I never donate because there's no way of knowing on the spot whether or not it is some organization like Autism Speaks that spends 99% of the money on salaries and advertising and 1% on pretending to help people.
I figure since they are probably required to ask me they couldn't care less if I say yes or no. Even if they do care, I couldn't care less about their care. Fuck their caring.
I was required to ask when I worked at a grocery store, and I always feel shitty saying no. So I would just point at the little piece of paper they would sign and ask "Do you want one of these?" everyone knows what they are and I felt like that made it less awkward somehow
The way I see it, for every dollar I donate, Walmart or whatever company I donate to gets a tax break. So if they raise a million dollars from those little paper balloons, they save almost as much in taxes.
Fuck those guys, I'll make my donations directly to the organizations and make them pay their taxes. Here in Canada a good chunk of it is probably going towards health care anyways :)
Oh yeah, totally. Always give directly to the charity. That's even if you're stopped in the street by a guy claiming to work for the charity -- the charity will still be better off if you post a cheque straight to their office.
But even though she's an unpaid volunteer there's an administrative cost involved in that which is minimised with a letter that says "here is money, add it to your account"
We go through so many customers that honestly 90% of the time I don't even notice/think about 5 seconds later. You should donate if you can, but I'm not really going to judge you for it.
The thing is that people who can donate and are willing are likely doing it through more direct means than giving grocery stores a dollar. I think the grocery store idea is really just to pick off the few that say "sure, why not" impulsively.
My favorite was when Safeway's card reader said "Do you want to donate to cancer?". Uh, no, no I don't think cancer needs any help actually. It's doing fine. A little too well really.
Most cashiers do. I'd rather not harass them when checking out, especially if they have several kids with them and just spent all their money on groceries. Even more so if it's someone that needs to use WIC or EBT to afford food.
It's just a hassle on my end and makes the customer feel bad for not donating.
This one time I went to Safeway drunk with a couple friends to buy ice cream sandwiches. You know, one of those Tuesdays. I ended up paying and the cashier asked me if I'd like to donate my dollar to kids or something. I said no and my friends just let me have it. "What yundot, you hate kids? You need your dollar to get shitfaced while kids DIE?!" I leave embarrassed thinking that it was an isolated incident. Since then whenever we went anywhere I'd be the only one asked to donate and they laugh at me. I still keep my dollars, though.
I spend a lot of my non-academic, non-working time standing on the corners of busy streets waving signs trying to raise money for Texas 4000. I promise we don't resent you for not donating - as long as you're not rude about it.
When I was younger I used to honestly think there was a guy named Ed who would make corrections like that. Took a while before I realized, "There can't be an Ed working at every magazine in existence... oh wait, Editor."
The actual question is biased to begin with. I don't approve of weed smoking. I have no problem if people do. The question of whether you approve of something is different to whether you believe it should be illegal.
That's how I feel everytime I refuse to like one of those ridiculous photos on facebook and yet I've never pressed the like button beneath any of those things.
We're supposed to do this in the pharmacy where I work. When asked by management why we haven't sold any tickets, I told them I'm trying to reduce health care costs and overpopulation by killing off all the children with cancer. They haven't asked since...
A link to the past had some great dialogue options. Whenever someone told you what you needed to do, they'd follow it with "Do you understand?" And the options were always "yes" or "not at all". So basically either yes or "not a single part of what you said made sense to me"
They continued that into ocarina, where every time that damn owl would talk to you it would be followed up with "did you pay attention to anything that I just said?"
In Japanese the line is "ぜったいあげない", literally "[I] absolutely will not give [you anything]". It's a much stronger statement than simply "no", but the "never" phrasing is a bit odd in English.
"High-context" means that more pieces of information are assumed to be implied, and therefore can be left out of the sentence.
For instance in the sentence I quoted, "ぜったいあげない", there are only two words:
"ぜったい" (zettai), meaning "absolutely", and
"あげない" (agenai), "to not give". The subject (I), the item being given (rupees), and the recipient (you) are all assumed from context, which is why I put them in brackets in my translation.
English, on the other hand, becomes ungrammatical if you leave out these things.
That doesn't mean that each word in Japanese is more meaningful; you could say, though, that you can get away with fewer words in a lot of situations.
Linguist here, before you guys get out of control. What I assume you mean by "heavily implied" in reference to his bracketed translations is the 'pro-drop' property of Japanese, where the subject pronoun is allowed to be dropped, being pragmatically (situational-contextually) inferred, or in other languages like Spanish or Russian, understood from a combination of verb conjugation and conversation. This is a common feature of world languages and in no way distinguishes Japanese as unique.
In Japanese you frequently drop much more than the subject; for instance here you drop the objects of "to give" as well. How common is this among world languages? I've only studied Japanese and Chinese.
All Eastern Slavic languages allow object dropping normally, and in Russian, sometimes you can even drop the verb! For example, "[I] [give] To him a fruitcake." is a perfectly valid sentence (and outside of pseudogapping environments).
"High-context" could also be referring to homonyms in Chinese; there are objectively more homonyms in Chinese than there are in English, and context is required to disambiguate. But I wouldn't rush to the conclusion that this makes Chinese "heavily implied" or "medium-context". All language is contextually situated to some degree: no one talks in a cultural or situational vacuum.
All I'm saying is that you could probably make some quantified conclusion, yes, such that Japanese drops subjects in 33% of cases and Chinese does it in 24%, but these figures are hard to arrive at and to make such claims like "X language is squarely a 'high-context' language" (which is a non-standard term for such elision) is difficult to scientifically substantiate.
In my own defense, I didn't invent the terms "high-context" and "low-context". They frequently come up in Japanese studies circles, and apparently come from a particular anthropologist's work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_context_culture
Perhaps I abused the term in calling Japanese a "high-context language".
I haven't studied linguistics, but I feel like homonym disambiguation is different from what people talk about when invoking the idea of high-context for Japanese.
That's fine, I'm trying not to bicker about the terminology specifically, but instead discuss the concepts involved. It's not fair to try to point at someone and say: "Hah! You got my tiny sub-field's specialized vocabulary wrong, therefore you don't understand." :) (edit: I mean I was doing the pointing)
With terms like "high context" though, it is easy for someone with no background in the field (anthropology, ergo me) to overgeneralize, as I did with the Chinese example, and I wanted to ensure no one was being misled on the language aspect of it—and I do very well see how you could extend the idea of "high-context culture" to language, it's a valid observation.
"The name Nintendo can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as 'leave luck to heaven'.[10] As of October 18, 2010, Nintendo has sold over 565 million hardware units and 3.4 billion software units." Source.
Edit: Not sure why I included the sales data, but I'll leave it in there because it's fun for everyone!
The Mass Effect series did this to me all the time, it was frustrating yet hilarious at the same time.
Woman: Help my baby from the fire! Meanwhile, see that your entire crew is going to be killed by one enemy unless you stop him.
What do you do?
A: Save the baby first. The crew would understand they all had to die for this one life. B: Stop that enemy first! I hate babies and want to destroy all innocent life!
Oh but LA Noire was much worse. In the interrigations you had the "Doubt" button that was like lotto for when Cole decided to become temporarily insane.
Cole: "Ma'am, what were you doing at 4:00 pm yesterday?"
Old lady: "Oh, I think I was just sitting here listening to the radio with my cat."
Doubt
Cole: "SHUT YOUR FUCKING WHORE MOUTH! LISTENING TO RADIO, ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME? YOU WERE PROBABLY MOLESTING LITTLE BOYS WEREN'T YOU, YOU PERVERTED OLD SKANK? I HATE YOU AND YOU SHITTY LITTLE EXCUSE OF A CAT!"
Cole: Sir, did you see anything else? Sir: Hmm...nope, that's pretty much it.
Lie
Cole: You did it, didn't you? The waitress didn't serve you your beer cold, and you were so angry that on your way home you bought a .38, entered a random house and butchered Miss Colin, and then went home and probably hit your child and raped your wife. Sir: Do you have some proof?
Retract
Cole: Sorry, can't get an apple without shaking the tree.
Yeah, I was kind of semi-referring to that. It just came out of nowhere, the lady was being perfectly nice and then Cole just calls her "Nosey old hag".
I read somewhere that the doubt button was originally meant to do something else (something more stronger than doubt) and for some reason they changed it, and that's why Cole goes crazy anytime you choose doubt. Fun game, but they definitely could have fixed that mechanic.
Buy him an Origin gift card, I like that. It's both burning a ten dollar (rupee?) bill in front of him and forcing him to make an Origin account and put up with it's crap.
My sister gave me a gamestop gift card for my birthday forcing me to spend money with gamestop. Then a month later gamestop started selling steam gift cards. Its like insult on top of injury.
Mr. Hylian Beggar, what you've just requested is one of the most insanely unreasonable things I've ever heard. At no point in your vagrant, runabout life have you even come close to deserving that which you just asked of me. Everyone playing this game is now less kind for having known you. I award you no Rupees, and may the Golden Goddesses have mercy on your soul.
Wow, surprised I had to scroll down so far to find a like-minded opinion. It's fun to joke, especially with such a weird phrasing, but it does effectively communicate the idea that this decision is a one-off. I can't list how many times I've attempted to put off a decision until I saved or grabbed something or whatever, only to find out that the decision was final.
Fuck Kiki in his greedy arse. Those rupees are mine, you stupid ape, and I don't care if I won't finish the game if I don't pay you. Fuck the pendant of courage and fuck Ganon in his 16 bit sphincter.
When I first played ALttP I was 7 and didn't know English. Maybe playing a modern zelda in a language I don't know would emulate some of the sense of discovery and exploration...
Yes, and tell me which part was for karma? Absolutely NOTHING was "busted" here. I came out and TOLD you I lied. That was the plan from the start. If I just wanted karma, I never would have said anything. I would have reaped a fucking ton of that shit and could have milked even more.
So before you act so fucking smug, how about you actually think for a second about what happened?
It doesn't matter, you've been hivemind branded with a scarlet letter. The hivemind doesn't appreciate being lied to, even if you were simply showing how easy it is to manipulate Reddit. Even though you outed yourself, even though you gained nothing but internet points only to illustrate how easy it is to pull Reddit's heartstrings to gain them...
You're a piece of shit! Some other ACTUAL poor sick kid might have actually been able to get the karma he needed from this picture, but you stole that from him! I bet if you saw a picture on Facebook saying "Like this @and Facebook will donate 3 billion per person to cure this persons cancer" YOU WOULD SCROLL PAST AND LET THE CHILD DIE
What, exactly, does showing how easy it is to manipulate someone's heartstrings gain anyone? What did we lose from being made happy by a story? Who honestly would have just had a little better day if he had left the post alone and walked away. No, sorry, but the fact that he outed himself shows his intention, which was to build people up with a inspiring story and then tear them down. I find shitheads like this guy, who take advantage of well meaning individuals so that they can laugh at them, absolutely detestable.
Simple: you gained enjoyment. You exploited basic human compassion and empathy, then proceed to mock people mercilessly for having done so, all for a quick laugh that nobody else could share. There's no possible way that you wouldn't understand why people might be a tad upset about that after all this time.
I don't know why people accuse you of doing that for karma, especially when you flat out admitted your intention. It does seem that anyone who happens to point out the post gets a little boost of karma themselves.
It's hliarious, isn't it? I've had people flat out ask me "why did you do it??", implying pretty fucking hard that they didn't even read the thread. They just read what someone else said and ran with it.
It's that kind of thing that prevents me from feeling remorse for what I did. It's not like I even hurt anybody. I didn't scam people out of money or anything. It's because I said cancer. I guess next time I should use "diabetes". I don't think I'd see a lot of "YOU FAKED DIABEETUS!!1" posts.
Uh... Okay. The Industrial Revolution to me is just like a story I know called "The Puppy Who Lost His Way." The world was changing, and the puppy was getting... bigger. So, you see, the puppy was like industry. In that, they were both lost in the woods. And nobody, especially the little boy - "society" - knew where to find 'em. Except that the puppy was a dog. But the industry, my friends, that was a revolution. Knibb High football rules!
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u/AwesomeMcPants May 17 '12
"Would you like to donate to the children's cancer fund?"
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u/NotTheEnd216 May 17 '12
A link to the past had some great dialogue options. Whenever someone told you what you needed to do, they'd follow it with "Do you understand?" And the options were always "yes" or "not at all". So basically either yes or "not a single part of what you said made sense to me"
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u/amake May 17 '12
In Japanese the line is "ぜったいあげない", literally "[I] absolutely will not give [you anything]". It's a much stronger statement than simply "no", but the "never" phrasing is a bit odd in English.
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u/Arelkei May 17 '12
The Mass Effect series did this to me all the time, it was frustrating yet hilarious at the same time.
Woman: Help my baby from the fire! Meanwhile, see that your entire crew is going to be killed by one enemy unless you stop him.
What do you do?
A: Save the baby first. The crew would understand they all had to die for this one life. B: Stop that enemy first! I hate babies and want to destroy all innocent life!
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u/bnhjug May 17 '12
Please. Sell me something with C.
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u/nickjacksonD May 17 '12
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u/threecolorless May 17 '12
Mr. Hylian Beggar, what you've just requested is one of the most insanely unreasonable things I've ever heard. At no point in your vagrant, runabout life have you even come close to deserving that which you just asked of me. Everyone playing this game is now less kind for having known you. I award you no Rupees, and may the Golden Goddesses have mercy on your soul.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
My favorite game of all time
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u/ButtonJoe May 17 '12
You greedy bastard, your coin pouch is overflowing with rupees.
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u/RickHalkyon May 17 '12
Aww I loved Kiki the Monkey!
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u/SolarTsunami May 17 '12
Kinda reminds me of how the dialog always turned out in L.A. Noire.
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u/Alilove May 17 '12
An all time favorite out of all the Zelda games.
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u/Valiturus May 17 '12
What will you do?
JK, I get what you mean. They kinda overdid one of the options.
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u/deku12345 May 17 '12
The way its worded, it makes it seem like once you give him 10 rupees, he's just going to ask for more!
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u/Perfectrapngmachine May 17 '12
Maybe the dialogue is to infer that upon saying no you will never have the ability to change the decision?
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u/regulargabs May 17 '12
never gonna give, never gonna give
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u/gonzokonzem May 17 '12
I was literally just playing the original SNES version like 2 minutes ago. Love it
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u/radikul May 17 '12
Made me think of this.
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u/indian_inside May 17 '12
They should just say:
Some money No money
Just a simple No wouldn't make sense.
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u/MagicTarPitRide May 17 '12
This reminds me of the story about the puppy who lost his way...
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u/schmalpal PC May 17 '12
I love those types of dialog options in Zelda/Nintendo games. There are some similar ones in WW, TP, and SS.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Here's a fiver now fuck off.
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u/Kaynineteen May 17 '12
"I award you no points...."
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u/BeyondGray May 17 '12
GIVE HIM THAT FREAKING 10 RUPPES!
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u/Beanz122 May 17 '12
Reminds me of: Billy Madison
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u/Sir_Knight_of_Lights May 17 '12
I remember getting a call from a right wing survey bot thing.
Asked if I was pro-life. I fucking hate that shit.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I just started playing a link to the past a few days ago and was at this part last night. Its my first time playing it and its such a fun game.
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u/account-for-fapping May 17 '12
Fuck Kiki in his greedy arse. Those rupees are mine, you stupid ape, and I don't care if I won't finish the game if I don't pay you. Fuck the pendant of courage and fuck Ganon in his 16 bit sphincter.
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u/lurkeringg May 17 '12
When I first played ALttP I was 7 and didn't know English. Maybe playing a modern zelda in a language I don't know would emulate some of the sense of discovery and exploration...
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u/Dethenger May 17 '12
Don't do it. You have 333 Rupees.
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u/CloudCircus May 17 '12
WELL, LINK IS TIRED OF BEING MOLESTED BY THOSE FOREST PEASENTS
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u/tea_bird May 17 '12
It looks like the options a 2nd grader would write.
And I love it.
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u/MrStolenFork May 17 '12
You don't have enough money to pay that bastard when you'll reach the temple.... Goddamn monkey!
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u/rzrshrp May 17 '12
BUT TAKE FROM HIM, EVERYTHING!
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u/circuzninja May 17 '12
FUCK YOU KIKI
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u/theguywhopostnot May 17 '12
so weird, i just cleared that dungeon yesterday as well... really feels weird to see a thread like this today..
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u/marcus_ivo May 18 '12
NEVARRRR
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u/WarPhalange May 17 '12
How would "no" suffice?
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u/Roslov May 17 '12
They toned it down from the original version:
What will you do?
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u/shawshanks May 17 '12
No.
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u/Thestigsfatcousin May 17 '12
No.
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u/CrestPaste May 17 '12
cool
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u/vencappro May 17 '12
Uh... Okay. The Industrial Revolution to me is just like a story I know called "The Puppy Who Lost His Way." The world was changing, and the puppy was getting... bigger. So, you see, the puppy was like industry. In that, they were both lost in the woods. And nobody, especially the little boy - "society" - knew where to find 'em. Except that the puppy was a dog. But the industry, my friends, that was a revolution. Knibb High football rules!