Not sure how much of a leap this is: Sonic 2 is a very easy game to like but Sonic 3 & Knuckles is the pinnacle of the series, and has the best level design in the franchise.
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Consulting the tome.
The brake isnāt needed to drift! I donāt recall the last time I would have looked at this manual, but my friend had it when it was new. I recall using the brake to drift back then, so we must have consulted it.
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It states it is āa simple drifting methodā, so I think you can do it in different ways. Itās definitely not the same when you use the NeGcon, though.
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I switched from videogame to video game because some smarty pants on the internet said video game is correct but after living with it for so many years, Iām going back to videogame full time because itās just superior.
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I vastly prefer videogame because I come from a language where we use compound words, so video game makes no damn sense to me. Is it using āvideoā as an adjective? What does that even mean?
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Yes, the way it works in English is that āvideoā is an adjective modifying the noun āgameā.
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As we all know, English doesnāt work. Videogame it is!
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no longer calling them video games and instead calling them software as art
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English has some compound words but itās not, like, a feature of the language in the way it is with Swedish.
For compound words in another language, compounding words is very much a feature in Anishinaabemowin. There is a term for blueberry pie in the language: miini-baashkiminasigani-biitoosijigani-bakwezhigan. The literal translation of it roughly meaning āblueberry jam filled between layers of bread.ā
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Video game (with a space) is a compound word. English compound words can be with or without a space and with or without a hyphen. Open compounds have the space.
Video game is part of a time honored tradition of open compounds including
- seat belt
- data set
- vocal cords
- tight end
- board game
- coffee maker
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If this is a real rule of the English language I am gonna ascend to a new level of hating it.
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Weird thing about that list is that Iād probably compound most of those without the space. Maybe some with a hyphen. Seatbelt, dataset, tight-end, boardgame, coffeemaker all make sense to me.
Probably has something to do with the clashing of certain consonant sounds. vocal cords requires a space because of how awkward it is to go from the L consonant sound to a C.
Note here that Iām not saying Iām right, just saying what makes sense to me, or perhaps even just what feels right.
The only rule in English is that a rule is never a rule in the same way someone from Scandinavia (highly complimentary) would understand it. A rule in the English language is just a suggestion, or something that is actually more only like 40% the case but that 40% has more common application so itās talked about like a rule (infamously, the āi before e except after cā rule we teach to children learning to spell in English, 'cause kids arenāt ready to learn about how English is just French, Latin, and German smooshed together and spat on and ground into the mud by a boot heel)
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Iām not joking. English is a silly language.
I didnāt even get into when compounds can be open OR closed (like video game/videogame) and when they canāt (āboardgameā doesnāt work, but it might in our lifetimes).
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I really wish weād taken some of the more sensible parts of some of Englishās constituent languages, like consistent spelling of all of Englishās used phonemes.
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See, these are all inferior. One must take side on whatās superior/inferior instead of whatās correct/incorrect. Iād also add that itās always alright but never all right.
In my mind āboardgameā seems perfectly usable, so I thought Iād do the Google Trends thing to see how often people are using either term in direct comparison.
I guess youāre correct and boardgame isnāt common, but I found something strange:
āboard gameā is definitely more commonly used by a long way, but it actually looks like āboardgameā was actually more commonly used in the early aughts than it is now, and even as interest in āboard gameā has increased, probably due to the board game renaissance, āboardgameā isnāt seeming to be recovering in the same way. Interesting.
Also, if youāre wondering about the regular spiking, it seems that Google searches for both boardgames and board games spikes every year in November and December, probably to coincide with the winter holiday season, when lots of people are perhaps either buying people boardgames as gifts, or playing boardgames with their friends and family. This coincides with interest for either term being most concentrated in the so-called west (North America, Australia, New Zealand, and various countries in Europe) where a winter holiday that features gift giving and time with family is more prevalent.
Topically to this conversation, it seems that of the top 5 regions where searches for āboardgameā as opposed to āboard gameā are more prominent, 2 of them are German speaking countries (Germany and Austria), and two of them are Dutch speaking countries (The Netherlands and Belgium), two languages where compounding words are prominent in the language. The other one in the Top 5 is Italy, for some reason, which I donāt think has much word compounding. Though, even in Belgium the split is still only 24 to 76.
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More like boredgame lmao got em
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i prefer video game, because videogame looks worse to my eyes
(not as bad as coffeemaker though, good grief that looks ugly)
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videogame is obviously superior. itās just way more fun to look at
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A decade or so ago there was this book called The Videogame Style Guide or something like that, put out by some association. In the introduction they were all like āweāre going with the more popularized versions of termsā and then they went right to writing videogame instead of video game ā¦ found that obnoxious at the time (even as I also think videogame is better, I never actually write it that way).
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