southsamurai

@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Garry's Mod forced to remove Nintendo content after takedowns⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, I’ll never buy anything from or for Nintendo again. Fuck this kind of shitty behavior

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This New Dating App Is Only for People With a Credit Score of 675 and Above⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat! I can finally pretend I could use of the “dating” services!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wendell Pierce Cast as Perry White in James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ | The actor will lead 'The Daily Planet' as boss to Clark Kent and Lois Lane⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can legit see that. Perfect casting imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PETA Accuses ‘Will Trent’ Trainers of Animal Neglect⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering it’s peta, I always take anything they say with a grain of salt. They do more bad than good for making humane treatment of animals happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aubrey Plaza to Star in John Waters’ First New Movie in 20 Years⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, I never thought he’d do another movie, the way he had talked. It really seemed like he had reached a place where he didn’t want to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘True Detective: Night Country’ Is One Of The Most Disappointing Mystery Shows Ever Made⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Forbes is such a weird source for entertainment reviews

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMC Apologizes After Civil Rights Leader Says He Was Kicked Out of Theater⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They done fucked up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Missed opportunity’ after Jimmy Savile to deal with NHS necrophilia⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, Sevile was a corpse fucker?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What were your top favorite video games as a kid?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, pacman and centipede.

  I had the high score at the gas station nearest my house on the pacman machine until the place closed. Nobody could even get close in the local area. I would usually be in the top three at the arcade on both games, depending on whether or not I had access to time and money. None of my scores were high enough to be some kind of record, but I was the king of those two games in two counties. I’m not saying I could never get out-scored, I could. But I never had bad games, only less good, where the other players around would have way more bad than great games.

  But I fucking loved pacman. The entire sensory assault of it was so damn satisfying. I was good at centipede (largely because of the trackball being very intuitive for me), but I liked it more because I was good at it than for the game itself.

  Pacman though? Fuck, I’d spend hours playing it. I even had one of those old coleco mini versions that I got for Christmas one year. Which, I was not as good at, what with the difference in controls, but I still loved playing it until it died maybe ten years ago (seriously, that fucking thing lasted decades).

  I was so fucking bummed when I couldn’t find any place to play the real version. Later console versions didn’t have the same joy for me. I’ve managed to luck into some time on restored machines here and there, though.

  Past that, mario cart was big in our house when it came out. My sister was better at it on average, but we’d have some killer weekends playing it with our mom and friends. I never liked consoles much. The controls just didn’t work for me.

  So it wasn’t until this century that I got back into harmony gaming at all. Mmorpgs are my thing, when I can do it (disability makes pc gaming sporadic). The first game I found that sucked me in was shaiya. It wasn’t that great of a game overall. Heavily pay to win. But the story was good, and I had a great guild.

  Then it was on to war and battle of the immortals. Mid tier games, but I liked the world setting.

  Then, I found neverwinter and that was my game. I haven’t been happy with anything else since. I don’t really play any more, but that was the perfect mmo for me. The d&d world, with an intuitive and fun control setup. The classes and races were fairly well balanced. The graphics were fucking bonkers for the era too. It just made me happy. It still kinda does, but I don’t have the time or stamina these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  English is a living language. That’s what it comes down to.

  A living language is not limited to the dictionary and formal use.

  This has benefits and drawbacks. One of the biggest drawbacks is that usage of words can be extremely imprecise and lead you misunderstandings of intended meaning. The flip side of that is that you can usually use words that are “close enough” and be understood anyway, which is a huge benefit.

  Since that flexibility allows you to know that cute is at least an adjective that refers to the appearance of something, and is usually a positive usage, you can have the odds on your side if you assume the person saying it is complimenting the other person. That lets you use context to get closer to the intended meaning.

  It even works with people that don’t have fluency in English. We native speakers can (with a little effort) usually get the gist of even very broken English and communicate despite the barrier by selecting synonyms until there’s understanding.

  Now, in this case, you’ve run into slang usage that only loosely adheres to the dictionary usage.

  Cute is used as a synonym for words that convey the meaning meaning of someone being sexually or romantically attractive. This can be with or without the meaning of the target of the word being cute in a more literal sense. People can even be cute and sexy or hot at the same time.

  And that’s likely what the people you’re hearing intend. That the outfit is attractive and likely to draw positive attention. While not a great choice for some outfits that you may think of as sexy, it is within common usage of the word, you just likely haven’t run into it in other circumstances before. It isn’t just women that use it for women’s clothing, men will sometimes use it that way too, though it is less common.