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Jesus Christ, if true, what the holy incompetence.

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[–] 1D10@lemmy.world 50 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I am telling you that there is proof video games effect people. Ever notice how most people born in the 80s grew up and all became plumbers? I mean sure all the competition has driven costs down for all of us and with just a little work you can find a plumber that will do the work for free, but a lot of these plumbers can no longer support their families and are forced to live in sewers and fight turtles for food.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

all the trees are square now and I'm scared to go out at night.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

affect.

You affect things. Things have an effect.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Lifehack: just use the word impact instead.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You'd probably want to use a colon instead of a comma there.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks. I never really got a good grasp on colon usage or the more nefarious semicolon.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

:( Ah, I didn't mean to actually criticize you lol I was just running with the anal grammar nazi comment chain pattern. You're good, a comma works fine enough.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

This is the one rule I get wrong every time

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

also you effect an effect

Isn't English great?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

there is proof video games effect people

Holy shit they can give birth now?

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The trick to using effect/affect is to use them interchangeably and at random, then you're bound to be right sometime. Or panic and use "impact" instead, like a coward.

Or you only ever use one spelling, to the same effect.. :p

[–] 1D10@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Kinda what I do, I am dyslexic and if spell check says it's good I tend to miss that it is the wrong spelling of the word.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's like scone and scone. I'll swap pronunciation mid sentence, just to throw people.

you know what we should make our own variation on the pastry and pronounce it scuhn

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

And the turtle with the stick is super OP compared to the rest.

But all of them have trouble swimming around dams.