a piece of referential humor, no matter how oblique, which is just. Sitting. There.
* a way in which the environment in a game behaves which you happen to find amusing.
* necessarily funny
please, if you're planning on putting together a list of Easter eggs for some piece of media, make sure that they are in fact Easter eggs, and not just jokes. Not every Easter egg is a joke. But more importantly, not every joke is an Easter egg.
Final lesson for the day is one for the kids. "Scene" people. Look: it's not OK to appropriate a subculture's name. You can't take the name for a group of people, and call a completely different group of people the same thing. Now, unlike our other lessons, I don't expect this one to sink in. In the case of scenesters, the damage is done, and I get that there's nothing we can do about it. But next time a bunch of you decide to try out some horrendous new fashion trend, simultaneously listening to the newest bullshit music, try to come up with a name for your group of tasteless fuckwits that wasn't already used by another group of tasteless fuckwits, OK?
I mean, It's clear I don't like either group of scenesters. So it's not as if I care all that much, but it causes difficulty in conversation with the few people of your generation I actually like.
OK, you've sat and had your lesson, now, do me a favor, take what you've learned, and DDoS www.addictinggames.com, OK? I mean, seriously. Do it.
