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Quote from: Witherweaver on May 04, 2016, 01:42:30 pmQuote from: Chris is me on May 04, 2016, 01:41:29 pmQuote from: Donald X. on May 04, 2016, 01:36:25 pmQuote from: Bext on May 04, 2016, 10:38:50 amIt is May 4th, please, please, please....just a nibble!Well this is unprecedented, but I'm not made of stone. Here are some spoilers about card layout.- A bigger font is used on cards that don't have lots of text.- "They" is used instead of "he."- +'s in the body of text are now in bold.- Card texts are more carefully centered than ever before.Thank you very much for changing the pronouns to singular they. Now all of my female and GNC friends won't keep saying "Oh, it says 'he', so obviously that effect doesn't apply to me". No but seriously, all of these are great changesYou may still run into problems if any of your friends are singular they deniers. Then again, you may want to reconsider your friendship with such people.Even I, almost always the grammar prescriptivist, have given in to the singular they. In conversation with a given person I'll use their preferred personal pronouns (which may include singular they), but generalized singular they seems to be the best compromise position for GNC folks.
Quote from: Chris is me on May 04, 2016, 01:41:29 pmQuote from: Donald X. on May 04, 2016, 01:36:25 pmQuote from: Bext on May 04, 2016, 10:38:50 amIt is May 4th, please, please, please....just a nibble!Well this is unprecedented, but I'm not made of stone. Here are some spoilers about card layout.- A bigger font is used on cards that don't have lots of text.- "They" is used instead of "he."- +'s in the body of text are now in bold.- Card texts are more carefully centered than ever before.Thank you very much for changing the pronouns to singular they. Now all of my female and GNC friends won't keep saying "Oh, it says 'he', so obviously that effect doesn't apply to me". No but seriously, all of these are great changesYou may still run into problems if any of your friends are singular they deniers. Then again, you may want to reconsider your friendship with such people.
Quote from: Donald X. on May 04, 2016, 01:36:25 pmQuote from: Bext on May 04, 2016, 10:38:50 amIt is May 4th, please, please, please....just a nibble!Well this is unprecedented, but I'm not made of stone. Here are some spoilers about card layout.- A bigger font is used on cards that don't have lots of text.- "They" is used instead of "he."- +'s in the body of text are now in bold.- Card texts are more carefully centered than ever before.Thank you very much for changing the pronouns to singular they. Now all of my female and GNC friends won't keep saying "Oh, it says 'he', so obviously that effect doesn't apply to me". No but seriously, all of these are great changes
Quote from: Bext on May 04, 2016, 10:38:50 amIt is May 4th, please, please, please....just a nibble!Well this is unprecedented, but I'm not made of stone. Here are some spoilers about card layout.- A bigger font is used on cards that don't have lots of text.- "They" is used instead of "he."- +'s in the body of text are now in bold.- Card texts are more carefully centered than ever before.
It is May 4th, please, please, please....just a nibble!
Yeah, no one says "someone dropped his or her sunglasses". That would sound pretentious and stupid.
Witherweaver is a smart person.
"Someone dropped his, her, their, nir, or xir glasses" just sounds like you're taking the piss. "A pair of glasses have been dropped (by someone)"?
"Some bastard dropped some bastard's glasses"?
Quote from: Max on May 04, 2016, 04:54:58 pm"Someone dropped his, her, their, nir, or xir glasses" just sounds like you're taking the piss. "A pair of glasses have been dropped (by someone)"?I prefer to use "some bastard" as my generic pronoun.
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Now you may get some pedants arguing that they aren't bastards so they don't have to discard. But, really, if they do that, then they're bastards.
Still, easily solved:'Each other bastard discards down to 3 cards in that bastard's hand.'Now you may get some pedants arguing that they aren't bastards so they don't have to discard. But, really, if they do that, then they're bastards.
Quote from: Witherweaver on May 04, 2016, 05:04:24 pmStill, easily solved:'Each other bastard discards down to 3 cards in that bastard's hand.'Now you may get some pedants arguing that they aren't bastards so they don't have to discard. But, really, if they do that, then they're bastards.I'm not sure there's a valid correlation between pedantry and whether or not your parents were married when you were conceived born.
Quote from: Donald X. on May 04, 2016, 01:36:25 pmQuote from: Bext on May 04, 2016, 10:38:50 amIt is May 4th, please, please, please....just a nibble!Well this is unprecedented, but I'm not made of stone. Here are some spoilers about card layout.- A bigger font is used on cards that don't have lots of text.- "They" is used instead of "he."- +'s in the body of text are now in bold.- Card texts are more carefully centered than ever before.What about the kerning? Is it good?
Quote from: ConMan on May 04, 2016, 06:48:24 pmQuote from: Donald X. on May 04, 2016, 01:36:25 pmQuote from: Bext on May 04, 2016, 10:38:50 amIt is May 4th, please, please, please....just a nibble!Well this is unprecedented, but I'm not made of stone. Here are some spoilers about card layout.- A bigger font is used on cards that don't have lots of text.- "They" is used instead of "he."- +'s in the body of text are now in bold.- Card texts are more carefully centered than ever before.What about the kerning? Is it good?Unfortunately, Rio Grande doesn't make their own custom fonts.
Quote from: LastFootnote on May 04, 2016, 06:55:52 pmQuote from: ConMan on May 04, 2016, 06:48:24 pmQuote from: Donald X. on May 04, 2016, 01:36:25 pmQuote from: Bext on May 04, 2016, 10:38:50 amIt is May 4th, please, please, please....just a nibble!Well this is unprecedented, but I'm not made of stone. Here are some spoilers about card layout.- A bigger font is used on cards that don't have lots of text.- "They" is used instead of "he."- +'s in the body of text are now in bold.- Card texts are more carefully centered than ever before.What about the kerning? Is it good?Unfortunately, Rio Grande doesn't make their own custom fonts.Unfortunately, Rio Grande doesn't make their his or her some bastard's own custom fonts.
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pacovf has a neopets account. It has 999 hours logged. All his neopets are named "Jessica". I guess that must be his ex.
So like, what time can we expect the teasers? Because it is like May 6th somewhere probably...
Quote from: Max on May 04, 2016, 04:54:58 pm"Someone dropped his, her, their, nir, or xir glasses" just sounds like you're taking the piss. "A pair of glasses have been dropped (by someone)"?I've met a lot of non-binary people, but I've never actually met someone who prefers nir or xir. The most common pronoun by far is "they", followed by "I don't really care about pronouns", followed by "just pick whichever you feel like". I feel like with a few exceptions and edge cases, these are straw-men pronouns trumpeted up by TiA users to mock others.
Quote from: Witherweaver on May 04, 2016, 05:04:24 pmStill, easily solved:'Each other bastard discards down to 3 cards in that bastard's hand.'Now you may get some pedants arguing that they aren't bastards so they don't have to discard. But, really, if they do that, then they're bastards.I'm not sure there's a valid correlation between pedantry and whether or not your parents were married when you were conceived.