“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift
I mean that I know someone writing for PC Gamer (the outlet whose article this is) knows (or should know) the difference between those words.
Edit: In case you didn’t know, italicization is used to indicate (among other things) the name of an outlet. So for example, The New York Times, The Verge, and so on.
My guess is, that we are used to digital games?
I don’t know why someone decided to say “correct” on my behalf, but no, it’s baser than that: “disks” is the ellipsis for “hard disks” and “floppy disks”. “Discs” is the correct terminology for an optical disc.
The author already acknowledges what you did re: digital games.
Sony’s decision to stop selling physical disks for its games
If Sony ends physical disk sales
PC Gamer, I know you know better.
Shagadelic, szivi!
Oh yeah? Well Russia found a copy of The Sims 3 in a Ukrainian Neptune missile, so now they’re even!
Honestly, I liked that you didn’t. It felt like a little adventure and discovery of my own.
I don’t know if/how you’ve never seen wind catch a shopping cart, but it can hurtle those fucking things. Mercifully the hurtling tends to be worst with the plastic ones because there’s more surface area, but I’ve seen one of those smack a car head-on at like 25 kph on flat terrain on a breezy day.
You can go look up videos of even pretty modest winds gently pushing metal shopping carts around; they look like they’re possessed.
Even on flat lots on windless days, you’re not sticking it to the man; you’re just being a jackass making someone’s already insufferable retail job even less sufferable over 10 seconds of returning a cart.
“The store just puts those trash cans there to save money on cleanup and liability.” Yeah, no shit.
“It’s a slippery slope to stop pissing in the parking lot. Once they get you pissing in the toilet, then they will expect you to just hold it in.”
It’s not a slippery slope; you’re just pretending it is because you’re a lazy, selfish, obnoxious chud, and pretending it’s because you care about the people who clean up your mess is insulting to them and the people reading this. I hope you also throw your trash on the floor because that helps them hire more janitors, you little slob.
“Wow, they’re really clearly inspired by the Foxtrot artstyle.”
—My ass five seconds before learning who Bill Amend is
The range is the walls of the grocery store. After that, you have to pay.
Is it open-access?
🤓 Point of clarification: primary, secondary, and tertiary sources refer to the proximity to the original information, not to their reliability.
Secondary and tertiary sources often comprise both the most reliable and unreliable sources. 🤓
(Ik what you meant by “primary” lol)
I appreciate that. I feel like it’s all of our jobs to help each other in this information hurricane where we can; nobody deserves to be punished for not being a strong sailor.
You know, you’re getting downvoted for this, and I get why, but I also think you should’ve been offered a suggestion: RSS feeds. They let you get your news from good, reliable sources that aren’t The Daily Beast talking about “Elon Musk drops SHOCKING new post on X (did he shit his pants??)” Unironically, it’s the best way to keep up with the news bar none. I can even give you personalized suggestions if you’d like.
Your problem is real. Your problem is not your fault. Your solution is understandable. I just think it’s misguided.
I think part of that has been actual elevated standards on Wikipedia with a more robust culture for things like citations, but probably more importantly, it’s readers already being expected to understand that Wikipedia isn’t an inherently credible source and needs checking if you actually care.
Of course part of it now too, as you imply, is generative AI making it look more rigorous by comparison and lowering people’s standards.
somewhat supportive
Don’t know who told you that. Its usage is prohibited outside of basic copy–editing and translation, the latter of which has its own guidelines you must act within.
The Wikimedia Foundation has very little to do with what goes on on the English Wikipedia. It hosts the infrastructure, puts some legal policies in place, and really from there, the community-elected administrators (who are themselves active contributors) are the ones who handle enforcement, and the rules are discussed by the community.
Even the administrators don’t exercise all that much power. In ten years, I think I’ve seen the office have to step in exactly one time – for a possible libel issue when even the administrators couldn’t agree with each other.
Silver, when they talk about me in the future, make sure my name is something cool, like “Jessica Grimdark”.
Or Blaze?
Yes! The coolest name in the world!
Haha, it’s totally good. Maybe you got to learn a little grammatical tidbit from it, so net positive.