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Before the closing quotation mark, if it's dialog like in your example.

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Jonman wrote:

Question for the grammar nazis - if I'm finishing a sentence with quoted text, does the period at the end go after for before the closing quotation mark.

e.g.

So I said to him "hey, that's my car you're peeing on".

vs

So I said to him, "hey, that's my car you're peeing on."

Are you writing in the US, or a current or former Commonwealth territory? In the US, the period goes inside the quotation marks (example B). In Commonwealth territories, the period goes outside the quotation marks (example A).

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Are you writing in the US, or a current or former Commonwealth territory? In the US, the period goes inside the quotation marks (example B). In Commonwealth territories, the period goes outside the quotation marks (example A).

Well that explains my confusion!

And given that I used "period" instead of "full stop", I think we can assume I'm now writing full on Murkkun.

Edit nvm - didn't realize I was late to the party

Jonman wrote:

...if I'm finishing a sentence with quoted text, does the period at the end go after for before the closing quotation mark.

e.g.

So I said to him "hey, that's my car you're peeing on".

vs

So I said to him, "hey, that's my car you're peeing on."

I realize that you’re mainly concerned with where the period should go, but I can help you with some other issues as well. I believe that you’re example sentence should look like this:

So I said to him, "Hey! That's my car you're peeing on.”

I've always used the former form.

Jonman wrote:

Question for the grammar nazis - if I'm finishing a sentence with quoted text, does the period at the end go after for before the closing quotation mark.

e.g.

So I said to him "hey, that's my car you're peeing on".

vs

So I said to him, "hey, that's my car you're peeing on."

The second one definitely. It's the way I was taught in Ireland. I don't know where the first is used. My English (from England) English (the subject) teacher wife says the second one as well.

Here in Canada I find that older folks tend to use the former, but the latter has become the preferred version in recent decades. The couple of times I've looked it up in style guides for Canadian content it has suggested the latter.

Big thanks to the folks who suggested Tinybeans for sharing photos of our baby! It turned out to be pretty much exactly what we were looking for.

Alright, here's a dumb one no one will be able to answer.

I'm trying to remember a video game magazine. What I remember from it is:

* US-based
* a less popular magazine
* multiplatform
* late '90s
* heavily incorporated faces of the supposed reviewers, including a girl and an old guy

I remember it being somewhat hammy with the way it used these reviewer faces, they were certainly meant to be part of the publication's character. I seem to remember there were about four of these reviewer characters. I don't know to what degree any of them were actual people or just magazine constructs, it feels like it might have been a little of column A and a little of column B.

The details are all pretty fuzzy and some of the above might not be exactly correct, I mostly just remember the old dude face mugging for the camera.

Cartoon faces or photos?

beanman101283 wrote:

Cartoon faces or photos?

Photos, although one of them may have been cartoon. Old dude was definitely a photo though.

*Legion* wrote:

Alright, here's a dumb one no one will be able to answer.

I'm trying to remember a video game magazine. What I remember from it is:

* US-based
* a less popular magazine
* multiplatform
* late '90s
* heavily incorporated faces of the supposed reviewers, including a girl and an old guy

I remember it being somewhat hammy with the way it used these reviewer faces, they were certainly meant to be part of the publication's character. I seem to remember there were about four of these reviewer characters. I don't know to what degree any of them were actual people or just magazine constructs, it feels like it might have been a little of column A and a little of column B.

The details are all pretty fuzzy and some of the above might not be exactly correct, I mostly just remember the old dude face mugging for the camera.

As a goof, I went looking for an image of Jeff Green to ask if he was the old guy, and look what I found:

https://v1.escapistmagazine.com/arti...

Check out that byline. So weird.

No, Jeff Green I know. This magazine was less popular than CGW/GFW, and it wasn't PC focused.

I think I found it. "Ultra Game Players":

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/wjgblU0.png)

Bill Donohue is the "old guy", who looked much older in my memory, but I was like 16 when I was reading this, so anyone over 30 was probably "old" and oh god is that mental image what 16 year olds think I look like now? BRB gonna go die.

I was going to comment on how awful the gaming press was in the '90s, but those writer photos are a bad font and press kit screenshot away from being choice YouTube stills.

Are ruby oranges and blood oranges the same thing? Just had some for the first time today. Kind of taste like oranges mixed with cherries. I had blood oranges a long time ago but don't remember them being as sweet.

*Legion* wrote:

No, Jeff Green I know. This magazine was less popular than CGW/GFW, and it wasn't PC focused.

I think I found it. "Ultra Game Players":

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/wjgblU0.png)

Bill Donohue is the "old guy", who looked much older in my memory, but I was like 16 when I was reading this, so anyone over 30 was probably "old" and oh god is that mental image what 16 year olds think I look like now? BRB gonna go die.

Yup. This is the publication in question. I’m almost certain of it. In my early twenties I had subscriptions to two video game magazines. One was mostly PC based but not exclusively. I think it was called Next. The articles were mostly about the games industry, in a very “inside baseball” kind of way. Nothing was dumbed down. It was great!

My other magazine subscription was Ultra Game Players. It was the antithesis of Next magazine. It was dooffy. It had badly drawn comics. It had humor. Not super clever humor. But I loved that magazine. I read every issue cover to cover. I loved it because they promoted a sense of community. I had several letters to the editor published in their pages. I think they covered everything except PC. Mostly PS1 and Dreamcast I think. But in earlier years they covered SNES and Genesis. EGM was their main competitor, which I just remembered I also had a subscription to.

At some point they had a major personnel change. The quality of the magazine went up, but the unique sense of style and community got lost in the process. Then without warning I got the final issue in the mail. I was crushed. But there was a small ray of hope. They were going to become PSM, the 100% independent PlayStation magazine. I loved my PlayStation, so I was very eager to see what they would do with that. PSM had incredible cover art done by well known comic book artists. And lid stickers... Huh?

OMG! Print magazines were so effing rad! God I miss this.
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Blood Oranges are mutant Navel oranges with lots of coloration and thick skins. There are several varietals, so the Ruby Red Navel Orange is just one type of Blood Orange. I think.

Which came first, engineer as a noun or engineer as a verb? I saw a headline that said 'How designers engineer luck into games' and it took me a few seconds to parse it because I was reading engineer as a noun / title.

I believe it was the noun, which originally referred to people who designed or constructed large engines or “works” (ditches, tunnels, fortresses, etc), often military in nature. The verb derived from their activities.

LeapingGnome wrote:

Which came first, engineer as a noun or engineer as a verb? I saw a headline that said 'How designers engineer luck into games' and it took me a few seconds to parse it because I was reading engineer as a noun / title.

That's a frustrating use of terms for me. In my industry designers don't engineer and engineers don't design.

Robear wrote:

I believe it was the noun, which originally referred to people who designed or constructed large engines or “works” (ditches, tunnels, fortresses, etc), often military in nature. The verb derived from their activities.

Think of the word as someone who does engines, an engine-ER. Which puts it squarely in the noun camp.

The word was originally associated with siege engines, so Robear is on the money with the military derivation.

LeapingGnome wrote:

Which came first, engineer as a noun or engineer as a verb?

Engineer as a noun, by about 400 or 500 years. Robear and Jonman are right that it was originally a military term (13c.), although the Old French word (12c.) it's derived from had a larger sense of a military planner and architect, not specifically one who worked on siege engines. Engineer as a term for a general inventor popped up around 15c. Engineer as a verb shows up in the early 1800s, although curiously there was a Middle English verb "engine" that meant to construct but also meant to deceive and torture.

I've been playing God of War and Assassin's Creed Odyssey lately. Both feature a mix of melee and ranged combat, and ways to manage crowds of enemies.

One thing I find myself wishing while playing them is that I could easily close with an enemy from a distance with a single button press, do some attacks, then quickly leap away with another button press. The games mentioned above let you sprint towards enemies by clicking a stick (the most unsatisfying controller interaction IMO), and let you perform a short range dodge. The sprint is hard for me to control, and the dodge is unsatisfying.

I basically want to warp to an enemy, pull some sweet moves, then warp away. Does such a game exist?

edit: If there's a better thread to ask this question, please point me to it.

Your description of warping from enemy to enemy kind of reminds me of Too Human, but I'm not sure I would exactly recommend that

Final fantasy XV of all games has the warp in, though not the warp out.

What about Dishonored 2?

mrlogical wrote:

Your description of warping from enemy to enemy kind of reminds me of Too Human, but I'm not sure I would exactly recommend that :)

Man I played a LOT of Too Human when it came out. Loved that game at the time, but barely remember it now.

Jonman wrote:

Final fantasy XV of all games has the warp in, though not the warp out.

That definitely has the warp in part down based on the videos I just glanced at. That oomph and slow-mo are perfect.

thrawn82 wrote:

What about Dishonored 2?

I was thinking third-person rather than first-person. I was also kind of cold on the first Dishonored, so didn't think the sequel was for me.

Vector wrote:

I'm very disappointed how long it took for my typo to get noticed.

Chip flavors are better in Canada.

Ha, caught that one!
Fool me twice, you can't get fooled again

Yeah the way your character just sorta shlurpped from one enemy to the next was broken and janky but also strangely satisfying. I enjoyed my time with Too Human but do not expect that it has held up well at all.

Jonman wrote:

Final fantasy XV of all games has the warp in, though not the warp out.

You can also warp out if you aim for a high point in the environment. Shame that the game isn't so great.