Yeah, that report makes it sound like he's doing this for the first time when he's done this bike ride at least once or twice already, I think.
But whatever helps Drew get the story out there. "I finally came clean to the internet for the sake of raising money for charity" is a good way to phrase it, even if it's not technically correct (although Drew's recent Biking White Guy tweet has several thousands of RTs, which is good)
Amazingly, his pronunciation is apparently the more common/accepted one, at least generally speaking. I do pronounce it the other way and I would guess most people familiar with the word mainly through games do too, but as much as I'd like to I can't ding Dan on this one.
It's about mah-na ( manna) vs ma-na
Dan does the latter iirc
Strangely, so do I. Even though my first exposure to it surely is manna, since that is the Dutch spelling in the bible (and also, the popped rice candy).
Is this a mah-nuh vs man-uh thing, or did he pull some weird maná pronunciation?
nope, just mah-nuh vs man-uh. he pronounces it mah-nuh, Vinny and Abby are man-uh folks. i'm a man-uh man myself but I've heard it the other way often enough it doesn't really bother me.
they really should stop sending these questions that are just fishing for Dan moments. I mean the when does water stop being water involves some chemistry knowledge that the whole crew did not have.
Turns out english is a living language system and you say words however you want, if someone understands it well enough to think they need to correct it, they've already lost the fight on how it is said.
they really should stop sending these questions that are just fishing for Dan moments. I mean the when does water stop being water involves some chemistry knowledge that the whole crew did not have.
Vinny at least finally made the correction to their word usage that once you bond something to water; it's no longer water, but everyone was moving on by that point.
Aside as a chemist, Mike made me want to smash my phone
That bus question was baffling to me. Just... line up? I'm not remembering if you were sitting or loitering in the shade or whatever. If a line has formed and you try to cut in, you're being a jerk, but otherwise it's first in, first served.
According to this customer support email I got from GB, the madlads did it: they appear to have hired a real customer support person named Valery instead of just making Rorie do everything.
According to this customer support email I got from GB, the madlads did it: they appear to have hired a real customer support person named Valery instead of just making Rorie do everything.
According to this customer support email I got from GB, the madlads did it: they appear to have hired a real customer support person named Valery instead of just making Rorie do everything.
Rorie mentioned a few weeks ago that all their customer support stuff will go through whatever 3rd party service CBSi uses first, then go to him if necessary and they were trying it out to see if they could free him up a little.
According to this customer support email I got from GB, the madlads did it: they appear to have hired a real customer support person named Valery instead of just making Rorie do everything.
Finally, he can now dedicate 100% of his time to not paying attention and cutting people off.
According to this customer support email I got from GB, the madlads did it: they appear to have hired a real customer support person named Valery instead of just making Rorie do everything.
Finally, he can now dedicate 100% of his time to not paying attention and cutting people off learning that thats not an ahegao.
Patrick is really willing to die on this "Electronic music is all the same" hill, even when his editor Austin is saying "Yeah, you're actually kinda wrong or at least not specific enough with your words, so I kinda messed up by not editing your piece better when I had the chance."
Kinda reminds me of that story Patrick used to tell about how his wife doesn't like anime because she assumes all anime is pornographic/hentai.
According to this customer support email I got from GB, the madlads did it: they appear to have hired a real customer support person named Valery instead of just making Rorie do everything.
Rorie mentioned a few weeks ago that all their customer support stuff will go through whatever 3rd party service CBSi uses first, then go to him if necessary and they were trying it out to see if they could free him up a little.
That would explain it, then. I got two support email tickets for the same singular email, and both were "We've created a service ticket for you! Please wait for a response, etc etc." whereas when it was Rorie, he'd get to you when he got to you (not an indictment, because "when he got to you" was often immediately but sometimes randomly in the middle of the night or the work day or whatever because Rorie was a customer service machine)
If Rorie's job is as tough as we hear it is, he deserves the break.
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Yeah basically "all X is the same" is a take that has no boundaries of genre or actual medium. People have been saying it about videogame franchises since time immemorial, but anyone who is actually a fan of, say, Call of Duty (like Jeff) would be able to tell you the myriad of ways that titles differ from each other.
I'm not a huge fan of electronica but from what little I listen to I would already say with great confidence that there's a massive tree of sub-genres that all have unique soundscapes, instrumentation and expression.
(I'd also say that popular anime tends to be homogenous slop but even then anime as a medium is just as diverse and important as any other form of entertainment)
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But whatever helps Drew get the story out there. "I finally came clean to the internet for the sake of raising money for charity" is a good way to phrase it, even if it's not technically correct (although Drew's recent Biking White Guy tweet has several thousands of RTs, which is good)
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Dan does the latter iirc
Strangely, so do I. Even though my first exposure to it surely is manna, since that is the Dutch spelling in the bible (and also, the popped rice candy).
nope, just mah-nuh vs man-uh. he pronounces it mah-nuh, Vinny and Abby are man-uh folks. i'm a man-uh man myself but I've heard it the other way often enough it doesn't really bother me.
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I can not eye roll this enough, saying it the "wrong" way is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more common
I've literally never heard anyone say mah-na
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doo dooo, doodoodoo
mana mana
doo doo doo doo
mana mana
doo dooo, doodoodoo, doodoodoo, doodoodoo, doodoodoodoodoo doo doo doodoodoo
Vinny at least finally made the correction to their word usage that once you bond something to water; it's no longer water, but everyone was moving on by that point.
Aside as a chemist, Mike made me want to smash my phone
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It only took...*checks notes*...8 years?
Come down here to Australia, that's how we predominantly pronounce that vowel
Is it because it costs 2x as much to pronounce it the other way?
Rorie mentioned a few weeks ago that all their customer support stuff will go through whatever 3rd party service CBSi uses first, then go to him if necessary and they were trying it out to see if they could free him up a little.
Patrick is really willing to die on this "Electronic music is all the same" hill, even when his editor Austin is saying "Yeah, you're actually kinda wrong or at least not specific enough with your words, so I kinda messed up by not editing your piece better when I had the chance."
Kinda reminds me of that story Patrick used to tell about how his wife doesn't like anime because she assumes all anime is pornographic/hentai.
That would explain it, then. I got two support email tickets for the same singular email, and both were "We've created a service ticket for you! Please wait for a response, etc etc." whereas when it was Rorie, he'd get to you when he got to you (not an indictment, because "when he got to you" was often immediately but sometimes randomly in the middle of the night or the work day or whatever because Rorie was a customer service machine)
If Rorie's job is as tough as we hear it is, he deserves the break.
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That's probably a fair take on anime, though XD
all rap music is the same, all metal is the same, all electronic music is the same etc etc.
All mambo is the same tho.
I'm not a huge fan of electronica but from what little I listen to I would already say with great confidence that there's a massive tree of sub-genres that all have unique soundscapes, instrumentation and expression.
(I'd also say that popular anime tends to be homogenous slop but even then anime as a medium is just as diverse and important as any other form of entertainment)