This is one of those times when even having it explained doesn’t make things any more comprehensible.

I’m kinda partial to this vibe for my games:

Or this vibe:

Yes. Life is a constant struggle for … the person … who can read without difficulty and not for the one who gets confused by trivial and common formatting. That’s definitely how it works.

“Dissenting” is to the left of “the” in the comic example I gave. Did that confuse you too? If one confuses you and the other doesn’t, I really don’t know what to say. They’re using the SAME FORMATTING. (It’s called “centred text”.) If both confuse you then at least you’re consistent (but very bizarre given how common this formatting is).

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I don’t even know how to respond to this.

Kirk’s complaint is at the top. Not only is English read from left to right, but it’s also read TOP TO BOTTOM. This fact has been used all over the place in writing, including in comics:

(So ubiquitous is this format that I literally just popped a comic I was in the process of reading up onto my screen and there it was in one of the frames! I didn’t have to go searching.)

You’ll also see it in advertising, in some books with fancier formatting, and a whole bunch of other places.

So remember not only “left to right” but “top to bottom” and you’ll do fine.

Where did you find a picture of my termite!? 😮

French people in general freak me out.

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I mean they eat pain for breakfast!

Instigator! 🤣

I can get pretty fancy brass, bronze, aluminum, etc. plaques made pretty cheaply.

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Now I’m getting the urge to make something like this and put it on my apartment door.

Literally 15 seconds to find.

I’m pretty sure the other states have similar incentives.

Fifteen. Seconds.

The Model 3 is an overpriced, shoddily-assembled car. The only reason it’s the “affordable” one is because of the huge amount of tax incentives E-vehicles get. If you had to pay the actual cost of a Model 3 you would not be calling it a “fantastic car”.

I know it’s hard for the Tesla cultists to accept, rather like the Apple cultists before them, but Tesla products are not good products for the price.

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I wouldn’t call “I need to go home because it’s 11PM and I work tomorrow” a “short attention span”. The fact that you’re characterizing it as such is … problematic.

Tonight it was Terraforming Mars, where I was told it would be a 3 hour game, but by hour 4 we were halfway done.

Irrelevant side jest: everybody knows that the Apartheid Manchild always lies about how long things will take.

That sounds like my experience with Star Fleet battles. A ‘simple’ and ‘introductory’ game at a local games club that three hours later had us only finished the second turn.

Back then I stuck it out to be nice. Now I’m far more likely to just apologetically say that the game is not working for me.

The North American dialects pronounce the ‘r’ in those words because they’re rhotic dialects. Most British, Australian, and New Zealand accents don’t pronounce the ‘r’ because they’re non-rhotic dialects.

Just remember that Brits don’t pronounce ‘r’ unless it’s not there. So the phrase “Law and Order” is pronounced sorta/kinda like “law rand ohduh”. The two 'r’s that are actually present are not pronounced, but the linking sound between “law” and “and” is the ‘r’ sound. That isn’t in the orthography.

And people say English is a hard language to learn! This is me scoffing!

There are a whole lot of trick-taking games in traditional card space:

• the Hakka “Six Tigers” game
• several games of the related “Six Red” deck are trick-taking
• the Thai game จับหมู (Catch the Pig) which uses a western-style deck
• a bewildering variety of tarot games
• … and a cast of thousands.

You seem nice.

You seem nice.