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Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:33 amPosted: Fri Aug 23, 2019 10:40 pmIn #191, option 3 reads "You're kidding, right? [...] I'm not going to let some closed-minded priest tell me what I can and can't do with my blood!", even if, due to the nation's low religiousness, option 2 which features the closed-minded priest doesn't appear.
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2019 11:13 pmTrotterdam wrote:In #191, option 3 reads "You're kidding, right? [...] I'm not going to let some closed-minded priest tell me what I can and can't do with my blood!", even if, due to the nation's low religiousness, option 2 which features the closed-minded priest doesn't appear.
This issue has been amended. Now atheistic nations will not receive that issue, but nations eligible will receive the whole issue.
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2019 12:55 pmToday I have come across Issue #1203: The Fandom Menace [Chrimbus; ed: Zwangzug] on another nation. In this issue, I picked the first option, which reads as follows:
The effect line I got was the following:
While one could of course argue that these housewives can get flustered at both a male and female Leader, I have a feeling this effect line leans fairly strongly towards making the assumption that @@LEADER@@ is male, which I'd argue infringes upon player autonomy. Perhaps the line could be made more neutral in the following way:
Or something along those lines. Eliminating "housewives" creates a more neutral image about @@LEADER@@'s gender, I think
“I think this whole debate is just silly!” comments Doug Stallone, taking a break from revising the latest chapter of @@LEADER@@/Reader: Tales from a @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Restaurant. “No one is being harmed in the making of these stories. Everyone knows that this is all just harmless fiction. Now tell me, what do you usually order on a first date?”
The effect line I got was the following:
@@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ housewives become unusually flustered when thinking about @@LEADER@@.
While one could of course argue that these housewives can get flustered at both a male and female Leader, I have a feeling this effect line leans fairly strongly towards making the assumption that @@LEADER@@ is male, which I'd argue infringes upon player autonomy. Perhaps the line could be made more neutral in the following way:
@@DEMONYMPLURAL@@ become unusually flustered when meeting with @@LEADER@@
Or something along those lines. Eliminating "housewives" creates a more neutral image about @@LEADER@@'s gender, I think
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 1:28 amI agree - changed to "novella fans" which also sidesteps the validity issue of whether marriage is legal in the nation as well.
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 1:47 am"Novella fans" sounds awesome!
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:14 pmOn my puppet Imperial Regiment I, I got Issue 586. Option 3 introduces the Comptroller of the @@CAPITAL@@ District School Board.
Is this a misspelling of Controller or am I missing something?
Is this a misspelling of Controller or am I missing something?
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 7:38 pmSherpDaWerp wrote:On my puppet Imperial Regiment I, I got Issue 586. Option 3 introduces the Comptroller of the @@CAPITAL@@ District School Board.
Is this a misspelling of Controller or am I missing something?
There is such a word as "Comptroller". It's possibly also a Simpsons reference.
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 7:41 pmSherpDaWerp wrote:On my puppet Imperial Regiment I, I got Issue 586. Option 3 introduces the Comptroller of the @@CAPITAL@@ District School Board.
Is this a misspelling of Controller or am I missing something?
Wikipedia wrote:A comptroller is a management-level position responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting of an organization.
[...]
The term comptroller evolved in the 15th century through a blend of the French compte ("an account") and the Middle English countreroller (someone who checks a copy of a scroll, from the French contreroule "counter-roll, scroll copy"), thus creating a title for a compteroller who specializes in checking financial ledgers. This etymology explains why the name is often pronounced identically to "controller" despite the distinct spelling. However, comptroller is sometimes pronounced phonetically by those unaware of the word's origins or who wish specifically to avoid confusion with "controller".
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 2:32 amHuh! That's something I've learned today... probably should have googled it first. Thanks
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:32 pmCross-posting just to be sure:
Trotterdam wrote:The speaker in #1264 3 looks suspicious, I think there's a name missing.
In option 4, @@ANIMAL@@ only capitalizes the first word when it should capitalize every word.
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:18 pmPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 8:28 pm#261 option 1: the "garbageman" can be assigned a female name.
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 8:50 pmPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 6:09 pmSmall grammatical error in "Homecoming Queen" where the opening paragraph reads "The so-called “Terrorist Princess” is heavy with child and nearly due, and is now living in a refugee camp in Bigtopia." Should be "heavy with a child."
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 6:40 pm"With child" might not quite follow normal grammar, but it's an established vocabulary entry.Superbunny wrote:Small grammatical error in "Homecoming Queen" where the opening paragraph reads "The so-called “Terrorist Princess” is heavy with child and nearly due, and is now living in a refugee camp in Bigtopia." Should be "heavy with a child."
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 8:18 pmTrotterdam wrote:"With child" might not quite follow normal grammar, but it's an established vocabulary entry.Superbunny wrote:Small grammatical error in "Homecoming Queen" where the opening paragraph reads "The so-called “Terrorist Princess” is heavy with child and nearly due, and is now living in a refugee camp in Bigtopia." Should be "heavy with a child."
The English language strikes again.
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 1:39 amShould 428.3, which mentions @@capital@@ FC, be available to nations that have banned sports?
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 2:25 amHediacrana wrote:Should 428.3, which mentions @@capital@@ FC, be available to nations that have banned sports?
Good point. Amended.
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 5:27 amIn issue 390, options 2/3 it should be the
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=36249027#p36249027
-- not"If we colonise Brasilistan then we'll be doing exactly what its last government did that got us into this mess – sweeping attacks on another peoples’ sovereignty.
-- as it's about the nation's (= peoples as in all the members of that particular nation Brasilistan) sovereignity, not the sovereignity of the individual persons (=people).people’s sovereignty.
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=36249027#p36249027
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 12:10 pmTalAkMaChen wrote:In issue 390, options 2/3 it should be the-- not"If we colonise Brasilistan then we'll be doing exactly what its last government did that got us into this mess – sweeping attacks on another peoples’ sovereignty.-- as it's about the nation's (= peoples as in all the members of that particular nation Brasilistan) sovereignity, not the sovereignity of the individual persons (=people).people’s sovereignty.
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=36249027#p36249027
From my own perspective (American English), the current text is fine. Using "people" as a singular group means that "people's" is the correct possessive form.
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 12:15 pm@TalAkMaChen:
No. The possessive of "person" is "person's". The possessive of "persons" is "persons'". The possessive of "people" is "people's". The possessive of "peoples" (used in the context of talking about ethnic groups cultures) is "peoples'". If a word is an irregular plural that doesn't end in "s", then the "s" still needs to be added for the possessive, and so the apostrophe is placed accordingly.
In this context Brasilistan's entire population is being treated as a single group - while there might be multiple ethnic groups within it, those ethnic groups would also have members outside of Brasilistan's borders, and in any case they're not what's being talked about. This is about nationality. Incidentally, if it was talking about plural "peoples", then your version would still be wrong, because you're not supposed to use "another" with plurals.
No. The possessive of "person" is "person's". The possessive of "persons" is "persons'". The possessive of "people" is "people's". The possessive of "peoples" (used in the context of talking about ethnic groups cultures) is "peoples'". If a word is an irregular plural that doesn't end in "s", then the "s" still needs to be added for the possessive, and so the apostrophe is placed accordingly.
In this context Brasilistan's entire population is being treated as a single group - while there might be multiple ethnic groups within it, those ethnic groups would also have members outside of Brasilistan's borders, and in any case they're not what's being talked about. This is about nationality. Incidentally, if it was talking about plural "peoples", then your version would still be wrong, because you're not supposed to use "another" with plurals.
Sex mismatch in issue #1208
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:48 pmThe Issue
After having to poke your nephew with a stick to wake him up, you are beset by a chorus of health experts and disgruntled teenagers complaining about the wave of adolescent insomnia gripping the nation.
The Debate
Drowsy high-schooler Avery Butt jolts awake after finding a microphone in her face. “Dude, this is, like,” she pauses to yawn. “Terrible. The school day is starting earlier and earlier, and that’s making us lose our precious sleep, man! If you, like, forced schools to start later we could all get our sleep and, like, be more attentive in class.”
Are these supposed to be the same person? It seems like they are.After having to poke your nephew with a stick to wake him up, you are beset by a chorus of health experts and disgruntled teenagers complaining about the wave of adolescent insomnia gripping the nation.
The Debate
Drowsy high-schooler Avery Butt jolts awake after finding a microphone in her face. “Dude, this is, like,” she pauses to yawn. “Terrible. The school day is starting earlier and earlier, and that’s making us lose our precious sleep, man! If you, like, forced schools to start later we could all get our sleep and, like, be more attentive in class.”
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 8:01 pmTecholandia wrote:The IssueAre these supposed to be the same person? It seems like they are.
After having to poke your nephew with a stick to wake him up, you are beset by a chorus of health experts and disgruntled teenagers complaining about the wave of adolescent insomnia gripping the nation.
The Debate
Drowsy high-schooler Avery Butt jolts awake after finding a microphone in her face. “Dude, this is, like,” she pauses to yawn. “Terrible. The school day is starting earlier and earlier, and that’s making us lose our precious sleep, man! If you, like, forced schools to start later we could all get our sleep and, like, be more attentive in class.”
No. @@LEADER@@ was "beset by a chorus of health experts and disgruntled teenagers". The speaker in option one was one of the disgruntled teenagers.
We wouldn't give your nephew/niece a surname.
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 10:25 amI just got issue No. 559, The Low Aspiration Nation, and option 3 is about implementing slavery, but this nation already has the slavery policy active.