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    Fiddle got a reaction from Mr Poltroon in Permit Me a Rant on the Term "Overrated"   
    But we're buddies, Tiag. Let's talk together about how overrated Ace Attorney is.
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    Fiddle reacted to Zakamutt in Permit Me a Rant on the Term "Overrated"   
    But what if you don't want to have no conversation, but just want to look cool to your likeminded buddies, whoever they may be? Then giving reasons for your opinion would be an inefficient strategy because people might like things for other reasons than you do, so you'd be different. Uncool! Clearly the best option is to shit on things as vaguely as possible so you don't have to justify yourself, because god knows you're neither confident enough to logically defend your opinion nor bothered enough to actually articulate it in such a fashion.
    #sheeple
    (I disagree with you on underrated, though you have a point as I have seen it used both ways in a way that is somewhat above the barber's estimation. Perhaps he is using a more society-wide estimate, while we are using something biased by like 2-3 popular topics in the community created by people with poor diction?)
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    Fiddle got a reaction from Darklord Rooke in Mr. Poltroon's Lack of Vocabulary #4   
    Please use this to replace all of your inferior British rigmarole (and other synonyms).
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    Fiddle got a reaction from Darklord Rooke in Use the Oxford comma in speech, too.   
    HELLO, POLAND, YES I WOULD LIKE TO IMPORT ONE BREAD CHIPS FOR VERY IMPORTANT PURPOSES.
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    Fiddle reacted to Fred the Barber in Use the Oxford comma in speech, too.   
    I once witnessed a friend being asked if he wanted "soup or salad" request the "super salad, that sounds amazing!"
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    Fiddle got a reaction from Fred the Barber in A Short And Sweet Style Guide For VN Editing   
    "I discussed the matter with Rooke, my friend and a grammatical expert."
    Ha! Look at how ridiculous that sentence is without the Oxford comma!
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    Fiddle got a reaction from Mr Poltroon in A Short And Sweet Style Guide For VN Editing   
    "I discussed the matter with Rooke, my friend and a grammatical expert."
    Ha! Look at how ridiculous that sentence is without the Oxford comma!
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    Fiddle got a reaction from Darklord Rooke in A Short And Sweet Style Guide For VN Editing   
    "I discussed the matter with Rooke, my friend and a grammatical expert."
    Ha! Look at how ridiculous that sentence is without the Oxford comma!
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    Fiddle got a reaction from Darklord Rooke in A Short And Sweet Style Guide For VN Editing   
    I approve! All these preferences are in accordance with my―
    I LIKE THEM IN THE OTHER ORDER.

    I suggest you use another example instead of the second one, considering that "I'm" is capitalized regardless of whether it begins a sentence.
    Typo.
    In American English, commas and periods always go inside quotation marks (even when there's a quotation within a quotation). Meanwhile, everything else (exclamation points, question marks, semicolons, colons) can go outside of the quotation marks as needed. In contrast to what you say ("I diverge from typical style guides and recommend you move the punctuation outside the inner quotation"), your examples are in conformity with American style guides.
    You may know this and not have said it, but the above applies only when the quotation is an independent clause. For example, each of the following is correct:
    He said to me, "Give back the cat." He told me to "give back the cat." Each of the following is incorrect:
    He said to me "Give back the cat." He told me to, "give back the cat." I can offer segments of The Chicago Manual of Style for the things above, because it appears that they don't want to make it freely available online.
    Lastly, TELL EVERYONE TO USE THE OXFORD COMMA, YOU HEATHEN.
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    Fiddle reacted to Fred the Barber in A Short And Sweet Style Guide For VN Editing   
    Thanks, @Fiddle, for all the feedback. Addressed it all and updated the document. Still need to look through Zaka's feedback... Line-by-line comments on Fiddle's comments.
    Insanely enough, I actually noticed my previous example had exactly the same problem today before I posted this, and so I rewrote it... but apparently I rewrote it to another sentence with exactly the same problem. FML. Fixed.
    I edited this myself today and fixed up all the little problems I saw, but of course I couldn't stop myself from rewriting some sections entirely, so naturally I introduced more typos. Like, say, this one. FML. Fixed.
    Your guidance is very much appreciated, thank you! I've fixed up this section with all these recommendations.
    I figured it went without saying, but sure, I've added a whole section devoted to the superiority of the serial comma, just for you. Plus there was a funny news story about it recently, so adding this section gives me a chance to share that.
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    Fiddle got a reaction from Mr Poltroon in A Short And Sweet Style Guide For VN Editing   
    I approve! All these preferences are in accordance with my―
    I LIKE THEM IN THE OTHER ORDER.

    I suggest you use another example instead of the second one, considering that "I'm" is capitalized regardless of whether it begins a sentence.
    Typo.
    In American English, commas and periods always go inside quotation marks (even when there's a quotation within a quotation). Meanwhile, everything else (exclamation points, question marks, semicolons, colons) can go outside of the quotation marks as needed. In contrast to what you say ("I diverge from typical style guides and recommend you move the punctuation outside the inner quotation"), your examples are in conformity with American style guides.
    You may know this and not have said it, but the above applies only when the quotation is an independent clause. For example, each of the following is correct:
    He said to me, "Give back the cat." He told me to "give back the cat." Each of the following is incorrect:
    He said to me "Give back the cat." He told me to, "give back the cat." I can offer segments of The Chicago Manual of Style for the things above, because it appears that they don't want to make it freely available online.
    Lastly, TELL EVERYONE TO USE THE OXFORD COMMA, YOU HEATHEN.
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    Fiddle got a reaction from Fred the Barber in A Short And Sweet Style Guide For VN Editing   
    I approve! All these preferences are in accordance with my―
    I LIKE THEM IN THE OTHER ORDER.

    I suggest you use another example instead of the second one, considering that "I'm" is capitalized regardless of whether it begins a sentence.
    Typo.
    In American English, commas and periods always go inside quotation marks (even when there's a quotation within a quotation). Meanwhile, everything else (exclamation points, question marks, semicolons, colons) can go outside of the quotation marks as needed. In contrast to what you say ("I diverge from typical style guides and recommend you move the punctuation outside the inner quotation"), your examples are in conformity with American style guides.
    You may know this and not have said it, but the above applies only when the quotation is an independent clause. For example, each of the following is correct:
    He said to me, "Give back the cat." He told me to "give back the cat." Each of the following is incorrect:
    He said to me "Give back the cat." He told me to, "give back the cat." I can offer segments of The Chicago Manual of Style for the things above, because it appears that they don't want to make it freely available online.
    Lastly, TELL EVERYONE TO USE THE OXFORD COMMA, YOU HEATHEN.
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    Fiddle reacted to Fred the Barber in A Short And Sweet Style Guide For VN Editing   
    Not all opinions presented in the style guide are universally held. They are, however, all indisputably correct.
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    Fiddle reacted to Mr Poltroon in Dear Translation Requesters   
    Surely too many VNs have lead many fans into a form of weird masochism.
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    Fiddle reacted to Clephas in Dear Translation Requesters   
    Speaking from the heart, I agree with most of what Aizen-sama said.  I also approve of his use of my quote up there. 
    Now, to be clear here... it hurts horribly the first time someone criticizes your translation.  I experienced this repeatedly as a fansubber for anime and it only gets worse for VN fantranslators because it is text and not audio.  Do you know the reason so many translators experience 'burn-out'?  It's a combination of the sheer amount of work they put into what was, to them, a labor of love, only to have some smartmouth jackass publicly insult them for typos, nitpick about word choices, and generally make an ass of themselves...  As he quoted me saying above, when you put that much time into something, only to have someone snipe at you over the details, it slowly corrodes your motivation, leaving you apathetic toward translation in general.  Moreover, when you are a translator looking for just a few words of encouragement and you get some ****head wailing about how the translation is behind schedule, it pretty much shatters you. 
    Human beings aren't designed to work without some sort of compensation, whether it is a full belly, cash, emotional satisfaction, or social encouragement.  With something as time-consuming as VN translation, the pathetically small amounts of money offered by those who want to 'pay' a translator and the emotional satisfaction from a job well done just aren't enough to motivate one to finish one of these projects.  If you worked the same amount of hours some people put into fantls in a retail job in the US, you would actually make more money than you could from a 'professional' translation job in many cases.
    So... for those who think translation is 'easy' or 'pays well', get a clue.  Even I never seriously thought companies would willingly pay what that kind of work deserves when I was a newbie, and that was over a decade in the past.
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    Fiddle got a reaction from Keisuke in Senren Banka   
    DON'T FORGET IT'S 1080p Y'ALL
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    Fiddle got a reaction from arakura in THIS LAMP SUCKS   
    Only with your body, Tay.
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    Fiddle reacted to Valmore in THIS LAMP SUCKS   
    Going by his previous answer...
    ... there is no answer, as it appears Fiddle will need special training for this task.
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    Fiddle reacted to Valmore in help   
    The size mostly determines how strong you want the coffee - the smaller the cup, the more concentrated the flavor ends up. Usually. Depends on the brand, as some have more grounds and some have less.
    Or you could be like me and buy a plastic reusable k-cup and buy your own coffee. If you make compost the used grounds make an excellent addition. Word of warning, if you buy fair trade or organic coffee you will never drink from a store-bought k cup again. Seriously. You find just how bitter store-bought stuff is when you get the expensive good stuff.
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    Fiddle reacted to Deep Blue in help   
    It's meant to be used as 1 little capsule for 1 coffee, if you buy a pack of let's say 24 then you can make 24 coffee, the normal coffee "sizes" are lungo 140-110ml, expresso 40-60ml and ristreto 25-30ml, I don't of any brand of coffee that makes capsules where you can make an starbuck size coffee, you will need to use coffee grounds and another type of coffee machine for that.
    There are some brands that say that you can fill it like 180ml but it will be watery as shit (you will need to use 2 capsules for that)
    These are however really big
    "If you have the option to choose a brew size, choose “Small Cup” (5.25 oz.), “Small Mug” (7.25 oz.), or “Large Mug” (9.25 oz.) based on the size of your cup or mug." 9.25oz = 275ml O.o I never knew something like these existed.
    I use nesspresso and dolce-gusto
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    Fiddle reacted to AaronIsCrunchy in Butter packets are so uselessly small.   
    Don't even get me started on those little pots of jam you sometimes get with them.
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    Fiddle reacted to Mr Poltroon in Editors Are Not Proofraeders   
    Can confirm the above. I may not be qualified for any of the positions, but I've checked Translations before and in the wise words of my current employer: "Your virgin eyes do miracles for spotting the nonsense that slipped through the cracks."
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    Fiddle got a reaction from Darbury in Preparation H (Getting Ready to Edit VN Sex Scenes)   
    ~Darbury, 2015
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    Fiddle reacted to Mr Poltroon in Oh, The Editing Mistakes I Have Made (Part 1 of ∞)   
    I love the Oxford comma. And that is just one more reason why I constantly mess up when writing in Portuguese.
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    Fiddle reacted to Darbury in Oh, The Editing Mistakes I Have Made (Part 1 of ∞)   
    There is no greater truth than the Oxford comma.
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