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ADS word of the year is out and it’s -ussy

Sooooo... the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year is "-ussy", and I am personally thanked in their primary scholarly reference for "-ussification", a paper called "A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends."

The announcement: americandialect.org/2022-word-

The paper (PDF): cla-acl.ca/pdfs/actes-2018/Dow

And my citation attached ehehehehe

« Although infants very rarely appear, the anime has confirmed that humans, such as Edna, can get pregnant. »

also pokémon 🤝 star wars
a fairly narrow (but still self‐contradictory) band of core canon which everyone tries to stick to, and an expansive universe of stuff which just kind of riffs on the themes

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pokémon 🤝 star wars
way too much lore for any one piece of media to encompass it all

filling out a pokémon spreadsheet is making me want to play black 2……

sometimes i feel like a fox spirit and then i remember that's literally my avatar

today is an “organize all my pokémon” day

oh my god you fossilized piece of plant hurry up and fuck the coral

fresh sauce and cheese galore
brought straight to your front door

dude your shiny arceus is cool but this is clearly a hacked pokémon i can't trade it forward to newer games

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i swear there are more people wonder trading at any given moment in the gen vi games than in bdsp

this shiny moltres looks like ass i'm not joining your discord server

the open-world system works in scarlet/violet, which is exploration-based and a traditional pokémon RPG, but it would have been godawful in legends arceus which is challenge-oriented

nobody wants a fully open-world challenge-oriented game, they want mushroom zone and ice palace and candy kingdom

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remember how people complained that legends arceus wasn't really open-world like breath of the wild and then legends arceus was a much better game on account of not being open-world like breath of the wild

« Nine months after Link had defeated Calamity Ganon, he and Zelda start working towards rebuilding Hyrule. This results in the two creating a Hylian party to journey across Hyrule to meet and work with the leaders of each region, so they can restore the land to its former glory. » ok but like are you going to address the fact that the Calamity targeted the Hylians Specifically and every other nation is actually doing Just Fine

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