TheMightyEthan

I also saw Looper and really liked it, as did my wife.

SetPoint works fine on my G500. How odd.

But to answer your original question, no, it's not. Surprisingly the aiming works fairly well, but the movement control is horrendous.

Yeah, I have never heard that before. I mean, I have heard what you could potentially write as "I druther not", but that's really just running together "I'd rather not", not really its own word.

I basically stop reading when it gets to the point where I can't fit the whole comment on one screen.

This. In the poll I said I'd get one when the price drops, but more accurately I'll get one when it reaches a critical mass of games that I want. There's not really one specific franchise that would sell it to me except Zelda (which won't happen for years) or Pokemon (which won't happen at all) so I didn't select that answer.

What's wrong with Go stuff?

We call them redheads. And I'm pretty sure any anti-ginger sentiment in the US is just a joke popularized by South Park. And just as a practical matter I actually prefer "expiration" or "best-by" dates over "sell-by" dates because if I get a gallon of milk that says "sell by October 15" or whatever I don't know how long past that date it's okay to use. *Edit* - Thursday ninja'd me.

Actually "(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻" is entirely standard and acceptable. Notice how it will display correctly on any device that uses the standard character set? That's actually the exact opposite of the problem with emoji.

@Mal: My first step would be to try a different HDD/SSD if you have one laying around. If the problem persists then it's not the SSD, and if it goes away then it is.

That works until daddy wants grandchildren.

Back to the flipside ("Britishisms" in America), I guess part of my thought is that obviously 99% of words/phrases Americans use came from Britain, so how established does something have to be over here before it stops being a Britishism?

That could easily be the SSD's fault if it's intermittently failing, and thus stops responding to the mobo which stops "seeing" it.

It also seems weird to me that, give this aspect of English: the fact that a word or phrase comes from American would suddenly make it bad in the eyes of Brits.

I meant that a lot of the things mentioned didn't seem uniquely British as the article would imply. "Will do" for example. It just means "[Yes, I] will do [that]." It's a phrase that I've just heard people use, and those people weren't predominantly British any more than any other phrase I've heard. That's in contrast to some of the other examples, like "snog" or "chuffed to bits", which are distinctly British.

Just in principle I think that people/companies should not add non-standard "features" within their implementations of standard protocols/communication methods/etc. If Apple had emoji that worked just on an Apple messenger system that allowed communication specifically between iPhone users then that would be one thing, but allowing its use in non-Apple things like SMS, Twitter, etc, fucks things up for everyone else who may not be on Apple but nonetheless receives the communication. It's no different than MS's jacked-up HTML implementation in older versions of IE.

I think the obvious "standardization" is just to support the already-agreed upon text smileys, like colon-capital-D, and various apps can render them however they want, rather than actually translating it into proprietary code.

Several of the things mentioned wouldn't even have struck me as Britishisms, like "will do", "sell-by date" and "the long game".

Apparently their are 3 parts, and here is the last part:

Did you just call Civ V crap?

The first two Dishonored shorts. I think they're releasing one each day, though I'm not sure how many in total there will be.

What's it supposed to look like?

I have the G500, got it a couple years ago, and I really really like it.

Now I'm sad.

That would depend on your definition of "sold". I would wager that there have been more that 25 billion whore transactions throughout human history.